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Show f WASHINGTON S A AND SMALL Jlfkfd I BUSINESS f,;jir!!ll".u I How Come? I AGQLI "THE GLASSES ARE STRAIGHT. ALL RIGHT -- IT' S YOUR HEAD THAT" S CROOKED! 11 price of gasoline. If there does exist such technical tech-nical reasons, then perhaps it is high time that somebody come up with a simrle, easily understood under-stood reason. It is not to be inferred from the foregoing that this is a denial de-nial that there is a valid reason rea-son for this type of arithmetic. But if there is a valid reason, the public is undoubtedly entitled en-titled to know about it. The government should have learned from Vietnam. It is no secret that Vietnam, fragmented the nation badly. Opinion polls indicate the majority of the public believes involvement in Vietnam was a mistake. Yet there should not be discounted dis-counted the possibility that there were good and valid reasons rea-sons for the U. S. involvement. But if there were valid reasons rea-sons for this carnage, and this is not inferring that such reasons rea-sons existed, government failed miserably In Informing the American public. By the same token, there may be good and valid reasons for a higher tariff on imported oil. But if this is true, it would seem high time that these reasons rea-sons be explained simply, and with an absence of partisan rhetoric, ndent Business To the independent business person, there are many mystifying mysti-fying aspects about all the discussion dis-cussion of an import duty on foreign oil, on rationing of gasoline, gas-oline, other plans. Surveys conducted for the National Federation of Independent Inde-pendent Business by Faculty Associates, show quite clearly that a vast majority of the independent in-dependent operators depend on some type of motor fuel to conduct business, to maintain their payrolls. Yet the current talk out of Washington seems to be that a $3 tariff on a barrel of imported oil would raise the price of gasoline somewhere between 15 and 30 cents per gallon. Of course, from already published pub-lished figures, it is obvious that even at present prices the major ma-jor oil companies are a long way from operating in the red. But the sheer mathematics of this increase in gas and heating oil prices due to a $3 per barrel bar-rel tariff boggles the minds of many, and so far there appears no understandable explanation of why this would be necessary. A barrel of oil contains 42 gallons. Thus a S3 additional tariff would amount to slightly more than 7 cents per gallon. Now there may very possibly be deep technical reasons why an increase of 7 cents per gallon gal-lon of crude oil would result in a 15 to 30 cent increase in the ('c National Federation of Indepei o 2 SCENIC CIRCLE O SIGNS w 586-3717 I,, mmg law,., MHlf mj : i i t 1 j I f V r U UuLLalL tU JL ADMISSION 1 - -J m 1 j Cj f -iikAJ. ,-, ,lltr-. I V, 1 I V J I THE UNITED STATES ARMY FIELD BAND I & SOLDIERS' CHORUS IV 4f I I OF WASHINGTON, D.C. Ws5lf I Cedar City High School Auditorium I Cedar City, Utah I Monday, April 21,1975 8:00 p.m. 1 j Sponsored by the Iron County Record I I J feis :.v' : -. Right now, in your own community, a nose.we can direct you to the people there's a crying need for whatever you in your neighborhood who need your have to give. , help the most. Have a heart. Wait. Keep your wallet jr "V Write Volunteer, in your pocket. We f Washington, D. C. don't want your money; f ySk 20013. If not for their all we want is a small I I f f j sake, then for piece of yourself your I V J I your own. humanity. ' j Because it's not so If you can drive a f jf much those of us who truck, bake a cake, tie a X JT y need help who are the shoe, balance a budget, yr y handicapped. It's those of dry an eye or blow jf us who won't give it. It'll make you a better human being, A PuWic Service of Thit Newspepef & The Acfvert'ng Counci' ',7- ',. t i |