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Show JILY 7, 19 jO THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH Unemployment Payments Set Record High In Utah During 1840 Unemployment compensation reduced to the $25 OOO.OUO minpayments in Utah reached a re- imum spt i if led by law by the end cord high in 1949, it was noted of 1954 or tally m 1955, requirin a Utah Foundation report re- ing tax rates to be increased and leased Wednesday. Benefits to- probably restored to the 2 7 taled $5,060,709, 50 per cent maximum fur all tmploytrs more than in either 1947 or 1943, An increase in the level of and a milion dollars in excess to benefit payments will result in the previous high in 1946. an earlier itstoration of maxiAnalyzing the operation of the mum tax rates Total benefits for experience rating plan adopted the first three months of 1953 in Utah in 1947, the Foundation were 28 higher than for the study report shows that taxes same quarttr of 1949 The Payroll Variation Plan paid by employers to finance unemployment compensation have has afforded Utah employers apsubstantially exceeded the cost of proximately SllOUOOdl) m tax the program in every year since relief in the two and one half its beginning until 1949. The years of its operation Tax rate surplus has accumulated as a re- l eductions for eligible employserve fund with a balance of ers were eflectne July 1, 1947 $33,592,000 at the close of 1948 The reseive fund balance m Utah was among the last of June, 1947 was S30 571 000 comthe 48 states to adopt an exper- pared with $32,307,000 at the ience rating plan to reduce em- close of 1949 6 ployer taxes which pay the enEmployer taxes totaled 000 in 1943, and S3 080,243 tire cost of unemployment compensation, to an amount no in 1949. Utah payrolls covered by the greater than necessary to maintain a reasonable reserve fund unemploy m e n t compensaand finance th program. tion program in 1949 decreased Under Utahs Payroll Varia- about 13 from $330,504 403 in tion Plan of experience rating, 1948 to $287,591 987 in 1949. the tax rates of covered employThe Utah benefit program is ers were reduced so that the av- among the most liberal in the erage rate for all covered empoy-ersiaccording to Utah Founda1949 was 1 06 Compared tion analysts From 1945 unbl with 2.7 prior to the effective August 1949, Utahs average date of the plan. weekly pay mint per claiment was The Utah law provides for re- for total unemployment than of that other tax rates higher any upon storing higher employers if the reserve fund state m the Union Since that balance declines below $25 mil- time, the Utah average payment of the subject has been among the top four. lion or 10.8 The average potential benefit wages for the preceeding year The Utah Foundation study per eligible claiment in Utah is emphasizes that continuance cf substantially higher than that in i educed unemployment tax rates any other Mountain state, and is is directly related to the amount exceeded nationally only by the of benefits paid out to claimants. states of Cal. forma, New York If payments, collections, and and New Jersey. wage continue at about the 1949 During 1949 21 087 workers level, the reserve fund will be received one or more benefit $4,-83- , n M0 MORE Mr and Mrs. Rue Heath and Florence Easton have returned from a visit with Mr. and Mrs Leslie Heath and Mr. and Mrs Dell Mills in Salt Lake City. mobile. He was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Leon Newton and Phyllis Newton, who plan to travel in the East, and visit points of interest, before returning to Utah. Mrs The American Way THE SOCIALISTIC PLOT and Mrs Easton Snow of Many, many times in my colSalt Lake, were holiday visitors umn during the past thirteen at the home of Mr. and Mrs. years I have soundede a warning Karl Reichert. against the Federal GovernMr and Mrs Charles Smith ments invasion of the electric and Mrs Edmond Jaeger and power field Repeatedly, I have stated that nationalization of this daughter, Coleen, of Salt Lake, are visiting with Mrs. W. C. public utility it the first stepping stone, the entering wedge toMurphy ward the socialists dream of a socialized United Mr. and Mrs Clair Tollestrup completely and vhildren of Salt Lake, were States of America. There was np exuse for Govin Salma for the July 4th celeernment muscling in" on the bration. manufacture and distribution of Visitors at the home of Mr. electric power. By and large the and Mrs Barney Jeffery on July privately owned companies were 4th, and who attended the Salma givinn a good account of themcelebration, were Mr. and Mrs. selves, had done a magnificent Garn Jeffery and baby, Jessie, of job of providing power to the public giving Fremont, and Mr. and Mrs. Mel-- v service at ever decreasing in Tolman, Lynn and Sandra of rates. Those privately owned Sigurd companies that so far have been the governmental axe iMr. and Mrs Vincent Hyatt spared and children, of Sunnyside, visit- continue to serve the public efed this week with Mr and Mrs. ficiently and economically. They V. Wilson, parents of Mrs. continue to pay taxes into, while A power projects governmental Hyatt syphon money out of the public Sherrie, daughter