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Show middle Income Will Still Foot Bill, Chamber Told audience. By TOM BUSSELBERG - WERE CONGRESS to cut personal income taxes and raise corporate taxes, GovernBOUNTIFUL ment growth must be tied to none-the-les- s, economic growth and hidden taxes minimized, but whatever happens, middle income wage earners will foot most of corporations wouldnt pay them. Prices on goods and services would be upped to buyers to pay the added tax, Dr. Peery said. As it has stood for years, corporations pay about half their income in taxes. That equals about five percent of national income and due to very viable competition business has never been able to raise their share of the nations income, he said. the bill, a University of Utah economist said. SPEAKING TO the Bountiful Area Chamber of Commerce March 21, Dr. Joseph S. professor of Peery, economics at the University of Utah, said government spending has spiraled upward at such a fast rate that it equals nearly half of income. And those having to support that spending are the hardworking middle class, which means most of the burden is carried by those trying to raise families, pay off a mortgage and save 'for a rainy day, he said. WITH IT established the middle class must foot most of the tax bill, however, that doesnt mean government spending can just continue unchecked, Dr. Peery said. I tell my classes that when I was their age total government spending was equal to 12 percent of the total income. Government spending has increased so fast during my life that its frightening. After the Great Depression (of the 1930s) spending increased for new programs, war meant a larger defense budget and by 1950, government spending equaled 22 percent of total income vs. 42 ITS PEOPLE like us, those in the middle class, that make most of the income in this country and as a result have to pay most of the Dr. Peery said. taxes, I dont think that WINTER SCENE livestock owner, and an A & Beer Cafe. He later built, owned and operated the By DONETA M. GATHERUM 6 W Root Food Sessions Frozen Lockers and Grocery Store. He has been retired for 20 years. MR. SESSIONS 'first community work was encouraging people to move into and settle the Clearfield area prior to world war II. He became a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Clearfield in 1939 and was a leader among those who planned and built the Kiwanis Bowery in Clear- field's Central Park. Larry also promoted and directed the committee that planned the clubs largest fund raising project in 1976. This tireless leader contacted every businessman in the city Laurence Larry Holt Sessions is the honorary member of the month for February for the Know Your Community Leaders. HE WAS born in Bountiful in 1898, just two years after Utah became a state. He was one of seven children. When Larry was only three years old, his father was called by theLDS Church to travel to and help colonize the Big Horn Basin of Lovell, Wyo. At this early age, Larry remembers the long ride by horse team and wagon. The move back to Utah settled this family in Clearfield where they have since lived. LARRY received his early education at the Syracuse Elementary School, and graduated from Davis High School at Kaysville. Home from world war I, Mr. Sessions involved himself in a varied career as farmer. personally and invited him to participate. In addition, every citizen was invited to participate. The gigantic garage sale auction was a huge success. OTHER community services include president of the Clearfield Chamber of Commerce; president of the Davis County Association Service Club; key citizen in the planning and construction of the Clearfield Swimming Pool; and also in the development and dedication of the Bernard Fisher Park. He was chosen Man of The by the Clearfield Chamber of Commerce. He is the honored recipient of several plaques for these and other services for bringing Year in 1969 business and industry into Clearfield. ON OCT. 15, 1919, Larry married Zella Adams. They have three children, 13 grandchildren, and 28 greatgrandchildren. James Barlow Receives Woodbadge Award badge award for dedicated service to the youth organization over the past 12 years. His scouting assistance has included service as a Venturer leader, youth and activity committee chairman and he presently serves as institutional representative for Troop 160. addition, Mr. Barlow has completed all scouting training programs and served on staff for training of others. Part of his enjoyment is in however, gained, roughing it on hikes and campouts with the boys. HE AND his wife, the former Barbara Halls, are parents of four children and he is now owner of Barlow Furniture in Clearfield. An active member of the LDS In Church, he has filled an LDS Mission to Great Britain and presently serves in the Clearfield aid Ward bishopric, tb - One of CLEARFIELD Boy Scoutings highest award has been given to a Clearfield businessman. JAMES BARLOW received the coveted has Wood- - Children and grandchildren of Mrs. Leah Whitesides took Mrs. Whitesides out to