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Show ? Sun Advocate, Price, Utah-Thursd- May 6, ay, The public forum Leading the Field "Black letter day" 10 May 1971 May 10, may seem fairly insignificant to most people, but to the average American taxpayer it is actually a day is a more day - or perhaps "black-lette- r Monday, red-lett- er appropriate description. That is the day Mr. Average Taxpayer is in the black: He starts working for himself then. Until then, all of his earnings are earmarked to pay his 1971 federal, state, and local taxes. If more than four months seems like a long time before earnings equal the average tax CLEANER HIGHWAYS highways. We heard one young Ill think twice girl remark, appreciate R&C before I throw anything out of thank to publicly portunity Betr-Bu- y the car window again. We Bezacks Drug, their for salute the youth for their serMarket and Safeway contributions to Earth Day vices. If there are any other groups that would like to do a activities. service for their surroundings After the young people had may we suggest the road to cleaned along the highways all Huntington many, many cans. afternoon we were able to feed You might even make money above to the them, thanks and sell them back to the merchants. companies which redeem them there that Sherral Burge Its amazing to us the Valerie Julian litter along was so much Editor: load, look at it on a daily basis. The average d wage earner needs to work more than two hours and of every eight-hou- r work day 51 minutes, to be exact before his daily income will be enough to cover his tax bills. We one-thir- Unless our various government jurisdictions can learn to be more productive or unless citizens quit demanding more services of government, it wont be many years before half is a our work-loa- d tax-loa- d. Social Security raise effects For the Carbon County residents who are receiving social security checks each month, Imw much will the recently-increase- d rates mean to them in dollars and cents? What will their benefit amount to, on average, compared with what they were previously? It is estimated that the 10 percent rise in retirement pensions, approved recently by Congress, will add approximately $271,000 a year to the total that local residents have been collecting. The estimate is based upon figures for the local area, contained in the latest annual report of the Social Security Administration. It lists the number of retired and disabled workers on the pension rolls, as well as their dependents and the amounts being paid. All of them will be aided by the new legislation. Those who have been receiving no more than $708 a year, the current minimum, will be getting $845. The maximum for an individual will now be $2,557 a year and for a couple, $4,964. Local residents who have been getting $100 a month, A Why is it that as our nation achieves ever higher levels of material prosperity, more of us are unhappy and dissatisfied? Economists have suggested two reasons. One is that "luxuries quickly become so that the typical familys "necessities, aspirations expand faster than its income. The second is that the minority remaining in real proverty feel their deprivation more strongly as they see the widening chasm between their standard of living and the rest of the countrys. What can we do about it? The Salvation Army has some good answers. This organizations aid to the unfortunate is well known, though few realize the extent of its services, which include many special programs such as those for Total payments throughout the local area, based upon the number who were on the pension rolls as of the early part of 1970, will add up to about $2,983,000 this year, a considerable rise over the prior total of $2,712,000. The increase in benefits is retroactive to January. The bigger checks will start going out during the first week of June. The additional amounts for the months prior to June will be issued soon afterward. alcoholics, drug addicts, unwed Young of the brains and muscle for almost every conservation cause except one. They cant seem to get interested in conserving their own lives and health on the highways. The reports from the various states are in and, once again, the young drivers 15 through 24 kill and die more than any other group of drivers. Nearly a third of all the people who died in traffic in 1970 were in that dangerous span from 15 to 24 years old. Thats about 18,000 young men and women who died and nearly a million who were injured last year. These young drivers constitute less than 20 percent of the driving population but they make up nearly one third of the dead and injured. Those who survive join the more cautious drivers in higher age groups. A survival in BUSINESS - mothers, neglected and disturbed children, and homeless men. Fewer still realize what it offers to the more typical individual and family. As a religious organization, The Salvation Army stands for deep and abiding spiritual values. And, as a very practical organization, it provides worthwhile activities for everyone from toddlers to senior citizens, ranging all the way from basketball to Bible studies and designed to promote health of body, mind and spirit. We salute this excellent organization and urge our fellow citizens to participate in the various activities planned during National Salvation Army Week, May 11-1- 7. stinct seems to set in about age 25 and grows stronger each year. Among persons aged 15 to 24, highway crashes are the major single cause of death, equalling all other causes combined, according to a study made for and issued by the U.S. Department of Transportation. Nobody, least of all their elders, is going to force safer driving habits on young people. But their peers might. The young as a group can be imaginative and effective when they decide a cause is worth their support. How can we get them