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Show v o I -- . - The Public Form Magic Carpet Pag 14 - ZXSSZ?1"' January 2, 1963 Wednesday Morning .By Our Readers Editor, Tribune: Mr. Earl A. Hanson, vice president of tiie California Electric Utilities Co., stated (Fornm, Dec 8) that the GarKane Power Assn an REA cooperative, pays . insignificant taxes compared with ours ..." He made this statement to radar to discredit a Federal Power Commission report that placed Cedar City in the position with the highest rates charged residential custo-mer- e of electric power. The of cities included only those with a population of over 2,500. , GarKane Power "Assn, serves farmers, ranchers and villagers Tut no community With 200 inhabitants. Since the GarKane rates are higher than those charged by his company, Mr. Hanson thinks file Federal Power Commission is in error and cites differences in taxes paid by the two companies as partial evi- Social Security Takes Deeper Tax Bite j V While you are worrying about other taxes. Uncle Sam will quietly take a deeper bite out of your paycheck, beginning this - week, to finance the farflung Social Security program. ' For each of the 70 million Social Se--. , curlty taxpayers this will mean up to $24 additional a year. Beginning with the first check you receive In 1963, the deduction This is an in-- " will amount to 3 per crease from 3 per cent of the first $4,800" of earnings, The payment is matched by the employer, so that the total Increase is 1 per cent The .maximum tax for the year goes up from $150 to $174. a cut in 5j ' ant 5 rity. - 1 - d four-tent- The shock of the Increase is in addition to the annual January jolt of having Social Security taxes deducted again. Tha resumption of the deduction amounts to 4 As rates have gone up, however, so have benefits. The maximum payment to a worker retired at age 65 will be $127 a month in 1963. The hike, to help provide necessary financing for the Social Security system, will be matched by similar increases in 1966 and 1968. By 1969 under the present schedule, the tax Vate will be per cent of the' first $4,800 In annual earnings to be paid by employes and employers,1 and 6 per cent cm the long-planne- note that the deduction on your paycheck stubs is called "FICA," meaning Federal Insurance Contributions Act In non government English it means Social Secu- This w ill be the ninth boost la Social Security tax rates since the system west into effect hi 1935. : LOOK CLOSELY you will YOU $4,800 maxi- -. mum wage base for payment of the levy remains unchanged, however. . . For the the rate will go up by 710 per cent to per cent. Their maximum tax Increases from $225.60 to $259.20. f J IF pay. The take-hom- e ' i f&t out our company, ami ha taken our highest domestic rate to use as a comparison Why Rates Are High with California Pacific Cedar City rate. This rate which he attributed to our company was not correct as we give a 10 per cent discount on our bills. However, with this same rate, if this comparison would have continuedto 500 hours, which would be a" more realistic 'average use, our rate would have been $14.40 while their rate would have been $14.99. At this point our' rate Is 2 cents, their rate 215 cents, x , We would also like to point out that Mr, Hansen is quoting this rate In the Cedar City area, with probably over 50 customers per one-hamile, while he is talking about our rural area, with approximately one customer per one-hamile. Mr. Hansen also states that we pay Insignificant tax. Our coop comes under the same tax schedules as California-Pacific Utilities Co as provided under the laws of the State of Utah through the State Tax Commission and we both pay the same tax rates. We have felt this Is wrong and have 'taken it to the Supreme Court, because of the-fa- ct that we serve a rural area. We also admit our rates are high because we pay the highest wholesale rate for the amount of power we purchase of any REA co-oor municipality we know of in the state of Utah. R. LEON BOWLER, Manager, Escalante Electric Assn Beryl, Utah. t . -- : lf lt dence I HAVE looked Into tax reports of the two companies and find that contrary to his statement of insignificance of taxes paid by GarKane d. THEBE IS A GOOD chance that Con- gress will act In the meantime to step up the tax Tate, however. Lawmakers usually act during election years to sweeten Social payment, and these of - necessitySecurity require higher ravo. The Medicare plan, beaten at the 1962 session of Congress, would have raised the rates on employes and employers by one- quarter per cent each and on the self-es ployed by per