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Show f reps OGD1EJ VOLUME 4 OGDEN, UTAH. FRIDAY, Weber Farm Bureau To Hold 14th Annual Convention Saturday GOOD PROGRESS MADE ON DAM IN DECKER 1929 JANUARY NUMBER 9 31. 1930. Taxation Measures Introduced in Legislature Wednesday Trial Opens in Lisa Murder Case; Jury Is Selected The Weber County Farm bureau will In ilu ease (if Ruggero Gurgulia its fourteenth annual convention mul Tony Tedeseu, charged with murSaturday afternoon and evening at der for the shooting of Tony Lisa in Construction Engineer Makes the Hotel Bigelow. It is expected that Ogdon canyon on the night of August Tux Committee Endorsed; A. 11. more than 1000 farmers and their 16 last, the taking of testimony Report Which States That Ex wives will attend. President Ephriam Gibson Elected 1 'resident; Air. in Judge Eugene E. Piatt's divicellent Weather During Month Cergeson of the Utah State Farm busion of the Second distiiet court lute and Frank Evans, council for the Consti- Wednesday afternoon, before the jury and Mrs. W. E. Traughber of Enabled Work to Proceed reau farm bureau federation, will be the of twelve men who were accepted to Ogden Are Honored as Life principal speakers. Com Pacific Union Acting Mayor serve ns the jurymen in the trial. Rapidly; Fred E. Williams will deliver the adMembers; W. 1. Epperson lr. Junior E. Rich, county physiof welcome, and Sam Keifer of pletes Its Work in Connection dress witness was the first called, The following resolution, providing property, not to exceed $250.00 in cian, Salt Lake will be toastmaster. The Heads Legislative Committee or the creation of a tax commission, slue for homes and homesteads, and and the proceedings lan along smooththe of will session speakers afterpoon Good progress was made on the include William II. Peterson, director was introduced in the senate by Sen100.00 for personal property, and ly until l)r. Rich was asked to detail construction of the Echo dam during of extension work at the Utah State ator Musser on Wednesday: Ogden uml Welx-- county will be may provide for exemptions for per- statements made by Idsa in his dying the month of December, 1929, accord- Agricultural college, who subject will A joint resolution proposing an sons disabled in the military service declaration at the Dee hospital. Dr. the hosts (if the Utah State Press asamendment to section 11 of Article of the United States or of the state Rich stated that he was culled to ut sociation this mining summer, it was ing to the report of Construction En- be What an Adequate Membership tend l.isa in the early morning, and decided nt the business session of the weathExcellent F. Smith. F. 13 of the constitution of the state of Utah. Means to an Miss gineer Organization. enthe of Utah relating to revenue and er prevailed during practically Section 5. For the purpose of tax- of having seen him a number of times I association just closed in Salt Lake Reva B. Maycock, home demonstra: ( tion leader of Logan, will speak on tire month. ation all taxable tangible property, later and before his death, Dr. Rich I ('ity. Ogden and Weber county will taxation: he told Lisa he sesaid hud ho that which is only by publicity, t It is proposed to amend section 11 except as otherwise provided in this short time to live and IhHt Lisa then I corded each convention Placing of clay, sand and gravel in Womens Place in the Farm Bucity by editors of article 13 of the constitution of the constitution, shall In assessed at its ttmade the earth fill section of the dam was reau." I a statement. At this time Dr. over the state. The custom of value and shall be taxed at continued until December 18, when the I Reporta will be submitted by Presi- state of Utah so that the same will lull cash sheriffs several tors added, sH'cial deputy be shall uniform whirh elerates to supplement of devoting throughan entire dam area was raised dent Stallings and Mrs. M. k. Jacobs read as follows: of Weber county; several police offi-- 1 newspapers to the advertisement of the of out the i feet below the of the home community section. Comauthority jurisdiction vation about forty-tw- o Section 1 1. There shall be a state eers front Salt Ike, and the defend-- 1 Ogden will be curried out. the tax. Two munity singing will be a feature of ax commission completed crest of the dam. I consisting of four Section 6. For the purpose of the ants, (lurgulia and Tedescn, and other I Foremost among tho questions shifts were operated on this work the convention, and the singing will members, not more than two of whom wero room. was the hat in (.