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Show , Puqe Tan JOURNAL COX ELDER Brigham City. Utah Friday. January 25, 1952 RISING SCHOOL COSTS BUMP PROPERTY TAXES IN UTAH 13,000 DinoqJ All 14 Districts With Big Daily Attendance Increased Local Property Tax Levies In 1951 Was your property tax bill higher last fall and are you paying more property tax on your automobile this year! If so, the reason, according to the Utah tax commission, is probably due to an increased tax rate levied by your local school district in 1951.. There are 14 school districts in Utah which.had an average daily attendance of more than 8,000 pupils. Every one of the 14 not only absorbed the 1.75 mill decrease in the state school equalization property tax, but also further increased the local property tax rate levied in 1951 as compared with the 1950 levy, it is shown by official reports to the state tax commission. Of the 26 school districts with relief afforded by the Lower leas than 3,000 pupils In average state property tax rate; two, daily attendance 15 gave the Murray and Park City, allowed property taxpayers part of the still further decreases In the i 1 IRON LUNG rrr iUJ 3D iDQCmBa , property tax levies; ahd - nine followed the example of the more populous districts by Increasing the local property tax rate so as to Increase the total levy In spite of the decrease In the state school equalization , . levy. There are 12 Utah school districts which In the school year 1950 had assessed valuations of more thhn $5,600 per 'school child. Ten of these rich' districts Increased the local property tax for school purposes enough to deprive the Owner of any benefits that might come the decreased state rate, More than that, 8 of the 12 were the only school districts in the state to require total , property tax levies for school purposes that were more than 6 mills higher than their levies, in the preceding school year. Jordan school district, ( which has about double the assessed valuation per school childs of ant other Ctsh Aool district, A fESTTCTONTAE and about ftve times the state average, led the procession with a net increase in the property tax levy of. 8.9 mill In other words the local levy in Jordan school district was increased by 10.05 mills. Jordan district does not participate in the proceeds at the school equalization levy, s f (Note: The author of this ar- home to the Salt Lake Childrens, though it contributes Its share ticle is currently chairman of hospital, where the foundation to this state-widtax this yrttr the March of (Dimes drive for had rented a wing. Here he w about $960,000.' . ,4 a. Brigham City. His personal ex- was massaged and given hot Next to Jordan in wealth per perience, In regards to his ne- baths and all the other treatI -V school child Is 'North . Summit phew. Is similar to many in the ment which has come from the district. It called for a net in- county this year.) founlearned the experience by i t crease in the property taxes dation for the treatment of po' By Fere Petersen led for school purposes of 8.39 lio. Then after a year and a one of of the folio, greatest mills over the levy for the half came those awful looking no is of diseases, peorespector school year ended last June. braces. have I a nephew, who is Rich county school district, ple. There finally came a day W which, however, Is somewhat now 14, and he experienced the farther down on the list of the dreaded Infantile paralysis when when his mother, father, and grandmother who had been by $2 rich districts, called for a he was but six years old. LHls name la Larry, and If you his side from the beginning had net increase of 8.9 mills in its 1931 property tax levy over that could have seen him shortly af- to make a great decision. Larter he was stricken, you would rys left arm hung like a limp for 1950. Other school districts In this have believed that he was des- rag, and with nothing but skin group requlftd net increases In tined to be a helpless cripple holding it to his body. It looked as though it might fall off. property tax levies as follows; the rest of his life. Ball O'Connor, president of ths It was suggested that an operSouth Summit, 8.08 mills; Box Larry was attending his first National Foundation for Infantile Elder, 7.62 mills; Alpine, 7.06 year In school. One day after ation couiq, be perfonmed and a Paralyiia tinea It was founded mills; Tooele, 6.46 mills and Salt a feeling of listlessness which muscle transplanted from his in 1938, load hit 15th aueeetalve March of Dimes appeal thla Januhad persisted for a week, his leg to his arm. There was danLake City 6.2 mills. ' North Tho 1952 drive hat been Summit, South Summit folks noticed he couldnt (lift ger that his little weakened ary. because' of tripled