cent It also would have applied the entire tax on .the first $5,200 of earnings, a boost of $400 in the Power Assn, .that this small cooperative pays much larger property taxes than his Nearly four years ago when The Tribcompany. une urged Salt Lake City voters ta ap Hi I960, for examplefREA prove a $2,500,000 general obligation bond cooperative GarKane Power Assn, paid 27 per cent more Issue to finance the citys share of a new of Its revenue as property terminal at the municipal airport it was taxes than did his company, four-tenthconfidently predicted that airport rev- the California Pacific Utilibonds. enues would pay off the ties. In 1961 it paid 21 per Voters at an election approved the iscent more. Even more dramatic is the comparison of sue by about a 20 to 1 margin. This per property taxes paid by REA mltted the savings of a million dollars C. Robert Ruark Medicare is sure to be aa Issue again . cooperative GarKane and the issuance an with of in interest compared Telluride Power Co. In 1960, la the 1963 Congress but chances of -- revenue rather than general obligation GarKane; paid 93 per cent do not at present. passage bright appear bonds. more than Telluride and in 1961 it paid 60 per cent more. This expression of voter confidence 1 When the Social Security omnibus bill To Praise The Messiah- be specific, GarKane paid now proves well justified. Commissioner was first adopted it was described as the I was saddened,' a little, to somebody" you couldnt get played polo, Gable was called 6ut of each hundred dollars L. C. Romney, in charge of the airport. . most comprehensive single piece of social Editor, Tribune: Its too note the closing of Mike - in, and to be on easy insult"The King, and two brothit took in as revenues in In a year-en- d report notes that airport legislation ever enacted by the legislature Romanoffs Hollywood plush ing terms with the proprietor ers named Moscowitz bid - 1960, $6.13, whereas Califor-- , bad' that everyone in the attend the revenue have practically doubled 'in the deadfall as one of any country. The legal status of the marked you high on the list high against each other tor nia Pacific paid In property j county couldnt splendid ' rendition of The Ttast five years. Gross receipts exceeding -- act remained in doubt for almost two taxes $4.95 for the same of the worth whiles in the properties in the name of more indicaa million dollars this year were sufficient years, but the Supreme Court upheld It in tion of the end nob center of the universe and 20th Century-Fox- . year. 'In the same year Gar- - Messiah In the Tabemaclel of era of the Kanes property taxes were .Those who were there, I am to finance operating costs, pay for $300, Hollywood. been Since then has coverage May, 1937, - sure, were lifted out of the wonderful (W0 worth of improvements, $200,000 for Those were the days when almost double those of expanded regularly, so that eventual uniTHE FACT that the proexistence of everyday life -a position in relation to the bond Interest and retirement, and leave versal coverage is approaching. . Into a higher and more gloriprietor, who called himself on lot lunch the salt, either MR. HANSON is no doubt a balance of Sbout $50,000. Prince Michael Alexandroous realm, at least for the It Is quite table or in Romanoffs, was , SOCIAL SECURITY is more 'than a a successful manager ' duration of the program. vich Dmitri The airport is paying its way and, with welfare Obolensky an active index to the rise of his utility company and possible that umbrella, however. Because beneRomanoff, was an erstwhile almost certain continued annual Increases Many times during its rendior fall of a star, an executheyoungef knows the chief reason for tion, I felt as checks are cashed and money quickly fit con named man Harry though every membersof in patronage and income, taxpayers are or a writer. the high rates paid by his spent, the effect on the national economy hair on my head was tingling origin New York, " tive," the twist set practically assured it will continue to customers for electric power. made no difference at all to is 'stimulating. ( The system keeps money with ecstasy! and the follow-- Sir. Ruark IN THOSE dreamy old The firm has do so. lines and in circulation, contributes toconsumption er of Bobby Darin and the rating of his days, when the Mg studios few customers long It was a thrill, too, to see except for the . of goods and has become a prop under the Sandra Dee never heard of clientele. controlled the actors as t good sized comfaunity of Ce-- t the thousands of persons ei f Romanoffs, but they never Hollywood created stars literal