a steak dinner on Feb. 23. The special activity was to celebrate Mrs. Whitesides birthday. February was a busy month at the Davis North Medical Center. A record 62 births were listed in the hospital books. Emily Ravenberg, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ravenberg of East Layton, was the national winner in an incomplete lyrical verse contest. Mrs. Johnnie M. Duram, a telephone operator with the nine-year-o- ld 1881st communications squadron at Hill Air Force Base, received the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award last week. Miss Liz Pudleski, the of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Pudleski, captured the top speller award at the daughter March 1 5th Hearing Set For Suspect In Shooting - A BOUNTIFUL preliminary hearing has been set for March 15 at 9 a.m. in Fourth Circuit Court, Bountiful, for a Farmington man charged with first degree murder. EDWARD DALE Hardy II, 26, of 155 South 200 East, Farmington, is accused of the shooting death of a Sunset man last month. The defendant is accused of shooting Kirk Cordary, 24, of 406 West 2650 North, Sunset, after the two had allegedly argued over sale of drugs in the parking lot of a Davis County tavern. THE COMPLAINT states that Hardy did knowingly cause the death of another (Kirk Cordary) while en- gaged in the commission of an attempt to commit an aggravated robbery." Police explained that the. victim had $500 cash in his possession at the time of his death and witnesses said that the two had been arguing about a drug transaction. HARDY IS being held in Davis County Jail without bail. He was free on bond in connection with an armed robbery in Bountiful at the time of the alleged shooting. The suspect reportedly returned to his Farmington apartment shortly after the alleged shooting and Davis County sheriff deputies, with the aid of the Davis County attorney, spent nearly three hours coaxing the defendant from a secluded bedroom. NO ONE was injured, grb School. Mrs. Spencer D. Adams was hospitalized last week in the Davis North Medical Center. Miss Patti Woods, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Woods, is recovering from a broken arm. She received the injury duriBg a gym class activity. coln paid federal income taxes on of a half million dollars or more, and their average tax payment is 45 or 46 percent (of their income). But if you took all their income it wouldnt help Elementary School students. Dale Bowers is planning to return to work this week. Mr. Bowers suffered severe injuries to his face and head when a tire he was repairing exploded in his face. Wendell Curry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Hadlock and Eddie Pudleski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Pudleski, left this week for Hawaii. The boys will spend six months in Hawaii working on a pineapple plantation. Mrs. Wanda he said. There were programs instituted such as medicare and medicaid, all programs with good intent, food stamps and Administration, CETA yearly incomes is Bodily recovering at home from foot very much because their income is one half of one percent of total government spending." AND TOTAL government spending equals about 42 percent of income, or about $700 billion yearly Dr Peery said. Put the burden on tne "less rich or those earning from $57,000 to $100,000 and their income equals only four percent of the national total, he continued. Shift the burden to businessmen and you'd find most of the 14 million proprietorships and two million farms average less than $10,000 income a year, he said. Many small businessmen work very hard not for the current earnings but in hopes that the future will bring a good income. They are not a wealthy class. surgery. Canyon, the family counted over 700 deer that were easily visible from the road. They also saw three small herd of Cathilyn Valentine, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Ray Valentine. The child was named Sunday in Sacrament meeting. After the church services, family members met at the Valen- WHAT ABOUT the you shift it to them, he asked? Im sure it is not understood by the majority of people that corporations dont pay taxes as tine home for dinner, dmg against employees, through Spanish Fork elk. The North Layton Junior High band performed last week at an assembly for Lin Mr. and Mrs. Noble Smithfield were Chambers of among the people who attended the blessing of Birth W., Roy, boy Victor and Marlene Larson, 2134 W. 5025 So., Roy, girl February 24, 1979 David and Patricia Elaine Fisher, 96 Dawson Street, Layton, boy Gary and Sharon Naylor, 1128 So. Highway 89 No. 33, Kaysville, boy Kent and Deborah Boatright, Golden Bow Trailer Park, A-Kaysville, girl Ronald and Rhonda Ellen Peart, 50., No. 17, Riverdale, boy 9, federal, state and local governments stood at about $700 billion, he reminded his 94 W. 4400 - SALT LAKE CITY Mountain Bell Telephone A op- tion allowing Kaysville and Layton customers to call both Salt Lake City and Ogden e may be running into trouble, a Davis County legislator said Wednesday. Drive, Layton, girl