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Show L i Tuesday, June 13, 1950 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah . PAGE THIRTEEN INCREASED SCHOOL TAXES LIKELY AS ENROLLMENT KEEPS INCREASING With a continued increase in enrollment at all grades of schools there is every indication that there will be an increase in X Dragerton Swamps Price Trading In 24-- 8 Landslide the property tax for the citizens of the state of Utah. The state - law requires', that each school shall receive .a minimum of $3300. With the increase in enrollment Dragerton slaughtered the Price the funds do not appear adequate team of Hiawatha SatTrading to meet this need under present a score of 24 to 8. Tnc by, urday conditions. first inning saw Dragerton start .Thanks mainly to increased as- out with four runs following it up sessed value, the state ' managed with two runs in the second. The to cut taxes 1.82 mills last year. big innings were the sixth and . Indicationsare now that the cuts seventh when thirteen runs came may have to be restored. across. Estimates of revenue and cost Dunlap pitched tight steady were rough and the many factors ball and held Price Trading to dol- two runs until the eighth when making up the multi-milli- ! x pr ; 1 i r--x , k cods odavs mum oo,ri i SPECIAL SAVINGS on lar public r pxFx r? program will not jell until August. But early predictions were that the schools were going to cost more, and that property taxes, the major variable in the revenue formula, were going to bear the school they scored four times and came back in the ninth to score two more runs. The entire Dragerton team got hits with Tobey, Byers, D. Crawford hitting home runs for Dragerton. Byers, D. Crawford, Nelson and J. Crawford all got three burden. Some of the early indications of hits. an impending tax increase were: 1. A sizeable increase in school population with a subsequent increase in the number of classroom units and the programs cost. 2. A drop in the amount of the surplus revenue available to offset next years bill. 3. A continued decrease in the amount of money collected In state income and corporation -- ON ca ays Da be- - DDCaDu-u- a - prip ' DLa HEAVY-DUT- Y SHIRTS PANTS THEY'RE SANFORIZED !1 " $20,-400,0- 00 $1,-922,3- 36. IN ARMY TWILL! taxes. The influx of war babies into kindergarten and lower elementary grades throughout the state is expected to boost school costs for the fourth successive year. Rough and unofficial estimate was that the added enrollment will increase cost of the program next year to approximately more than $500,000 above that of the school year just ended. In August, 1949, the state faced the school year with a surplus in the uniform school fund of As of Sunday, the surplus in the fund was only $360,573 but $189,000 of this amount was due School districts to meet the states deficiency of last year. If revenue between now and August 1 equals that of 1949, the state will have approximately $1,000,000 less surplus to meet next years school bilk For the first time since the end of the war the state is showing a reduction under the previous year in the amount of state income and corporation franchise taxes collected. The amount of these two taxes plus' some $500,000 annually in land rentals and interest is deducted from the overall cost of the program. The remainder of the $20,400,000 (estimated) cost must be raised by property tax levies. In 1949-5- 8 school year, the average property tax payer did not feel the effect of a $650,000 increase in the cost of the school program over the preceeding year. This was due to a large increase in assessed value of, the state credited to high mining activity Because of the increase in assed value, the state was able to raise the $650,000 additional revenue and still reduce property tax levies for the minimum program 1.62 mills. Preliminary figures at the state tax commission show that the assessed value of the state still was increasing, but not at the some rate as last year. No one was optimistic enough to predict that the overall increase would be to meet the $1,000,000 lag enough in surplus and the $500,000 increase in cost without increasing LI GREY GREEN OR TAN! ' THE SHIRTS: Full cut for comfort! 02000042 420307620 Price Trading ..0 Dragerton o Two handy flap pockets! o Washable! MRS. TOM MCCOURT Long-wearin- g! ENTERTAINS Gertrude McCourt was hostess to a combined Pinochle club and stork shower in honor of Mrs. Jack Benson Friday. Those attending were JoAnn Kissell, Fausett, Ileene DallaCorte, Virginia Cochrane, MarjoMe Huish. Maron L Sally Tucker, and Helen Markosek. Prizes vv ent to Geniel Douglas, Bette Hansen and Mel Benson who also claimecl a comforting supply of tiny pink things. Ro-se- Sizes 14 to 17! THE PANTS: Heavyweight drill pockets! Cut over a full pattern for comfort! lla Button fronts! Cuff bottoms! Easy to wash and iron! Sizes 29 to 42! , t fMax. Shrinkage OKCWWOW The old stork was a busy individual at the Dragerton hospital this past week when eight youngsters arrived on the scene. A son was bom to Mr. and Mrs. Archie Orme of Dragerton on June 4. A son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heers of Sunnydale on Tne 5. On June 6 Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Espinosa of Sunnydale had a boy while Mr. and Mrs. Carl Misner of Dragerton had a daughter and Mr. ahd Mrs. Wayne Bowen of Price had a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Marcei Peacock of Sunnydale had a daughter on June 8. On June 11 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Oliver of Dragerton had a daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Troy Patrick of Dragerton had a son. FILLE'R Mr. and Mrs. William Haren-bu- rg left Tuesday for a two week vacation through Colorado. j 1 UtiM |