polio and Rich have comparatively his left arm to carry his school 'body would not be able to take doubled Incidence during past four years. even He and lift his such great strain, the possicouldnt small average daily attendance; books. the other five districts In the arm to turn on a light They bility that a muscle of this size group have comparatively large knew then that paralysis was could not be removed and made ed in a cast, no one knowing whether It would be a success attendance, as well as compar- beginning to set in, and each to grow again. The doctor could give them no or not, and for four months while atively high wealth per school day became worse as paralysis child. spread through his little body. assurance of success, but only they waited for the muscle to The highest property tax lev- Only his respiratory system and hope that such an operation knit together he was unable to would return him to nonmaL I move. Then came the day that ies in the state for school dis- right arm were, left unharmed. trict purposes are Provo, with a (Workers of the foundation think it was with more than the cast was removed and they combined state and local total brought a hot pack kit to the just hope and thought that knew that the operation was a to allow success. of 37 mills; Murray, with 36 60 home. iFor seven months he brought the decision mills and Sevier,, with 3622 was packed In wool wrappings the operation. Behind this there (Well, today, Larry is Just one mills. The lowest total proper- ythich had been boiled in water, was faith and hope, and prayers of the boys. He can work and ty tax levies for (1931 were im- wrapped In oil silk, and placed to God. play and smile and thank God An incision larger than 12 and the "(Foundation for Infanposed by Grand county school hot against his afflicted parts. district, with 19 mills; Wash- These were changed every hour Inches was made In his left leg; tile Paralysis for making him ington, wkh 23.42 mills and and a half. Several times his a 10 H inch muscle was cut loose well and normal again. In little body was burned because and lifted from Its nonmal post-slo- speaking about the foundation, Wasatch, 24 mills. and placed in his shoulder, Larry says: "I guess I wouldn't In levies of the excessive heat of the Thus the spread Where polio had wilted the ori- be good for very much if it this year amounts to 18 mills wool wrappings. Larry was moved from his ginal structure. Larry was plac- - wasnt for them. between .the highest and the lowest levies and 1222 mills between the third. highest and the third lowest. . , This year 20 school districts levied more thah 30 mills or 3 percent of the assessed value of property: all of which, 'except Jordan also participate In the yield from the", individual income tax, the .corporate franchise tax and the interest or Women's Rayon rental from the state school land HALF SLIPS grants. Last year only IQ school district, levies,, when the 6tate medium and large Small, 8.05- - mills, levy-o- f is Included, size, white and pastels exceeded 30 mills.. The fourteenjmore populous school districts, each of which Increased, thelocal school district levy more than the 1.75 CLOSEOUT! mill decrease in the state school - Panoted qbfiltzatlorukvy,., 250 PAIR BUTCHER WEAVE trick Healy, Jr., chairman of the tax Commission, represents 82.7 RAYON percent of the t total assessed WOMENS SHOES White and colors, per yard valuation of the state as of last x ' 'J year. "It would seem td be signifiThis large group includes straps, cant that, the large school dispumps and sandals in suede and tricts, in point .of population, leathers. Now in three big price and also most, of Jhe other school Girls , Womens e groups tbatv-havdistricts unusually HOUSE SLIPPERS- large wealth per child, are the $1 districts which have Increased Broken sizes but great ' their tax rates the most.. The values at tat commission is in no position to interpret the reasons for such a trend. But this much appears certain; Either other sources of revenue must be found for ' the school districts, or property tax rates and property tax collections will continue to go up, unless school board members in Womens particular, and to a leas extent MENS PLISSE CREPE both county commissioners and WORK municipal officials, learn to say HOUSECOATS W." ' Sizes 12 to 44, now Rlue chambray shirts, sizes from 14'i to 17, now Fish Salas Beautified. lis&Hft Z:r3i Youngster Fought Infantile Paralysis With Help Of Polio Foundation 4t e ! 'vt! n TERRIFIC VALUES ! , IND-OF-MON- TH WAREHOUSE 2 39-In- ch 44' Here are the truly advanced automobiles for 1952 . . , the only fine cars priced so low . . . and one ride will tell you what we mean by that. 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