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Show AUGUST THE JOURNAL c Takes STATE LOCAL TAXES PAY ONLY Ted S. Day Bride Texas FRACTION OF GOV'T SERVICES Of interest is the LAYTON WOULDNT WE if we could?. . any business esa pecially business like ours that depends on public good will refuse to serve anybody unless it just couldnt bo helped? The answer in our case is an emphatic NO. We have the desire and tho know how to do the job Utah wants. But first we need tho money to finance such a program and that depends upon reasonable earnings. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. Would In recent years, some people have had to wait for telephone service. Even now thero are a few whom we cant serve immediately others who are waiting for a higher grade of service. Were doing our best to correct those situations. But how do you know if our effort is sincere? Let's look at it this way JSoertUemM From where I sit ... it Joe Marsh Harvesting a Better America Rubbed my eyes yesterday when I saw Ilap Jacksons truck in Biff Morgans alfalfa field . . . helping Biff get in his cutting. Since theyve been carrying on a friendly argument for years (over how much fertilizer to use per acre of alfalfa), I had to ask Hap what was going on. Got my own crop in safely last week, he says. And since Biff's boy is at the summer encampment of the National Guard, I figured the least I could do was to help him out. Aiter all, Hap went on, theres no argument SALT LAKE CITY Direct state and local taxes paid by individuals and families meet only a fraction of the cost of providing major governmental services in Utah, it was revealed in the latest report issued by Utah Foundation, the tax research piivate organization. Although the data for precise calculations are not obtainable, an examination of available information makes it clear that the cost of the specific state and local governmental services received far exceed the state and local taxes paid by the typical Utah family, Foundation analysts declare. The report analyzed the taxes paid by a typical family in Utah with an income of $4,000 per year and owning real and personal property (home, furnishings, and automobile) valued at $10,000. non-prof- it announcement of the marriage of These figures were obtained from 1950 U. S. Census data for the median family in Utah writh adjustments made for the inflationary trend since 1950. According to the Foundation study, this typical Utah family would pay the following taxes based on 1952 rates: property taxes $50, $100, sales taxes income state gasoline taxes $40, taxes $9.34, car license tax $5, and all other taxes (cigarette, liquor, oleomargarine, insurance, etc.) Miss Wallye Jean Robbins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Robbins of Cameron, Texas, and Ted S. Lay-toDay, son of Mrs. Grace Day, n. marriage was performed August 1 in the brides home. Mr. Day has been serving with the U. S. Air Force for the past eighteen months, and is presently stationed at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Austin, Texas. For the time being, the young couple will reside near his base. The $1.3. These taxes add up to a total of family in 1952 fall short of meetcost $217.34, which is $10.10 less than ing the actual public school the average amount spent per for one child, without reference to Dupil ($203.44) last year in the pub- the cost of roads and streets, fire and police protection, welfare costs, lic schools. Therefore, the report concludes, health services, and the myriad the total state and local taxes of other services provided by state paid for all purposes by a typical and local government. over how important the National Guard is to all of us. From where I sit, a fellow like me, whos too old to get in the Guard, can still vote, do a turn at jury duty, and respect others rights. Even a little thing like respecting a neighbors right to have, say, beer or buttermilk at dinner is important if we want to keep America strong. We have to be on guard in more ways than one these days! 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