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Show PAY MORE . . . GET MOKE Arthritis is New Target of '59 March of Dimes Social Security Tax Rates Increased Percent at Beginning of 59 One-Ha- lf The theme of the 1958 Amendments to the Social Security Act Youll might well be phrased, pay more Youll get more, Jay M. Hansen of the Ogden social security office, said this week. You will pay more for two reasons. The tax rate on earnings covered by social security increased Jan. 1, 1959. The present tax is 44 percent on wages, 2 percent withheld from the percent workers pay and 2 paid by the employer. On pay received after Dec. 31, 1958, the total tax will be 5 percent with the cost as usual shared equally by employer and employee. Income The social security tax rate at inpresent on come is 3 percent. On income in taxable years ending after Dec. 31, 1958, the tax rate will be 3 percent. Since most people figure their profit on a calendar year basis from Jan. 1 to Dec. at 31, they will pay their tax the present rate of 3 percent 4 3-- 3-- 2 Box Elder Journal Friday, January 8, 1959 Brigham City, Utah weakly newspaper established In 1908, pub Itshad every Friday end entered as Second Class Matter at the post office i Srlqhem City, Utah, under the act of March I, H77 Chat. W Claybau9h, Pubinner Subscription rat U 00 per year; payable fe advance; in combination with the Box fclder News, (published Wednesdays) $S 00 par year; 10 cents. $2 SO for 4 months; sing la copy A Member Audit Bureau of State Press Association, and United Association Utah State .Representative; !f bake City, Utah. NATIONAL Circulations, Utah National Editorial Press, Advertising Press Association, EDITORIAL 3-- curity disability benefits can now receive payments . Hansen will be in Brigham City on Thursday, Jan. 15, at the Employment office from 10 a. m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p. m. Pay Scale BUFFALO, N. Y. (UPI) After serving three years as assistant chief of police, bureau of identification under a provisional appointment, Vincent D. Quinlan was given permanent title to the post As a result of the promotion his salary dropped from $5,800 to $5,600 a year. Harold C. Criil, Manager Phone: 487, Brigham City 20 S. Main St. loons bolow $600 mode by City Finance Co. (Utah) enjoy Glen Canyon Utah Power and Light company directors have authorized of $1,800,000 for expenditure construction of a high voltage electric line to carry additional power into the heart of the Power company area. E. M. Naughlon, UP&L and Telluride Power company president, said he expects the line to become the first leg of a transmission system to bring Glen Canyon pow'er to the people of Utah. Naughton said construction of extra high voltage the line will begin about Sept. 1, 1959, and the line will be ready for use by May, 1960. It will extend from the end of the UP&L system near Nephi to a point just north of Richfield. Naughton also announced that the Telluride company, a UP&L subsidiary will spend an additional $680,000 on a substation at Sigurd to reduce voltage for local percent will apply to their profit in the calendar year 1959. Wages reported on Forms 941 filed by employers in January, 1959, covering the three month period October, November and December, 1958, are taxed at the present rate which totals 4i percent. The next wage report, covering the January, February, March, 1959, quarter, will be the first to which the increased tax rate of five percent applies. Taxable Amount Increases In adition to the increased tax rate, the amount of earnings to which the tax applies increases from the present $4200 a year to $4800 a year beginning in 1959. Earnings over that amount are not subject to the social secur- Tel-lurid- e e use. RHEUMATOID effect, children a well as adults. John Sutton, ARTHRITIS 16, of Fairview, W. Va., a patient at the Institute of Physical Medicine Medical Center, beand Rehabilitation, New York University-Bellevu- e came ill at the age of 2 years, has worn a leg brace since the age of 4 years, suffers recurrent periods of high fever. Research and patient aid in juvenile arthritis is an integral part of the program of the National Foundation. Polio and birth defects are other Faces of Crippling looking to the March of Dimes for Greater Victories In 1959. Arthritis, the No. 1 crippler of manpower in the U.S. today, is high among the targets of the National Foundation as it launches its Greater Victories March of Dimes this January. Having tamed polio with the'S'Salk vaccine, the March of ductive lives. What is learned Dimes organization now is tack- here will be of benefit to arthritis patients of all ages. ling new problems. Nearly every person over 60 Its expanded program will move forward into broad new has had sume form of arthritis. areas of unmet health problems, But children as well as adults may be victims of this unpremany of which have been dictable disease. Some 30,000 opened up by research done while finding a preventive for youngsters each year have juvenile arthritis. In addition to polio and rehabilitating its victims. That is why the 1959 swelling of the joints, causing theme is pain, stiffness, restricted motion March of Dimes and crippling, the rheumatic Toward Greater Victories. diseases may attack the heart, Medical scientific research, paeyes, kidneys or skin. of aid and the tient training say the cause and Experts are disease fighters professional of arthritis are largely unthe core of this program, which cure and doctors warn that will cover initially polio, arthri- known, there are no miracle tis, birth defects and research in Aspirin, hot baths and drugs. exervirus diseases and disorders of cises bring relief. Some new the