slaves, and no tele dar City. And he knows that nations economy. Joy the program as I did! about the from knew people named Gumm anything we vision showered free enterof are This time his company la fortunate to People of all faiths coyear, however, and Leach; If they could tainment on the land, the have a lot of customers in mingled to hear the musical true Hollywood, either. reminded that we, the taxpayers, , Overseas bases are generally consid- ' t forcibly make Judy Garland out of system . was really some , one place. It is excess instray of the author of ChrisAnd we hope are the never knew Atleast program. financing they Frances Guram and Cary ered declining assets nowadays. The deIf only the spell of vestment, tianity. thing. long transmission, be on hand when the benefits become name to when its Hollywood Grant out of Archie Leach - lines and few customers that" love and brotherhood that velopment of intercontinental missiles " were The was synonymous with the queens really available. could take Harry Ger-send up costs line loss In was cast could endure forhas robbed them of much of their impormonarch s Garbo and Har' they motioa Picture Industry. Mike guson r Kriway electricity and heavy mainte-- 7 ever! tance. Yet major powers do not seem willlow and Lombard, Davis and Romanoff, And the food was nance. GarKane has no such know those who For Hollywho true Garson is Crawford. such bases. It and to participated Everyone (While ing give up wood only as a factory for excellent, although the community as Cedar City to -- did himself and herself exNikita Khrushchev agreed to get out of Prietor felt free to call his THERE WAS xnly one help absorb the costs of electelevision tremely proud, and In pass--, Cuba, he did set only after considerable customers louts. , Gable,., but his court was king. Romanoffs tricity to Isolated farmers, M. Edward Senator programs, (Ted) Kennedy, ing out bouquets, lets not ' was amply staffed by the ranchers and villages. He , prodding.) one of the greatest status . the Presidents youngest brother, has was quite a wonderful It forget those behind the knows that GarKane trans dukes Bogart and Grant The United States .at the moment is scenes as well as those out to rile some fellow members of symbols the country ever old Hollywood tile world, managed "of mission some like and lines, t and Big Coop Bing. permitted and that was betrying to negotiate a new arrangement : the "worlds most exclusive club even front . of Inflexible caste system, his serve very few people - The names on a marquee fore the phrase status symwith Portugal for use of the Azores. Love and music are the before he takes Hie oath office. of knows but he he a has good s B. bol Louis into national sold out the the Mayer feigned Invariably house, sized crept universal Though the present agreement expired to balance languages. They this city Ted to Senator vocabulary. Unless you were serene as emperor, Zanuck even when such a commodity Kennedy, according - with the old year, this is not expected to no Interpreters, but are need GarHe cost knows that is trying of utter mud as San FranKenneth B. Keating . ' understood and felt equally have an immediate effect on U.S. transit cisco" included Jeanette Kane transmission lines, have to lure defense contracts away from New scores of its poles set in solid among all races and nations, rights. MacDonald together with York to Massachusetts. This Is quite In rock and he knows that pri- - and the combination of both Dean Acheson, former secretary of Gable and Tracy. vate utilities - have turned of these occurred at the pre- keeping with Kennedy's campaign slogan, By Ham Park ; state and now a State Department con- -: down many appeals for elecdo more for Massachusetts. But can 1 sentatlon of The Messiah. You are still the hearing An honest tale speeds best A woman to. Vermont sultan t,' calls the bases the most impor- tric service from people now I truly feel that I am a better feels that Keating apparently really hit from the Shake-epeare- . song told. a to hole Crosby her scrubbed - tant in the world to the United States. r meant: My big brother can do more for bring plainly served by GarKane. Why, and happier person through kitchen floor and fen through picture. lor example, should Utah having witnessed and heard Last year, nearly 80 per cent of this coun contractors. defense Into It cellar. you v i i the , Co. Power and Light serve The Bridge Chib Meets it! No matter how flimsy the trys overseas military traffic moved steer- Keating wanted the Wayne County with one and ' DON F. HARRIS Men are all alike, said vehicle remember and I