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Show BOX EIDER NEWS, Brigham City, Utah Sunday, January 12, 1975 $20,000 for Box Elder? eCD Local school districts in Utah are expected to receive a special bonus distribution of $1.7 million from the state this year. This fact was disclosed by Utah Foundation, the private research organization, in an school analysis of the 1973-7program. According to the Foundation study, the special allocation 4 represents funds remaining from last years state ap- propriation to the minimum school program after all in- tended at Box Elder High school are pictured with food which the club gathered for a needy family's Christmas. Pictured are, from left, Ladd Hall, president; Blake Burt, vice president, and Bruce Wankier, secretary. Get $20,000? The preliminary but unofficial indication is that t Box Elder district will receive aout $20,000, as its share of the surplus according to Clerk David Morrell. The district spokesman said hopefully the local share will be greater, mentioning desire to receive specifically a an more for transportation, area which was cut back last year. Morrell said the $20,000 figure represents about to the minimum school program is somewhat uniquq. In most cases, if state appropriations to agencies exceed provision applying actual approved legislative programs, the unspent balance is turned back to the appropriate fund or account at the $2 per weighted pupil unit (the basis on which state assistance is determined for local districts). However, the foundation has concluded that the $1.7 million would average about $4.87 per weighted pupil unit across the state. Whatever amount is received, Morrell said the district can make use of it, possibly to apply against an existing deficit which amounted to $213,000 at the beginning of this school year. d under the minimum program to a definite amount based on the estimated costs for the various items. The 1973 school law listed the estimated cost items in a table if the and provided that amount for social security and retirement in this table is over or underestimated, or if the total number of weighted pupil units is over or underestimated, then the amount per unit paid in all programs to school districts must be increased or decreased so that the state expenditure will not exceed $155,752,100. The study points out that this special distribution to local schools comes at a time when the state is experiencing some financial difficulties, and when higher education and other state institutions and agencies have been instructed to cut their 1974-7appropriations by 3 percent. school fright from "villian" Jeff Craig are Glenda Hemsley, Natalie Hansen, Debbie Wilde (frorr) left) and Tena Whitaker, seated. They will be performing in three melodramas at Box Elder High schools Little Theatre Monday (today) through Wed-- , nesday. Plays are "The Cleanest Town in the West," on Monday, "Desmond's Dastardly Deed," on Tuesday, and "Curse You, Jack Dalton," on Wednesday. RECOILING WITH Logan mayor will From address AARP unit Library Logan Mayor Desmond L. will address a meeting of the American Anderson Association of Retired Persons in Brigham City on Jan. 17. The city officials presentation is slated at 12:45 p.m. and will follow the weekly senior citizens luncheon at the community center. A spokesman said a meeting of the local AARP board is scheduled at 11 a.m. Mayor Anderson was sworn in as mayor of Logan just a year ago. He is president of the company, Los Angeles, and Utah State Realty corporation in Logan. Both are development companies. He has established various educational Em-bark- er programs and participated as an instructor for land-us- e planning and city and regional planning, including executive development programs. As associate dean, school of public administration, of University California, Dr. reorganized the Mayor Desmond L. Anderson . . . sets local talk Southern Anderson city and of regional planning program the university. The city official also was a real estate salesman in Logan and holds a real estate salesman license for Utah. He owns property in Box Elder, Cache and Rich counties. Hopefuls screened for Brigham post nit seven applicants have interviewed for the post of 1am City office manager, a from which Tolman Burke etire on April 1. s was disclosed during a of the city it meeting :il. searching tant with for an ac- computer ground, Mayor Harold B. said avertisements have placed in California as as Utah newspapers and, result, several additional cations ved. have been council, following the nmendation of Councilman Peter Knudson, appointed Brent Christensen as assistant superintendent in the water department. Dallas Stiver and Victor Tsosie were named as new members of the city traffic advisory committee. Tsosie is a student at Intermountain school. In addition, the council reappointed Ron ODell to another term on the traffic body. Mayor Harold B. Felt said he would arrange a meeting with the Box Elder County comon radio mission the 5 The Brigham Carnegie Library Childrens Hour 0 Telephone January Program 723-585- Place: Brigham Carnegie Childrens Library Library 2 to 3 p.m. Time: Saturday 18 - Book Review, January Call It Courage, for special junior readers; Polynesian dancers. January 25 - Storytelling, The Story of Old Ephraim, special program for ?11 ages; a legend of a grizzly bear. program dancers, lapses from appropriations Hauser said that privilege taxes collected from Thiokol corporation during the 1960s (and paid under protest) should be credited to the current fiscal years tax effort. made to the Department of Social Services for welfare and other purposes. The Foundation analysis concludes that while it is true that school costs and local tax collections cannot be estimated with absolute precision nearly eighteen months before the close of the budget year, there seems to be no justification for treating schools differently from other state institutions and departments which must remit excess appropriation balances