(,rning tlio public good which was during this period, the material being be led by Ebenezer J. Kirkham. Other shall belong to the same political property tax, all metalliferous mines the statement made i Ijsu . Dis-- 1 discussed at the meeting of the Utah protected by a dry layer of earth dur- musical numbers will be given by the party. The members of the commis- or mining claims, both placer and rock trict Attorney David J.by Wilsun I asked. be assessed Press which was shall at in association of i $5.00 the coldest The a Farr per the chorus the place, sion night. shall be by part Hooper quartet; ing appointed by the govAt this point the defense attorneys I held at the Newhouse Hotel in Salt V amount of material placed in this sec- West club; duets by Klva Bing- ernor, by and with the consent of the acre, and in addition thereto, at a I I ' tion during the month amounted to ham and Fredona Strickier of Wilson. senate, and the terms of office shall value equal to three times the net registered the first objection made to I Lake Saturday and Sunday was the l such net as the annual the of :tr matter testimony being given by be provided by law. The state tax proceeds thereof, amending the tax laws, 57,189 cubic yards, making a total to I It was urged that The editors has received all the re-tcommission shall administer and su- proceeds mny lie defined by law; pro county physician. date of 1,076,594 cubic yards of the esA court hear the testimony and de- - porta of the tax commission, and were fill. timated 1,350,000 cubic-yar- d pervise the tax laws of the state; it ided, however, that the multiple to shall assess mining property and the e applied to net proceeds for the culc what portion should bo kept from familiar with the plan which has been Hauling, of rock to the upper and of determining such value, the jurors. Judge Pratt then excused I determined on to be property of public utilities, and equal- purpose was of the dam lower faces started presented to the be 26-2- 8 I by the legislature at the jurors and listened to arguments changed may ize ' and assession of the legislature. In adjust the valuation and in December, and will be continued ,'i , time subsequent to the sixth year on the objection of defense council. I addition to the any sessment of sev the evidence property among documentary .'jr throughout the winter months, two oral counties. It shall have such other after the adoption of this amendment, At the conclusion of the arguments I already received, the convention was shovels being used in this work. elected CHICAGO, Jan. 30. Sponsored by powers of all ;n' members the of the matter was taken under advise-- addressed by Senator George II. original assessment as the to each of the two houses Ryan, Excavation of the stoped cutoff wall the American Farm Bureau federain I and voting decision a nient be will may provide. It shall, ungiven chairman of th legislative under the spillway . structure was tion, the first national water users' legislature ? der such regulations as the legislature favor thereof. All other mines or when the court reconvenes Thursday committee; by Representativeadvisory S. M. i 26 be held . will minconference in started early other valuable February and December, and work claims, mining I morning. may prescribe, establish systems of and Rosco Hammond, sec- Jorgensen contain-nV'j g carried on during the rest of the to 28 at Keno, Nevada, M. S. Winder, accounting, lands eral dt posits, including review proposed bond isThe jurors selected to try the case rotary of the Utah tax commission, shall be ascoal or month. This wall is to make a cutoff executive secretary of the organiza- sues, revise the tax levies and all well known business men of I The address of Senator Ryan went are f budgets for any water seepage through the tion announced here today. of local tax units, and equalize valua sessed as other tangible property. All the city and country. They are Ben I into detail and and the explained why dam under the spillway, and will be Problems of conservation and dls lions within the counties. The duties machinery used in mining and all Lyon, Robert Smith, I wherefore of the proposed constitu-(itorg- e carried into the hillside to meet with tribution of water are so vital to imposed upon the state board of property or surface improvements up- Oppman, George II. I W. Dunn, Janies tional mison, amendments, and in the roundsolid rock. thousands of farmers in more than equalization in section 4 of this arti- on, or appurtenant to, mines or mining er ilson, Alex S. V. Grow, I table discussion which followed, Lindstrom, value surface of claims and the any Concreting on the spillway struc- eleven of our great western agricul- cle shall be performed by the Mate Russell, Peter llorup and I I suns were brought and examples cited use made of mining claims or mining ture was carried on during the month, tural states that we well realize that tax commission. S. Garrison. Albert Burt