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Show t' Clearfield Courier, August 8, 1979, Pc M?o Yon ireoooirelhi The local sales tax has surpassed the property tax as the major tax source tor cities and towns in Utah. According to a report on taxes and intergovernmental revenue of counties, municipalities, and townships published by the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the local sales tax produced $36,924,000 for municipalities in Utah compared with property tax receipts of 8 $31,018,000 during the fiscal year. In 1971,72, local sales taxes yielded only while the $10,302,000, tax produced property $20,586,000 for cities and towns in Utah. 1977-7- Counties in Utah, on the other hand, still rely on the property tax as their major tax source. During the 1977-7- 8 fiscal year, county property taxes in Utah totaled $62,173,000, while local sales taxes to counties amounted to $10,532,000. More than 80 per cent of all tax revenues received by counties in Utah came from the property tax. Per capita taxes imposed and counties by municipalities in Utah are only slightly more than half the U.S. average. Last year, total taxes imposed by these local units in Utah amounted to $124 per capita. For the United States as whole, local taxes levied by counties, s municipalities, and were equal to $227 per capita. The lower per capita tax burden in Utah is accounted for mainly by the fact that Utah has a relatively low property tax. Property taxes levied by town-ship- cities and counties in Utah were equal to $71 per person, compared with a property tax burden of $157 per capita for counties, municipalities, and townships across the nation. government by these states. States having large metropolitan areas with required their accompanying problems, usually will incur higher costs and taxes than sts es that are predominantly rural in chracter. For example, and county, municipal, township taxes averaged per capita in Connecticut, $520 per capita in $437 ROBERT LOVELL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY uur WITH ailftONAl TOUCH REDUCED TO $51 ,400 CLEARFIELD - 788 W. 600 No. Greenhill Subdivision, Lot 77. New, quality built 3 bedroom home with 1057 sq. ft. This home has a brick front and maintenance free aluminum siding; a double carport and full basement with 3 foot daylight win- dows. All windows are dual glazed for energy efficiency. There is a fireplace in the living room, a laundry area on main floor, and a kitchen with a. bar and pantry. Sliding doors open the dining area to a patio. This beautiful home is reduced $ 1 .500. Open daily noon to 9:00 p.m. OTHER HOMES Lot 66 COUNTRV VILLAGE, Clearfield 1,130 Lot 80 COUNTRV VILLAGE, Clearfield 1,287 Lot 81 COUNTRV VILLAGE, Clearfield . 1,130 Lot 82 COUNTRV VILLAGE, Cloarfield 1,140 -- -- sq. sq. sq. sq. ft. ft. ft. ft. $57,400 $66,900 $57,400 $58,900 ROBERT LOVELL CONSTRUCTION CO. Call Robert or Carol 773-- 1 722 PRECISION DILT AN AUTHORIZED HOMES DEALER FOR : . U. S.: By Edwin Feulner If inflation continues at its present pace, the United Housing All other States could become like War II Germany, where housewives had to lug suitcases full of money to the market each week to pay for their groceries. Inconceivable? Dont bet on it. According to statistics published recently in a major midwestem newspaper, the average worker who earned $10,300 in 977 would be earning $636,000 a year in 2030 if wages rise at a modest 3.73 percent per year between now and then. also is much less than that , Assuming prices rise an even more modest four percent found nationally. Utahs loaf of year, not the present ten percent, a per Constitution specifically will cost $37.30, a house costing $33,000 today will , bread prohibits the Legislature phone call will cost from imposing any tax for cost $3.4 million, and a cross-tow- n the purpose of any county, something like $9.00. hordes of trade unSpeaking of. priceseagle-eye- d city, town or other municipal aid state Such whose ionists, corporation. passion for scapegoating Big Business is that is distributed to counties only exceeded by their passion for record-settin- g wage inand municipalities in Utah is creases, are on the prowl across the country monitoring derived mainly from nontax consumer prices. sources. In addition, some to - veteran labor reporter Victor Riesel, According Federal aid is allocated to whose wife Evelyn and Heritage's own Herb charming state governments where it share Roumanian recipes with state the redistributed is by .old warlord George Meany has directed Leo Perlis, to local units. Although the state acts primarily as an head of the AFL-CICommunity Community Services Desuch in to monitor Americas supermarket; drugstore, intermediary partment, transactions, the monies department and discount store prices just in case someone distributed are recorded as should excede Jimmy Carters seven percent solution. (Only state aids. the Teamsters and other specially blessed interests are perIt should also be noted that mitted to exceed the guidelines.) states vary widely in the Riesel warns of mass rallies, store demonstrations, responsibility for functions cophotographers . . . city and state-wid- e and activities between the alitions of masses the whole presof men and women state and local units. In a number of states, for sure group spectrum in hundreds of cities." The real cause of inflation, of course, is complex. Risexample, counties and cities are primarily responsible for ing prices and demands for keep-u- p wage increases are only administering the welfare symptoms of inflation, not its primary causes. program. Education is a The true cause is buried deep in Washington in the comin municipal function of federal laws and rules which permit the federal plex several of the states. to pay its bad debts with bogus money and government cities and counties forces private industry to divert so many resources to pleasactivities performing such would tend to receive a ing the bureaucrats that productivity suffers and dies. The first cause is easiest to understand. Whenever the greater amount of state aid than would cities and federal government operates in the red in other words, counties that are not when we have deficit spending the government printing for these presses are cranked into operation to cover the debt. The responsible programs. These differences value of each dollar, of course, decreases propor-tionatel- y in the handling of governand you have inflation." mental programs account The second cause is more complex and less visible. for a large part of the wide e regulations, as well intentioned variation in state aid Government quality-of-lifforce as to divert billions of dollars from they are, industry allocations to cities and and research counties among the sewal development, plant construction and modernip ' zation, and from other pursuits that would help give us more states. bang for each buck. (No, productivity does not refer to more perspiration per hour of labor from America's workers.) The results are obvious having to pay more for raw materials and for Worker salaries, industry must simply pass on awarded also. these increases to consumers because the only way to offset There is a special trip would have been by increasing productivity. But the them to the being planned Colorado Rockies and Mesa government has taken care of that. Verde National Park. This Again, you have inflation. affair will be a three-da-y If a $37 loaf of bread sounds as scary to George Meany that will cover the dates oi as it does to u, we invite him and his AFL-CIlobbyists to September 21, 22, and 23rd. join the rest of America in calling for a sane economic Hie tour includes a round program that will permit the government to spendno more trip chartered bus ride, two than it takes in and will allow U.S. industry to go about the nights in deluxe rooms and a train trip from Durrango to business of doing business. (Feulner is president of The Heritage Foundation, a Silvertone. If you are ind Washington-baseterested please call Lucille public policy research organization.) at 33 Mabey pre-Wor- ld Total Federal Aid State Aid Total Aid 1 than do their counterparts in other parts of the nation. Last year, Federal aid and state aid received by counties, municipalities, and townships throughout the nation averaged $214.62 per capita, compared with $84.95 per capita in Utah. one-pou- . Following is a tabulation showing a breakdown of per capita aid in Utah and the It may be noted from the foregoing that per capita Federal revenue sharing funds received by counties and municipalities in Utah are slightly below the U.S. average. Such funds are urbanized population, population, personal income, general tax effort, and state income taxation. The generally low local tax effort in Utah probably accounts for the lower-tha- n average allocation of Federal revenue sharing funds. Utah also receives a much lower than average asllocation of Federal aid for housing and urban renewal and for all