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Show 2. THE Page TIMES. February LEADER-GARLAN- l77 10. Legislature Shouldn't Rush Surplus Action WE HOPE A LOT of Utah Legislators share the feelmgs of Senator Moroni Jensen who, this week, said legislators shouldn't be in too big a hurry to give an anticipated $22 million surplus back to taxpayers. The senator apparently believes that a "bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and so do we. themselves in the position of giving ers a break and then having to take in a future session. Telephone Roaring Is Slated taxpayit away ONE NOTE OF caution, though. We'd hate to see a decision to sit on the surplus result in stalling passage of the inheritance tax bill. In the long run, removal of the inheritance tax or lowering of it, at least, SENATOR JENSEN points out that the present drought conditions in Utah, if they continue, could have a major impact on our local economy which could, in turn, have an impact on the amount of revenue state and local governments collect during the year. School will stimulate the economy serving to keep the family farm from being broken up. The proposal to do away with the inheritance tax or lower it, has such widespread support, it should be passed. Remember them? We called one that will be going across them "spelling bees" a few the state in the next few decades ago. f weeks. As you would expect, there They were popular in school back then, but they will be recognition for the faded in popularity. winners in the schools, distWhy? I have my own ideas ricts, regions, state and even about that. Back in the the nation. But there's another factor "good old days" we staged some spelling bees with the in the competition. The youngsters who misspelled a youngster who is named the word leaving the competimost improved speller will tion sitting down and also win an award. That means youngsters who are watching the others. As a result, the people who not perfect spellers can be participated most were winners, too. If they can win, there's those who needed it least -the good spellers. So the more incentive for all the spelling bee as a teaching students to study their spelldevice wasn't doing as much ing word lists harder, comfor as many students as it pete more enthusiastically, and (this is important) learn might have. more. But wait. That doesn't The objective of the spellmean spelling contests can't be made to reach everyone. ing contests is for students to And that's the beauty of the become more conscious of and Home e ONE THING THE attitude on the surplus might accomplish is to of a bill removing or iirevent passage the sales tax on food. On the surface of things, that sounds like a popular concept since it hits all of us. But people in the Bear River Valley should be of the proposal. Krticularly leery sales tax optional half-cewhich is retiring the bonds which built the new Bear River Valley Hospital. Elimination of the sales tax on food would make a sizable dent in the amount of revenue available for retiring those bonds. wait-and-se- HE ALSO POINTS out that Utah Senators will have to meet again in special session in June to give approval to the new governor's state appointees and that it would be a relatively simple matter for all legislators to meet then. By that time, legislators would be in a much better position to judge the condition of the economy since the effects of a drought should be all too eyiHent. Cont. from page one WE WHOLEHEARTEDLY believe that if you give a legislature extra money it'll find some way to spend it unless it is returned to the people as quickly as possible. But, in this one particular case, we think legislators would be wise to sit on the surplus for six months before they find WE HOPE THE legislature will take a cautious attitude and will not rush the temptation to make themselves wait-and-s- look like good guys by giving the surplus back to the people - too soon. loffors To Editor by Dr. Daryl J. AAcCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association - There's many of us have problem that sticks out like a black eye whenever we write something. It's poor spelling. So what do we do about it? Well, for one thing, Utah students in the 8 14 year age range will soon have a chance to participate in a statewide spelling contest. -- V R one Hi sent him on his way. Seems they'd had a report of a man holding a gun to a woman's head riding in a car that looked a lot like his. It looked so much like his that by the time Mr. Hales had made it safely home to Tremonton, he'd been stopped three times by the law. It's embarrassing enough wfi; o Tfczdrs Firemen, Donkey Dell Players I'd like to take this opportunity to take my hat off to those who participated in the Donkey ball games. It was better than a trip to the doctor for me. These teachers and firemen do so much for us in our valley. I would particularly like to thank Pete Quinney and Carter Rich, since they were recently special guests of our Relief Society. I feel we owe a debt and many a when you're guilty... but when you're innocent its frustrating too. Makes you want to hold up a sign so the gawking motorists who pass buy can read, "I didn't do Tim You shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but sometimes it's awfully hard not has learned. to, Star-GazLet a policeman-i- n uniform-pull up infront of their house in broad daylight, get out and go- inside for an; innocent.yjsjt.and.the neighborhood starts buzzing. Before you know it, the occupant of the house is being watched by the neighbors like he's John Dillinger himself.. .been