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Show Thursday, Feb. THE SAX JUAN RECORD 16, 1956, Page 2 anjuaffjcrron ip .orTER ASSESSED VALUATION I UTAH investment 1055 Jfy Comnunt Ml). OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SAX JUAX COUNTY, UTAH Published Every Thursday at Montieellit, Utali 'ritered at the Post Office at Monticello, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 5, 1879 By James W. Douthat Tax relief talk on Washington Capitol Hill threatens to ignore basic tax revision essential for .HE POUTS the nations industrial growth. It NATION A V L I E D I T O R I also threatens repeal of the limited dividend credit and more liberal depreciation allowances vo ted by Congress in 1954. This campaign is intended b the New Fair Dealers to create the impression that big business and the rich have been favored at the expense of little business and the poor. It is pointed, of course, toward next Novembers elections. Many members of Congress believe that the April tax receipts will indicate a possible surplus of at least $3 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957. Treasury Secretary Humphrey says that $3 billion is the minimum surplus that would be required for both debt reduction and a assessor tax cut. ever, of the twenty-ninreports, nineteen were filed late, Leading Democrats have served with tardiness ranging from sev- notice that any tax cut enacted eral days up to seven months. this year applying to the 1957 Seventeen of the county auditor fiscal year must be primarily reports due the first Monday in for the small taxpayer and must July were late. Three of the re- not incur any net loss in revenue. porting counties did not provide To prevent possible loss of recomplete breakdown by economic venue, they argue that repealins classifications specified by the the dividend credit and depreciation provisions would save just report forms. Because of these difficulties, about as much revenue as a $100 data as to actual taxes charged increase in exemptions would cost to the respective economic groups the Treasury. in 1955 are not yet complete. The Republican tax experts chalproportions of taxes charged will lenge this contention. They say differ slightly from the propor- that a $100 increase in personal tions of assessed valuation be- exemptions would cost an esticause of difference in tax rates mated $2,500,000,000 a year, and in the various jurisdictions, es- repeal of the dividend credit and pecially the difference in total depreciation provisions would reproperty tax rates in metropoli- turn near this amount of revenue. Another Republican argument tan and rural areas. Complete information will likely not be- is that a $100 increase in personal would remove more come several for available than five million taxpayers from months. More than half of the business the tax rolls, thereby narrowing total ($399 million) is located in the tax base and delaying still Salt Lake County.Utah and Web- further the time when something er counties rank second and third can be done about the discriminin the amount of commercial and atory rates in the middle and upindustrial assessed valuations. per income brackets. Revision of these discriminaHowever, Iron County has the rates is urged by industry in tory of its total highest proportion to provide the venture caporder busivaluation represented by ness properties which account for ital necessary to modernize and 84.3 of the Iron County total. expand business establishments With the exception of Wayne, and to provide jobs for futuer Industry believes it Rich and Garfield counties, all generations. is no favor to the small taxpayer other counties have upwards of to give him a few dollars in tax 25 of their property total in relief, if it means he is cheated the business catagories. of the much opportunities The proportions of residential to earn more greater and to advance himMor4.1 in from property range self which are far in Davis counties. more opportunities gan to 37.3 likely when Congress re Rich. County had the highest pro- moves some of the roadblocks to portion of agricultural property the saving and investment of eswith 72. Only 1.6 of the Salt sential capital. Lake County total is agricultural, Encouragement to economy-mindedespite the fact that its $9 milSenators and Representalion agricultural assessed value tives was given by Rowland is fourth largest among Utah Hughes, retiring Budget Director, counties. who has declared that, while the No segregation of motor vehicle Eisenhower budget is realistic, valuations is made permitting the administration welcomes their assignment to the respec- worth-whil- e cuts in appropriative economic groups. Motor ve- tions by Congress. hicles subject to the property Further, the budget is based A . ASSOcIhATlfoN es.