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Show -t-e mmOMm SHfEr'Wr- -1 mm uMiHftWiliiii ft 1 ""- - VOLUME 66 NUMBER 23-J- ura S, 1978, ' t y.j ' '. v ?.J - SERVING ALL OP DUCHESNE COUNTY. PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY m Duchesne county $20.6 million in 77 Federal outlays in Duchesne County during the 1977 fiscal year totaled $20,670,000, or about $1,829. per capita. The economic impact of these federal expenditures also can be gauged by the feet that they were equal to about 49.3 per cent of total personal income in the county during the preceding calendar year. These were some of the facts reported by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization, in their annual study of federal outlays in Utah. Following is a breakdown of Federal expenditures in Duchesne County by spending agency: Defense, $37,000; Health, Education, and Welfare, 4,468,000; Transportation, 874,000; Treasury, 418,000; Veterans 408,000; Administration, 10,668,000; Interior, Agriculture, 1,508,000; Labor. 94,000; Civil Service Retirement, 761,000; All Other, 1,939,000. Outlays made by federal agendas throughout the state of Utah hut year amounted to $2,882,914,000. This total included all federal expenditures made in the state for salaries (both dvilian and military), federal purchases and to state and contracts, grants-in-ai- d local governments, and other federal payments to individuals and institutions in the state. The Foundation study observes these federal outlays are not without considerable cost to the taxpayers. Utahs share of the taxes required to federal spending programs throughout the nation amounted to $1,780,000,000. Adjustments for financing interest and foreign sendee added another expenditures $82,000,000 to the Utah cost After allowing for these tax costs and adjustment it would appear that Uah realized an "apparent gain of about $521 million from federal operations in the state. finance Duchesne boy injured in shooting A Duchesne boy was injured Thursday, June 1, when he was apparently shot in the leg with a mall caliber rifle. Steven Butcher was hospitalised. Reports indicated the bullet entered the top of his buttocks and traveled downward, exiting from the inside of his thigh. Neighbors had reported gunshots earlier in the evening. Policemen Velden Lefler and Kay Stratton confiscated two rifles, both of which had been fired recently. No charges have been made in the case. While the federal programs and activities may have a stimulating effect on some local economies, the Foundation points out that they sometimes can prove to be liabilities rather than assets to state and local governments. This is especially true in the ease of programs which create a large increase in federal employment with no corresponding increase in taxable wealth and income in the private sector of the economy. Foundation note that analysts during recent years a substantial part of federal spending has been financed by borrowing rather than by direct tax imposition. It is estimated that the federal budget deficit in the current 1978 fiscal year will be about $60 billion. Die Foundation study shows that for each $1 in taxes paid by Utahns to finance federal interest costs, only about 46 cents is returned to the state in the form of interest payments to individuals and institutions. Thus, when deficits and new federal debt are created, the interest drain is increased. According to Foundaiton calculations, "the net effect of a $60 billion increase in the federal debt is an added annual drain of about $10.3 million from individuals and business firms in Utah. Altogether, the net' cost to Utahns of financing interest payments on the entire federal debt amounted to $74 million. A crane fastens onto a the old portion of Duchesne high school in the early stages of demolition. The entire section was removed in prepara DOWN wall in IT COMES tion for construction of a new wing, which will include a room. Another addition, also in progress, will put a vocational shop on the west side of the school. multi-purpo- se LDS regional conference is here Saturday . for the conference Regional West and Roosevelt Roosevelt, Duchesne stakes of the Church of Saints will Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y be held in the Roosevelt Stake center Saturday, June 10. General session will begin at 8 a.m. for all stake leaders. Presidencies and secretaries of each organization. High Priest groupleaders. Seventies group leaders, Elder's quorum presidencies and secretaries to each of these groups are encouraged to attend, along with bishoprics, ward clerks, assistant and executive secretaries. Following the general session, stake Relief Society leaders wiU meet at 9:30 a.m. in the Roosevelt West Stake center for the remainder of their meetings. Regional conference is held once a year for