am through Lages, in the Azores, where 2,800 I Well, girls, certainly d Inhabitants committee of New Yorks congres per ing s, to In- -' one one waitress but to hunk of which another, Americans man a overt junk T glad the holidays are square mile when they can sional delegation to take retaliatory ac-- " Unfair they have different faces so Ray Milland played a supcant rememI stallation. Lages was used when Marines siLake serve re Salt that we can ten them apart porting role as a gigolo to " dents with 500 County ber when Ive were dispatched to Lebanon in 1958 and tion. However, the committee chairman, Inhabitants " Editor, Tribune: I have one Demo- -i Emanuel a Celler hero at tired! so i Representative Crosby's felt unlikely , square mile? Mr. Han-- 1 question for Governor Clyde It used to be that when least , during the Berlin crisis of 1961. and criticized hit songs per I son should tell his customers meat got high to price one t At one time Portugal was extremely crat, said nothing doing concerning higher education rolled from each into the overdid things ' angry because of OS. votes In the United the idea as politically motivated. could buy the cheaper cuts. why the Federal Power Com-- - to Utah. Every Institution of 30 national and stuck ear for You Sunday. lists the rates of his higher education. Whether Nowadays there are no years. A huge portion of mission Nations on the Angola question. On De- - ' Of course It is. And so is everything see, we were company as tops to the state. acquired or established by cuts. are There and involved else cheaper only proselyting Kennedys voted US. cember 19, however, the what Sinatra sings most popagainst He has a better case to pre- - the state, Represents a congiven a lovely the expensive, the more exa U.N. resolution condemning Portugal .I, CeUeris disdainful attitude. In fact, almost turkey ularly today was originally sent than the one made to the unattainable. and pensive obligation to that incorporated to Crosby . his Forum letter, using taxes. tinuing for Its rule of Angola and this appears to every time a senator or congressman gets Christmas, it must be mainstate since defense Is movies. interested in Who remembers back when contracts, politics DEAN R. BRIMHALL my sister , have mollified the Lisbon government as such an institution. " tained - Fruita, Utah $3Q a week would feed a fam- somewhat. likely to be Involved one way or another. vtted us out . Why then has Utah taken so ra Hedda Hopper and Lolly instead of a child of her for no the six, incident be ily place However, present may to doubt as some still is But there many f obligations, separate Parsons ruled the Hollyso our grocer kept of six? Rate Comparisons institutions of higher educawhether the Kennedy Administration can - more than a foretaste of the dynastic dinner, wood tan-tsocial register with il , our turkey In his freezer Editor, Tribune: On Dec. Old age is when you're tion, upon herself if she cantart meet the price for a new lease. Portugal t troubles President Kennedy is going to and Iron tongue were we for it willing to get up and give ready 8 carried not from letter a you support them adequate wants a change In what it views as an " encounter, Well, I decided to cook it on. - Earl A. Hansen, vice . seat to a lady on the ly? , , policy. And the UE. has Sunday. My husband used to -- your dent of. the California-PacifiTo maintain ty to the like to a followed such go refrigerator pollcy hrU.N. lisually The columnist who needles the politician t lived ta fear of the gossip- - Utilities Co listing his obinstitutions is Thanksgiving or Christdeliberations. January Blizzard for running at the urging of the public - after ists, who were ruthless to . jections to a hews article- by unfair to the state and the . or drumstick a take mas and race winds The giant round bestowal ra withdrawal of Frank Hewlett We hope a satisfactory compromise has no qualms about dodging a days work student on and That -it gnaw awing the town defying can be reached though Portugal obviously Mr. Hansen has singled HELGA WULFMANT by reprinting one of his older efforts "by , was he lost his teeth Its occupants to venture out ; favor. And the studios ruled before . the actors if you kicked up request. Is, in the better bargaining position. , and his appetite. Judging by i of doors. the amount of turkey he has With freezing breath they , a fuss you got suspended, i I and, there was very little,' eaten since Sunday, hell gloat ta their denying Other Viewpoints have enough to last him until All comfort, as each brigand Jumping from one lot to the other. Easter! , , rants and roars. , I