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Show Todays News Read the tax story on page one, column eight. It will reveal many things. m Grain Range BY UNITED With which are combined the Cache Valley Volume 22. LtJG Number 81. S1AIK Boy Speaks For First Time After 97 Operations A n7 U I be A u INA1IU LEAVE NES IDLE Of Wage Reduction Causes Calling Of Strike Ohio, April 5 ilRi uma were virtual-- I I D.iy in the bread i.ras of central ami : a k mg vaile.'. h'. . iil Vi' p.iai.i p.ui- .US. up. i. ,i : iei v. e' e i I Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1932) In spite of hard times, Mayor Walker, of New York, proposes to uuild appartments to be rented hcuply. New York bankers will will mit provide money, so he mortgage real estate for which the ity paid fifteen million dollars. New Jersey and Florida have a plan that will promote building of snd increase the prosperity .hose states. Briefly, if plans go through, laws ill be passed exempting modest nomes up to a certain value, of rom taxes and assessments ;very kind, forever. s the Already, in New Jersey, names of preachers, with all their ontents and five acres of land ire tax free, as they should be. free mason, Many organizations, Elks, Knights of Columbus and it tiers, hII that ace supposed to and contribute to the mental moral welfare of men, women and hildren." escape taxation. It will not be denied that a man and wife, working to bring up their children, are contributing welfare. lo mental and moral Without fathers and mothers and Llie work they do, civilization, such as it is, would soon change to barbarism, mid all the sociecombined churches ties and could not prevent it. MeCampbell, of N. J., was elected to the no legislature last fall, on a tax on small homes" campaign, and is working to make his idea reality. Many of the ablest newspapers in Florida advocate the idea, and tins column which advocated the plan more than ten years ago, believes that common sense will put it through. Such a law in Florida, or California would increase gigantically in those states the number of people with small, fixed incomes, retired school teachers, etc., from all over the country. And if New Jersey adopted sucti a plan, the rush of families from tenements would New York's build up New Jersey and make New York very thoughtful. Tlieron Red-bun- And what a relief for the family man, chased all day by income tax, gas tax, theater tax, every tax. to sit down in his own home and sny this, at least is tax free, my roof, my land, the bed in which I sleep, the table at which my children sit, three times a duy. Also, DEBATERS LEAVE ON STATE TOUR Stale ami State Schools i f.ai.Mi; N'.i. ,,i,i..;,, If. It.it lied tit V, ll 111. 11, J t l i . i t itl tV.ii S t. . U II,;. COMPLETE PUNS PROVO, April 5. U Hi Complete arrangements for the Utah State Dental association convention to he, at be held hire Apul D. h.u announced by Dr. W. ,'.1udi...,,i Merrill. :!'i:'7 7 cst tU t Mi ,1 til t S '.i.. ' JiriYaU-- GROWERS DICKER FOR OWN TERMS GREELY, Colo., April 5. d'H' Directors of the Mountain States Beet Growers Marketing association, by a telegraphic vote today, released their 5000 sugar beet growers today to negotiate privately and independently of the association for contracts for this year's crops. The release followed the collapse of negotiations between the directors and officials of the Great Western Sugar comp i.i y. The directors objected to the proffered contract because it contained nn minimum guarantee, because it provided for slicing th3 beets at the top leaf scar, instead of the actual leaf .and because it eliminated the 30 cent per ton bonus which the growers received under certain conditiors in recent years, fr i ; oil! r.iijO . Ihl-l- ii l aitt a d iaudinigh s He! iiiitr conUu Is Kdn pers. I ,( li., d otn imisi.t aj- on i i jo tv n I .1 l)f lF.it. uu tit i t I with best minds, the much money, that toss in their of communism, sleep, dreaming bolshevism, etc. would find peace UTAH Unsettled tonight, showif they knew that millions, in lit- ers north, cooler south portion; tle houses all around them, owued Wednesday generally fair. 4 .60 8 8 PRICE FIVE CENTS. TUI CLIMB i is. 7 l:: 13- 3 3 k 2 - Assessed Valuations Fall As Taxes Mount BY RUSSELL HESS Tabulation showing the pathway taken by assessed valuations, taxable property rates in nulla, and taxes levied for the Cadre county sebools, Um lie county, Logan City schools aud l.iipan eily have been prepared by Assessor R. S. The figures show that without exception, taxes now are from 69 per cent to 25.93 per cent higher while assessed valuations have been 19.:, gradually deereasing. 