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Show Volume Eureka, Utah Seventy-Nin- e Juab, Ton Commission seiftle ouf of court SK52S November 2". HKi Santa comes to Payson Lecture stated There will be a parade bringing The State Tax Commission had Santa to town Sat. Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. Commission have settled out of asked the county for a settlement in with bands, etc. It will court in a dispute over whether the excess of $50,000. If Juab County move down doggers, Main Street heading tax commission factor, county owed more property taxes. had used the Under terms of the settlement, the taxes would have been in excess of North and Santa will then give county has agreed to pay $10,500-h- alf $75,000 more, Fowkes said. The county commissioners goodies at the Gazebo. There will be by December 31 and the other decided to negotiate the settlement lots of super values for the shoppers. half by March 1, 1984. Juab County Commissioners at the judges recommendation. It There will be a movie at the Huish stated that the payments would was the best solution in favor of the 17 at 2 p.m. for come out of the 1982-8- 3 general hind county taxpayers we could come up Theatre Sat. Dec. 12. under The movie is children and could mandate cuts in other with, said Commissioner R. Roscoe sponsored by the merchants and the Garrett. programs. Next year, said Commissioner tickets for the The settlement was reached free movie can be the assessor will definitely Bernini, following a negotiating session obtained from any downtown Wednesday, and was accepted by reappraise all county property. merchant - one ticket with every Commissioner Morgan agreed. He Judge Joseph Sam. $5.00 purchase. The dispute began when the State said doing so was the only way to Tax Commission conducted a survey avoid continuing problems between Santa will visit Payson every Sat. of property sales prices and the county and the State Tax ' dropping in at the various stores. tax Commission. determined Juab County and the Utah Tax property evaluations in Juab County were too low. They ordered Tom Fowkes, the . county assessor, to raise valuations to meet the state factoring. Fowkes said they told him he must raise valuations 20 percent on residential property 44 percent- on undeveloped land and 57 percent on commercial property. Fowkes previously had conducted his own survey of property sales prices and had raised valuations 10 percent on residential property, 20 percent on undeveloped land and nothing on commercial property. , The assessor had contended the state was erroneous in its factoring of taxes and the commission claimed that Fowkes figures were inaccurate. The ensuing argument resulted in the State Tax Commission filing a lawsuit against Fowkes. City required to have -- ' The primary item of business dealt with at the monthly meeting of Eureka City Council, was the sewer disposal situation as addressed by the State Board of Health. Mayor Garbett pointed out that the City is required to install an approved method of sewage disposal or face legal action. It was noted that some funds are available on a grant basis, but that more funds are needed to cover the co3t of the total project. Council Number 47 2dr members agreed that it will be extremely difficult to acquire and pay back the needed funds. After much discussion on the subject, the Council voted in favor of beginning a feasibility study for a Going beyond politics, wars, and diplomacy, beyond the work of kings, counselors, and philosophers, historians have begun to bury themselves in new material. Taking all aspects of life as important clues to the character of culture and social change, a dazzling diversity of historians are studying a remarkable array of groups: children, women, ethnics, working classes, the poor and downtrodden, the family and local community in an effort to recover the past. Studies in family and community history are among the richest veins of these new efforts at historical mining. The Utah History Fair, Utah Endowment for the Humanities, Utah State University and Brigham Young Universitys Family and Community Center are sponsoring a public lecture series throughout the state of Utah in an effort to introduce the public, students and teachers to the concepts of family hsitory. The Nephi area lecture will be held at 7 p.m. Dec. 1, 1983 at Juab Middle School, 475 East 800 North in Nephi. Dr. Lynn Rosenband, Professor of History at Utah State University, will present a brief interdisciplinary view of the family and community followed by Dr. Douglas Alder. Dr. Alder, director of the honors program at Utah State University will give an illustration of the theme with his lecture on The Mormon Concept of Community. As author of articles in Dialogue, Christian Science Monitor, The New Era, The New Messenger and Advocate, Social Education, Educational Technology, . Sun-ston- e, sewage system. In other business, Council members made the decision to pay the election judges $30 instead of the usual $20. June and Coleen McNulty, representing Tintic Historical Society, met with the Council to request the dates.. Sept. 8 and 9, 1984.. for next year's Depot Days. It was agreed to set aside those dates for the annual celebration. uniforms for Tintic High School's band. The article written by a loyal supporter, Dan Valentine, follows: Deadline NEWS DEADLINE...2:30 p.m. 433-693- 3 to or Grace Bernini. Firemen Tintic District's first major snow storm buried the area in 21 inches of snow with drifts measuring much deeper. Eureka received 1.13 inches of water during the storm which began Saturday and continued until Tuesday. Temperatures dipped below freezing and into the 20s throughout most of the storm. Dont forget the meeting on Monday. Nov. 28. at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Building! ! Included in important matters to be discussed is the possibility of holding a course in Range Fire Fighting and nominations for new officers. That date is next Monday. Nov. 28. Doug Alder Uniform fund drive trying to get off the ground The next meeting of Eureka City Editor's note: Last week we Council will be on Tuesday, printed an article taken from Dan December 13, at the City Hall, Valentines column in the Salt Lake Tribune in the year 1969. That same beginning at 7 p.m. year another Valentine" was given to the Band Boosters committee for their efforts in raising funds for new Tuesdays. Phone bring news items Network News Exchange, Teaching American History and Community College Social Science Journal, he is also a professional historian. The lecture may be attended alone, or as a part of the Utah History Fair workshop for which two hours of university credit may be earned. If you are interested in credit, you must notify Shannon Hoskins, Director of the Utah History Fair. Students, teachers and parents as well as the general public are invited to attend this free lecture. But the committee is optimistic. They hope a lot of old residents who lived in Eureka and Mammoth during the heyday of the mining send a boom will remember-an- d small donation for the uniforms. Contributions can be mailed to lone Ryan, secretary of the group. Obviously, this article was written prior to the one is last weeks paper which stated that $8,000 was raised Valentine Today's An extra special Valentine to a ($3,000 over the required amount). valiant committee. They are the band boosters of Today, only one thing remains the Tintic High School in Eureka. same. .lone Ryan is still secretary of Thanks to Ronald Griggs, the the group. This time the committee Tintic High School band is one of the must raise at least $20,000. Please best in the state.. .But their uniforms send your contributions to her. She is are more than 15 years old. also asking for the names and adSo the Tintic band boosters have dresses of friends and relatives of started a drive to raise $5,000 to buy Eureka and Mammoth citizens. She new ones. would especially like to receive the names and addresses or former residents. lones phone number is: wont be easy. Eureka and surrounding communities are getting smaller and smaller. There are less than 300 A Christmas tree will be set up at students in all the schools in the First Security Bank right after the area. Thanksgiving holiday. Names of contributes will be placed on the The population in only a fraction of tree and also published in the what it was in the old days. Eureka Reporter. An this 433-634- 5. |