hiding out acting respectable for twenty years and the law finally caught up with him. life to them and others of the organization. Carter and Pete gave such an informative demonstration. I hope it .will not fall our lot to use the information, but if the emergency arises, we'll be far better prepared to meet it. Thanks to them and the others for all of their time and efforts. life-savin- g Eleda Vee Stokes Bothwell Children Are People Vho 11 anyone happened to fol- anything." low one of our Tremonton merchants home from Logan one night last week, they've probably got him pegged as the FBI's most wanted. Seems Steve Hales of Hales.Bros. Furniture had a, rather bad case of mistaken at least his car identity-- or did. He was driving along innocently when he was pulled over by the Highway Patrol and cautiously approached by a trooper. But the trooper eventually , When Star-Gaz- will be beneficial to western Box Elder County residents by making the company more viable from an economic standpoint which will help keep the Box Elder rates from going up as much as they might otherwise. In it's announcement of the hearing, the company also advised the Public Service Commission that it will consider Beehive's recent $3 per month rate increase for western Box Elder customers because of the Sheriffs prohibition on telephone company aircraft using roads. As a result, telephone company expenses have increased $200 per month for surface travel, Brothers alleges. Last year, the sheriff issued Brothers two citations for landing an aircraft on roads without county permission and for obstructing the highway. A trial is scheduled to consider those matters on March 29 in Brigham City. The Utah Public Serv ice Commission has set February 24 as the date, and Wendover as the place, to consider the application of Silver Beehive to extend telephone service to eight more Utah communities. All are south of Wendover, along the Nevada-Uta- h border in western Tooele, Juab, and Millard counties. Of the eight towns, six have never had any telephones. Ibapah has a single pay phone linked to the outside world by radio. Garrison has eight party toll stations where a call across the street to a neighbor is 40 cents each, plus a monthly service charge of $7 for the phone. Art Brothers, owner of Silver Beehive, says Beehive has 105 customers signed up for service in the new area, and that in addition to providing a vast unserved area of Utah with telephone service, the added size to the company Silver Dochive got to er the county commission Tuesday he was struck by the news that commissioners had voted not to close down the county sanitary landfills on Saturday, Feb. Lincoln's' Between the golden years of youth and the golden years of retirement come those spelling, to increase the number of mastered words, and to produce fewer "black eyes" in the papers they write. nickel-plate- THE LEADER Oinri Published every Thursday by the Leader Publishing Co. at 10 North 1st West, Tremonton, Utah. Subscription rate: Box Elder, Cache and Oneida $5.50 per year, all other areas Ralph . at Tremonton, Utah Iter River NOWi "surplus." A "surplus" results from of revenue and thus, for those items for which you and I paid our taxes. under-estimatio- n under-appropriati- The $100,000,000 of recent years has been spent mainly for buildings on college campuses while, you've surely noted from the account of a recent local school board meeting, we have failed to provide adequate staffing for our elementary pupils. Aren't our children worth (1) one teacher for every 25 pupils, (2) professional librarians in our school libraries and (3) professional guidance personnel? 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It sounded like a definite slur on the name of the man who freed Kunta Kinta's descendants and became a Republican symbol. Perhaps that's it, I thought. There are two Dem- - l WALL LYi::i & MAC ALLRED I T T YTTT T T T T T T H123W COMMERCIAL & PAINTIRS IiTi TTTTT "on-goin- sun-roo- pew re Cfeeneri Beer River Clesners 84337. Rand kinds of expenditures. But I ask.what is more than a building? A childhood Is only once. A great deal of each childhood is spent in school and the influence of the school on the child is very important. Must our children suffer the lack of professional school staff to serve them? Let your legislators know of your concern for our children in school. Urge the appropriation of at least $7,000,000 for more teachers, librarians and guidance personnel to serve our elementary pupils. Children are people who need people, not $urplu$e$. Sincerely yours, Marjorie Childs For ytsn "on-goin- capital outlay not for other j lfvhr W expenses, meaning for If you had $122,000,000 to spend and could spend it only for the public good, what would you spend it for? A foolish question - who ever had $122,000,000 to spend, according to their choosing? It's not foolish at all, but a very real thing. Since 1972 the people of the state of Utah have had $100,000,000 in "surpluses". The legislature will soon decide how to spend the $22,000,000 current JO wry cweneif experience per year. Second Class Postage paid ocrats on the commission and only one Republican. The poor Republican was probably outgunned. I could see it all now. The landfills would stay open by order of the commission on Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays and would close down on Andy Jackson's birthday-- A Democrat. It turned out that no insult was meant to Honest Abe, commissioners just couldn't see any reason not to keep them open. 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