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Show yO CLAUDE'S fjDJIWWttA by Claude Orton Oops! Talked too soon. Those nice men who represent repre-sent Salt Lake City in the Utah Legislature have now come up with that Sales Tax bill which will let the smaller communities of the state help pay for some new things for' them. First they want more policemen and clerks; more help for the health department, depart-ment, and clerks; help for other oth-er departments, and clerks, and a nice pay raise for them all. They are a nice generous lot with other people's money. mo-ney. ! Now we will admit that they need more policemen to help catch their criminals. But what good will it do? The courts will only turn them loose because the new police-men police-men didn't hold their mouth right when they arrested them; those that go to jail will be paroled shortly, even if they have been in that jail a third or fourth time. And if they should have tough luck and get out to the Point of the Mountain, they can enjoy all kinds of entertainment, good food, etc. until the prison guards let them get away. Then maybe we should put on a little more sales tax for the benefit of that money starved University of Utah so the professors won't have to work so hard and do without a raise in pay this year- Of course this pay raise is to compensate them for the raise in the cost of living. Well I didn't get a pay raise to compensate com-pensate me for this cost of living liv-ing jump. Guess when I go to the store I will just tell the clerks to knock their prices did any good. The team was going along very well until the rhubarb started, and then dropped the game by a 12- ' point margin. I also wonder If I it was this kind of action by Parowan supporters, which earned the school a commendation commen-dation recently from the Utah High School activities Assn.? Tom Benson was up from Downey, Calif to attend the.. . wedding of his sister on the,., week end and I had an oppor-,,, tunity to visit with him brief. , ly. In asking him how things were going with the Parowan group living In that area. Tom stated that they were "rolling, righ, along". , down, to compensate me for the cost of living raise I didn't did-n't get. Once upon a time there was a teacher who didn't want an increase in pay; a carpenter who didn't ask for union wages; wa-ges; a man who healed the sick and afflicted whether they had insurance or medicare medi-care or whether they didn't; who traveled around the country coun-try feeding the people, and they crucified him. I guess Stan Watts, basketball basket-ball coach at BYU doesn't have to worry about enticing any colored boys to that school to play on his basket-r basket-r ball team. It seems he has a . monopoly on the tall boys : from Finland and now Yugc I Slavia. Wonder if they don'1 turn out a few football players play-ers in those countries? If I was a farmer I might be worried about the kind of weather we have been and are now having in this area. But I am not a farmer, so I am really enjoying it. Never can I remember so many beautiful sunny days and moonlit nights. Wonder if it Is a coincidence coinci-dence that the Rodney Adams and Phil Pronks plan to visit their parents here on the same week end that the Gun and Rod Club holds a rabbit hunt. Well they were here Saturday and both Adams and Pronk did right well for themselves. i Tch, tch, I hear that quite i a number of Parowan basket-: basket-: ball fans got riled up at the j officiating in the game at 'Kanab Friday. I wonder if it |