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Show Sun Advocate f I -- t i , - rrrr." - V - m . Utah Coal Operators meet; select Ross as President K. 'V vU X ' 0 teta UrSv vii Don Ross, vice president and general manager of Soldier Creek Coal Company, Price, was elected president of the Utah Coal Consolidation Coal Co.; Tom Parker, Beaver Creek Coal Co.; Paul Watson, U.S. Steel Corp.; William Haynes, Valley Camp Coal Co.; Ken Payne, Southern Utah Fuel Co.; Brett Harvey, Kaiser Steel; and Alan Alexander, Savage Brothers Trucking Co. The new association president is a native of Utah and has been involved in the coal industry since 1948. He was employed at Kaiser Steel at Sunnyside, Carbon County, for 17 years; was product manager of Longwall Mining Equipment for Joy Manufacturing, 8 years; returned to Kaiser at Sunnyside for three years and assumed his present position with Soldier Creek Coal seven years ago. He said he is opposed to municipalities getting into the coal mining business because they do not pay property taxes, sales taxes or income taxes. This gives them an unfair advantage over commercial coal he said, and these operators, of taxes present an undue burden on the citizenry and communities in which they operate. The new president said he is Operators during the groups annual meeting at the Carbon Country Club. The meeting also heard Senator veteran Omar B. Bunnell, of the Utah Senate, say that he would vote against a severance tax on Utah coal because theres plenty of money to take care of the 18-ye-ar states more than 30 percent during the year, cording to a report just released by the Utah Foundation, Shoppers in a downtown Price department browse through merchandise displays during the peak of the 1981 season. Sales, as reflected by sales tax collections, were up ac-stor- e a very good year for Price businesses 1981 Business volume in Price, as measured by local sales tax receipts, rose by 30.9 percent in 1981, according to a report just completed by the Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization. .The study notes this increase, however, does not make allowance for inflation, which was 10.4 per- cent in 1981. Gross sales volume in Price during the year was measured at $130 million. This compares to $99.3 million in 1980 and $46 million in Section C Wednesday, May 26, 13B2 1975. For the state as a whole, business activity in Utah picked up slightly after two years of relatively slow growth, the Foundation reported. Total sales volume rose by 13.6 percent last year. This was somewhat above the inflation rate, but when an 81 Total sales volume in Utah during the 1981 calendar year amounted to $9.8 billion. This sum, according to the Foundation, amounts to 78.2 percent of total personal income for the year, and was up slightly from the 77.2 percent recorded in the previous adjustment is made for the reduced purchasing power of the dollar, the effective gain amounted to 3 percent, compared to declines of 5.9 percent in 1980 and .5 percent in 1979. The better-than-expect- fiscal years. year. ed tax last performance to will Utah allow complete year the 1981-8- 2 fiscal year without any expenditure cuts in state apthe report conpropriations, of the sales Foundation analysts said the sales volume figures are not confined to retail sales. In fact, only about 50 percent of reported sales volume last year was for sales made through regular retail outlets. Other important co- tinued. Because of the slowdown in sales tax and other tax collections during the previous two years, the state was forced to order reductions in state allocations for the 1979-8- and 1980- - and that the needs legislature must give priority (of tax monies distribution) to the little towns next to the mines because they are impacted the most by the extraction of minerals. Elected vice president of the organization was Boyd Harvey, Price River Coal Co., Helper. Richard N. Lee, vice president, H.E. Lowdermilk Co., general engineering road contractors, was secretary-treasure- r. The association is comprised of coal operators satellite companies 14 and three which are non-payme- nt associate members. The coal operators employ 5,161 and mine more than 13 million tons of coal annually. Elected to the board of directors were Vernal J. Mortensen, vice concerned coal operations must be reviewed and revised. He said hed like to see the establishment of only one regulatory agency with which coal operators would be required to deal, not the multitude of red tape we must endure now. Theres just too much regulation from too Daniel Baker, Inc.; over- regulation of the coal industry, saying, regulations pertaining to president, Utah Operations, Coastal States Energy Co., the immediate past president of the association; Mr. Lee; Floyd Tucker, Plateau Mining Co.; Ray Christensen, Emery Mining Corp.; Samuel C. Quigley, Tower Resources, the about Don Ross many agencies. Were (the coal industry) chasing our tails. This causes delays in coal production and does not encourage growth in our industry and this adversely affects the job and economic pictures in our area. Bunnell, a Democrat from a y district comprised of Carbon and parts of San Juan, Emery and Grand Counties, told the association meeting that the legislature needs to know that it should not spend oil shale and mineral lease monies on roads, teachers and fish and game projects outside the areas impacted by mineral extraction. quad-count- were wholesale, ntributors manufacturing, utility, mining, construction and service establishments. 0 Income level doubles in '70s The median income more than doubled during the 1970s, but the increase discounting inflation was much less, according to new Census Bureau figures. The median income of families was $19,908 as of 1979, the study reports, up from $9,586 a decade earlier. That means that half of all families had incomes of more than that amount, and half less. This represents a real increase in income of about $928 per family during the decade, a little less than 0.5 percent per year. That is because the 98 percent inflation calculated during the same decade by the Bureau of Labor Statistics meant that $18,980 in 1979 would have the same buying power as the $9,586 did in 1969. In the previous decade, the real increase was about 3 percent per year. The 1979 figures show Alaska with the highest family income, at $28,266. That was WASHINGTON (AP) of American families up from $12,441 in 1969, also tops in the nation that year. Lowest family income in 1979 was $14,356 in Arkansas, up from $6,271 a decade earlier when it ranked 49th. Mississippi, lowest in family income in 1969 at $6,068, edged past Arkansas in the latest figures with a median family income of $14,922. The figures are for 1969 and 1979 because they were collected on the 1970 and 1980 census forms, which ask for income information for the preceeding year. 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