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Show Page Six - TIE August 16, 1973 Utah Fern Ercsu SEARCH urges end cf price freeze Visiting with Mrs. Till Blackburn is her granddaughter Call and her family. Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Barton and their family have traveled up north for a vacation and visiting with family members. Miss Kim Haws, daughter of Jim and Alene Haws, has gone to Hawaii with the EYU Church group for a week of fun and fun, huh? Miss Nellie Heaton, who has spent the winter in Oregon with the Earl Lamb family, is home for the summer months. She plans to do some work at the St. George temple and visit with loved ones through the southern end of the state. sightseeing-sou- nds Mr. and Mrs. Elbrun (Cleo) Sorenson went north this past weekend to attend a wedding reception for family members. The Jonathan-Esth- er Heaton reunion was held at Duck Creek Saturday with nearly all family members in attendance. The family of Randall Crofts and Gerne (LaRue)Slaugh were here with the family of Harvey and Everetta Crofts for the reunion. Happy news of a little new granddaughter was heard at the home of Dick and Phyllis Esplin. The happy parents are Terry and Bruce Jackson, who live at Page, Ariz. Grandmother Esplin went to Page to spends few days helping with the new baby. Dale and LuGene Spencer have been here helping Mrs. Grace Heaton get ready to move to St. George. We will miss having Grace here in our community but we know she will be happy living closer to her chil- Rawlin Crosby. We are grateful for the time these people take in visiting our ward and their words of instruction. Another of our fine community members has passed away, Orson Young died Sunday in the hospital at Cedar City. Orson has had poor health tor a number of years and the last little while a breath without pain was indeed a rare thing for him. We will truly miss this fine man and our thoughts and best wishes go out to bis fine wife, Marian, who has taught a good many of our children in school with much love and devotion and determination that they get the most out of their schooling. Let's all remember this family in the days to come with visits and knowledge to those left here of our feelings for them. Are your best fruit Jars labeled, the newly made suit ready, the favorite cookie recipe tried, the family pet groomed, the garden vegetables looked over and chosen, the talent number polished to perfection? Then 1 guess you are truly ready for the Kane County Fair. See you all there! fly Neighbors An enjoyable evening was in hand for the school class of 1939, a reunion was held Saturday at Sink Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton (Ruth) Hoyt from Ogden were here visiting wit b friends. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Mardon Lamb from California have been here visiting with family members. Glen Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lanor Lamb, has been here visiting his grandfather, Mr LaMar Chamberlain. Both Glen and bis sister, Janet, have been working here this summer and will return to Althonla where they will enroll in school for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Ed (penlese) Johnson were here visiting her the Edmund parents, Her sister Mary Ann will return north with them. Hep-wort- hs. Miss Elaine Spencer has been here visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Legrande Spencer. Elaine will teach again this year in Mesa. Mrs. Roger Fisher and her family of Lander, Wyoming, have been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Fisher. Traveling to Las Vegas to attend a newphews wedding reception was Mrs. Ferel Lamb and son Derek and Mrs. Ronney Lamb. Saturday Ron and Brad Lamb Joined them to continue on to California to Disneyland and a fun vacation. Mrs. Ruth Gentle has had her mother, Mrs. Crawford from California, here with her for a most welcomed visit. Speakers in meeting Sunday evening were Dr. Roberts and THE BEST BALANCE DIET TOWN WITH DEHYDRATED FOODS. WE GUARANTEE PEACE OF MIND WITH DESERET STORAGE FOCOS. DO NOT DELAY REPRECALLING YOUR SENTATIVE TODAY. IN SHARON DUNCAN, KANAB, UTAH 84741 TELEPHONE 644-51- 46 American is eating rd more beef now than 10 years ago, a liberalized food stamp program has boosted demand for better food, buyers in other nations want more meat and other food, and ou r population is growing. Recent panic buying for storage has also put pressure on the food supply line. While demand is increasing, Hamilton described several "political and economic road, blocks to providing that farm abundance. , . which we have learned to enjoy in this coun- National "Jeep Search one-ye- two-thir- "Federal Members of the Kane County Sheriffs Fosse Ambulance Division look at new equipment. Chuck Zielinski, Oscar Robinson, Bob Aiken and Steve Turner check $1750 worth of emergency equipment which they received a few days