1926 SCHOOLS ARK I I TO LIMIT 1927 With respect to Cache county 192s 1929 schools, assessed valuation of pro930 perty for taxable purposes decreased from 1922 to 1931 $1,964,-41J9.il or 7 9 percent. Taxes for county school purposes over the same City period jumped $27,951 74, or 16 81 $ 80,899.65 percent. There is also set down 88,209.23 $46,224.38, or 27.81 percent increase. This is exp, in -- 9 as being based 89,29213 on 9.3 mills levy wmch is an aver131,076.84 age for the last three years. The 109,113.34 cut last year was lorivd by the 111,728.87 raise in 1930 which was over the 111,545.44 legal limits. 15,868 48 Cache countys school population 110,844 83 in 1923 was 5,403, and in 1931, 101,877.28 5,571. No population figures were available for 1922. Lottan City Schools Assessed valuation for state and $ 76,853.80 state schools decreased from 1922 81,423.90 to 1931 inclusive, in Cache county, 87,378.72 or 7.4 percent. $2,338,718, Taxes 86,872.03 levied for state and state school 89,244.94 over the purposes in Cat-hcounty 93,385.32 period jumped $15,524.05 or 6.9 per 93,232.01 cent. 96,845.30 Cache county property valuations 92,646.43 for general county purposes were lowered from 1922 to 1931 inclu89,142.62 sive $2,338,718, or 7.4. Taxes increased for general county purposes $17,107.47, or 16.43 per cent. Logan city property valualnJl for general city purposes was' lowered during the period $374,309, or 5.5 percent. Taxes levied showed an increase in the nine year period of $20,977.63, or 25.93 per cent. City school proerty valuations were lowered during the period $374,308, or 5.5 percent also. The Automobile owners who persist in driving their cars in Cache taxes levied during the nine years county with one headlight or the showed an increase of $12,288.82, tail of th-- machine missing, or 15.98 percent. Cache drivers of automobiles, or light The rate in mills for Cache having faulty brakes, or otherwith in others who motor along wise violating the state traffic county schools was at a minimum the state must now obey a new code will 6.7 in 1922, and reached a maxiof be hailed into court. traffic law known as The Uniform A concerted drive against traf- mum 10.1 in 1930. Last year it had 1 raffic Act. it was approved fic law violators was started this dropped to 8.5 mills. March 23, y31 and became affec- week with Sheriff Jeff The peak of the tax rate in Stoweii tive January 3, of this year. The and his deputies. State Traffic mills for state and state school code is embraced in Chapter 49, Officer Harry Clark, and Police purposes was reached last year Session Laws of Utah, 1931. Chief Gilbert Meacham and his when it was 8.2 The minimum for In order that all may becoms police officers cooperating in the the period was 7.1 in 1922. eonverant with the major provi- war on traffic violators. COUNTY, CITY sions of this law. Utah has a new uniform traffic CUT SLIGHTLY the Herald-JournFor Cache county general purhas arranged for publicacode which went into effect on tion of important paragraphs from January 1, following its passage poses, the levy was at the apex of 5.25 mills in 1927, and at the lowest the new code. One paragraph will by the last state legislature. point in the period in 1930 when appear daily until all important it stood of at 3.25 mills. Last year the enactment have provisions the rate was 4.15. In 1922 the rate been made public. was 3.3 mills. The first follows: In Logan city for