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Show Pog Thursday, May 14, 1911 2 o pinion THE SENTINEL School and Yours Editor I am pleased to respond to the individual in the May 7, 1961 edition of the Jordan Valley Sentinel. So that the individual may have all the facts: 1) The Qty advertised for bids on March 12, 1981 to remove the Civil Defense building. The only bid received was by the City Administrator's brother. It was accepted and is filed at the City Hall. If this individual was interested, he should have submitted a bid. The Civil Defense building was removed at the request of the Council to prepare for the development and paving of a new parking lot behind the businesses just east of Main Street. 2) The trees around City Hall were cut down and in order to reduce the labor and time to haul all the limbs away un-nam- Homo by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty we let anyone who wanted cut up what they could for fire wood. Yes, some employees came and cut wood and hauled it away. However, they did it on their own time and with their own vehicles. 3) The condition of the Cemetery and Ball parks have been poor. We have given .. notice and are monitoring these areas. There will be improvement within the next two weeks. By the time this is published the cemetery and ball parks should be in good shape. individual or To the have If specific you anyone else. questions, please give me a call at the City office and I'll be happy to respond to your concerns. By having constructive questions asked will help us improve the City's service to the dozens. S Ted C. Anderson Gty Administrator ' fl (nwm coast costs f Yf HflNW $m-tie- ite lTs M f I OuTt?xlRflSK13I HOJ'OVOU - un-nam-ed DM 255-355- 6 i They were looking forward to a visit to an American Indian reservation. After all, not one of the Chinese visitors had ever seen an American Indian. The tourists arrived at the cameras and, reservation were there thoroughly clicking, preoccupied with kxfcing over the area and its residents. Dr. C. C. Chang, a scientist and of the National Cancer Institute, told me that story. It illustrates an important point. One of the most mteresting other things about life is people watch We newspapers, buy people. tv and read books to learn about the fortunes and misfortunes of to A large influx of federal gover- annual income of 120,000, and of nment employes into Utah thus own a house with a market value ac0,000 (assessed value $11,378 would impose severe financial 1SS0 to people. average cording local oh state and goverstrain Lake in assessment ratios Salt nment units, the foundation points It's safe to say that no two people out However, if a large number of Qty). The family is also assumed are absolutely alike. People are car with a new people were brought into the to own a gregarious. That is, they like to be sUte by esUblishment of a new in- market value of 14,000 (assessed which is driven 11,000 with other people. People are dustry, or expansion of an existing value $390) Each new one you Utah industry, the situation would miles during the course of the fascinating. meet is unique, so the process of be different, due to the taxes paid year, at an average of IS miles per meeting people should never get gallon of gasoline. Property taxes by employers. on bouse and car are figured at the boring. rate that applied to most In arriving at these conclusions, All this has an educational point Utah foundation examined the ofSaltLakeQtyinltSO. . ' Almost daily we hear about, read Benefits provided to the family state and local taxes paid and the about see people of different or state and' local government-provide- d are calculated by taking total exnationalities or appear to be difbenefits received by a penditures of the state, Salt Lake in ferent other ways. typical family of four living in Salt County, Salt Lake Qty, and Salt Lake Qty in 1930. The "typical" Lake School District and subtracWhen we get to know them, it family was assumed to have an ting from them all federal money may be surprising to learn that we revenues. The net and non-ta-x appeared just as different to them. sums are calculated on a per Often, there's another surprise. capita basis, using 1980 census to After four the curiosity wears off, we and by multipled figures, obtain the family's share of may discover that we really are benefits. School benefits are more alike than different. For each of the following lOqiiesiionR. figured in this way on the theory It's a great lesson for young choose the answer you Uiink is correct and mat school services benefit the put a eh in ihe space pmvxKl to learn one that's 10-1people 1981 May community in general. If school in making this world of necessary benefits were calculated on the T. Miumil nndy 1. A ftnun weighs nlmit the 4. entire Clip holds about ours a better place. 