of Mr. and chest. Colonal C.W. Liehy, publisher Mrs Hugh Bird, is convalescing nicely after receiving special of "Electric Light and Power, a treatment at the Salt Lake Clinic. privately owned monthly trade The parents were alarmed at the magazine, in a recent report, expartial invalidism of their eldest posed this invasion of the power daughter over a period of time, industry for what it really is a plot to socialize the leading and consulted the specialist. businesses fo the country, first Mr. and Mrs Kennard Larsen inaugurated by the Socialist were in Salt Lake City the past Party. He quoted from a pamphlet week end visiting with Mr. and Mrs Lucian Martin, parents of issued by the Socialist Party in Mrs Larsen 1923, as follows: "States under the direction of this socialist proMrs Thomas Barrett, mother gram, and finally the nation, of Stanley Barrett, and Mrs. Joe Perri, a sister, and her children, Joylee and Jimmie, of Provo, visited on Friday at the Barrett home in Salma. Mr ever-bett- er PACE me a a 9 II (! -- 0 t'V pavments NilCHBORHOOD Miracle Whip - qt. . . 58c 2 for TOMATO JUICE Pierces, No. 2 2 for VIENNA SAUSAGE Cudahy 2 for TOMATO SOUP Campbells CORN Hunts Whole Kernel GREEN BEANS Sliced 2 for DEVILED HAM Armouis 2 for SARDINES Common Oil . SlRF Large . . .. . Paramount Ice Cream 23c 35c 23c 10c 16c 35c 18c 27c White King Toilet Soap 22c lc Sale - 4 for Qt. . . 43c BEEF LIVER SLICED BACON I pOPETO Rt . . ... 9 9 mm by advocates state. of your section of the country, let know that you prefer to buy juice from a privately owned company. On the other hand, if no project is plotted for you particular vicinity, serve notice on your legislators that you have a great aversion to being forced to pay part of the cost of furnishing juice to citizens in other parts of the nation. PATRONIZE LOCAL . MERCHANTS with an Its now standard equipment on every r :w Ford Tractor. State St., Phone 124 SALINA, UTAH 30 So. tame Freezer! W'.int to save money . . . and make life easier An electric home freezer can do it for ou . . . these ways: 1. SAVES TIME. in a ENROLL NOW FOR DANCE CLASSES AT LOWE DANCE 2. SAVES SHOPPING TRIPS. Shop only once a Dance Educators For 20 Years SALINA SCHEDULE Classes Every Thursday At 2nd Ward Recreation Hall Von can do the weeks cook-in- q in the day. It keeps "osen-fresh- " freezer. STUDIOS week. Saxe on transportation. 3. SAVES ON FOOD PURCHASES. Save from 20 to 6orf on food purchases, by buying in quantity, when food is seasonable $5.03 Per Month and prices down. -- o- All Types Of Stage Dancing TAP - BALLET - CHARACTER -- 0- NOT A TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY Short Course. A PUPILS MAY ENROLL AT V ANY TIME. Self Supporting, Tax Paying Industry must stand guard against the tide of state Socialism. ever-advanci- JOSEPH W. MARTIN, U S welfare jour Congressman and Senators has the CRANE TRACTOR & IMPLEMENT CO. the How right Colonel Liehy is! If Federal Government is cooking up a power project for YOUR EYES BtFORl YOU BUY AND WHIll YOU OPERATE cfcrac 23c 15c 14c 43c 45c lb. 49c lb. 51e .? SEE PROOF BEFORE Now, you can measure tractor performance with our own Proof-Mete- r shows at a glance engi, e speed. P.T.O. speed, ground travel speed, belt pulley speeds and hours SOON. workM. Wed like to show you the Proof-Mete- r for 35c 111 weeks. eyes. 49c 2 Young & Tender Good Quality The average payment PROOF-METE- S $1.79 Market The attack against free enterprise in the power business is not based on the shortcomings or failures of business managed companies to provide the public with adequet service at fair rates. It is deeply rooted in the philosophy of those who seek a nationalized, politically - controlled monopoly on the countrys economy in place of the free choice, competitive system that has made America great." Continuing, he issued a warning and gave tins advice: "The electric power industry, as the first main target of socialist planners is the first place to bulkwart the free enterprise system against the continued erosion of democratic institutions nation- Gal. MILK 4 for Popular Brands L1BBYS GARDEN PEAS 303 GERBERS BABY FOODS 3 for GERBERS CEREAL KFLLOGS RICE KRISPIES MUTTON LOIN CHOPS lb PURE PORK SAUSAGE lb Dixons will take over one after the other, the public utilities, railroads, mines, power plants, communication systems, waterways and forests." Colonel Liehy then quoted from a statement made in 1937 which appeared in one of the public ownership publications. It reads "Step by step this plan which the Public Ownership League presented and published fifteen years ago is being surely and steadily realized. In his report. Colonel Leihy points out how the present proposed Federal subsidized power authorities, such as the Columbia and Missouri, fit into the -wide socialized scheme. Said, he: ICAl was $23 75 and the average duration of benefits collected was No more need to buy on faith, operate on guessu ork. Now you can take off the blindfold if you buy a new Ford Tractor! o' v:x ft OPERATION BJ I? Sammie New'ton left Monday morning for Willow Run, Mich , at which point he will take delivery on a new Kaiser auto- - TRACTOR B 5 Representative from Massachusetts. |