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Show STANDARD If I Roosevelt, Utah 1968 June 27, Thursday, Phone company seeking more revenue request by the Mountain States Telephone Co. for a review of its earnings In Utah A ed and expanded telephone services at increasingly higher costs. S has also experienced increased costs in acquiring new capital for expansion of telephone facilities and substantial Increases in wage costs and taxes. The application noted; "The present schedule of rates and charges for intrastate telephone services now produces earnings which are Inadequate to sustain continued service expansion and Improvement and to provide a fair and reasonable with an explanation of the need return." for improvement in revenues Increases in taxes from $6.0 was filed today with the Public million in 1958 to $12.9 milService Commission. lion in 1967 were cited. There The application was presentwere 288,000 telephones in Utah ed by Eric C. Aaberg, Teleat the beginning of 1958 and phone Company Vice President 478,000 at the beginning of this and General Manager. It stresyear. However, the investment revsed a need for additional per telephone in Utah has climenue if the company is to conbed from $298 to $437. Antinue providing progressive nual wage payments have inand telephone service required creased nearly $8 million since expected by the people of Utah. 1958. Aaberg said telephone rates Construction expenditures of were last raised in 19S8. Sinthe company in the state during rates ce early 1962, telephone in Utah have been reduced by the past ten years were $168 This included a million, ranging between $13 $1,270,000. million and $21 million per 25? per month decrease in residential rates, lower charges year. Aaberg said the extent for long distance calls within of future construction and improvement of facilities depends the state and removal of on the firms ability to acquire metrocharges within new capital. Salt Lake. politan Complete conversion of local In addition there has been offices to dial and telephone some of elimination a complete toll charges by expanding local other modernization gains were given as reason the company calling areas. The application asks the has been able to continue to Commission to consider the keep pace with the growth and communication requirements value of the companys propthe area during the past erty in the state and establish of ten years without increasing a fair rate of return to be aprates. plied to that valuation. It was pointed out there has rate Since the last general increase ten years ago, Aaberg been a leveling off of the opportunities for Increased econ- said the company has improv Whats new in hospital by all government units, school, county, cities and towns, and special districts amounted to a whopping $907,365. These figures were released today by the Utah Taxpayers Association, a nonprofit, government spending watchdog organization. "The school property tax bite for the whole state last year was $87,383,869, or 64ofthe$131- - claimed the 868,556 total, Utah Taxpayers Association. They said, "That since 1960, while pupils in average daily attendance have Increased 28, from 216,317 to 277,590, school property taxes have Jumped 46 from $57,793,140 to $84,383,-86- 9. INSURANCE COVERAGE Myton, BELTONE Hearing Aid. Good., shape. Cost $350, will sell foi J $50. Call Neola G. Warren. 353-435- 3, fact. MEDI- - cafH O Real Theron Leavitt 721 East Highway 40 - Roosevelt 722-24- Estate STATE FARM Fire and Castutty Conpny WMiaetl Hmm Officii llliMlsVi jJ Milinto,, Du-ches- lo- 5 ACRES 722-313- 2, HINDER GUITAR and OF GROUND, modern home. Call Lucy Edwards. 6-- ampH-fli- 1 3-- r, complete outfit, $9 down, $8 . per month. ProgreaMvn Muaie Studios. Phone 723 1892. 4 tp house FARM. with bath. Full water rights. GI loan, good location. Phone 353-457- 4. FOR SALE shout 200 tons good corn silage in Pleasant Valley $8.00 per ton. Write or phone Howard D. Roberts, 56 Gordon Place, Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone 355-495- 7. QUARTER HORSE GELDING. Lee's Senator No. 345340; Sire, Senator Lee No. P68670. Dam, Poco Push No. 190594. 