to save themselves? WARNING. . .The Portland, Ore., Traffic Safety Commission warns drivers that the most dangerous spot on any highway is the spot where you take your eyes off the road even for an instant. STOCK MARKET by BABSON'S REPORTS INC. HIKES IN STATE TAXES LOOM May 6 While Administration the Nixon continues laboring mightily to revitalize the nations economy, the worsening fiscal plight of states and municipalities threatens to negate at least some of the benefits of the economic stimulants applied at the federal level. For example, at a time when state and local governments should be opening up job opportunities to offset employment losses in private industry due to cutbacks in military outlays, pressure is strong to trim state and municipal payrolls in order to conterbalance escalating costs. Conflicting Tax Forces The Administration has been flirting with the idea of cutting federal taxes as an additional tonic for business. However, a definite move in this direction may be held in abeyance until later in the year. The encouraging pickup in residential building, retail sales, and certain fields of industry is likely to prompt the Administration to wait a while to see if the economic upturn now in evidence can be sustained without resorting to tax relief. Nevertheless, this method of spurring the economy will be kept in the wings, ready to be trotted out if another bracer seems to be required. State governments, on the other hand, are studying new revenue-producin- g measures salaries, pensions, STATEHOUSE incentive offered for school districts merging $2.37 million and labor if they maintain two separate Sharp districts. Legislators and others are Modernizing Need to with interest watching great of need for moderBecause see whether Sanpete and million Summit counties take advantage of $2.37 million offered to them as an incentive to consolidate uneconomic school districts. Educational administrators for years have tried to obtain consolidation as a means of providing better schools at less cost to local taxpayers and to the state. But local school board members and others costs, have thrown some state budgets into deficit. Levies On Income legislatures are meeting this Faced with insolvency and-o- r of them year, and thirty-fiv- e or at best the bankruptcy are or will be taking up tax almost insoluble riddle of where bills. Added tax revenues are to pare spending seven states imperative for state governare reported to be studying new ments beleaguered by fast-risin- g personal-incom- e taxes, while five states are weighing the pros expenditures and shortfall revenues. This situation has and cons of new corporate-incom- e been building for years, but the taxes. Right now, recession has made it acute. thirteen states either place no Revenue Sharing levy at all on personal income or tax only a limited part. Hence, Still A Dream President Nixons revenue pressured by revenue needs, South sharing has run into trouble in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and for for chances Texas and opt Dakota, may Congress tax this been the personal-incom- e have passage deteriorating. Thus, it now looks year, while New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut as though prospects of chanfunds federal substantial broaden their existing levies, neling into state coffers via revenue legislators of at least a dozen sharing are fading fast, with the other states may have to hike rates or broaden the states perhaps forced to settle income-ta- x for partial federal take-ovof bases of such levies. A number welfare costs which may not of states are exploring the imoccur until 1971. position of new corporate inTherefore, state governments come taxes, and many others must fend for themselves for a are attempting to find ways and while longer. They must rely means of increasing their take from such charges. upon already strained sources of revenue. But these wells are Other sources of tax revenue diminishing in productivity: In are being constantly sought. the late 1960s tax yields of states Montana and New Hampshire were expanding at an annual are moving closer to enactment rate of 16 percent; during the of a general sales tax, while first nine months of 1970 the several states are studying the degree of rise had contracted to possibility of hiking existing 10 percent. This slowdown, built-i- n rates or widening the application of this type of levy. Some are spending boosts of continuing programs and services, the eyeing new or higher excise effects of inflation, and higher tases on tobacco and gasoline. have refused to budge. Finally the recent session of the legislature enacted a new law (SB123) which is tailored to provide incentives for consolidating the two Sanpete districts and the three Summit districts. nizing buildings, the $1.6 incentive is a real inducement. North Sanpete District now has an estimated average daily attendance (ADA) this year of 1,166 students and South Sanpete has an estimated ADA of 1,603. If these two school boards vote to consolidate into one district before July 1 the combined district would receive a bonus of four times the present $700 per classroom unit from the states continuing school building aid program. The present two Sanpete districts qualify for $16,019 in building aid per year. But if they consolidate they would qualify for $336,279 a year for the next five years. This would mean that in the next five years of bonus payments they would get $1,601,300 more building aid than Bunnell-Sponsore- d Senators Omar Bunnell, and Moroni L. Jensen, lt Lake, sponsored SB123 providing the incentives. Sen. Thorpe Waddingham, Summit County has three conducted at public meeting in school districts with even Sanpete County during the smaller student enrollment: legislative session to explain the North Summit, ADA 668; Park bill to schoolmen and