back to the state rather than to have any windfalls available for expenditure. gjrorj dor revenue Moreover, the added apportionment will be made despite the fact that the state uniform fund concluded the 1973-7- 4 fiscal year with a deficit of $815,038, and is expected to fiscal end the present (1974-75- ) year with a deficit of $10 million or more unless some action is taken by the 1975 Utah Legislature. Foundation analysts point out that this special distribution They have not been credited before now because a case contesting the tax law was still pending. However, the district court recently issued an order of dismissal in the effort. The property tax this year is expected to bring in a total of $821,000. Local tax effort is a criterion used in determining revenue sharing allotments. It was first feared that the entitlement period for this county "bonus would come after the federal revenue sharing program is due to expire. However, county officials have determined that the entitlement will come during the final period of the programs r current authorization. case. "These taxes should be included on your general revenue sharing survey form. This data will be used to compute your revenue sharing allocation for entitlement period 7 (July 1976 - December 1976)," Hauser wrote. The $603,112 privilege tax amount will add substantially to the countys 1975 tax 1975 five-yea- Zoning rates city action (Continued From Page One) multiple unit dwellings on the remaining Furthermore, he said its not the developers intent to build housing. The matter was referred back to the planning commission which had previously recommended the zoning Not Ready for Agreement Mayor Harold B. Felt said the council was not ready to accept a franchise land. charge. Councilman Doug Wight said the planning commission can control high density housing in the area through conditional use permits. agreement with Telesis corporation for cable TV in the city. However, the council did act to approve an ordinance authorizing the city to enter into community cable TV contracts. The measure must be advertised and will go into effect after 30 days. The city fathers took under study a revised proposed franchise agreement. At the same time, Councilman Peter Knudson said several citizens had called him to voice concern about having cable television shoved down our throats". The fact is you dont have to buy it if you dont want it, he declared. Injuries in two Half dozen accidents investigated Half a dozen traffic accidents, the 1973 Utah two with injuries, were Legislature attempted to tie the vestigated by local law state-supporte- 4 Hopes have brightened that Box Elder county will realize a revenue sharing "bonus as a result of a recent dismisal1 order in U.S. District Court for Utah. This was indicated in a letter from Arthur L. Hauser, federal Office of Revenue Sharing, to County Attorney O. Dee Lund. that state commitment close of the fiscal year. For example, at the conclusion of the 1973-7- fiscal year, appropriation lapses to general fund free revenue by all agencies totaled $6,896,417. Of this sum, approximately $5,941,504 is accounted for by Coumfly Cnopes Situation Explained The bonus distribution to local school districts arises from the fact tbmCDS' com- legislative mitments for the 1973-7- 4 school year were met. The $1.7 million balance' developed because most school costs were overestimated by school officials and the amount that could be raised from the required local tax was un-- , derestimated. OFFICERS OF THE B'lvers efeflpneOs r. in- en- forcement officials during the first week of the new year. On Jan. 4 at 12:03 a.m., a Portland, Ore., man received accident injuries after a two-ca- r in Perry. Utah Highway Patrolman Larry Gillman said a car driven by Carl Dee Allison, 36, was struck in the rear by one driven by William Francis Wagner, 20, or 1033 Grandview, Brigham City. Gillman said the Allison vehicle pulled from a service station and into the path of the Wagner car. Allison was cited for failure to yield. Gregory C. Marble, 17, of Bothwell, was cited for driving to fast for existing conditions when he slid off the road after hitting black ice late Jan. 3. He wasnt injured, according to Trooper Lyle Palmer. Minor Accident Idaho, and Glen 826 M. Seely, 45, of East First North, Brigham City, collided at the intersection. No injuries were reported. On Jan. 2, a California family was injured in a traffic accident on SR-8- 4 near Fielding when run off the road by a semi. Trooper Larry Forsgren said Delmar Dee Vail, 45, Riverside, Calif., was forced off when a semi cut in too closely to avoid a headon crash with an oncoming auto as the truck passed the Vail auto. Injured Injured were Sheila, Susan, Cythia, and Nancy Vail. Susan Vail may have received a broken back, Forsgren reported. On Jan. 1, a Brigham City man was arrested for driving under the influence by Trooper Richard Naylor. Melvin Whitaker, 42, of 572 South Second East, was arrested after he ran off the road and hit a fence at the Corinne Exit of Roy Earl Tso, 22, of Salt Lake City, was arrested for driving under the influence after he rolled his auto at the mouth of Box Elder canyon at Second South. Officer Ernest Justesen said hurt in the crash. no one was Firm lowers sugar prices A reduction of $2.05 per hundredweight in the basis price of sugar has been announced by Sugar company. The price adjustment is the third made by the company since Dec. 4, according to Reed Smoot, senior for U and I. Utah-Idah- o Previous reductions of $5.25 4 and $4 on Dec. 17 bring the total reduction to date to $11.30 per hundred, Mr. Smoot said. The current price adjustment and the two in December are reflections of the declines in the price of raw sugar on the U.S. and world on Dec. market exchanges, that have past few weeks, he pome in the explained. The market still has not stabilized and at this point it is almost impossible to predict which way sugar prices may move. 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