7 or Phone 722-286- 722-816- 0. - Roosevelt S SINGER Sales and Service. Repairs for all makes. Singer Co. 2109 So. 11th East Salt Lake City, Utah, or call Dee Pacheco, at Roosevelt Hotel, O For Rent 722-333- 1. PASTURE FOR UP to 30 head of cattle for the summer. Call dandelions, weeds, ground sterilizer, field or homes. Call Lapoint. Vernal. See Carl NICELY FURNISHED house, Oldaker. suitable for a couple. Gas ELECTRICAL REPAIRS: wirheat. Phone ing, maintenance, commercial industrial and residential Licensed contractor. Call ColOFFICE, located on Lagoon in Murdock. Phone St, Roosevelt. Ideal for professional office. Contact Floyd 2. Wilkerson. Phone FARMERS A RANCHERS For your earthmoving problems, pond building, land leveling, plowing, planing, rotovatlng, rock picking, call HELP WANTED Lyn Miller. Phone or REGISTERED NURSES, fuM time or part time, Duchesne "fcAN EARN $3 and up per County Hospital, Roosevelt hour as a Rawleigh Dealer, Phone in Roosevelt. full or part-tim- e For details write Rawleigh's. MANAGE YOUR own busi-ne1415 23rd SL. Denver, Colo., by becoming a Texaco 80205. Service Station dealer. If incontact Don I. terested, Davis, LIVE a FULLER Life. Vernal. Phone earn $13 an hour and still have time for fun. Help us service established Fuller Brush routes. Choose your hours, three days a week or six. Three hours a day or 6. 10. For details call BACKHOE trenching, front and evenings. mornings end loader, diesel loader, earth moving, dump truck REPAIR all small engines and and general trucking. Phone some appliances. Also WisNebeker Store, consin and Briggs and Stratton dealers. See at All-CParts. Roosevelt. FOR SALE OR TRADE PROPERTY IN VERNAL for property in or near Roosevelt. Two homes, both basement have apartments with both 1 apartment house. Will hcrept trailer house, car, or livestock as down payment. Call Orvel Hulllnger. Phone Vernal, or phone 5 during weekdays from 8 until 5 p.m. 789-202- 6, 722-247- 247-342- 6, 789-005- 9, HOME at 7th E. 1st N., Roosevelt. Write N. Grandon Allred, 395 N. 2nd E Spanish Fork, Utah. 722-S16- O Miscellaneous 722-277- 1. 722-303- 9. 72Z-278- 7, 722-287- 2. 722-244- 8. ss Stu-den- ts 789-335- 5. 6 Work Wanted 545-737- 1963 10'x50 Detroiter Trailer.. Lived in one year. Like new. Must see to appreciate. Contact Glade Davis, Neola. Call 722-321- 1. 353-455- 4. CHEVROLET with Camper. Will take older truck or car for equity. Phone tp ANYONE INTERESTED in Kirby vacuum, call Dee PaRoosevelt checo, T67 1967 Viataliner 353-457- 4. 722-333- 1, . GREEN forage choppci. PTO drive, cut, $400. Also, good milk cow. Phone or see John Wills. ot 722-212- 2, 840 FOUR UNITS (2 Duplexes I. 2 double garages. Gross income $325.00 month. Property located near shopping center, Victorville. California. Will sell $35,000 rash or will tiade for property in or around Roosevelt. Contact Bill Beavers. P.O. Box 157. Vernal. 300 TONS OF FIRST crop alUtah. falfa hay. Must be good qualGREAT WESTERN ity. Also 300 tons corn silage REAL ESTATE to be delivered at Bluebell. charming Large Write Vic Brown, Fort Duhome. Den. Gill basement. Double lot. Garage. $20,000. chesne. Utah, or phone 80 seres. Variety of fruit, crossed fenced. Home. Ready to go. $16,500. 100 acres with Indian Water. Lai ge home with personality. $26,900. 240 acres. Newly planted. Com- ' plctely fenced with good woven wire. Home, corrals, Indian Water. Tractor plus. LIFE FIRE $22,000. AUTO CROP HAIL Grant M. Gerber, Broker Roosevelt. Utah. Box 437 Phones: DEISEL tractor and JOHN d. price, $7,000. Roberta. Phone Deere carry-a- ll Howard D. 949-660- 5. THREE - BEDROOM Home, with half basement. Excellent location, dose to Elementary school. Contact Doyle Murdock, Government Trailer 515, Duchesne. 11, 1968. Notice Budget on the A public hearing Budget of the Duchesne County School District for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1968, and ending June 30, 1969, will be held at the Board of Education Office, Duchesne, Utah, Thursday, June 27, 1968, at 7:00 o'clock p.m. The tentative budget is now on file in the office for inspection. Also, a public hearing on the revision and adoption for the revised budget for the fiscal vear of 1967-6- 8 ending June 30, 1968, will be held at 7:15 p.m. June 27, 1968. By order of the Board of Education of the Duchesne County School District. C. C. MICKELSON. er Published in the Uintah Basin Standard June 20 and 27, 1068. Rest Assured You're Best Insured with Joe Malnar f 722-808- 3. 722-249- 2. 722-316- 4 Farmers' Union Insurance lit DON'S T.V. Phone 722-202- ?. SERVICE 3 Ren. 333-449- Church Services WOUU SUNDAY Sheriff's Sale To be sold at Sheriff's sale on the Sth day of July, 1968, at Czar Rudy's residence In Roosevelt, County of Duchesne, State of Utah, at 2 p.m. the following described vehicle: Cor-va1961 Chevrolet servtrea spewMKd by the Rooseretf Baptist Church wIB be beU tl the Americas Legion Hal y B DickHee ui 8:11 Sunday School ad 19:18 a.m. each Kaday. 