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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1975 Page Four Utah State Tax Commission May End Up In Court By Davis County the THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Late Mining & Legal News Published Every Friday at Salt Late City, Utah Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah 'll South West Temple Either we property er; Deputy Attorney Milton Hess values down 14 percent as pro- and a deputy attorney from the posed and strive to get a declar- State Attorney Generals Office. Palmer said the state law preatory judgment or take them to scribes that property evaluations court, based on unfairness. The them referred to in the must be put on the tax rolls the statement from Davis County year after reassessments are 4 Telephone Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 GLENN BJORNN, Publisher 'This publication is not owned or controlled by any party, clan, clique, faction or corporation. 364-846- Number Volume 55 1 5 move Commissioner Stanley M. Smoot were state tax commissioners, who have refused to accept a 14 percent reduction in assessed valuation announced by the Davis County Commission. The reduction was announced after numerous protests from taxpayers about increased valufrom ations made by state assessors (Continued page one) on their property some as high as a 1,000 percent increase. our great Nation. County Commissioners C. E. When is the Bicentennial It is already well under- Moss, Glenn Flint and Smoot several for met over thousand events been here have held and Tuesday for two hours way there are over 15,000 programs and events currently be- with State Tax Commission Chairman Vernon Holman and ing planned across the Nation. However, the focal point Tax Commissioner Paul Ford-hais Liberty Day July 4, 1970. Also present were Art PartLiberty Day 1970 is a Sunday. It should be a day ridge, director of reappraisals for each community to come together in their own way for the tax commission; Davis to celebrate the Bicentennial in a manner best suited to County Attorney J. Duffy Palm- - completed. The thing I urged, but didnt get any takers, was that increased taxes should not be imposed until next year since assessors really didnt complete our reevaluation until this year, he said. We think this would give our people a chance to be equalized with those in Weber County, he added. Both Cache and Davis County reappraisals were made according to a higher modifying factor than was used in Weber County 140, instead of 120. Palmer said he had been informed by Cache County At- io Report On The Nation's Bicentennial: One Year To Go GRftPEVINt Weekend flash flood washed out a 27 mile section of US 50-- 6 west of Hinckly in Millard County forcing motorist traveling between southwestern Utah and Nevada to detour 60 miles or more out of their way. The State Department of Transportation said the road struck by more than a dozen separate flesh floods would not be open to even one way traffic until sometime this week. Mountain Fuel Supply Company filed with the Public Service Commission for another rate increase in the cost of natural which will cost the average torney Bert Harris that Cache gas customer about $1 per Utah County also plans to sue the month. In the application to State Tax Commission. the Public Service Commission the company is asking some $10 million increase. Of that amount $8.5 million will affect Utah customers and the balance applying to Wyoming operations. their own location, means ad desires. As the bells peel across the Nation on that day, there will be an abundance of fireworks, padades and rhetoric in the finest traditions of our 4th of Julv. However, most communities are also laying plans to insure that July 4th will also be an occasion to lay the cornerstone for the third century. It to July 11. would be a most appropriate occasion to cut the ribbon mayor said the approved at a restoration site, dedicate your new museum, or un-- 1 scheduled for July 15 Harrison of The the pay raises passed at the but was later changed veil vour Bicentennial cornerstone. It is also a day of explained to July 10 to meet payroll dead- - hearing. Parts of the salary plan break ground tor a Bicentennial Project that will help Hines. The July io day con- - including those concerning the judges salaries were sponsored shape a better tomorrow so future generations can look back and always know that your community of today ing schedules and was changed by Harrison. cared about itself, about its Nation and the principles which we honor. The centerpiece of our Bicentennial will be in the action should be to find shelter because there may he seconds between life and death, says Fujita. In form of a beautiful mosaic of the many varied programs only a house or other building, the basement is first choice. and events initiated by the people of our great country. But avoid the cinderblock walls, which may collapse. Overlying all Bicentennial activities is a renewed ap- Even in a basement, one could take shelter beneath a preciation for the documents which have enabled our table for added saftv. Nation to become the oldest surviving democratic repubUniversity of Chicago Meteorologist Ed Pearl says lic on earth the Declaration of Independence, the Conthat the family bathroom is a good second choice for a stitution and the Bill of Bights. Most importantly, the Bicentennial is a time for refuge, particularly if it has no windows. The water serve to strengthen and reinforce the walls. Actuevery American to be proud of his flag and his home- pipes land. The Bicentennial is a time for every citizen to hold ally, any small interior room is good, especially in a high-ris- e building. his head high and sav in his own wav, I AM AN In the 74 tornado outbreak, more persons died in AMERICAN. rural than in city areas, and more children and women were killed than men. Although the kind of tornado disaster experienced Big last year may happen only once every 50 or 100 years, About a year ago, a nfassive outbreak of tornadoes there is a good possibility that a partial but equally severe area east of the outbreak could occur in any spring, anywhere. wrought devastation over a The Fujita survey is the most comprehensive overMississippi River. During the height of the outbreak, fifteen tornadoes were on the ground simultaneously in view of last springs super tornado outbreak. The survey the 13 states and Canada and more than 800 persons were is important, he explains, because understanding tornadoes is like understanding an animal . . . you must killed. With the cooperation of many residents and organ- know what drives it and how it will react. izations in the heart of the area, Professor of Meteorology T. Theodore Fujita and his colleagues at The University of Chicago conducted a survey and created a map which has provided new information on tornadoes and insight into ways of surviving them. With data complied from aerial ad ground surveys made shortly after the storms, Fujita and his researchers discovered that 74 percent of the fatalities occurred in houses and buildings, 17 percent in mobile homes, six percent in automobiles, and three percent occurred among Where thousands persons enroute to shelters. The study covered the states of listeners enjoy of Illinois. Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina. Virconcert music and New West and the and Canadian York, Virginia, ginia, news every day! Ontario. of province When vou know a tornado is coming, vour first Salt Lake Mayor Conrad Harrison Defends Absence Of Voting j i i The LEASED Blow 18-sta- te dial A contract to kick off a massive water quality improvement program for Salt Lake Valley was approved this week. In a meeting of the Salt Lake County Council of Governments the approval of the staffing of the federally funded program was made The two year study funded through an Environmental Protection Agency grant of $1.04 million is the first step in a plan for culinary and drainage water improvements in the valley along with land use planning in the canyons as related to water quality improvement. Twenty four of Utahs 40 school districts have completed salary negotiations for the 1975-7school term but five of the largest districts have not agreed to contracts. Granite, Salt Lake, 6 Jordan, Ogden and Weber districts have not completed negotiation yet. The other districts have completed negotiation since June 12. We usually have non of the larger districts settled by this time in the summer said Donald Ulmer, research director for the Utah Education Association. The faces of America ranging from a dimpled Shirley Temple to John Rockefeller will be featured on the Bicentennial cover of the 1975-7- 6 Mountain Bell telephone directory. Will Rogers and Abraham Lincoln are there as well as Mark Twain, Betsy Ross, etc. Thirty-tw- o characters figures from American history images of family and friends mythical personalities all taking across time and space and each using different phones developed by the Bell System. The Utah Attorney Generals Office this week has asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to deny Hughes Airwest application to end air service to Cedar City. The petition asks for a summary dismissal of Airwests request or a hearing before the CAB decides. A hearing would stay the CAB decision at least a year during which time the airline would have to continue its Cedar City route. |