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Show Page rour fHE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1975 FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1975 Page Five County Officials Have Trouble Complying With New Tax Laws THE SALT LAKE TIMES Combined with The Salt Lake Mi tug 6 Legal Sews Published Every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah -- THE SALT LAKE TIMES Second Class Postage paid at Salt Lake Gty, Utah II South West Temple Telephone 564-846Salt Lake Gty, Utah 84101 Utahs county officials are having trouble complying with the states property tax collection 4 laws. Tax deadlines, assessment rules and selling delinquent or corporation. are 20 properties Number among many difVolume 55 ficulties county officials want eased or corrected. They dont io want piecemeal changes, but want the whole works studied and revamped, according to Utah Association of Counties (Continued from page one) leaders. Chances are that you wont even try to put a price County association executives meeting at Salt Lake City Montin your vision, because eyesight is just too valuable. day afternoon called for a yearTo safeguard precious vision according to US1M5, long study of Utahs very outchildren their shoull that receive to it see pro- dated tax laws and rules. parents fessional eye exams shortly after birth, again by the age Where property taxes become of four, with periodic checkups through the growing a lien on residents land and other property Jan. 1 each year vears. now, many county officials want After childhood, eyesight tends to level off and the lien date moved to Nov. 1, or 40 s. At this point, adults two months earlier. That would remain stable until mid-iJO- s it possible for tax notices tend to neglect their eyes. But it s time for a professional make to reach property owners Sept. examination again, whether or not problems have pre- 1 instead of Nov. 1 or slightly sented themselves. The Utah Society recommends an before as is the case now. The lien date change also eve checkup at age .55 and at least every other year would make property assessed thereafter. valuations available in May One of the reasons for this is glaucoma, called, the when local governments are preparing budgets instead of two sneak thief of sight because in its early stages it may months after state law requires easily go unnoticed. their budgets adopted June 30. This also would enable county Glaucoma , and Other Ihje Disorders As a leading cause of blindness, glaucoma is associ- commissions to move up adoption of their mill levies to July ated with to much fluid pressure within the eye. This 1 and enable taxpayers to attend cells and the off nerve to blood cuts meaningful equalization hearings tiny supplf pressure and so eventually in time to alter assessments befibers that line the retina of the eve. j j fore taxes are billed, according will destroy the nerves that carry vision to the optic to the associations committeenerve and the brain. Since the destruction is not revers- men. officials also are disible, glaucoma must be diagnosed and treated in its County over gruntled rapid rises in reearly stages, when medical techniques can bring further appraised taxes, propertys halt. a to owners individual damage largely among Another condition common as early as age 40 is such as home owners, while utilities and mines continue to represbyopia, sometimes called trombone fision because ceive reductions. They want a the individual cannot see clearly at close range and tends new, thorough look at the states to hold reading material farther and farther away. Pres- revaluation program. Also, county officials said byopia is caused by a loss of elasticity in the lens of standard rules should be prothe eve, but properly prescribed eyeglasses correct this vided so taxpayers could pay their property taxes in installvision problem. ments over the year Heading the list of eye disorders causing blindness instead orofmonthly the lump sum settleand one that is particularly related to aging is cataract, ment in November. GLENN BJORNN, Publishes controlled by any party, clan, clique, taction 'This publication is not owned or How Much Are Your Eyes Worth? a clouding of the lens of the eve. It is said that if we live long enough, most of us will develop this condition. Murray City Election Vote To Be Counted The Utah Society for the Prevention of Blindness estimates that .)4 percent of the population, 40 years of age or older, have some form of cataract. Over 00, the figure is 74 percent, or three people out of four. About .57,000 Utahns will develop a cataract problem this vear, according to Orv Helgeson, Executive Director of the By A Computer Primary and municipal election results will be tabulated in record time this fall in Murray. All the election judges plan to do is watch. A computer will count votes in all 26 Murray vting districts in about 12 minutes, LaRell D. Muir, city recorder said. The city has agreed with VOTE-MARa Salt Lake City firm, to handle the Oct. 7 primary and Nov. 4 municipal elections. We used the system twTo years ago in four of our districts, Muir said. It worked fine, so when the computer firm contacted us to try it again this fall 3 S for the whole city, for only the 2 --t W O re cost of the ballots, we agreed. The city recorder said the 9& V company is trying to establish itself in the area, with an eye CO 3 to attracting Salt Lake Countys J 3M. 3f (0 election business at an estimated initial $300,000 price tag. 3" , M Society. As a cataract develops, it may be noticeable as spots, ghost images, the impression of a skin over the eyes, troubles with lights and other signs. It may be noticeable to others as a milky spot in the normally black pupil of the eve. Fortunately, cataract is usually curable. The treat- one of the safest operations a patient ment is surgery can undergo, offering restored vision in D. out of 100 operable cases. The condition is usually progressive; surgery can be done when the patient feels that the degree of vision impairment caused by the cataract is interfering with his normal activities. Cataract surgeryj consists of removal of the clouded lens; most patients no wgo home in about five days. Then the patient must have a replacement for the missing lens, usually special cataract eyeglasses or contract lenses. These and other changes in vision and in the eye If you would have a happy itself that come with the years are explained in the So- family life, remember twro things: in matters of principles, cietys pamphlet, The Aging Eye. For a free copy stand like a rock; in matters of write Prevent Blindness, iO.'ki South State, Salt Lake taste, swim with the current. 841 15. Utah Jefferson Thomas City, I K, v 1 O-O- i i 3-- 1 79 re 2 303 o03 3 I ! re 3 3 O 2.3r 79 w 03 & 0) Oi C5 n M. 'll Hi i o h9 re 5 -l Dj l H V- w 3 13 3 w n 03 5-- os M I 79 71 O re f S an 2 3 2p 2 pM f grfQ, -- 03 7) co UK w re o Mi ft 3 3 to o Cf co 03 Mi - n tJo aw i 3 crQre ow S3S3 oref (9 3r rC to fire 3 . o re If re a 2? 3 o 3 2. 3 9 Ml re re 5' n O re 71 r n g2. 3 K n to 3 o S cn 03 3 M CO 8,3 m 8 (5 M f7) r: if 5aS i C cn c-- S 3 w ci'3 3" ft) o o 3 n s: 7 f 5 BO 1 93 O 2 f 3if X X' 03 O 373 ft) Q ,f O ft) d oo ri 2 d 0 O & re f0 if 3 3 fft!yj 3 f 03 13 . 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