ia the thir-- 1 for submitting tho many changes ' for other than mining Ithe work being protected by steam such a conference is extremely timely In each county of this state there iroperty, and teenth alternate tanjuror. shall be assessed as other sought in tlie tax laws. lines and canvas. Concreting .opera- and can not be delayed if something shall be a county board of equalizaI T11 defendants J.n the case do not S' Before adjourning, the editors tions were suspended near the end of is to be accomplished for their bene-ii- t, tion consisting of the board of county gible property. Ten pcrcentum of the i I and levied taxes annunl but in I1 upon said inproperty Winder Mi. they a resolution explaining commissioners of said county. The ihey unanimously passed tbs month, and will not be resumed all mineral resources, will claim that the killing was in self- - Horsing a program of reclassification until warmer weather in the spring. the farm bureaus move of assistance. county boards of equalization shall ad- collected from defense. ncluding coal and 0f property for taxation purpose! to The main reason that the farm The contractor employed an averjust and equalize the valuation of the shall be paid by the several funds and Die end that wealth now escaping as- this conference, is bureau . sponsoring age daily number of 144 men and he said, is to give fanners in the real and' personal property within taxing units sharing in such taxes, scnool fund, and the stale district I sesstnent may hear its just proportion their to respective counties, subject eight head of stock on this wrk, hav- vast nto an endowment fund, the interest school fund levy shall lie reduced ac-- 1 of the tax burden. districts an opportun such regulation irrigated and control the 110 men by on the work the last of ing of which only shall be used for school cording to the amount of revenue to discuss their problems; to es- state tax commission as vau It r.ihum December as compared with 183 on ity may be pre- purposes in such manner as the legis- which t. received from inmutual of contact tablish points scribed by law. The stats tax com- lature the first of the month. Work during may provide. I wed C. A. terest and agreement and to assist the county - boards of Epperson, of The Ogden January will be confined largely to them in finding practical solutions for mission andshall 7. All corporations or perSection Section 15. The legislature shall Post and each have such other Weekly equalization Reflex, of Kaysville. the continuation of. the stoped cutoff business in or this state, doing , owers as may be prescribed by the sons h'u wall excavation' and the placing of their problems." , herein, Bhall be subject to taxation Features of the sessions will be egislature. rock fill in the dam. . . for state, county, school, municipal, authornational The secretary of state is directe by famous The Union Pacific company com- addresses purposes, on the tangible ities on 'various phases of irrigation, to cause this proposed amendment to or other not was c eccc pleted the fencing of its right of way who will present their iews, looking be exempt under this con- may by law vest in the corporate au-- 1 property as required by the conpublished I withthem used and completed all work in connecowned or thoritiea by State Representative Grace A. thereof, respectively, the iroward solutions of problems that con- stitution and to be submitted to the stitution, tion with the relocation of the Park front user in the coun- electors Of the state at the next gen- in the territorial limits of the author power to levy and collect taxes for all I Cooper, late of the watey every levying the tax. City and Grass Creek lines outside purposes of such corporation, subject Price, was secretary treas-t- o try. Among the oustanding figures eral election in the manner providec ity Section such powers of regulation as thelurer. the reservoir area. All 8. in the by law. intangible property who will speak and take part may confer upon the .Ut. The Heiselt Construction' company conference are Dr. Elwood Mead, chie: A future of tho convention, which may be taxed or exempted from taxaIf the electors of the exI approved by commiMion. such to and manner such in tion U continued operations on the clearing of the reclamation service of the tho way wu one of tho mott uc. by Section lo. Nothing In this of the reservoir site with a force of S. department' of the interior; W. I state, this proposed amendment shal tent as the legislature shall provide. winter sessions in the history effect on the 1st day of January, stitution shall be construed to prevent of the organization, was conferring this fourteen men and four head of stock. Chapline, in charge of research for the take within All 9. Section persons 1931. state