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Show County Tax Levy Drops Commissioners OK 9.50 Mill Assessment The Cache county commissioners commission-ers have approved a 1943 tax levy for the county of 9.50 mills, .5 of a mill under the 1942 levy, Cierk Newell J. Crookston report-rid report-rid today. Though the total levy will be slightly smaller than last year's, decreases in four departments were almost offset by a new .60 mill deficiency levy. The year-to-year deficiency levy was authorized authoriz-ed by the last state legislature in lieu of requested authority to increase in-crease the general fund levy, commissioners com-missioners explained. The new levy in Cache county is expected to provide revenue to pay an ov--erdraft of about $13,000 on the 1942 general fund. County levy for the Logan-Cache airport was decreased to .50 mills this year from last year's .90 mills because the county airport budget has been reduced this I year from $20,000 to $10,000, Clerk N. J. Crookston explained. The county levy for the Logan-Cache Logan-Cache fire department was decreased de-creased to .60 mills from last year's .70 mills because a surplus has been built up in the budget. The county library levy was reduced re-duced from .20 mills to .10 mills this year for the same reason. Levy for the county fair, discontinued discon-tinued last year and this year but expected to be staged next year, was decreased from .20 mills to .10 mills. Funds accumulated in the fair budget are expected to provide for maintenance expenses ex-penses and also contribute to next year's fair. All other departmental levies for 1943 remain at the 1942 figures, as follows: General fund, 1.80 mills; poor, .30 mills; hospitalization, ".30 'mills; public welfare, -3.00 mills; county roads, 1.75 mills, and county agricultural ag-ricultural agent, .50 mills. |