ago. This equipment is on loan from the University of Utah as grantee from the Intermountain Regional Medical Program and the Kane County Sheriffs ambulance and rescue will be held responsible for the equipment. After about 3 to 5 hours on the phone and about 20 calls to Salt Lake City, the emergency equipment finally got here. With the help of Mike Davis and Lionel Dredge , both with IRMP, the equipment is now in use. A special thanks to Mike and Lionel for the help in receiving this much needed equipment. Here is a list of equipment received: 1 Robert Shaw Reusucitator 1 2-- elevator stretcher Aspirator - Vacuum Electronic siren K-- ds, Thank you. Doctor in the Kitchen There are two reasons - the Why so many increases? state reappraisal program and the new school finance formula passed by the last legislature, STATE REAPPRAISAL PROGRAM. Ten counties were by the State Tax Commission and higher values placed on the rolls last year. State law requires school districts to cut property taxes when this happens, and then in subsequent years, to gradually bring them back to their former levels. This is the reason for higher levies in Daggett, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Kane, Morgan and North and South Summit. It is part of the reason for increases in Wasatch, Rich, Park City, and Wayne, visions for increasing property taxes. by Laurence M. Hursh, M.D. Consultant, National Dairy Council FOOD LABELING A most interesting discussion (not a debate) occurred some weeks ago in Denver at a conference sponsored by the National Dairy Council for food writers. The subject was food labeling and the men airing views that caught my ears most were Dr. Ogden Johnson of the Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Dee M. Graham of the University of carries four pro- L All districts must levy 28 mills for basic programs. This is why Tooele upped their levy 2 mills, and why San Juan Jumped their levy 6.40 mills. 2. Districts that cannot realize at least a 6 per student revenue increase under the new law can add up to 4 mills of new taxes for three years. L34 mills of 1.61 Missouri. Each man possesses a background qualifying him to speak on this topic which is of such interest to consumers. But their approaches are different. Dr. Johnson, being Director of the Division of Nutrition with FDA and having been closely involved mill Increase if for this reason. 3. Districts facing loss of Federal Impacted Aid can levy to 4 mills of new taxes for three This is why property taxes were Jumped in Box Grand, Granite, Carbon, Alpine, Murray, Ogden, Salt Lake City. money years. Elder, and in To get certain state building aid funds, districts must increase Capital Outlay levies to a whopping 18 mills. This is why levies were upped in Washington, Wasatch, Iron, and Juab Districts. 4. of the states districts are going Taxpayers in to see precious little in property tax relief from the legislatures move to cut the state school levy 3 mills. In eight of the districts, there will actually be a tax Increase even with the state reduction. This does not take into account county Juggling tax property tax increases being contemplated. burdens between different levels of government is known as a "shell game" - not tax relief. two-thir- ds Crazyhcrse Campground Grocery Store Hoars: lip.m. 7 days a week For all your picnicking & camping needs 7:00 a.m. to 1 complete soon to be received. Again we would like to thank everybody who worked so hard to get this equipment here for Kane County. This reporter would like to publicly thank all the members of the Fosse, Long Valley, 3 Rocks and Kanab for the many hours they put in without pay, and their wives for the many dinners that have gone cold when her husband gets a phone call and he drops everything and takes the ambulance to a disaster of some kind. This shows that 28 districts will hike property taxes this - two will cut, and ten will go unchanged. The average Jump is 2.03 mills, or 4.8 above the current state average local levy of 42.49 mills. San Juan has the steepest tax increase with 6.40 mills. Other large increases are Iron - 5 mills, Rich - 5.41 , Wayne - 4.53, Wasatch - 4.51, and Washington - 4.50 mills. Millard schools will cut 3.95 mills. Uintah will also cut but the exact amount has not yet been decided. FORMULA 12 port-o-pow- year Jordans Rescue" Assfn. The Cedar City social security office is now taking applications for supplemental security Income payments, a Federal program scheduled to start in 1974 that will establish an income floor for people in financial need wbo are 65 or over, or blind, or disabled, according to MR. Moon, social security manager. But people already getting State old age assistance, or State aid because they are blind or disabled, dont have to apply, be said. They'll be getting more information later this year about how the program will help them. "The first monthly payments tinder the Federal program will be made in January 1974," Moon said. "Until then. State and local public assistance offices will continue to make payments In the usual way." People not getting public Rescue saw Light bar 1 Orthopedic Stretcher er With a 10 ton PROPERTY TALES GOING UP, UP, UP. Taxar payers brace yourselves for one of the largest school property tax Increases on record. 