other local purposes. For the most , part, these grants to local units are awarded on a project basis to cope with specific problems or program needs. These project grants have complicated the process for receiving such moneys, and have placed smaller units of government at a considerable disadvantage. Smaller units generally do Ber-kowi- old-count- ry one-anoth- er O swift-swoopi- ... Obv-viousl- y, j Heritage Center news Friday August 17th is the The name of: Gene E. annual Fessler 68 East 500 North Clearfield, Utah 84015 has been selected at random to receive: 1 CASH if they bring Citizens Senior Picnic held at Lagoon. Lunch will be served at 12 noon at the Gaslight Terrace. There will be good food, free parking for Senior Citizens who arrive before 1 p.m. (just show your lunch ticket). Lunch tickets should from the be obtained Heritage Center prior to August 15th. There will be some lovely door prizes , O 825-211- 4. CASH this ad and identify turn your junk con ond trucks into cosh, themselves to office personel at: Needs up sorvlco prompt pick STAHLE PUBLICATIONS available. Wo typos of scrop iron. penpal Junk bottorios 3.7$ oluminum cons .29' 5388 So. 1900 W. ALLIED Roy, Utah Note from the Editor: (Recently we received in our office a letter from a man in Ohio who asked for anyone to correspond with him). METALS 393-427- (Expires Aug. 13, 1979) 260 W. 21st Stroot Ogdon, You UT. deserve a book today His Browse a real bookstore. ft The Key To Better Things1 LGA0IDG QIJSXIIJ j Bring i this ad receive FREE gift. 4850 Harrison Blvd. Ogden, Utah 84403 IHfonfiQG H!J37ffli In Life treo LEASING America Wheelchair Type of Aid Federal Aid: Revenue Sharing ; as went request follows: Male in confinement is looking for correspondence. He is lonely and will answer all letters that he receives. Please write to: Jesse W. Deitsch, PO Box 142-5445699 No. 45699. Lucasville, Ohio, 6, IFtaMlso) to oGtrwe yam JtnyPmop On. MeFoitmd JPwny Stoddard Man Mtnry 3200 Wdl Av Ogdat, Ufct 334-G3- services, more security; 2310 WSstrfRtfon ClVd. - 62 0 4079 &VCs! Rood 621-8SS- 79 appearance, personal Handicapped children. stricken with polio. College training best investment those adjustments,- - they claim. College training can also give one a broader College training is still one of the best investments a person can make in his or her future, two Weber State in College specialists vocational selection and training agree. They are Dr. James Kelly, director of career services, and Dr. Steven H. which can help make him his working hours. Perhaps most important of all is to select a career direction and plan well, Dr. Kelly and Dr. Eichmeier agree. A person can be complete failure in one line of work and a resounding success in something else, of coordinator cooperative education and for the past year acting director of the placement center at WSC. In the long run, college greater gives training flexibility and adaptability for whatever type of work a person may enter. It should increased bring com- skills ability munications to read, .write and speak well which are getting more and more emphasis as necessary for most occupational fields. Some experts in recent years have been saying that with rapid changes in the job market, the disappearance of some job areas and the rapid emergence of others, the typical worker may have to change his vocation two or three times during his working years. The broad background provided by college training can be invaluable in making a better adjusted, more understanding person outside Eich-meie- r, they say. - Choice of where to get the training will largely depend of the occupation selected. Both Dr. Kelly and Dr. Eichmeier agree also that the student should then get the best possible training, along with background. Weber State has an excellent program of career counseling available to its students, solid a and placement setup for those who graduate. In addition, it offers one of the better undergraduate programs in the west in the academic areas, and has a School of Technology which has been rated by several agencies as one of the two best of its type in the country. will feature Utah Symphony Concert-goer- s can enjoy the Utah Symphony in the alpine splendor of Snowbird, Saturday, August 11, during a special Snowbird Pops Concert in the famous conducting faculties act the An University of Utah. outdoor concert similar to the Saturday Snowbird Pops Concert was performed at resorts attendance open-ai- Plaza r Pavilion at 7 p.m. Some patrons