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Show Page Eight FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972 Taxpayers Association Reveals State Has 392 Government Units Ski Show Circuits Opened by Council A dozen American cities will feel the wallop of the Greatest THE SALT LAKE TIMES McGovern Panel on National Security Issues Complete Report Snow on Earth in the next two Exactly 392 units of Utah the states highest school levy, months. Headed by the Travel (Continued from page 1) government will extract from followed by 56.37 in Granite and Council, members of Utahs ski taxpayers $169,177,806 in prop- 56.13 in Beaver. Oil rich San industry began covering two termand compares Nixon Aderty taxes come this November, Juan has the states lowest, 32.6 general ski show circuits, begin- ministration plans for still a claimed the Utah Taxpayers As- mills. higher level of military spending Sept. 30 in St. Louis. for sociation. the future with the current The Utah Taxpayers Associa- ning Following St. Louis, the staff This was revealed this week tion said that of the 211 incor- members of the Travey Council spending practices. in the organization's annual com- porated cities and towns in the $78 billion means: $1,200 in will visit Omaha, Kansas taxes for each American family, prehensive report on property state, 16 increased their levies. Dallas, Fort Worth, Phoenix,City, Detax levies and estimated collec- 46 cut tax rates, most of which twice what federal, state and Boston and wind up in troit, tions for 1972. local were located in the 10 reap- New York City on Nov. 16. governments spend on thr This years load will be schools and high school re146 counties had and grade praised Along with the Utah Travel more than the $167,880,-36- 2 mained unchanged. Council will be representatives education, and eight times what 1971. that was charged in Cities with sharp increases are of ski resorts, motels the government and industry Association spokesmen said that Hyde Park, up 6 mills; Lewiston and airliens, in the Salt Lake City spend each year to clean up air not since 1956 have the property 5.5; Paragonah, 3.25; Riverton, area.hotels and water pollution. state owners of the experienced 4; Cedar Fort, 5; Washington, 6; Military procurement - or, the six cities are on the The such a small increase. Between and Riverdale, 4 mills. Logan FrontierfirstAirlines Ski Show buying patterns from military 1970 and 1971, the property tax City cut their levy 7 mills and In while the last six are industrialists are scored: Schedule dustries then to Delta cut 2.75. make the jumped $13.8 million. try on the Harry Leonard Expowin-te- r The small increase was the lowest bid so they can possible Ogden City still has the dis72 slates. mill a two factors: of 2.60 result tinction of having the highest In all cases the Travel Council win the contracts and once startcut in the State School Equaliza- levies in the state. Levies range ed both the military and the conportion of the shows include a tractor tion levy and the 6 per cent from 106 to over 121 mills. The both usually encounter probeach convention center in taxon variation is due to special im- filled with literature on skiing lems for which they do not plan growth ceiling imposed in Cost overruns and late delivten the ing jurisdictions provement districts in various in Utah. assaid are the inevitable conseeries the counties, parts of Ogden. The most important part of the sociation analysts. UTA spokesmen claim that shows will be behind the scenes quences. The 1972 school property tax even though the state school when Conversion of defense producthe Council members and tion will decrease $303,517 while the equalization levy was cut 2.60 to meet domestic needs is ski areas from representatives taxes towns cities and will go mills this year, from 7.20 to and downtown meet a crucial part of the McGovern properties Counties will counties home in $561,149. jump up 4.60, taxpayers with travel agents and ski edi- approach to national security. Districts and $268,865 Special will not receive the full benefit tors in each city to detail what Lives of many Americans have been and are directly affected of the drop. They say jumps in $815,112. to offer. All together there are levies some county and local school Utah has changes in federal spending Ski shows are part of the pro- by for more than 200 cities and levies will totally, or partially patterns. The McGovern panel towns, 40 school districts, and 29 cancel out the savings. In Weber motional effort of the Travel pledges that workers and comcounties. In addition, there are County for example property Council to encourage skiers to munities affected by scores of special levies for such owners taxes will be cut only come to Utah. This heavy conshould not be made in each city is part to bear the sole centration inas to off due abatement, .73 mills burden for cut mosquito things setting water improvement, cemeteries, creases in the county and mo- of the rifle effect of promotion backs in defense spending. Indiwe are pursuing, getting right viduals who lose their libraries, fire protection, and squito district levies. jobs must to the specific market rather be and school some Beaver income sewage disposal. In supCounty, provided The complexity and pyramid- county levy increases totally tman general promotion which port, continued health insurance wasted on uninterested and ing is one of the things which cancelled the 2.60 mill reduction might be portable pensions, until new makes it difficult for the tax- and increased the over all levy persons. jobs are found; the federal govinto understand ernment can create millions of property 7.64 mills. Similar offsetting payer are a of react The wings butterfly taxes and to new jobs in the public sector to intelligently, creases are to be found in Juab, said thet tax watchdog organi- Tooele, Sanpete, Sevier and made up of scales similar in part assure a successful conversion to those on a fish. zation. from military to peace time Uintah counties. The largest cuts in this years pursuits. levies occurred in the ten counThe report also charges waste ties which were recently reand inefficient spending in the valued by the State Tax Comareas of general purpose forces mission. The combined over all and military manpower. The levies for county the local school U. S. would continue, under a state school the and levy district, McGovern Administration, in its in Rich County was reduced 15.2 own interest, to be concerned (Continued from page 1) mills. This was the biggest cut. with the defense of other counIn Duchesne County the overall rison The airlines did it with among them the NATO Contests Initiated for tries levy dropped 14.01 from 67.99 248 fewer planes. allies, Israel, Japan, Australia, to 53.972 mills. Cuts in Wayne increased 14 Mine