&Ss! bT3KS5S3T3ira y U u I.arry M. Roe, I r Editor-Publishe- Betty U Roe, Business Manager Cornelia Perkins, Society Editor Minnie Johnson, Blanding Correspondent M v amcal Oepai tinent ora. inteudent Monticello Monticello Monticello 27112 Blanding 34 Itr Monticeho 111-11- 2 111-11- 2 111-11- A Step In The Right Direction We were impressed recently with the editorial in the Uranium Digest, and further by remarks made at the National Western Mining Conference in Denver, Colorado by Stephen L. R. McNichoIs, vernor of the State of Colorado. Lieutenant-Go- Context of the two sources we have reference to dwealt ar length Commercial and industrial propon the Uranium Market and the smear campaign perpetrated by several in Utah accounted for more National magazines in what appears to be an attempt to undermine the erty than $081 million or 61 qj entire industry. Utahs assessed valuation in 19 to a research report reObviously this could have been prevented sometime ago had the according leased by Utah Foundatoday arH dilli industry organized a clearing house for publicity and gently tion, the nonprofit tax research d d over-cautio- n. - Julius Mayer, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, must have been thinking about the camel recently when he told Department of Agriculture officials in Washington that increasing large-scal- e government competition in farm marketing is crowding out private businessmen and threatening to destroy our efficient free markets. The Old Settler By Albert My dear San Juaners: from the farmer who "Everyone connected with our industry Sentiment and tradition are is grows grain to the processor who places it in consumer hands very closely related, and they slowly but surely becoming an agent of the government, Mr Mayer have a way of becoming unwar-rantedlcharged. sacred as they impose For those who might think he was crying "wolf, he ticked off a long list of taboos and observan-rivwivttvces without a facts: some lick of sense. I Sentiment may 1. The farmers acreage is controlled and he depends more and ; iL justify all kinds more on government storage rather than the market place as an outt of lies told in I let for his products. of the j 3 fO V-and just as dead, 2. The country grain elevator is losing merchandising operator I nany or mor? as he operates as a government storage agent contracts and know-ho'A. I lies circulated in I instead of as an essential participant in marketing operations. I condemnation of y - f j tpraise 3. The processor cannot hedge his inventory in a starved free ket and must turn to the government for supplies. mar- I Imm4 man i'r A f jLii.i J thinkable that a If may be better dead than the living. It is 4. Grain traders no longer can determine fair value for buyer and alive, at least that the world is seller on grain excanges when government distorts values with huge better off for his being dead, but it is sentiment only which vests surpluses and large-scal- e marketing operations. him with virtues in death which Mr. Mayer is not alone with his misgivings. There is an increasing he never had in life. awareness of the precarious situation even in government itself. Tradition and sentiment impell men and women to do some Referring to "big-scal- e operations of the Federal Government. things, and to withhold from Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz told a recent Indiana other things which, by any unmeeting: "The grain industrys operations under the private enter- prejudiced analysis, amounts to mental derangement. They enprise system are potentially endangered by activities of the government. fantastic penalties and revisage Even articulate, fighters like Messrs. Mayers and wards, and defend their actions Butz cannot do the job alone. If were going to keep that camel of ours with a holy zeal which discounts on the outside, all of us with a stake in the private enterprise system everything reason can bring must realize were under the same tent. against it. They have a way of shedding reason like a ducks back sheds water. I went as a life Insurance agent to offer a policy to an old man and his wife, feeling sure it would OFFICES FOR RENT be a good thing for them, and within their financial reach. The old lady turned pale with horror ' 111 THE BANK BUILDING as she pronounced against it, well-inform- Adams, Peterson and Anderson 2nd FLOOR BANK BUILDING both for herself and for every URANIUM STOCK APPROXIMATE 12:00 Noon QUOTATION d Thursday .0834 Mt. Peale .02 Producers 48 Royal 1.62 Shumway Spanish Trail .0634 1.0634 Standard Ula .04 34 Uran. Chief Uran. King White Can. Wyoming .02 .09 VS .S1V4 1334 .12 . 