10-5-u-m ir. Serial No. 8835976 Dated and Issued at Duchesne County of Duchesne, State of Utah this 21st day of June, 1968. George Marett Duchesne County Sherlfl Published June 27 and July 4, 1968. I. & L INSURE YOCRR SUBS nil Lawrell Jensen INSURANCE AGENCY Res. 721-337- 3 Office Aftotor Company "Your One-Sto- Car Service p Roosevelt, Utah 722-223- 3 Furnaces Q Wanted 722-323- 2. Drive In today . . . and deal mostly your way! NOTICE ar O Legal Notices ! more than they do right now! Coleman Gas Clerk-Treasur- TRADE-INS- ... and they will never be worth any O Legal Notices 353-438- ' has been EXPANDED to 1 SALE OF OIL AND GA8 MINING LEA8ES TRIBAL INDIAN LANDS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, UINTAH AND OURAY AGENCY. Fort Duchesne, Utah 84026 SEALED BIDS will be received until 2:00 P.M., Mountain Daylight Saving Time, July 23, 1968, and opened at that time in the office of the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah, for leasing of 74 tracts of tribal land 39,787.61 acres, containing more or less, Townships 4 and 5 South, Ranges 6, 7 and 8 West, Uinta meridian, Duchesne County, Utah, for oil and gas mining purposes. Details of the lease opening and how and where to file bids may be obtained by addressing an inquiry to the Superintendent, Uintah and Ouray Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah 84028. Published in the Uintah Basin Standard June 27, July 4 and CUSTOM SPRAYING, insects, 738-530- 2. AT OUR MUSIC 8TORR FOR SALE OS RENT Musical Instruments. ail types! (Trade-i- n Allowance) RECORDS - MUSIC SMITH'S MUSIC CENTER 7 Gusher - Phone Rooeevelt - Phone 722-22- 722-SS6- 722-2x3- Mercuries WE NEED GOOD USED UNITS Phone 27-lt- 353-434- 7. HOME in Large yard, good cation. Phone O For Sale - 722-21- modern home 100x190 lot with garden spot. (Roosevelt). Curb and gutter In, oiled street. Phone Miss Joyce Leavitt, presentas Miss U.B.I.C., will compete for the title of Miss Utah at the Miss Utah Scholarship pageant at Clearfield high school June 27, 28 and 29. Registration and orientation will be on Thursday with talent competition, swim suit and evening gown presentations on Friday. The finals will be on TV channel 5 at 9 p.m. Saturday. Miss Leavitt is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Leavitt, She graduated from Neola. Union school as an honor student and was a cheerleader and a state FHA officer. She has. been a student at Utah State' University during the past year. ly reigning Phone news items to BIG LOT to handle more of Miss Utah 722-262- 5. INSURANCE For Sale seek title Tal-mag- M. A. HARRISON Ls L & Miss UBIC to ation." 0 THE LOTS FULL OF NEW FORD CARS AND TRUCKS AT TREMENDOUS SAVINGS! JOYCE LEAVITT . . . enters Miss Utah competition. ONE JOHN DEERE PTO shaft e. bet wen Roosevelt and If found, contact Basin Implement A Tire Co., or Fred Tew, Talmage. REWARD! German Shepherd dog. Grey, answers to the name of "Charley". Childrens pet If found call p Timothy Trailer Court Including HOMEOWNERS FIRE A THEFT AUTO COLLISION LIABILITY LIFE AND A A H 722-314- 2. Galaxies Mustangs Cougars O Lost FOR COMPLETE FIRST CROP HAY, $18 per ton. Call Gladeys Dait, Phone on any car on the lot This Weeki tour Printing Needs GOOD a policy from $5,312,260 to $10,995,658 In addition to property taxes, individual and corporate income taxes, schools spend part of the sales and cigarette tax revenues. The association claimed that "Skyrocketing school taxes can only be controlled by taxpayers exercising their responsibilities and taking an active part in the budgetmaking process. June is when school public budget hearings are advertised and held. This is when taxpayers must appear to ask questions and protest and this is the only way to check spiraling school spending and crippling tax- Jack A. Olson, the Associations Executive Secretary claimed, "tt is a waste of time for citizens to pack county commission chambers and harrass commissioners for extravagant budget requests and higher Other school taxes have also taxes only to allow a school shot up in the period between budget five times larger to pass by default without a single cit1960 and 1967. Individual inizen appearing to protest, or come tax collections have skyrocketed 229, from $12,219,-10- 3, question Increases. This does not make sense." to $40,197,094. CorporUTA declared, "Schools ate Income taxes jumped 107, belong to the citizens not to the administrators and school ofomles to be brought about by ficials. The citizens pay the such Improvements. bill and they have every right The company requested the to know where and how their Commission to schedule a hearis being spent. They have money ing to consider a fair and reasthe responsibility to become Inonable return on Investment in formed, to participate and ask the present economy. questions, to determine if their schools are being operated efran ficiently and economically and are free of waste and costly UINTAH BASIN STANDARD duplication. 