special Instructions from church leaders for the leadership of the stake and ward organizations. OF RUBBLE By Friday afternoon the last remaining old section of Duchesne high school was reduced to a pile of debris. A crane piled up the rubble as workers removed roofing from a section of the building which is to remain. PILE Aurelia to he staged Friday, Sal at Union Featuring cast members from all three stakes in the Roosevelt region, the musical production of "Aurelia will be presented this Friday and Saturday evenings in the Union high school auditorium. The production is being stages in connection with the LDS regional meeting, scheduled for Saturday morning for stake leaders of the three stakes, Roosevelt, Roosevelt West, and Duchesne. The musical drama is divided into three sections, covering the life of Aurelia Spencer Rogers, a pioneer leader of the Primary program. . The early life sequence is being staged by the Roosevelt West Stake, with cast members depicting events of Busin ess BRIEFS OVERLAND THRIFT and Loan, new located in the Victorian-styl-e section of the old Reb-- building in Roosevelt is opening this week after several weeks of remodeling and rdeeoration. 1 DOYLES ELECTRIC has moved across the street from their former location on lagoon Street and is holding a first anniversary and moving sale with a drawing, this weekend. DAD Final rehearsals were being held this week for the play, "Aurelia", to be presented Friday and Saturday evenings at Union high school REGION DRAMA. auditorium, in connection with the Roosevelt regional meeting. Shown rehearsing parts are Mrs. Kay Madsen, center, playing the part of the mother, Catherine Spencer flanked by Aunt Sophie, played by Beth Duke, and the Spencer children, played by Andrew Madsen, Mathew Hamblin and Mary Lou Mangan (Aurelia). pwewi FACTORY has also moved from their former location on First East next to the Green River Rifle Works to Lagoon Street next the the new Doyle's Electric locale. AND A SHOP to be known as Jolene's Fashions is remodeling the old Doyle's Electric shop in preparation for opening soon. the Spencer family as Aurelia was a young girL Directing this section will be Alice Hamblin, Sheri Johnson and Carol Bertock. Music will be handled by Noreen Roberts and Diane Buxton, and dance by Calleen Haslera. Act H, with family members older, will be handled by Roosevelt stake, directed by Janet W. Spencer, Betty Griffin, Vionne Parrish and Melba Bolton, with Nela Carlson as consultant .Music will be by Mary Lee Burton and Corrine Winder, assisted by Eleanor Smith. Act m. with the cast members from Duchesne stake, covering events later in Aurelia's life, will be directed by Donna Barton, Cindy Coombs and Glenn and Aleen Horrocks. Music will be handled by Terry Fabrizio, Valene Dorcus Tuft, Dorothy Holgate, Tomlinson and Debra Hayes. The publie is invited to attend the production. - Police issue Duchesne news to the warning with Duchesne kids to be at the Duchesne city police have issued an alert to citizens of the area, stateing that they have had a number of complaints about a person 'offerind candy to children to go in his ear with .him. Policeman Verden Lefler said he had received five complaints in the previous week and descriptions indicate, that the same person may.- have instigated all of the incidents. ;. Jfe said two of the eases occurred when children were on their way to Primary and others took place on Main - Street Corresponding STANDARDS deadlines, news Hems left markets, in Duchesne paper picked up for publication in will be picked up Monday afternoons. The only exception to this deadline is the occasion of a Monday holiday, when news will be picked up in Duchesne Tuesday morning. - Three youths arrested in Neola cases from the Needs Three area have been apprehended by county sheriffs deputies in connection with a series of incidents of vandalism in Neola last Thursday night, June 1. Deputy Merrill (Chico) CapweO said that four doors and a window were broken at the Neola LDS Church, three window panes were shot out at the Post Office and the door was droken in and some items stolen from Swain's store. The juveniles were also charged with a series of prior shoplifting incidents at the store. The sheriffs department also arrested Terry Lankford. 31, of AHamont, on charges of theft teen-ager- s he said police are However, hampered by reports of the incidents coming in two or three days after the He urged parents and occurrence. teachers to report cases to the police immediately to aid in investigation of the eases. "We need to know right now, he said. In a separate case, a Duchesne man appeared before Justice of the Peace C. Dean Powell Monday on two felony cases involving sexual abuse. He was released upon posting $1,000 bond on each charge. A preliminary hearing in justice court was set for June 20. . ' |