general purSee. II. OhtMlience to traffic poses, 16.75 was the highest rate in It shall be signs and signals. mills. This occurred for several unlawful for tin drier of any years, namely, 1925 to 1930 incluvehicle or for the oHrator sive. Last year the rate was 16 of any street or interurhun ear mills, the city having elected to or electric trolley coach to drawslash off 4 mill by reason of disobey tic instructions of any municipal light plant revoffici.il traffic sign or signal semi- increased enues. The city expects this year placed in accordance with the to a further reduction of make provisions of this Act, unless three mills because of elimination otherwise directed by a police Un- of the light plant levy. officer. The peak of the mill rate taxation in support of Logan city schools was attained in 1927 with will a rate of 14 mills. This has continued. The lowest point was in 1922 when a rate of 11.4 mills was set. will BV 1NITKD PRKS5 The tables show - year byaccompanying year beginning with 1923 NKW YORK Oil .shares ni the status of assessed valuation, Liim il a stfaily to firm a,., mar-- : jn the rate in mills, land taxes levied nr.ee m an otherwise demoralized for the various governmental .stork market today. units. The whole list was driven down to new' lows for the hear market, you the rails at a record low hi the LAUGHS average, and the industrial average at a new bw lor 11 years. 'Ir.tdiug whs light fy less ?tUe. 1 lulln If id at (r Hi tin 'il;i HERN TO SPEAK ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo Apnl 5 tl HiGovernor George li Drill th i prion; -- il of Utah will he ty banspeaker at a Jefferson quet here April 12. ui. i lit - REACH S. U SALT LAKE CITY, April 5. U.Hi Three mission presidents v.iie in Salt Lake today for the opening while moi a were of conference The expected during the week. cenLhree are Samuel t). Reunion, , MexiIvin.-R. Antoine tral states; can; Miles L. Jones, ins enrol states. HERE'S 0N WAY State, County, Gity T o Join In Traffic Drive TO CALL A COP FAVOR SALES TAX SALT LAKE CITY, April 5. ,a p, - On the grounds that the aie s tax is much more equitable an! would do less harm to imsi than methods includes in the in!! approved by the house, the FMt. Lake Chamber of Commerce lias cU wired the Utah congressional gation asking them t j d i ev vi thing possible to secure a n UF.sideration of the measure. : New Traffic Code v- - APPROVE (TT SALT LAKE CITY, April 5. Approval of $1 10,000 til sir cuts for next year was r"gi here Monday by the 8.XI lea. m in the city school system. ' 1 boy s. Buy At Home 3 v in it iiiled i i The time is ing nigh for the ; V T. Man Found With Bullet In Skull i r' a U is April; no. ti citizen auctioneer, hut hell t.iik i Ru it .Vow O history of the town hardships and miserv. He n flooded the site and u shacks. Other families were ni' t n the settlement irnid" city limits, and w t.n months the population li ..! to approximately 7'1". The familiix attivn .e ! Hi .r tion of welfare organ food and clothing were midribi. generously. Two youths, known m and ''Johnny nie Spud" y 'I', charge of the eonimi.- won their office because t! e, c, too di pmel o ship of ail truck in which liny make it . , . i ! ; ; 1 . i : -- e Hrtve'. St m I hi e. ' AC f 1 .bui:,h Pita the Pt wild club of ii After isi.iii V - ha-i'-- i I Oi..Cf) b.iUa Mar rot-- How Jobless of Los A 'U In Founding and Gov- np;0 - .60 0, . II. IAKDEE United lress Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Apr. 5, (I Hi A town of free rent, free food and no taxes thats Prosperity Center. And to the 700 unemployed men, women and children who go to make up its population, it is Utopia. It ha.; its foundation in squalor! and misery, yet a spirit of cheer and good will hangs over each! dilapidated tottering tent and shaek. Prosperity Center was founded on a large, boggy vacant lot by a s small group of men who were of unemployment- - The early .59 .61 Clos .56 .58 I Ki.di, CATTLE Mu. O CASTLE DALE. April 5. U lme! Stockmen, anxious to Lute ml ll al vantage of gnvin,; permits for 1932, have ..tarPal moving cattle onto Ihe Marti loii.