Lynn and Deanna Davis, 4185 So. 5900 W., Hooper, boy Robert and Marie Austad, 726 W. Gentile, Lay-toboy n, February 26, 1979 Gerald and Patricia Zabel, 148 W. 700 N., Clearfield, boy David and Deborah Spivey, 3435 So. 4300 W., Granger, girl February 27, 1979 and Leann Olsen, 301 N. Main No. 1 1 9, Layton, boy Herbert Marshall and Laurel Zolot, 1 96 W. 5250 50., Ogden, boy Kenneth and Francis Jean Cain, 125 E. 4900 50., Ogden, boy Gerald and Julie Mikesell, 343 W. 300 N., Clearfield, boy Juan and Erma Banda, 94 N. Pine Street, Blackfoot, Ida., girl Alex Leonard and Nola Larson, 641 So. 300 E., Kaysville, girl evening at the Davis High School cafeteria. was THE PROGRAM arranged by Dr. Reed Adams, program chairman, np March 1,1979 Albert and Rebecca Mestas, 97 W. 250 N. No. 4, Clearfield, girl .lower income. ITS ALMOST sacrilegious but I think its time somebody says something about it (welfare). The vast majority of Americans would be willing to transfer income to those who are really destitute and that couldnt work for whatever reason. But we all know that since the program was started it has been perverted to the point some refuse to take jobs if theyre not the type they want. 1 refer to most now getting unemployment. Thats a completely different attitude than men such as Brigham Young who said, If you dont work, you dont eat, if there are jobs, Dr. Peery said. All we need to clean up these programs is to take the freeloaders off and tell them to work or starve. ANOTHER THREAT many of may be brewing in the halls of Congress, he said. Some Congressional arent aware leaders are actively ad- vocating a value added tax, equal to a hidden sales tax that is part of the purchase price of an item. said it Because the people dont know about it, the professor said. WHY ARE they arguing for that? Because Social Security taxes are getting too high. Well reduce Social Security and personal income taxes and make it up with a value added tax so people wont know it. he said. Theyre using phony arguments. That would raise prices and even if they gave a $2,000 to $3,000 tax break on savings or dividends as an incentive to save, people would spend more to keep their standard of living. Europe started to do that in 1960 for the same reasons and they began to run into real tax resistance 15 years ago, he said. They all began to adopt VAT taxes and in some places the tax would equal 20 percent of the price. You get this started here and you can give up all hope of stopping government spending from growing faster than income. YOU WOULD give up incentives and inevitably lose and personal liberty he continued. freedom, Taxes should be out in the open where all can feel and know what they are paying. Thats where we can weigh the benefit vs. the cost. To hide that is criminal. To aid in slowing or stopping spiraling government costs that outstrip income gains, Dr. Peery favored a constitutional amendment backed by Republicans in the state legislature and others in D.C. It would Washington, stipulate government spending couldnt increase except at the same proportion personal income went up. That would keep it at 42 percent of total income. THAT WAY people wouldnt be hurt and the government would have to live just like you and I do within our personal budget, Dr. Peery said. At the same time, he voiced opposition to an amendment already supported by 27 state legislatures, including Utahs to force a balanced federal That would be a budget. certain way to destroy our capital economy. Deficits are sometimes needed because the economy is sick." IN OCTOBER of 1974 Gerald Ford had just taken over as President and he said we must balance the budget and Congress must do that. We were just tipping into a recession where big unemployment went from five to nine percent in five months and real growth declined by five percent, Dr. Peery said.. By January when Ford gave his State of the Union message it was a little embarrassing as he said we would run into a $60 billion deficit. Suddenly income was contracting and due to forces largely outside (of the United States) unemployment was going up, income was Fight Continues Over Phone Service For Central Davis Co. toll-fre- 1 1 February 25, 1979 Roger and Bernedette Lopez, 1214 Marilyn William those paid by stockholders and customers. When you realize what corporate income and profit really is, they cant pay (most of the taxes). Corporate profit after taxes totalled $77 billion in the third quarter of 1978. Spending by February 23, 1979 Robert Lee and Deanna White, 5581 So. 2000 (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act), and that CETA cost $11 billion alone last year. But programs such as welfare, where money is transhardferred from the working middle class to welfare has grown from $40 billion in one decade to $220 billion. In my own view I think it has reached the point that it can no longer be morally or ethically justified to use the coercive taxing power to transfer greater amounts of income from the hardworking middle class to Saturday, .'Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gatherum traveled to Price to attend the funeral service of a relative. On the return trip from Price February 28, 1979 Glen Robert and Marilyn Walker, 1 57 E. 1 st So., Kaysville, boy James Guy and Mary McEntire, 935 So. 1425 W., Clearfield, girl KaysvKIle Rotary Moots Members of the Kaysville a Rotary Club enjoyed musical program presented from by the Madrigal group Davis High School at their dinner meeting Wednesday annual spelling bee competition held last week at North Layton Junior High. Liz won the spelling contest during her fifth and sixth grade years at Lincoln Elementary percent today, he said. IT JUST keeps going up. One of the big increases has been in the last dozen years especially during the Johnson are several thousand who Layton News Laurence H. Sessions: A Community Leader LAURENCE HOLT SESSIONS is well understood. Most think it can be shifted to the higher income levels and there is a continual attempt to do this. But taking a broad definition of the middle class, or those he said earn between $8,000 and $57,000, totals more than 80 percent of the income of this country. If you take the higher incomes there This old, pioneer cabin located on the east bench of Bountiful provided a beautiful winter scene during last weeks late winter snowstorm. Davis County received four to 10 inches of new snow in the valley while northern Utahs ski resorts reported up to 24 inches of the new stuff, almost assuring a late spring ski season. Clearing and warmer weather followed last weeks snow and maybe, just maybe, spring is just around the corner. Russia always would have no taxes, no income or property taxes, a much larger percentage of their income goes for government spending and all of it comes from VAT. Why? SENATOR Haven Barlow, said in a telephone interview that while the company may go along with expanding the telephone calling area for those Central Davis County residents, a new rate system would substantially increase the bill. As presently set up, residents would pay an additional $2. 60 over the $6.31 base to call both Salt Lake City and At present, Ogden toll-fre- e. most Layton and all Kaysville residents must pay a toll to call either city. IT IS MY humble opinion, the senator said, that most people would be willing to pay (the extra fee) if they live in the Kaysville-Layto- n area or maybe half would go to Ogden or half Salt Lake (opting for one or the other The phone company wants toll-free- ). to revise its billing system and charge according to cost of service and that would hurt Central Davis residents, Sen. Barlow said. That could raise the price by $8 a month. "Theyre throwing in a new price system and thats like changing in the middle. Weve gone so long and had to pay more than everyone else. MOUNTAIN BELL said theyd act to implement changes as soon as they had orders from the Public Ser vice Commission and now theyve stopped action to resume the fight, he continued. If worse comes to worse we may have to take a poll. Either we or an independent group would have to conduct it to give people a chance to express themselves (rather than have the phone company conduct it). In no other area is there such a concentration of people with such poor telephone ser- Sen. Barlow said. "Theyve fought everything Davis since County, vice, especially the central part, has been such a good revenue maker. Theyve said to let Salt Lake people vote if they want to be able to call Kayse ville and Layton and said we didnt ask them (Salt Lakers) if they wanted it. toll-fre- ITS ALWAYS the outlying areas who want to be able to call into the main areas, he said. They didnt ask when service was extoll-fre- e tended to Sandy and those outlying areas (if Salt Lake agreed). Speaking in behalf of Davis County residents he added that such residents should enjoy the same option as was recently granted in Salt Lake County. e Under that system, residents making limited use of their telephone can pay a $5 monthly fee, instead of the regular rate. low-inco- I THINK the PSC will stick with us, he said. It was only a 1 margin (in voting on proposed changes) so if we get a new commissioner things could change. Commissioner Olaf Zundells term expired March 1 but Scott Matheson has requested he remain until a replacement can be found. Mr. Zundell is a Bountiful resident who has voted in favor of Davis County telephone improvements, tb Gov. Pedal Pushers Begin New H Year 4-- The Pedal Pushers, bicycle safety club, another year has begun of YEAR they parin the Bike Rodeo Week at Burton Elementary and are looking forward to this years rodeo. LAST ticipated They have appeared before the Kaysville city mayor and council and have been on KTVX-TV- , Hotel Balderdash, to promote Utah State Club Week. THIS YEARS officers are: April Turneau, president; Jennifer Whittaker, vice president; Shelly Brinker-hoff- , secretary; Cherise Winter, treasurer; Gayla Clonta, reporter; and Jennifer Mott, music leader. Mrs. Judy P. Turneau is their leader. They are now busy making and posters preparing speeches for Utah State Club Week to be held March |