x Girls, Ill have to leave THOSE YEARS, the 308 They rattle doors , . give and 40s, comprised the day early today. Tomorrow Is ' windows such a shaking of the true celebrity the big my husbands birthday and ' I've got- - to shop fra some- One wonder they continue opening at Graumans Chi- exist! to framers the to a with have Milwaukee Journal: ed psychiatrist to give him. I asked While barren trees stand nese Theater, the floodlights thing " wife declared insane. , him this morning If. there to the skies, the pawprtnts Among other roles that the American a f quivering and quaking was anything hed particuMedical Assn, has assumed h that of guard- THE AMA ISN'T alone in such efforts. Ten thousand million snow- f ta the wet concrete, the limousines end bodyguards and larly like, end he said hed flakes do the twist! ian of the public image of the doctor as Recently the American Psychological Assn, to in bed fra a like stay In The about an episode rubbemgeks. A star was Remelda Nielsen AMA publicly protested Gibson, created by television. An advisory week. He raid that when a Eleventh Hour which It said misrepresent: . really a star; today the word Utah. Tooele, such of pop-reviews now committee scripts ' has nearly lost its meaning. man had lived j ' ed modern methods of treating the emoular programs as .Dr-- Kildare" and "Ben tionally disturbed. The association withof a century, he was entitled -- Romanoffs, which started to one last wish. Imagine! , drew its representative on the AMA review Casey, In which Important characters are out as an inside joke, was 1 . But m bet hell be up get- -' doctors. committee, which said it liked the show. portion to the whole gaudy " aa pro-- , well a Influential ting breakfast before I am groups lay it scene, as was the Brown AMA to an IS THIS according DONE, we even awake! Shall cut for j fessional organizations try to keep their The dedicated watcher of Derby 'earlier, ana Chaseni . spokesman, because such performances deal? members from bring presented in an unBen r Casey, Kildare and the at about tire same time. and inaccurate por-were often medically favorable light-- on TV or through other other medical show 'ought on Cuff Department Notre frayed doctors in an unfavorable light" In, media. r It wai a time aad scene to be entitled to put a little assuring greater medical accuracy and pro-, A woman naturalist has caduceug sticker ta the car ' Of infinite snobbery. and Racial, nationality moling scripts that painlessly Impress religions groups " written a book entitled. window. " i have become very active and too often health lessons, the AMA commit- Dumb Animals I Have Met," Prince Mike, dignified aa ? tee has done a public service.- " successful in this regard. . Congressman Sludgepump and dedicated It to her husever to (he end bemoans Its The AMA and network officials insist 1 claims he was quoted out of . passing. band. Well, she' should know Private in 'censorship form, open any no that the committee attempts censorship. Context end a good thing, best or is must as and be "There'scovert, exa new kind of dangerous However, the Wall Street Journal dtes too, because the context was combated as vigorously as the most bra2en ' the on the denials. snobbery," cast doubt elegant Mike Gill amples which a it takes Doug says worn than the quotation government Invasion oU freedom of press says: A shirtless, coatless, , nuts t to an hold many great -' . IN ONE CASE, a Ben Casey script was and freedom of speech. f Theres a new excitement ' tieless kind of snobbery. It-- . , abandoned when the AMA objected to the Thus the AMA tan escape censure only, automobile together, but about one paying taxes ta these T There is no room' any more takes to scatter . It only portrayal of a quack. In another the com- - as it confines itself strictly to technical fra an elegant restaurant When you never know Movlre gel dirtier, advertising gets sexier commercials days over all the landscape. mittee successfully pressured a sponsor to advice in such matters as TV portrayals of is like raid of what This is mine the your louder either were getting decadenter or I'm getting money country get VJfcSLaJTV drama In which a physician plot- You can overdo neatness. physicians. aa raw," going to. ' older t . p Gaudy Era of Snobbery Comes to End 1 . 1 Tel--lurid- e. ,Ger-guso- gilt-edge- Dilemma in the Azores , uyilaslIL TrmiMps ( - . (R-N.Y-.), Senator From Sandpit ( one-thir- Self-Defeatin- g,' ' Perhaps half-doze- n , t - anti-coloni- al w s ARIA' Worries Over Image on Television ' 6 . ; A . three-quarte- Soaper Says 5 -- - t 1 1 ( -- , f J r- - c poor-quali- |