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Show Iage FEBRUARY 21, THE JOURNAL 1C Sales Contest Winner Home From Travels Proposed Automobile Tax Under Attack of Dealers Association 2m per cent increase of the excise tax on new passenger cars will make it impossible for millions of motorists in the low and middle income brackets to buy urgently needed Carleson, automobiles, Harry Automobile of the Utah president Dealers Association, declared today. His statement followed an emergency meeting of the National Automobile Dealers Associations Public Affairs Committee held recently in Washington, I). C. This will be the second step taken in the past six months to ly, before taxes, are less than r.ooo. Credit curbing Regulation W forced many buyers to give up the vast defense program but this tax should be evenly distributed. It is obviously discriminatory and unfair to force motorists to bear such a heavy proportion of the increased tax load. Of the automobiles now in operation 7 per cent are owned by families whose total wages annual- - cars, The proposed 1 Indian Style for Before returning home they visited in Los Angeles, Calif., with and daughter, Mr. Electric Product Corporation. their McBroom. Lee Mrs. They were He and Mrs. Willey were given a and Mr. California and Mrs. were met in by trip to Mexico City. They home who returned members of a party of 10 from Lester Frew, various parts of the United States with them. son-in-la- w K approximately $2,hm, would be forced to pay an average of almost $200 in excise tax alone for his new car, nearly $2o more than he is already paying. Obviously, such a tax is unfair and discriminatory against already heavily taxed motorists, he added. hours of instruction in American government, national administration and public administration. Among those awarded were Hubert L. Bizzell and Joseph W. Neville, Jr., both of Kaysville; Grant V. Soule, Clearfield, and Philip C. Biddle, Layton. AAAECanCAS HARtGESTr AM IS) FURIES? COMMANDER of the U. S. 8th Army In Korea, Gen. Matthew Ridgway finds that an Army blanket is a good substitute for a heavy coat to keep out the biting Korean cold. He is conferring with Earl Johnson, Assistant Army Secretary, who is on inspection tour. ( International ) Davis Future Farmers On Radio Program SYRACUSE Lawrence Cook, Richard Major and Earl Tingey, members of the Davis Chapter Future Farmers of America, and Shirley E. Bishop, class supervisor, appeared Sunday evening on the Education and Parade Program over radio station KSL. The group gave an interesting account of FFA activities and opportunities, durifig the program which marked national FFA week. Won By Hill Field Employes Nine university of Utah students were awarded special certificates in public administration of the institute of government, in ceremonies held at Hill Air Base, last Thursday evening. All recipients of the award are civil service employes and many of them are supervisors at Hill Field. Students earning the certifi12 credit cates each completed IWDUtf IPDRDE EE) (CATO The Swarf New Styleline De Luxe Sedan (Continuation of standard equipment and trim illustrated is dependent on availability of material.) Refreshingly new IN ALL THE THINGS YOU WANT AMERICAN BEAUTY DESIGN INTERIORS MODERN-MOD- E MORE POWERFUL Dubl-Lif- e SAFETY-SIGH- T JUMBO-DRU- ARID YOU'LL KNOW IT'S THE LARGEST ARID MOST LUXURIOUS CAR IRI ITS FIELD I BY FISHER BODIES AMERICA-PREFERRE- D (with Learning Awards They traveled by plane to Mexwas their headten days of sightquarters during and entertainment. seeing ico City, which nt SYRACUSE Mr. and Mrs. Willey Syracuse, have home from a vacation trip all hopes of buying a car when monthly payments were pushed beyond the reach of the average worker. Mr. Carleson stated that the proposed increase in the manufacturers excise tax from 7 to 2 per cent is far more severe than has been proposed for any other commodity and would freeze hundreds of thousands of motorists out of the market entirely, the majority of whom are essential venow driving worn-ou- t workers Americans the average plug chances to purchase a new car, hicles or arranging for transportahe said. We realize the necessity tion to essential plants. The purfor additional revenue to finance chaser of even the lower priced selling which Mr. Willey won in a sales contest sponsored by a national electrical concern. Mr. Willey, appliance dealer in Syracuse, was winner in a national sales contest sponsored by the Hot-poi- 1951. BRAKES M Rivetless Brake Linings ) INSTRUMENT PANEL Walk up to this big, beautiful 1951 Chevrolet with any yardstick of value, and youll want to enter your order for it right away I Size? 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