353-450- 8. Costs pennlit. Phone property taxes charged PRACTICALLY New Kirby, with most attachments. Call that pays you cash. Use It for rent, food, anything. for Duchesne County schools in 1967 accounted for $605,735 or 67 of all property taxes charged in the county. Total O For Sale insurance? STATE FARM With 7T Tax survey shows connty schools using 67 of total county revenue 122-241- 7 POST OFFICE BUILDING BssssvsH, Clah LICENSED, BONDED, INSURED FOR GAS INSTALLATION! Pink's 122-293- 722-336- 1, 6 - Roosevelt Notice To Contractors Separate, sealed bids for a type Waste Water Treatment Plant, Outfall Line Ingoon 6 Collection Lines F.W.P.C.A. Project No. W.C.P.-Utah-9- 0 and E.D.A. Projects No. will and No. be received by the City Council of Duchesne, Duchesne, Utah, at the City Offices, Zipcodc 84201 until 10:00 A.M. (Moun- tain Daylight Savings Time) on June 27, 1968, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud. Contract documents, plans, profiles and specifications may be obtained at the Duchesne City Hall, Duchesne, Utah, upon payment of $25.00 for each set. Any unsuccessful bidder, upon returning such specifications in good condition within 7 days after the contract Is let will be refunded $25.u' r, Any including supplier. upon returning such sets of specifications within 7 days after the contract is let will be refunded $15.00 per set. Extra copies of the specifications may be obtained at $25.00 per set non-r- e fundable. The owner, Duchesne City, reserves the right to waive any Informalities or to reject any and all bids. in employment will be required on this work, and the bidder will be required to comply with the provisions of the President's Executive orders. The lequirement for bidder and contractors under the Executive Orders minimum wage rate and other compliances are explained in the specifications and accompanying documents. Each bidder must deposit with his bid, security in the amount and form specified and subject to conditions provided in the information for bidders, specifications and accompanying documents. Attention of bidders Is particularly called to the requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid under the contract. No bidder may withdraw his bid within 60 days after actual date of the opening thereof. Each bid shall be placed In a sealed envelope plainly marked with the number of the project and the name of the town. The envelope shall non-bidde- Million-Dollu- Losses r NEW YORK The Insurance Information Institute reports that there were 15 catastrophes in the United Slates in 1966 which caused $1 million or more each in insured property losses. The greatest damage was done by tornadoes and winds which struck Kansas in June, causing in one day $58 million in insured losses. FISHING BOAT and MOTOR $225 TROLLING MOTORS 4 II.PV Nearly New $149 7 II.PH Used $50 4 H.P., MERC, New .... $175 BOAT SUPPLIES Reynolds Marine at Inquire REYNOLDS BARBER SHOP in Roosevelt Invitation for Bids Union High School will accept bids for the exchange of typewriters. Typewriters to be exchanged Include 13 manual and one electric. Bids must Include service guarantee. Bids will be accepted until July 9, 1968, at 7:00 p.m. and will be opened at that time. The Union High School Board of Managers reserves the right to reject any and all bids. ROSANNE WYATT, Clerk-Treasur- er Dates of publication: June 20, 27, ad July 4, 1968. then be placed In a sealed envelope and forwarded to the address Indicated. The forwarding envelope shall also be plainly marked as to the project number and the town. By order of the City Council of Duchesne. Clifton Mlckdaon, Mayor Duchesne City First publication June 5, 1968. Last publication June 26, 1968. GUARANTEED REPAIR WORK Make uw of our exprrt workmaiMhip! WE ARK EQUIPPED TO TAKE CAKE OF ALL Small Gasoline Engines ALSO MOST Household Appliances Parts All-C- ar Phone 7&2-259- 1 - Rooaevelt |