09142 .0234 .52 1.75 .0734 1.1834 .0534 .0234 .10 .9334 .15 .14 Monticello, Utah Market Quotations e honorable strived to gain public opinion and respect by eliminating the organization. Residential properpromotional racketeers who have, by and large, been solely responsible ty made up $243 million or 229c for the present adverse publicity. of the state total. Agricultural valuation totaled $10' It isn't enough that a handful of newspapers, weekly and daily, property million or 9.05 of the state total. and a few industrial magazines have attempted to supply the pubhc Motor vehicles were assessed at with facts, in relation to the promotional racketeers who have furnished a total of $06 million, accounting of all property subject tp untrue and often fantastic information to every news source in the for 6 "slush campaign was inevit- property tax. The remaining $9 world to such a degree that the million of a state valuation totalable. ing $1,104,793,345 consisted prinThe countless hundreds of items submitted to this newspaper cipally of household furnishings, alone by various individuals and promotional groups obviously aimed practically all of which were asat influencing the market to creat a "fast busk, would probably reach sessed in Salt Lake County. For across the United States. Because of this we have adopted a policy of the most part the practice of other counties of the State ha publishing only those news releases we have adequate knowledge of been to assume that furnishings or those submitted by legitimate sources. in owner-occupiedwellings are Unfortunately this policy has created undue criticism of the news- covered by the statutory exemption of $300 applying to such paper, but until such time as a central news source is established by furnishings. the Uranium ore industry with sufficient personnel to check and reThe Utah Foundation check the news releases, our policy will remain the same in the firm notes that this is the firstreport year belief that a factual dissemination of Uranium news is the only weapon in which it has been possible to against promotional racketeering. And until such a time as this leach separate property listed on the has been eliminated the entire industry is at the mercy of unjust pub-licti- tax rolls by major economic groupings. Prior to 1955, no distinction was made on the tax rolls Nor is it possible for the average newspaper to absorb the tre- of Utah between agricultural and mendous cost of adequate personnel to sift the chaff from the wheat. industrial property in rural, nor Consequently, until such time as a central agency is established and between residential and business supported by the uranium industry, the present publicity structure property in urban areas. In 1955 the Utah State Tax Commission leaves little choice to publications striving to honestly publish the revised property tax classification facts but to use to provide information as to the We sincerely hope that the proposed national uranium institute source of property tax revenue. will not be lost for want of support. Only through an organization of It is hoped that revised propthis type can the uranium industry and the independent uranium ore erty classification will aid policy and administrative agencies by producers hope to survive the poisonous news stories of the past. providing the answer to the question Who pays the property tax in Utah? Inability to answer has handicapped the this Ccmel Tent Government's question Everybody's many studies which have been conducted to determine the equity Sometimes the government reminds us of a cameL of the Utah tax structure. The camel we have in mind is one we heard about along time ago. The current tabulation of asHe was owned by a kindly Arab and one night, when it was terribly sessed valuations was made from cold on the desert, the Arab told the camel he could warm himself a reports submitted to the Utah little by sticking his nose inside the tent. Then the camel put his head State Tax Commission by the recounties. The Utah Code into the tent, then his neck, then his back and finally the whole camel spective such reports to be subrequires was inside. Then there was no room for the kindly Arab so he crawled mitted to the Tax Commissioin tax in 1955 totaled $43,879 outside into the cold. by the first Monday in May. How INQUIRE AT THE LAW OFFICES OF company n 3.15 5.35 Wheat Beans Harold D. Morris the twenty fourth, of this Quotations from the J. B. month the San Juan County and Bean, Monticello, Grain Sheepmen and Cattlemen will Utah. Prohave an opportunity to hear fessor Morris H. Taylor, Extension Marketing Specialist speak Growers Association. The Meeting will be held in Blanding at on the latest 1:30 P.M., in the recreation hall ents of of the L.D.S. curch. All stockmen marlivestock are cordially invited to be nreent how and keting to they apply the particular our needs of own producers. This will he of special