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Show Ml :h ait Sake gmttlj 1 era Jity Salt Lake City, Friday, October 13, 1961 r iii State Sales Tax Collections Up First 3 Months Of Fiscal Year Jy Although state sales tax collections in Utah are up nearly $300,000 during the first three months of the 1961-6fiscal year compared with FIRST, the Individual Vol. 24, No. 41 1 Ten Cents Per Copy 2 Century Plant Blooms S. S. L. Police Clear Up Many Cases With 24 cases cleared up out of a total of 27 handled during Sep e mber, the South Salt Ijake Police Department set up another fine months record. According to the monthly report of Marshal Henry Dipo, the cases involved armed robbery, auto theft, burglaries, hit and run, shop lifting, missing persons, runaways, vandalism, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and bad checks. The marshal's report also siiows that during the month there were 381 citations for various types of traffic violations. 76c 'Hew t-- The Salt Lake City Water cash budget Department's for the first six request months of 1962 is $1,174,722. The budget shows $472,287 for salaries, compared with $459,-30- 2 .for the first six months of 1961. A total of $702,435 is listed for materials and supplies, including water purchases, compared with $409,774 during the first half of this year. A rare sight a Century Plant in Bloom. Britain also lias its troubles with relief clients. A bricklayer who is the father of six, in 30 months received $1,680 from the national Assistance Board. Yet the worker was said to have turned down, or quit three jobs paying as much as $37.50 a week. He told the court he was better off drawing unemployment benefits than he was working at his trade. That American Communists are becoming more active is seen in the word that the old Communist Daily Worker is to be revived soon. The daily shrank to a weekly in 1958 and was being circulated to a diminishing audience. It is now a Plastic Products Co. of Utah is now' settled in a new 9,800 square foot building at 2340 1800 square feet of the budding is office space the remaining 8000 is for warehousing. This plastics distribution and fabrication firm w'as founded in 1943 by Frank Delvie, owner and manager. The firm was formerly located at 937 East 9th South. Several CBS news correspondents all stationed in various parts of the world were unanimous the other night on a television program that dis- armament although much talked about remains an extremely remote prospect, in fact years away. To be very brief, the revolt in Syria sent Nassar's into a nose dive. It finished his United Arab Republic and undoubtedly has ushered in a new ear in Middle Eastern politics. Nassar seems in the middle of a bad fix, has lost a lot of prestige, and has to recoup very fast. Pie-in-the-S- Moroni L. Jensen, principal of Granite Districts Cyprus High School in Magna, was elected president for the coming year of the Utah Education Association. the corresponding period a year ago, the amount of sales tax revenue going into the General Fund is down by more than $750,000. According to an analysis prepared by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization, this seeming contradiction is explained by the fact that the 1961 Utah Legislature earmarked per cent of all state sales collec13-1- tions to the Uniform School Fund for state aid for the public schools. Although the sales tax rate was raised by per cent to offset this transfer, the allocation to the schools applied to one quarters sales tax collected at the old rate of 2 per cent. The Foundation noted that the Legislature, in the final hours of the 1961 session, also increased the state sales tax rate from 2 to 2 2 per cent and appropriated $4.1 million for a school building program. It was thought that the increased revenue resulting from the increase in the sales tax would cover the per cent diversion to the School Fund and the $4.1 million appropriation for school buildings. One factor that was overlooked, however, according to the Utah Foundation, was the lag between the time that the sales tax is collected at the retail level and the time that it is reported to the State. Most of the sales tax collections reported to the State Tax Commission during the period July through September of 1961, for example, reflects retail sales made during the April-Jun- e period -- Va-ce- Have you ever seen a Century Plant in bloom? The Bill Holt family at 1030 East 33rd South had this rare privilege when their Century plant finally blossomed out Benson Will Address Meet a few nights ago. The blooms were gone by morning but here is a picture of this unfrequent happening. Mr. Holt is press room foreman at Printers, Inc. Plans are being completed for the Annual Convention of the Utah State Farm Bureau Federation, November 16, 17, and 18, in the Newhouse Hotel, Salt Lake City. U. S. Has Not Rallied World By Benevolence, Says Indian Journalist America has not rallied the world. Despite its graceful benevolence toward all peoples, despite its proud reluctance to negotiate on the basis of its overmastering military power, despite its lasting devotion to liberty and peace, America finds itself increasingly reviled, misunderstood and suspected. Thus opens an article by PrakL h C. Jain, an Indian journalist who has contributed to a number of leading American magazines, in the September 23 issue of National Review. He continues: But the Soviet Union speaks to ever more enthusiastic crowds all over the world, although in fact it is one of the most inhuman tyrannies, one of the most ruthless aggressors, in history. Why This Failure? What is the reason for this grave American failure, as Mr. Jain sees it? The substance of his answer is found in his articles title Wanted: A Battle Cry. We have, in his view, failed to understand the historical fact that men and nations are primarily moved particularly in times of crisis, danger, and great change, by idealistic rather than material motives. Whether the motives in question are good or bad is not neces- sarily a determining factor in what results from them. The is that the call to - human goals always supra seems to be necessary in order Prominent state and national speakers will participate in the Convention. Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture, will be a principle speaker on Friday, November 17. T. C. Peterson of Chicago, field representative for the midwestern states, will participate throughout the . to engage the allegiance of the masses. Convention. A highlight will be action by the Resolutions Committee of 45 County President and cooperative association representatives, on recommendations from counties throughout the state. These recom- (Continued on Page Two) Communists Look To Party Line As Heart Of Agitation, Propaganda This is a letter from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation addressed To All Officials, and is reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin for Law-Enforcemen- October: It is not what you know, but what you show With that catchy admonition, Gis Hall, general secretary of the Communist Party, U.S.A., recently warned Party members to destroy incriminating documents which might be used in prosecutions against them. Party leader Hall has been on a whirlwind, whistle-sto- t Court, would, in brief, compel registration of Party membership and disclosure of finances. Hall, with his catchy phrase, was setting the line for the Party in its maneuvers to thwart the law. Halls phrase, It is not what you know, but what you show is more than just an admonition. It is also a devastating description of all the elements of the current Communist Party line, for the Party knows that the real purposes of its line must be deceitfully covered up with (Continued on Page Two) p our of our country trying to stir up support for the Partys opposition to the Internal curity Act of 1950. This law, which was recently upheld by the United States Supreme Se-poi- nt Senator Barry Goldwater says: We should be saying to other nations that we are going to win the cold war rather than we are going to end the cold war. 3 nt 13-1- 3 -- when the 2 per cent state sales taix rate was still in effect. As a result, the per cent diversion of sales tax revenue to the School Fund reduced the revenue to the General Fund since the first quarter collections did not reflect the higher sales tax 13-1- 3 rate. Total sales collections in the t ember period amounted to $7,562,433 in 1960 and $7,851,020 in 1961. Only $6,804,479 of the 1961 collections however, went to the General Fund with the remaining $1,046,541 going to July-Sep- the School Fund. Fire At Roberta Street Home Does $200 Damage Damage of $150 to the house $50 to contents resulted Saturday, October 7 at the residence of Joseph A. Curtis, 2122 Roberta Street while grease was being rendered in the kitchen. The South Salt Lake Fire Department answered the call a little before and 2 p.m. Mr. Curtis, who one of the original members of the South Salt Lake Fire Department when it was organized in 1943, suffered minor burns on the hand while helping to put ou the flames. |