having taxable ability shall be the legislature from levying such spe- - by President C. A. Epperson of life Piling and burning of the brush and U. S. forest service; Professor Willogs was the work accomplished. liam Peterson, director of extension, required by law to pay a direct tax cial taxes as may be deemed necessary memberships in the association on The to provide revenues for the state, nor Mr. and Mrs. W. E. resolution, Professor following proposing based upon income. Work on the construction of the Utah Agricultural college; Traughber, of Og-t-o 13 of the state con' to amend article S. U. prevent the legislature from includ-ldeWeber-Prov- o the of busiC. A. do department to 10. The Section Cooley diversion canal by S. right relating to revenue and tax- ness fur profit within this state may ing in any income subject to tax, in Newell A Co. of Portland, Ore., of agriculture and many other author- stitution, Traughber, who is Ogden tax based upon or measured by was inintroduced in the house o:! be taxed as the ation, of various special ities on subjects wll be 'started early in the spring, legislature shall pro- any I .for The Tribune, and respondent income on the from committee the income, aL lam representatives by property vide. and moving of equipment onto the terest to residents of the public have been actively I Traughber wil revenue and taxation Wednesday: Section 11. All corporations doing ready taxed as such, or exempted from job and erection of camp will be start- states. Details of the program Ln. newPaper work for many taxation as under 13 this property It is proposed to amend article ba announced soon, it was assured. business for profit within this state ed some time in e ,fe memberships were February or March. stitution, or under any law cnucted yea o:! the state of constitution of the be shall who insurance leaders bureau farm corporations the I conrrc1 except ho" ot todr lengthy Among nor to the thereto; prevent will participate in the program are .Utah as follows: required by law to pay a business ex- pursuant nd to editorial work, loyalty from applying to any .tax Section 1. The legislature shal cise tax based upon the net income of legislature r L E. Freudenthal, president of the his Joumal-gressistated based Traughber 1 income, pro-upon graduated, I mtic career in 1883 New Mexico farm bureau,1 chairman provide by law for an annual tax suf- such corporation from business done Pilot at Grove, rates. of the committee in charge of the con- ficient with other sources of revenue within this state. Insurance corporaSection 17. Until ladoana ? otherwise to law of to be shall tions ex pay required by defray the estimated ordinary ference; J. D. ,Yeaker, president state! u?5c5jrun J18 j?er- - n The International Fox and Fur the Nevada farm bureau; R. W. Black- penses of the state for each fisca' a business tax based upon their net vided by law, there shall be a Breeders' association will hold their burn, president of the California farm year. For the purpose of paying the premiums received from business writ- tax commission consisting of four Trfnfdff "ksp Cam 1?1-ihmembers; not more than two of whom annual February meeting at the Hotel bureau; Ephraim Bergeson,. president state debt, if any there be, the legis- ten within this state. shall to same the belong Cheslature shall provide for levying a tax political Section 12. The rate of taxation Bannock, Pocatello, Idaho, February of the Utah state farm bureau; ned. Th Salt Lak pip? and whose tenure of office shall 8, 1930, at 10:30 a. m. There will also ter II. Gray, legislative representative sufficient to pay the interest annually for all purposes on intangible prop- party, tor twenty years ?,taff provided by the legislature. The a Farm Bureau- federa- and to pay the principal of such deb erty shall not exceed 5 mills on each be an afternoon and editor until two session, and every of the American c,y members of the tax commission shall within twenty years .from the finar dollar of the true value thereof. The fox and fur breeder is took over Ogden wen years to at- tion, who is recognized at Washington be urged the appointed governor, by by as the official spokesman for agricul- passage of the law creating the debt. rate of taxation on tangible property with the consent tend this meeting. I correBPntence of the senate, and Section 2. No appropriation ahab for state purposes shall not exceed ture; M. S. Winder, executive secrethe governor shall, within fifteen days I Mrs. Traughber received her first . The speakers on the program will be made, or any expense authorized, on each dollar of valuation: farm bureau, American of the tary I jnclude Mr. Roy Newport, of Portland, and milla for after the convening of the legislature, I newspaper work in the