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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD, Thursday, August 14, 1980 - Page 5 Vet memorial A - Casual Bags Shoulder Totes Carry ons Specials for August 14, 15 & 20 man stationed overseas has asked that his fellow San Juan C ountians consider making donations to a Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (WMF) to finance construction of a memorial in honor of the 2.7 million Americans who served in Vietnam. SSG Dennis Scrogum, son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Scrogum of Monticello, now stationed in Notions for Sewing White Dual Duty Thread Reg. $1.09 770 Other Notions San Juan County service- Germany, sent his parents a clipping from a post newspaper describing plans for the memorial and saying that he and several others in his unit are contributing to the project. A bill authorizing construction of the memorial signed recently by President Carter. The memorial will be near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and will cost an estimated $2. The names of all 57,661 servicemembers known to have died in the Vietnam war are to be engraved on the mem- off 16 Family Pack Pork Chops 41 .29 orial. a WMF to According the will memorial Spokesman, make no political statement" about the war but is meant as a symbol of national unity and reconciliation. The federal government is Country Style not paying for the project, but is only providing the two-ac- re Spare Ribs site for its construction. Private donations gathered by the WMF will raise the need- 41.29 ed cash. As of mid -- July, donations totaled $275,000. Tax deductible contributions may be sent to: WMF, Inc., P.O. Box D.C. Washington, 37240, Homemade 20013. Sausage Tax backlash? $1.09 Utah to the will be November a proposed statute on voting which will (1) limit propertv taxes to one per cent of their value (2) roll back assessed polls in 4 nS voters going valuations to those established in 1977 (3) limit growth in assessed valuation to not over 2 per cent in any given year (4) prohibit any new property taxes and (5) require adoption by not less than of each legislative house for proposed state tax increases. Burrows, Smith and Company, Salt Lake City municipal financial consultants, suggest that the enactment of this proposed staute could have a backlash not anticipated by two-thir- ds Spare Ribs 41.09 voters. Banquet T.V. Dinners Banquet Pies Brilliant Chicken or Turkey H Turkey, Chicken, Beef 8 Cooked Shrimp 4 4 4 4 4, 4 4 4 4, 4 oz. oz. 61 0 3950 6 oz. $1 .59 10 lb. $1.19 4 2290 690 4 lbs. $1 ib Utah general obligation bonds, they say, are highly sought after and carry interest costs substantially below those paid by residents of state surrounding Utah . If tax limitation is passed. Utah bonds will be subject to a one per cent limitation of property taxes.. Their investment quality will decline, ratings will be reduced, borrowing costs will be increased and Utahns will pay a greater percentage of their taxes for debt service, leaving a lesser percentage available to provide for public services, the consultants say. General obligation bonding in California, whose proposition XHI served as a model for the text of the Utah tax limitation act, has become so difficult that a majority of the financing for that state is now done through lease revenue bonds. Lease revenue bonds totally avoid the voice of the people at an election and carry high interest costs. |