28 of the states 40 school districts, roughly will be upping their property tax take this year. All of these increases were 1973-7built into school budgets which were adopted by local 4 school boards during the past two weeks. Page Six Sects! Security as- sistance now who think they may be eligible tor the new Federal payments should pall or write social security to find out if they should apply, according to Mr. Moon. 1 1 1 1 SCHOOL FINANCE & one-thi- pesticides, predator controls and livestock growth stimulants; unfavorable weather, fuel shortages, and price controls and boycotts that discourage increased production of food. - fskes cppHcclisns for 1974 program He said the current supermarket dllemmais "unlike anything Americans have ever seen. Housewives have more money to spend on food than ever before, but they find it diffl-c- ult to buy all the kinds of food they want." Demand for farm products has risen sharply. Hamilton listed several reasons: Each These Include unnecessarily regulations such as bans on effective NEW SCHOOL RESCUE economy." strict environmental 'Poor Harry, only had one bite all day and that was from a prospect's Beagle. and farmers to produce." "We need to call an immediate halt to the freeze on beef prices," Hamilton said, and we must end this unwise government manipulation of the try." dren. At the home of Mrs. Pearl Boiander is her mother, Mrs. Beatty from Cedar City. Also visiting with them Thursday evening was their sop and his wile, Mr. and Mrs. Ronney Boiander who have been spending the summer in Cedar City. The Utah Farm Bureau today placed the blame for food shortages on government price controls and manipulation of the competitive market system. Elmo W. Hamilton, president of Utah's largest farm group, told newsmen: "We can have adequate supplies of food if we will let the market system do its work by p jttlng an immediate end to these price controls and by providing the incentive for August 16, 1973 UTAH fTWS SOUTHERN in developing the new FDA food labeling regulations, is eloquent in support of those regulations. Dr. Graham, Chairman of the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Missouri, was formerly with a prominent food processing firm so his approach is especially knowledgeable regarding some of the problems the regulations may face. FDAs Mission Dr. Johnson explained for the assembled food writers that FDAs mission is to protect the consumer from hazard" and obvious fraud He pointed out that historically FDA has performed this task by police work and in his opinion this has not been sufficiently effective. Meantime, Dr. Johnson said, times have changed. We have changed from a prrJucing society - I to a consuming society. We no longer make the things we use. FDAs approach now must be to give the consumer more information with which to protect and guide Limself. Regarding food, this means there must be new food labeling regulations. The New Regulations The new regulations, he said, will provide: 1) a mechanism to identify the quality of products; 2) an aid in planning adequate meals; and 3) the stimulus for greater interest in nutrition. Technically, a food manufacturer will not have to list the nutritional content on his product label. Only if he fortifies his product by adding some nutrient, or wishes to make some claim of dietary benefit does he then trigger the requirement for specific information on his label. Of course, the realities of competition such as a competitor making claims and listing nutritional content means a food manufacturer could well find that the labeling is not voluntary at all, but essential and forced upon him if he wishes to remain in business. But if one believes the more information consumers have, the better, such problems as the foregoing are not a deterrent And once a food processor gets into labeling, what must he list? We'll get into that next week, along with some of Dr. Grahams apprehensions as to whether all this will actually be good for the consumer. supplemental secu- rity income payments will be made by the Social Security Administration," Moon said. "But the program will be financed by Federal general revenues not by social security contributions from workers and employers. Its not the same as social security. The aim of the new program is to provide supplemental payments in cases of need so that people 65 or over, or blind, or disabled will have a basic cash Income of at least $13Q a month for one person and $195 a month for a couple. "This doesnt mean that Sheriff Norm