2 milliliters' ml.i same as is mi basis of money spent per pupil, 2.VC. decree an apple 20 mL ibi hi ' iiftOml. Olsiioii 101 adime ic d and for the family's two a pineapple '. ei A new hnrri hahy weighs ,h'. J4S i. e school-ag. A meter is annul the about children, the benefits A hUTOf milk is ii 3 Kilnf runsi tu ' heifthtnr would be more than double those a door 30 lu a hi isi lrfrr than a AOOkX a kjtrhen b 'Ci quirt used in the comparison ($4,632 cntmter smaller than a i. O. The height of .i tail man UiesNilfif n I""" wahr.il compared to $1,327). same as the ' chair siw 20 centimeters im ' auimn S. Water Ireesns and bmls ,cm State and local taxes for a Salt . hi 200cm at weigh lmf)4 Lake City family as described a :. 10(10 (nuns' ((i 2000cm 32TaiKl2l2T a. IOfTCarxl200T hi Of. would have totalled $2,062 in 1980, OT and c IOO(i ei SO. The thickness nfn dime while state and local benefits is about 'Jm a 01 millimeters SaSaaaiiH received would have been $4,120. am .mmi Taxes paid directly by the family milliliters ;j; : would cover just over half the cost (Each week, the West Jordan of benefits received. Building Department will answer Comparable studies done by some of their most frequently Utah Foundation in 1955, 1960, and asked questions in this column., The information provided here; 1968 showed approximately the same proportion of taxes paid to comes directly from the city and cost of benefits. applies only to West Jordan "It should be kept in mind that residents. Questions should go to the building department, 5684531, all of this discussion of ratios has been, based on the and not the Sentinel offices.) assumption that government services would be furnished through Q. We are putting in a sprinkler facilities and system for our lawn. Our neighbor existing World welcomed as "praiseworthy and least aristocratic-minde- d organizational structure," the said we should get a permit and industry," Old World aristocrats Americans have looked upon this foundation notes. "If an influx of have the work inspected. We are eschewed as a dangerous ' love of peculiarly American trait with a new government employes were thinking of having a company install the system. They are in the disdain and dread even more insufficiently large to require gain." And who can gainsay them? tense than that of the 19th century significant expansion of staffs and business and know how. Why do That restless search for a better European aristocrat Until only a of physical facilities, the impact on we need a permit? the local community would be life that first led oppressed few months ago, it seems, hardly to these shores an with (and ounce of Europeans social much greater. The impact on the anyone A. Lawn sprinkling systems state and on local communities still brings millions of immigrants consciousness would admit to harshall be equipped with an apacross our borders today), and boring a "profit motive" in his could be enormous." proved vacuum breaker installed then drove them further west to bosom. Seeking, or worse yet, Jordan Valley Sentinel at least six inches above the populate the vast expanse of the making a profit was almost antisurrounding ground and above sufMietts) social. It was worse than eating Country's interior; that indepenficient' number of heads so at no MislssJt SmMimIi 1 wmU MvsptiWt dence and that pease from a knife. One blushed MUMaM ia 1125, paMnkti mtj TlwrUq a Sntiasl time will vacuum breakers be subsustained numberless families and excused oneself . Ctntti Sintt, Misnfc, lilts 14047. RwtMtM It ject to back pressure or damage. It MM7. rsaaattr. Seas' The awful decline of our while they eked out a living on the ckaayis Is Tat laraM tsir) shall be unlawful for any person to 14047. Sis1aair0talIIMs.llWi inhospitable frontier, was ab- economy may have revived for install, remove, alter, repair, or Utah hi of '4" lot Slats Subscription ystr g the moment some of the solutely essential for the ' replace or cause to be Senior Cltlion Roto '1M yaor In Stat Of Utah installed, of such ' a country as customary and common-sensicCotubushtn removed, altered, repaired or America. But such attributes regard for this useful American David C. GodfreyJam! M. Landers replaced any plumbing, gas, or would be disruptive in the extreme vice.' What wonders might not be drainage piping work or any fixAdv. Mgr. David C Gedtray in a static, l, traditional achieved, if we recalled some of ture or water heating or treating Editor Jamat M. Landers our ancient