interest to all stockmen who are in improving their prac- tices. Who isnt? The occasion is the annual joint meeting of the County Wool Growers and Horse and Cattle On inter-este- d upon figures at hand. The Administration is optimistic as to business and it hopes tax revenues will increase and expenditures will be held down. This was the answer of Hughes to New Deal critics, who charged that the budget indicated an administration belief that there will be a sharp increase in unemployment. Conceding that the budget, as submitted, is precariously balanced, Hughes said the biggest speculative factor is what Congress will appropriate. A determined effort is being made in Congress to repeal legislation passed last year that curbs Defense Department efforts to curtail government competition with private industry. Repeal of a section of the Defense Department appropriation bill is sought in a measure introduced by Rep. Vinson This section prohibits the Defense Department from discontinuing business activities without prior approval of both House and Senate Appropriations Committees. The meeung will consist of a joint session with Mr. Taylor and one other speaker; and individual sessions of each organization with state officials to discuss the programs for this year. The stock-mewill entertain their guests on that same evening at a smorgas-bordinner. Next week the volunteer club leaders from all over the state will attend the Annual Leadership School in Logan. We deem this an excellent opportunity to develop leaders of leaders in the club work. several phases of Of special Interest will be the tractor program which will be held in conjunction with the leaders school. We are shooting for at least three tractor clubs in the county this year. n g 4-- 4-- . . . It Lyman body in general. That would be If she declared, out should that poltake George icy and should die, 1 wouldnt touch a cent of it. And that was that; he did die not very long after that, and she was left in need, but while she suffered for want of what charity failed to bring, she imagined herself comfort in the thought that she was not living to enjoy what her husband had to die in order to supply. If he had taken out that policy, which he would have done but for her, she would have been dead sure that it was the policy that killed him. January thirteenth came on Friday, and I heard it echoed in different places that it was a bad time to undertake any new work, or to expose much of anything to the old ogre that operated for evil on the thirteenth putting a jynx on anything placed within his reach. And they will be watching vigilantly for April thirteenth which also comes on Friday, and will hide their treasures and walk softly lest a spell of bad luck be tacked on them on that day. Black cats, cadavers, graveyards-, places where death occurred, and relics from tragedies they are tangled up with a lot of silly sentiment, funny but foolish. As I think of it I am reminded of the answer of the poet, Colerige to a woman who asked him if he believed in ghosts. No. he answered, I have madam, seen too many of them to believe in them. blood-mone- Your NEWSPAPER ! The Medium with the.. By R. W. IIEMSCH, President PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION HUSBANDS Husbands Must Learn To Tell Stories Dear Mr. President: My wife says she knows all of my alibis by heart and shes tired of hearing them. Id be glad to furnish her with some new ones if I only knew where to get them. Ill bet youre an expert on the subject. If youll take some of your valuable time to give me some good alibis, I shall be forever grateful. FLORIDA true. Some wives are so pleased with the stories their husbands make up just for them that they forget what they were mad about in the first place. The art of story telling will be more fully explained in this column in the near future. I think I am a very lucky man, writes Pete Jensen from Minnesota. Ive been married for twenty years and my wife still believes I have a sick, friend. An Eskimo is lucky, too . . if his wife lets him have a night out . . . the night up there are six months long. No Talent Dear Mr. President: Im no good at thinking up explanations and excuses. Its an awful hard thing for me to do. I Just dont seem to have a talent for it. You must know plenty excuses. I sure could use some help. How about it? MONTANA Slory Telling la An Art No married man should have to knock himself out trying to think up stories to tell his wife. Story telling is easy once you get the hang of it. A good story will soothe and placate, but a bum story can spoil everything. Wives appreciate & good story so much they will often pretend to believe it even though they know it cant be UMAT MAKES yoo TMlidK. 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