may choose to sit at a limited number of small tables where they may order light refreshments a la Boston Pops. Tables are not reserved and may be claimed on a basis. The program, led by Christian Tiemeyer, offers something for everyone from Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue, with pianist, Alan Ball, to Saturday Night Fever. Other selections The Star Spangled include Banner, American Salute, On the Sempre Fidelis, Trail, "Oklahoma Hoedown,. medley, Washingtoii Post March, My Fair Lady medley, Blue Tango, Serenta, and West Side Story," medley. : Christian Tiemeyer, guest conductor for the Snowbird was prinPops Concert, cipal cellist for the Utah Symphony for seven years. He is currently the associate conductor of the Dallas Symphony. Mr. Tiemeyer was the founding conductor of the Snowbird Summerarts and formerly July 27, 1178 to You Cisco with more concern, more TTBG 1LDA0QOQ awarded foSowing judging in three categories, including education progress, and personal accomplishments. Misi Hope, a sophomore at ; Weber State, is majoring in to a wheelchair since psychology; and plans to do childhood when she was xehabilitation work with Layton, Utah Draaycr piympnt. Wheelchair Mis crown will be the Dallas Starfest where exceeded says Mr. Tiemeyer. Pianist, Alan Ball, a native Utahn, first appeared with the Utah Symphony in 1964 as a young solist. He has since performed with the Orchestra five times, including two subscription series concerts in 1972 and 1975. Mn, Ball was a Master student for two years at the University of Indiana and he plana to enter Juilliard in the Fall to study piano under 17,000, Sascha Gorodnitzki. Snowbird, a major summer and winter resort in Utahs Rocky Mountains is situated only 25 miles from downtown Salt Lake City in Little Cottownwood Canyon. The Utah Symphony has given concerts each summer at the Snowbird Summer Festival since 1978. However, this la the first Snowbird concert which has invited the audience to enjoy refreshments at tables during the performance. Tickets may be purchased (85 for adults and 83 for students and senior citizen ) at the Snowbird Plazxa Building ticket office or the Utah Symphony box office in downtown Salt Lake City at 55 West First South. Thanks notod Receives pin Donnlo Opon nd mom, ptui mOi tax. bawd on 16.000 mll ptr yotr, eommoicld Imm. THom Ipupi only rtqulrp ypry impll down The .yUnerica in director of the string and Come in and say hello to i Columbus, Ohio. Miss Hope wss chosen Miss Wheelchair Utah last May. She has been confined Institute Iff : State College coed, Diane Hope of North Ogden, will compete this week for the title of Miss A Weber A $37 LOAF OF BREAD IN AMERICAS FUTURE? 'I Good co miiM allocations to the large Per capita state aid to cities and counties in Utah takes into consideration REDUCED TO SSU AT THESE LOW PRICES . ACT N0WI1I VA, FHA, OR CONVENTIONAL FMANCING AVALABLE. sn o IKl- -' resources to compete with the large metropolitan dtka and counties for such grants. Copnsequently, the amounts allocated to units in Utah tend to be ten than the allocated to local units according to a formula which FEATURED HOME the financial, technical,', and-.- ; lobbying local structure dJr Hi ftp' flag L not have Massachusetts, and $529 per capita in New York. Hie highest cost if found in Washington, D.C. where municipal taxes averaged $1,211 per person last year. In addition to lower per capita taxes, municipalities and counties in Utah receive considerably less in inrevenues tergovernmental The higher per capita tax burden found in many of the other states is due to the more sophisticated ;1:! v fltoMwnbtf F.O.I.C. 72 S3 Clearfield Courier Roy, Utah Dear Sirs, Thanks very much for the of our good coverage Davis Tour for Interagency and Salt Lake Counties. It was very much appreciated. I also appreciate the extra two copies of your paper and return of the pictures. We appreciate all of the 'Conservation coverage that you give us, we look forward to continued good service and cooperation. Slncarely, Max Phillips D.C. Soil Conservation Sendee L-- y. Utah 84841. HILL AIR FORCE BASE Clearfield resident William W. Balactar has received a service pin at Hill AFB ceremonies. He is mechanical engineer at the hue. Mr. Balactar and his wife have two children. ' 39-ye- Man retires HILL BASE AIR FORCE Retired from Civil Service t Hill AFB was Clearfield raktant Merle E. Coffay. He was a heavy equipment mechanic at the base. Mr. Coffey and his wife have five children. |