late nineties (a) Two and four-tentmany other leaders in the nations by the legislature whereby the expen to submit the senate for Oregon, and Mr. Roy Buck, of Moyie confirmation, on the Paducah, Ky., diture of the state during any fisca' general state purposes; names the there-- 1 working with Irvin S. Cobb, who was of suitable Springs, Idaho, who will discuss im- agricultural development. persons then tax exceed shall the for mill total of one (b) The New Mexico Farm Bureau year for. The duty of the state tax com-- 1 then managing editor and had not portant matters concerning a northto and for law, school and by provided applicable the fund, high conference, I mission shall be: yet achieved fame as an author. She, western combined effort to promote president in discussing the (c) Such levy for the state disas a such appropriation or expendituresL farmers declared tne fox and fur that to later joined The Tribunes staff, irrigation Die legislature making such ap- trict school fund, which together with and an an--n To assess the mines unless of industry property I as society editor for eleven ox kw at Portland, Oregon. class' have had few. or no opportuni propriation shall provide for raisin) the interest on the to and school utilities, adjust and equalize I rv,ng unt There are many problems to come ties in recent years to consider in a funds therefor by the imposition o fund, and such otherpermanent valuations taking up residence in to the as and ycari revenue stale throughout may the fur breeders, among which broad way the difficulties - and prob- any tax authorized by this constitu be provided for this purpose by the adminster and supervise the tax laws I Ogden, lems pertaining to their particular tion suffeiient to ' the raised assessed value of foxes. pay such appropria- legislature, will raise annually an of the state. The legislature may au-- 1 type of agriculture. That is why the tion or expenditure within such fisca' amount to $30.00 for each per- thorize the state tax commission to Farm Bureau felt that it was impera- year. This provision shall not apply son of equal school age in the state, as assess other property for taxation, tive to call this conference without to bond issues, or to appropriations shown last preceding school and to review proposed bond issues of the by delay," be pointed out. or expenditures to suppress insurrec- census. taxing units, and to review and corThe first national water users' tions, defend the state, or assist in Said rates shall not be exceeded rect tax levies, budgets and expend!-- 1 The regular weekly luncheon of tures of taxing units. The state tax under the leadership defending the United- States in time except upon the vote of The United States civil service com- conference, of the Ogden Rotary club was held shall have and exercise all the members of each house of the the Farm Bureau, will give fanners of war. I mission announces the following open and at the Hotel Bigelow. The users and such other duties as water thereof. in Wednesday of in favor powers the legislature voting may I Section 3. All property representatives competitive examinations: be was David H. Mad- law. in shall assist principal school to fund speaker district The laws an state of prescribed by the under not state opportunity exempt I ren, former state fish and Junior forester, $2,000 to $2,500 a groups 18. accurate account Section of An follows: conin favor game com-be distributed as a sentiment the United States, or under this year, forest and Indian services and crystallizing the receipts and expenditures of missioner, and now superintendent of An amount equal to $25.00 for solutions of their prob- stitution, shall be subject to taxation. constructive bureau of biological I Section 4. The property of the each person of school age shall be dis- the public moneys shall be published toe federal game refuge being built in lems. Because service, with the fullsurvey. Bear river marshes. A. P. toJ"10r range examiner, $2,000 to est cooperation and coordinated effi- United States, of the state, counties, tributed among the several school dis- annually in such manner as the legis-- 1 I the elow a year forest service. introduced Mr. Madsen, and! told municAmerischool may provide. populatricts, according to the cities, towns, school districts, ciency is the watchword of the ut Ammunition clerk, $1,620 a year; can Farm Bureau federation, we be- ipal corporations and public libraries, tion therein, as shown by the last pre Section 19. The making of profit I f his work in the fish and game I state. Mr. of the partment to or of the Bigelow public moneys, chief of ordnance, war lieve that something constructive will lots with the buildings thereon use ceding school census. The balance of using . River