-.- CALL GRAND II KY OGDEN, Aplii 5. h'i'' b":- Tillman D. Johnson of the I'1, ted States district imut was lm here Tuesday morning impane1', WASHINGTON, April 5. (UR) President Hoover, today, denied a grand jury of from 16 In he asked formation of another men. commission in his message to uiarK ii ix. i congress yesterday calling for nonLOS ANGKLKS, Aon ; partisan cooperation by all forces al plan of government economy. that Mu.ueii Charges "What I asked for, the presi- Percy Hight, of Long Vu ii nonfrom pro dent, said, was organized accepted partisan coperation by all forces litigants in a usury a e t: :Ui contan to reduce government were him fore expenses in the national emergency. $T00.000 damage Miit fd rd The president pointed out in perior court here t"! .y firm language, that for the last O. A. Grayball cmup.n. seven years, he had recommended Angeles. authorization to the executive to make a wholesale reorganizaAID AIIMS tion of government functions. WASHINGTON, April r President Hoover said ted he had requested Seen tut v Oil State Stimson to go to promote more drfiode relieve the world anus l i.r i' SAN FANCISCO, April 5 U.Ri -- emphasized that Sliio-o'- i Thomas Hays, 65, assistant execu- discuss debts. tive vice president of the Union 13 N IS Id pi: Oil company, was found in his ofA NEW CANAAN. C..im fice here today, a bullet wound in his head. It was said he probably Nelson Silliaian. it a business man, shot and would die. A revolver lay beneath the oi! blind invalid wife tod v man but tlieie was not other evi- suicided because do. tm dence to indicate whether the shot him he was sufferi ;. m was self inflicted. curable disease. BY LOK 4 Low .56 .58 193;! 1923 1924 inter-scho- LVn-ve- .57 8 PRESS Gaelic Gminly MC last evening ou t u. yard s r toil ol a ,t ll! Ill jits s. (I 3I,I4.I,'.H; fill, I, M, 34 I ;.o., in. 7 3 hided ll.U ll j1. V H IJII.'SH'ISII a. i, im 30,763.7 I u id $223,982 63 232,773.91 224,752.25 224,457.49 227,651.53 226,740.02 223,265.76 221,051.20 220,658 87 239,506 68 7 I 7 3 7 4 7 4 i NtWi poll C rase, Pk im reused hoi. FLAKS NO Oi IUT i ft Dr. Wailaee J. Vickers and four members of the debating squad of the Utah State Agricultural college left today for a tour of Utah colleges. They will engage in debates with the University of Utah, Snow college and the Branch college at Cedar City. The debaters who went on the trip are Austin Fife n- Lng'an, Delbert Euhriman D. C. Winget of of Providence, l.ogan and Lynn Kloepfer of Providence. N. Y. Builds Cheap. The question to be debated is "Resolved that legislation should Houses Free From Tax. 0 he enacted providing for the central control of industry, constitutionality waived. Two debates will A Cotton Headed Girl. be held at each school, the college upholding the affirmitive in one and the negative in the other. All will be their houses, and had an interest debates Three debaters from the Monin government stability. tana School of Mines were at the today to hold Miss Jane Olson, only woman-edito- r college debates. They were Thomas F. of a foreign language newsMcBride, Carl M. Westerberg, and paper, edits, in Denver, the "West- Lee Rheiin. ern Swedish Newfi." This charming young lady, asks must a cotton headed Swedish girl, living in the mile high region of North HOOVER DENIES America tell you the reason for Americans you poor suffering NEW COMMISSION through depression and financial worries today?" Many hard working, and fairly prosperous foreigners, says Miss refuse to purchase cloliies, Olson, jewelry, real estate during these trying times. They explain that the less money others know they have, the fewer chances they take of having the government take it away from them, in the form of taxes. Many other interesting things. Editor Miss Jane Olson says, uni she thinks America needs a leader." She even offers the job to this humble person. The man for her to see is Bun-filr editor and owner of the Post, who also lives a mile high, next door to her. Mr. 3on-fil- s should send his best reporter to Miss Olson, and print what she says. She knows some things that editors, American born, do not know. Fall The Rise and itiiisni , , By O'CLOCK EDITION .58 .60 High BY LUMBER Ml SKI M RHINELANDER. Wis April 5. It. in An outdoor museum lor early day upper Wisconsin logging relics is being sponsored here and by the American Legion several other organizations, (hoof the first loiomntncs used m logging operations here, a sei lion of narrow gage railway track, and an old logging camp complete with hunks and cook in,", utensn.s well he included. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 5 (I lb Governor Harry Leslie warned Sullivan county authorities today that state troops will be sent into the mine area unless locul officers succeed in quieting the rebellious miners. IIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIDIIIIIinillllllllllKim n'K 2. SKE LIGHT AIIKAII SALT LAKE CITY. Apnl 5. A distinctly better turn, despitt the fact that there is no tii.v.ei'ii- business increase, is the eou- dition on the Baeifie coast, ue- cording to Charles KFy. Western Pacific railrottd head, win wid here Monday. struck. Crowds of picketcrs were trooping to pits in all sections. One uprising occurred. Adjutant General blank llendersan, at Columbus, was receiving reports from his national guard observers in Ohio fields. Troops were held in readiness for quick mobilization. Frankie Powell, 5, of Fairmont, W. Va., soon will be able to call his chums and cry and make all the noises of boyhood for the first time. Born with a constricted larnyx, which prevented him from making a sound, he was taken to a hospital in Fairmont, W. Va., his home, when three years old. During the past two years has undergone 97 operations, four of them major. For the past year and a half he has not been given an anesthetic. Through it all he has kept normal and gay. The larnyx is now enlarged, Frankie can whisper and soon will be able to talk aloud. lit:: L 1 ,nrnmj i jiililb 9 till If potto SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 0 k. within tiie past 24 iiou::. ill an. ver - Assurance t lint no I is mime ; eull the derived from the gasoline will lie to a general strike by Unit'd Mine Order of America, transferred to oilier loud' v.a.--i protesting ai.iiouneed wage reduc-- t made Tuesday bv Milton H Wellions. ing, secretary of stain. Previously, eight thousand men li K I .56 May July Sept. Herald and The Journal .ly TA li. mLKWeFfcsi es BUT, ;u .. i Open : , i ' Poll!, 'enter f ill - 3-- annual conference in Salt Lake City. doubtedly many Cache residents attend the conference which be one apparently ainjof the most interestjield fof some lime. Before go be sure to buy all your KEATON wearing apparel from OYER DETENTION Logan and Cache Val- ley merchants. They ouncl Prosperity have the latest styles class quality first m t t. p and ! heir Uwn U lowest possible topicl Youll . . :! h, -- A"'.- !. , mi ' 'A by Monti- int w ( m" :,f VMlbi" Nm Ir.lt. 1r IikhJ, V. Hlrl atl'l ,1 11 u Lo sleep. save prices. .money by buying at "A fre home. It pays in numerous ways to buy from Logan and Cache Valley stores. Best of all it gives that thrilling, pleasant little feeling that creeps around the heart of a loyal citizen. V Y A N V 4 4 HOLLYWOOD. April 5. (f Hi Laughing at an excursion that led him to he detained temporarily by San Diego police, Buster Kenton, screen comedian, returned from the border city by air today with his two children and tlieir nursemaid. V cannot- - understand why my wife wanted to have the law on me, Keaton said. Someone said it was for kidnaping hut I think it would be pretty hard to kidnap ones own children. The comedians flyir.g trip to San Diego first became known-whehis wife, accompanied by her sister, Constance Talmadge Neleher, former screen star, appeared late yesterday, at the office of District Attorney Huron-Fitt- s , of Lo3 Angeles. SET CLOSING FARMINGTON, April 5. Davis county schools will cloxd May 20, one week short of tho regular closing time, m |