Claim Validity and New Zealand. American handling Freight and Wasatch County were over per cent so far this year, with contests of a of forces deployed in Europe must series first The 12 mills. Emery, Garfield, and the peak of business again in has been initiated by the Bureau be sufficient with those of our Kane Counties dropped over 11 August with some 4 million lbs. of Land Management Director NATO allies, to convince Warmills. in the handled valid- saw Pact nations beyond any to the of determine for Utah freight being On the low end of the scale Salt Lake terminal. ity of mining claims on oil shale doubt that any attempt to get a of the counties reapnraised MoAs to future developments of lands in Uintah County. quick military victory would rgan Countys overall levy dropcommissioner the Airport, the The first Utah oil shale area bring disastrous defeat. But the ped but 4.93 mills. In the North reported that he has told the contest United States vs. Merle job can be done just as well with Summit County School District airlines the city does not favor Zweifel, et al., was started Sept. fewer than the current 319,000 in Summit County, taxpayers development of the 25, 1972 and involves 75 placer man European deployment. Elsewill notice a 4.18 mill cut and piecemeal should airport to meet the increased de- mining claims on lands proposed where in the world, weexcessive R 74 in the South Summit School to an reduce mand. for a prototype oil shale leasing continue District. a the lease for The airport has program. Mr. Zweifels head-ter- s network of bases. In the 29 counties, other than 1000 term are in Shawnee, Oklahoma. short Regarding man power, the those reaopraised 8 increased the parking of about Oil shale lands have been panel criticazed the drastically least 300 long term users county purpose levies, 4 cut and and at air withdrawn from all forms of increased costs of manpower. terminal. at the 7 remained unchanged. The bigWe have an advantage at our mining claim location since Jan. In spite of a decline in mangest jump was in Tooele county no such 27, 1967 and any claims located power by almost one third of where the levy went uo 4.25 airport in that there isout or far park- after Jan. 27, 1967 are null and a million men from its 1964 mills, primarily for Debt Service thing as close in in. art-duvoid, according to the Bureau of level, the increased costs to build a new county court- ing its all close is a has which to a force grown bid in the Land Management for Utah. Any At present there house. that faso heavy assessment top more or exit excessively prospecting work The Weber County levy had process to develop nonor officer one now is at the parking and pas- work done on invalid claims on there jumped 1.85 mills and Uintah cilities loading faciliteeis which withdrawn lands is a trespass commissioned officer for every County 1.30. Salt Lake County senger increase the flow of the action against the United States, lower ranking enlisted person in reduced their levy 1.08 mills, would at and persons doing such work are the armed forces. There are more Utah County cut 1.50 mills, and traffic without a bottlncck colonels and naval captains toliable for damages. San Juan County, .40 mills, the either place. To be valid, claims located day for a force of some 2.3 milThe Salt Lake City Commisassociation claimed. at the prior to Jan. 27, 1967 must show lion men than there were for our Of the states 40 school dis- sion has obtained land World War II force of 12 million 12 that present airport facility for fu- a discovery of a valuable minthe 15, including trict, also Substantial com- men. were revalued, cut their levies, ture expansion and they are for eral deposit. assessment The national security panel work in the midst of a legal hassel pliance with 5 increased and 20 remained unasserts that the primary purbeen have to the west of the present requirements must changed. Beaver School District land nuclear forces of Americas accomplished in a timely man- pose with a 9.14 mill jump, had the facility for future expansion. war. Deternuclear The commission has planned ner, Mr. Nielson said. Initia- is to deter steepest increase followed by the U.S. have growth of tion or resumption of assessment rence requires that forces Jordan with a 1.78 mill increase. ahead for the future survivthe Salt Lake work on invalid claims cannot sufficient nuclear Tooele District cut 2 mills. Og- the air traffic in to to attack get ground change their invalid status and ing an enemy surprise den and Carbon also had slight Valley by trying in damage is generally destructive of sur- inflict unacceptable around the airport for the reductions. must be nation return. Every resources. face has mills 56.75 with Murray $1,-297,0- 00 s military-reduction- 'Dramatic Increase' in Airport Use Reported by Com. Harrison e Senator George McGovern made to know that launching an attack against the United States would be tantamont to committing national suicide. The report concludes that our deterrent is more than secure for the foreseeable future, citing as examples our 6000 strategic nuclear warheads which can be used to attack the Soviet Union, twice as many warheads as that of the Soviets, and the present Polaris Poseidon fleet of all 41 submaries with warheads to attack more than 3,000 separate targets in the Soviet Union. Criticized is the Nixon Administrations push for expensive, entirely new weapons systems, eevn before the possible future threats to our current weapons have emerged. Examples of imprudent spending were listed as the $1 billion to speed up building a new sub- marine Trident so that the first can go to sea in 1978, although the oldest Polaris submarine will then be only 18 years old, and the B- bomber, costing up to $50 million per plane. Panel members charge that this pace of development is imprudent, even in strictly military terms. Moreover, far from being needed as bargaining chips, they jeopardize future arms control prospects and endanger the stability of strategic balance by appearing as a threat to Soviet -l forces and as a U.S. escalation of the arms race. We need the military power to deter or repel attack on our shores or against the countries whose defense is essential to our interests. But we have that necessary military power in superabundance. We can retain it under a rational program which builds piece by piece to meet the real threats. The panel asserts that the time has come to begin a broadened and balanced approach towards the national security and national priorities. People who make up the upper crust are the ones who make the top dough. Present Utah Constitution Article VI - Legislative Branch Photo Copies available from TALENT, INC. 1418 East 3900 South, Salt Lake City. Utah 84117. Cost Including. Sales Tax, Postage and handling. $2.00. No CODS. |