other City, ADA 424, and South citizens. Summit, ADA 708. If these three districts consolidate they would qualify for $675,115 more in continuing state school building aid in the next five years than if they remain separate. They also would effect in economics important operating costs. The school districts may allow state building aid to accumulate until they obtain enough for a specific building Fewer Small Schools Low Enrollment which could bring in $6.5 billion of new tax money each year. of the fifty state Forty-nin- e er REPORT By C. Self conservation people are providing much When Old Walt began this series of letters he wished by condegrees to lead you to a clusion which could have had inestimable results for mankind. He handled the subject so beneficiary. worthy organization op- 'AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT' or $1,200 a year, now will receive $1,320. Those at the $1,800 level will get $1,980 in the future. Prior to the new change in rates, pension payment in Carbon County averaged $1,093 per recipient per year, according to the Social Security Administration. This year, with the increase, the average will rise to $1,202 per There will be no immediate rise in payroll taxes to pay for the larger benefits. The only adjustment provided for is a change in the income base subject to such taxes from $7,800 to $9,000, effective next January. this Further pressure for con- An accelerated program to exchange remaining state lands within national monuments for other lands of equivalent value has developed as a result of a mining strip projected operation within Capitol Reef National Monument. Clair Bird, owner of the Capitol Reef Lodge, holds a lease to mine building stone on 160 acres of state land within the enlarged monument. The National Park Service now wants to buy this leasehold and then acquire the land from the state by exchange. Leased in 1964 Bird obtained the lease in 1964 while the land was still outside the monument. He now wants to strip mine 10,000 tons of flagstone. This is behind a ridge and is not visible from the main solidation is provided under the school finance law enacted by the Legislature. Presently the State School Board is allowed to grant 225 special school units to provide additional state aid for operating very small schools. But under the new law the state board may grant only 210 such special school units. highway. Sanpete County now has 26.2 Under terms of the lease Bird special units. It is likely to lose after taking the stone will have some of these next year and thus to restore the land as nearly as would qualify for less building xssible to its original conaid if consolidation is delayed figuration, replace topsoil and SB 123 gives a bonus on the seed it where feasible. existing number of distribution Bird has agreed to delay units for five years after conremoving any flagstone until solidation. after a Natipnal Park Service If school boards decline to appraisal of his leasehold is consolidate, citizens can place completed about May 10. the issue on the ballot for the Five Busy Bees next election. ineptly that a small but voiciferous minority of your elders put Old Walt in the publishers doghouse. This subject is so important that it needs to be laid before he you. So he tries again, and with and more directly hopes more finess. When man began to observe nature, 180,000 years ago, (Sparks Histomap of Religion), he discovered a force which he did not understand. He saw the lightening rive the oak; the hurricane rend the land; the flood inundate the valley. He concluded that these animistic forces were gods and that the source of these forces lay outside himself. What man had discovered was not a physical force outside himself but an incorporeal power inside himself. I do not know what he called that power. Today we call it religion. It comes from the verb relavare, to lift up. Today that force is only a little better understood than it was in the beginning. The limitations to this force have never been defined. It may be as infinite as the minds potential. 150,000 years passed before there was any appreciable change in religion. It was some 30,000 years ago that the Croomagnards introduced the rudiments of civilization, via irrigation. This necessitated abandonment of nomadic life and the formation of villages. The ensuing 25,000 years brought to man basic civilization. He developed agriculture, animal husbandry, architecture, law, math, writing, the calendar, sculpture and painting. The greatest religious contribution CATALOG AGENCY was that a code of ethics had been developed and made a part of religion. By B.C. 3,000 the Egyptians had developed the cosmic or universal ethic used by all civilizations today. Also during those 25,000 years they had developed and dispersed the essence of the leading Asiatic and European religions of today. After death one faced his earthly record. Those who passed went on to lollipops and checkers. Those who flunked had a terrible time. Girls, during this development period two other things are worthy of mention: The hot-dog- s, dominant deities were goddesses, as symbols of fertility. Royal lineage was traced through the mother. Maternity was never in question. Second, during this period the last animal domesticated by woman was man. Students, that which is past is past. Let it serve as a foundation. Upon this foundation may you proceed to erect the religion of the future: The conscious development of mans spiritual powers. To let mans greatest potential lie dormant, as it has done for 5,000 years, is not worthy of rational man. My next letter will outline your future work, partially. Sincerely, Old Walt Mitchell Funeral Home Dick Mitchell, Ronald Kosec and Robert H. Etzel, Morticians Phone Price j - 637-26- The SENTINEL PLAN 1(2! 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