Washington, D. C. At be accomplished in Reno, Feb. 26 to exclusively for either religious wor said fund shall be distributed among same for any purpose not authorized I Duck spoke regardingthatthe Bear club had east two years of supervisory expe- 28." club, saying the be shall the school of public an districts officer, by any law, by several the charitable or purposes, ship, rience in the used manner as the legislature deemed a felony, and shall be pun-- 1 t aside 3000 acres as a game refuge, receiving, checking, stor-The general meeting to consider the places of burial, not held or shall for state in such ished as provided by law, but part of on which no shooting is permitted, be may provide. of ammunition. problems of irrigation farmers, as private or corporate benefit, pfP maintenance such tax 13. Each Section Water punishment shall be disqualif ica- - I anl that it had expended half as much taxation. by 5 imposed rights (monotype ' keyboard step in the American Farm exempt from be tion to hold public office. monejr as the government has on the shall an constitution law under this to $1.15 an hoar; proof another reservoirs, canals, ditches, pipes I work in the marshes. federations constant program Mr. Madsen The state is of businesses all to hereby uniform secretary as er 8110 an hour, with extra pay Bureau persons, flumes, power plants, pumping plants I plained the work of the of service to agriculture, was arrang- and submit sub- to this usee building of or same class owned of the proposed transmission and. lines, overproperty or Sunday, holiday, I th Bear river game ed by a committee appointed b7 Sam on which to of the electors the state amendment no for of refuge and of-aor ir individuals any n provision fiHL 50rJt Government Printing corporations Set thereto; any such EL Thompson, president of the or- by is miking an initial next government election in the the (the at tax general own' the within lands state, relating imposing D. C. rigating hingtonf I expenditure of $350,000. He also ed by such individuals or corporations, to rates of taxation or to any offset, manner provided by law. te s except Maryland, Vir-on- t. ganization. meettated that three-fiftthe of the work dec3. in Section shall If the conducting Assistance adopted by or the individual members thereof, deduction or exemption thereof Delaware and the the two first Uniunits been fin-tahad the volunteered shall exthis amendment the tors fJJ. of by once been as be established has state, when taxed be not shall changed long separately have received less ing ished. of chamber Reno 1931." effect of all January 1, as they shall be owned and used ex- cept upon vote of share of appointments in the ap- versity of Nevada, and other groups. i The members of each house of the legiscommerce President' Ernest L. Ford presided such for purposes, clusively portioned departmental at service G at the meeting, and Secretary Eugene case divorce Loretta of In be re- lature voting in favor thereof. the be who win taxes of the states may poor indigent the Khi n?ton' D Among Section 14. The proceeds of any Olsen against Theodore W. Olsen the E. Carr presented a letter from Dr. Firw mitted, or abated, at such times and et the conference by .mfortnation may be obtained Aribased upon or measured by in- defendant has been ordered to show S. U. Knudaon inviting Rotarians to in are tax be such as manner others and provided R- may leaders Ward, secretary of the Bureau . the proand come, or any tax levied on intangible cause nhy be should not nay alimony send their boys on a European trip legislature may Stotes civil service board of zona, California, Colorado, Idaho, bp law, Oretaxation vide for from the New property or the right to do business, and attorneys fees. He has been or- this summer as guests of the EuroMexico, exemption Montana, Nevada, 7lncr8,at the post office or pean Rotarians. W and of homes, and homesteads, personal shall be applied to tho state district dered to appear February 1. yoming. in this city. gon. Utah, Washington legislative Bodies Meeting to Consider Taxing Problems; Two Important Uesolutions Introduced at Wednesdays Session: One Creates Tax Commission and Other Amends tution Changing Property Taxed hold BY UTAH PRESS lx-g- an r I hem-fitte- i edi-Ri- ch ? con-perso- ns i 4-- Conference of Water Users to Be Held at he V Reno February two-thir- ds 1 f hydro-carbo- , ns , rea-Jam- cs Mi pur-iobo- s, - hydro-carbon- s, ts. hast vice-preside- Newa-Advocat- e, con-lcessf- ul n. nu con-rna,r- ed Fox Breeding Assn To Meet Next Month ve e eLro "W tte - hs News-Democr- at, Two-tent- hs - : ror Government to Hold Examinations two-thir- meet-commissi- ds on of Big-latu- re de-o- 1 ,.vIer E oper-81.0- . - hs Dis-Colum- bia ke two-thir- ds rep-resent- cus-Mmhc- ue ed |