Swapp and Deputy Steve Turner look over the new emergency medical equipment and explains the loan agreement to Deputy Steve Turner. See Search and Rescue for story. Sorry we missed a couple of editions but the Sheriffs office has been busy. Sheriff Swapps log shows about 540 miles in the last few weeks for ambulance run alone. Thats not counting the trip to Bullfrog to pick up two bodies that had drowned. The Sheriffs report shows that two Indians from Kearns Canyon, Arizona, were fishing when one boy went in after his fishing pole and the other tried to help him. Both young men drowned. Sheriff Swapp says that with all the building and camping on Cedar Mountain this year that crime in this area has been minimal. He contributes this to the number of hours that have been put in patrOllng the back roads and camp sites. ev- ery eligible person or couple will be getting that much from the Federal Government every month," Moon said, the amount of the Federal payment any person gets will depend on how much other income he has." "Eligibility for Federal pay- i f ments will depend not only od the amount of Income people have but on the value of ttjeir assets, V Moon said. "If youre single or mar- ried but not living with your husband or wife.you can own things worth up to $l,50Q and still get Federal payments," A couple can own he said. things worth up to $2,250 and get payments. Not everything you own has to be counted toward your total assets, bow. ever. A home of reasonable value will not be counted as an asset," Moon said. "In addition, the Federal Government will not put liens on the homes of people getting Federal payments. Personal effects and household goods wont count in most cases Insurance policies or a car may not affect eligibility either. Bid it will depend on their value." Certain income also will be disregarded in deciding on an application for supplemental for supplemental application security income. The first $20 a month of Income generally wont affect the Federal payment at all, Mr. Moon said. "In addition, people who are working part time should know that the first $65 a month of earnings wont be Included in Sheriff Norm Swapp and Deputy Steve Turner look over four rifles that were stolen out of the Legion Hut a few weeks ago. After an intensive Investigation of the area around the hut the guns were found in a ditch bank covered with grass. No arrest has been made but the Sheriffs office has a few good leads and the investigation will continue. Kanab news notes Nellie Jenks of Riverside, Calif., stopped in Kanab on her way to Salt Lake City to see her first granddaughter, bom re- counting their income and only half of the rest of their additional earnings will be counted," he said. cently to Don K. and Judy Pow- Apart from earnings, other Income above the first $20 a month generally will reduce the Federal payment. "This includes social security checks, veterans payments, workmens compensation, pensions, annuities, and gifts," Moon said. "And if you live in someone elsos household, you r basic Federal payment will be reduced by before other Income that may affect your payment is deducted." "Even though payments cannot start until January 1974, were starting to take applica-tlo- ns now so we can process them ahead of time and avoid ' that might occur if delays theres a rush of applications right at the end of the year," Moon said. one-thi- People rd who need more in- formation to decide whether they might be eligible for the Federal payments should call social security at 586.8162, or write to the office at P.O. Bax 769, Cedar City, Utah 84720. ell. Nellies mother, Mrs. Vln-n- ie Riggs accompanied her to Salt Lake City. MIA Aaronic Priesthood Leadership, Aug. 21 The Aaronic Priesthood MIA Leadership meeting will be held at the Kanab Stake Center on August 21st, Tuesday, at 8:00 p.m. Utah time, according to Mrs. Jackie Williams, President of the Stake YWMIA. All youth and adult leaders are Invited and urged to be in attendance at this Important meeting as there will be an hour and a half of Activities Unlimited that will include films and a large variety of activities for everyone. The public is Invited to the Activities Unlimited in the Cultural Hall beginning at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Williams reported there will be guests helping with some of the activities. JUDD insurance;: AGENCY Kanab - Ph. . ;; 644-278- 9 a I.., ...I WE APPRECIATE YOUR HELP AKD MANY ITEMS IN STOCK PATRONAGE DURING OUR OUR GRAND OPENING CONGRATUIATIONS TO KAREN SULLIVAN FOR WINNING THE DOOR PRIZE o MAYTAG WASHERS & DRYERS o LAWN & GARDEN SUPPLIES o SPORTING EQUIPMENT o BENNETT PAINTS SPECIAL PRICES ON NEW SHIPMENT OF RECORDS, TAPES and CASSETTES If YOU HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT n OUR NEW STORE YET, WE INVITE YOU Y0 COME IN AND ER0WSE. Open 3 a.m. to 8 p.m NEW LOCATION 100 EAST 400 SOUTH KANAB UTAH - J |