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Show Utahns Contribute Many Millions To Maintain Governments Operation Utahns paid a total of $434 million in taxes (Federal, state and local) during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1959, according to a year-end review of government, just released re-leased by Utah Foundation, the private government research re-search agency. Taxes both direct and hidden took nearly 29 cents out of every dollar received by Utahns last year, the -Istudv continues. This total tax Mr. and Mrs. Glade Berry and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Parker visited vis-ited here for a few days at Christmas Christ-mas time with his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Noel Williams. Wil-liams. Visitors (t the home of Francis Fran-cis Williams were her son Paul and family of Boulder City and Arthur Fife of Albuquerque, N. M. and daughter Mrs. Jack Hine of Texas, anJ Otto Fife of Cedar City. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Pollock and family spent Christmas in Enterprise with relatives. Rosella Christensen and son Marvin were visitors in Las Vegas Ve-gas with relatives. Holiday visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Junius F. Williams were their son Dwight from the U of U, Mr. and Mrs. DeVere Carter Car-ter of Salt Lake City and Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey Taylor and boys of Las Vegas. Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Prince and children of New Harmony and Mr. and Mrs. Rudgcr Fife and family of Summit visited Christmas Day with their mother, moth-er, Hannah Davis. Also visiting with them was Miss Jeri Graff of Cedar City. We enjoyed two days of beautiful beau-tiful rain storm and on Christmas Christ-mas Day the wind turned to the north with snow and quite a heavy hea-vy wind, and we are having very cold weather, making the rads very slick for travel. Mr. and Mrs. Derk Reason of Henderson, Nev., were here with relatives on Christmas and en-Joyed en-Joyed the dance that evening along with several of our friends from Cedar City. Enjoying Christmas with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Reeves, were Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Clay-ton Reeves and daughter of Ely, Nev., and Mr. and Mrs. Don Hou-sen Hou-sen and son of Page, Ariz. Home for the holiday from school were Kelvin Zohner from B Y U, and Lauralle Williams from USU at Logan. Visiting at the home of Ethna Ford was her son David who Is on leave from his Navy base in San Diego, Calif, and Miss Carolyn Caro-lyn Call from BYU. Sunday visitors at' the home of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Pollock were their sister Ruby Steward and family of Enterprise. Mr. and Mr Loren Robinson are home for the holidays from the St George Temple. They are enjoying visits from several of their children from out of town. I Him! . naH Uamrv and Janice Blake were week end visitors In St George. burden was equal to more than $500 for every man, woman and child residing in the state, or $2,000 for an average family of four persons. Foundation analysts observe-that observe-that the tax burden probably will be even greater In 1960 than It was in 1959 as a result of higher property and sales tax rates. Federal Taxes Highest According to the report. Federal Feder-al taxes accounted for 61, state taxes for 22, and local taxes for 17 of the total Utah tax burden bur-den In 1959. This Is an almost direct reversal of the situation In 1940 when Federal taxes comprised com-prised 31 and State and local taxes made up 69 of the total tax load in Utah. ; The study points out that government gov-ernment has been playing an increasingly in-creasingly Important role in the Utah economy during recent years. Approximately 23 out of 1 every 100 nonagricultural employees em-ployees in Utah are now working for some unit of government cither Federal, state or local. Government Is the largest employer em-ployer in the state. The number of government Jobs in Utah Increased In-creased 189 between 1940 and 1959, compared with a rise of only 107 in private non-government employment during this same period. Thus since 1940 gov-eminent gov-eminent employment In Utah has been Increasing at an average aver-age rate of 5.7 per year, compared com-pared with an average annual rise of 3.9 In non-government employment High Spending year Foundation analysts note that 1959 was a high spending year for education and highway construction con-struction in Utah. Utah spent $118.9 million for public educa-catlon educa-catlon (elementary and secondary, second-ary, higher education and other) In 1959. This amount was equal to 7J of the total personal In-come In-come In the state last year. The report states that rising enrollment enroll-ment and further liberalization in the school program by the 1959 Legislature will result in still further Increases during I960. Utah also swung Into high gear on a greatly expanded highway construction program In 1959. According Ac-cording to the report, Utah s.nt $49.2 million on the state highway high-way system In fiscal 1959. The state hhas spent more for highway high-way construction during the past seven years than was spent In Its previous 56-year history. In addition, ad-dition, the State distributed $2.8 local governments provided another an-other $6.5 million In local funds for use on city streets and county coun-ty roads. A leveling off In state highway expenditures during the next few years la expected, however, how-ever, owing to a cut back in the original federal aid schedule. Other Costs UP Expenditures for other government govern-ment functions also rose during 1959, the report continue. The rise In the cost of living, for example, ex-ample, caused upward adjustments adjust-ments to be made In public assistance as-sistance payments. Despite the increase in total welfare expenditures expen-ditures during 1959, state funds devoted to welfare purposes actually ac-tually declined Curing the year. The higher welfare costs in Utah wre met by Increased federal funds resulting from changes made In the Federal Social Se-curty Se-curty Act by the 1958 U. S. Congress. Con-gress. The study notes that much of the Increase In Utah government spending la the result of an expanded ex-panded capital outlay program. The State spent $46.1 million on capital outlay in fiscal 1953, Including In-cluding both buildings and highway high-way construction, an Increase of $18.4 million from the 1957 figure. fig-ure. In addition, local school districts dis-tricts expended $26.9 million fo.-capltal fo.-capltal t Jilay during the 1958-59 1958-59 schr year, compared with $24.0 nvlikn in 1957-5& |