virtues! aristocracy. equipment in a building or What is remarkable is that, in MEMBER premises without first obtaining a recent years, the most progressive to do such work. State and local taxes paid by a typical family in Utah cover only about half the cost of state and local government services furnished to the family, according to Utah Foundation, the private, nonprofit research organization. "Normally the other half of the cost is covered by taxes paid by the employer of working members of the family," the foundation notes in a Research Brief released this week. "If the employer does not pay taxes as, for example, the Federal government does not then half the cost of benefits received by employes and their families mutt be made up by the rest of the community, both individual taxpayers and business and industry." two-year-o- ld 68.91-mi- ll - weekdays between nSe hours of $ a.m. and 12 noon or I and 5 p.m. No need to give your nome. 6 A woman called to say that she is fed up with the attitude of people who attend high school activities where their children perform. She said that a musical presentation in one school this spring large groups of people got up and left after their children had made their presentations. It not only disrupted the audience but also the performers. She asks that during the high school graduation exercises this particularly excited about one step during their travels around the United States. or - It sorrMtrfWng bugging you? Do you how a comment to mako on e currant issue? Th Sontfnol wood to tioor Irom you. CoN otsd toll us what you think about anything. Oaf tourists were They were looking the Chinese over with just as much interest and curiosity. After all, not one had ever seen anyone from China. Individuals pay only half of taxos Off! A group of Chinese ( Then, one of the Chinese vrjs struck by the sudden realisation that be and his countrymen weren't the only curious people there. They were sunounded by Indians. Utih Foundation... Sound Exocutiv Sacratary Utoh Educotion Association spring that the entire audience should stay put until all of the graduates have been presented. Midvale City won't do anything about the ghettos, in the avenues. Repeated calls to the board of health does no good. Why not rezone the avenues to a commercial district or some business? "Midvale needs to shape up or ship out," according to the caller. National Metric Test Tour Ilctrlc Knowledge 6, A pro-rate- Answers building question - , i wau-- r A h- - IOCCC ' Friday, April 30, a windstorm uprooted a large black walnut tree from the yard of Ida Abren, 13200 S. 1061 E. The tree had fallen on across pulling down blocking the roadphone lines and way. Through the cooperation of 13200 South, Mrs Abren's neighbors the tree was cut into sections and removed from the roadway. The Draper Police Department would like to commend the following citizens for their help: Chad Fisher,' Norma Erickson, Marge Orgill, Wayne Ballard, Norma Ballard, Lark Erickson Jr.,' David Hoffman and Bruce Ballard. i I J tax-benef- days. Earnest souls eager for direction scan the lists so as not to miss the latest philosophy of existence rendering irrelevant all previous thought of man. Still, there is reason to World is, where man's vices are suspect that the wisdom, and that what Tocqueville saw in the New & almost as useful to society as his World 150 years ago is not without virtues!" This sage paradox issued from meaning in the merely newer a world in which we live. thp man nf Aloyis Ac Frenchman who travelled our What had caught Tocqueville's country during the early 1830s eye was the enterprising, indepentaking voluminous and memorable dent spirit of the Americans of his notes, which have come down to us day, which counted for so much of in the form of his two volume their prosperity and was so central ' to the functioning of their political classic Democracy in America. It is fashionable these days to institutions. This quality, which think that any idea antedating the was seen by the Americans as a 20th centurv is hoDelesslv out viture, was viewed by Old World moded. Indeed, novelty has won Europeans as a vice. And far from such a name for itself that to say being central to their own inan idea is new is as much as to stitutions, the Europeans conprove it is true Intellectual epochs sidered it a dangerous threat to are measured in decades, if not in political stability. What the New by Christopher Flannery Dr. Flannery is an Editor at Public Research Syndicated (c) Public Research, Syndicated, 1961 , ! best-sell- er StfrtMsjlj CmMImm self-relian- ce it IsjCa tfc 1 W. - well-bein- al semi-feuda- DF THE permit . |