central nervous system. redrugs like cortisone Arthritis and other rheumatic duce inflammation butmay cannot diseases bring pain and crippling be counted on to stop the progto more people in the United ress of the disease, doctors say. States than any other chronic In most cases, however, disease. Over 11,000.000 persons pling can be prevented orcripreare afflicted. Some 320.000 are so duced if treatment is started disabled they can no longer early. Techniques of rehabilitawork. The loss to the nation in tion pioneered by the National wages, working hours and taxes Foundation in the treatment of is a billion and a half dollars polio are valuable for arthritis a year. patients. Children especially can The National Foundation will benefit by these techniques. offer patient aid to juvenile Researchers for the National and adolescent arthritis patients Foundation are now trying to 18. the Of unlock the mysteries of the 16,000 through age children likely to seek treat- rheumatoid diseases and find ment each year, some 5,000 to causes, cures and preventives. 6,000 may need medical care as Some scientists believe viruses extensive as that required by may offer clues. Others are paralytic polio patients. This age studying what is known as the group is the most hopeful with rheumatoid factor discovered which to work, with the pos- in the blood of afflicted persons sibility of bringing many to ma- to determine its origin and turity able to lead normal, pro THAT Voltage To Be Increased The line will be constructed to operate at 230,000 volts, Naughton declared, but until Glen Canyon power becomes available it wil be operated at 138,000 vots. Naughton said the new line initially will strengthen the power supply to the Telluride area and later will be available as the first leg of a transmission system to bring Utahs share of Glen Canyon power into the state as that power becomes available. Completion of the line, he added, will make ample power available to serve the increasing l needs of the portion of the state, including those of the California Pacific Power company, formerly the Southern Utah Power company. (Continued from Page One! Gibbs, Portage: Roy C. Ander son, Rawlins; Floyd Woodward, Ray D. Sorenson, Promontory; Howell, James Garbinati, Snow-ville- ; Jesse Tracy, Yost, and Jack Kimber, Grouse Creek. Surety Bonds were presented and approved for the following county officials and employees: ; K. B. Olsen, county Lucile L. Howes, deputy clerk; Luella O. MacFarlane, deputy clerk; Warren W. Hyde, county sheriff; Ruby E. Ray, deputy sheriff; Fred L. Petersen, county assessor; R. Evan Gee, deputy assessor; Cora S. Robinette, deputy assessor; Cora L. Nielsen, county recorder; Hannah Hillam, deputy recorder; Sadie D. Jensen, deputy recorder; LaGrande Petersen, county treasurer, two bonds at $20,000 each; William H. Griffith, county surveyor; J. Erie Compton, county commissioner; L. Aaron Snow, justice of the peace; Eunice E. Monson, justice of the peace. Ask Additional Pay George L. Johnson, retiring county treasurer, and Mrs. Margaret R. Evans, retiring county recorder, filed time slips with County Clerk K. B. Olsen for the first five days of January, explaining that they . both first went into office by appointment and were paid from the first until the end of the month; there-ore- , they asked that they be paid for these first five days in January. Olsen asked if these time slips be included in the clerk-auditor- south-centra- Thiokol Chemical corporations Utah division this week announced that certain plant personnel had occupied office space in Tremonton. General Manager John said that a test section from quality con trol, numbering five persons, had moved into the Winzeler buildAn additional 17 instruing. mentation engineers from quality control are scheduled to set up in the same building Saturday. These and other persons connected with quality control later will move into a building to be located in Tremonton and being built by a group headed by Jay Dee Harris. Thiokol has agreed to occupy 3,000 square feet of office space in the proposed building. Corinne Local Farm Bureau will meet Saturday evening, Jan. 10, at 8 p. m. in the Corinne LDS chapel to study the proposed zoning regulation, President Leslie Mills, announces. The general public, as well as Farm Bureau members, is invited to attend. President Mills states that the zoning regulation is an important and vital step and the details of the plans will be thoroughly examined and discussed at the meeting, Saturday. Man is what a woman marries. Men have two feet, two hands, and sometimes two wives, but never more than one cuff link or one idea at a time. 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The commissioners said they felt these claims should have been presented four years ago when these two officials changed from being appointed officers to elected officers. Norman Groer met with the commissioners to see about having a road built between his property and that of a neighbors at his ranch. The commissioners said they would ask Frank Hall, county road supervisor, to took it over and determine when it could best be done. The commissioners approved rails the purchase of 100 70-lfrom the Union Pacific Railroad Co. to be used by the county road department. Into Offices Corinne Farm Bureau To Study Zoning Issue TEXAS BIRTHS Newly Elected Commissioners Take Over Helm at First Meet to Bring Power to Utah on the returns they will soon be filing. The new rate of 3 ity tax. This increase in the amount of earnings for which social security crelit can be given means that many workers will be able to qualify for bigger checks in the future. 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