Show cedar city fj neighborhood and other attorney R J shay was in beaver part ot of the week where he had some rome cases before the district court which was in session there mr stanley bradshaw chevrolet dealer for this territory was in salt lake city this week with eight men to bring home as many new cars tor for his sales room floor that he expect to run for or a second term as mayor and that cedar people may expect a substantial increase in this years tax levy were among statements ments made by mayor chas R hunter to the rotarians at their luncheon on tuesday lie ho said the cites sinking fund for bond redemptions ons is IR about short of 0 what it Is supposed to be in fact there Is no pinking fund and that tho only way he sees to overcome this condition is to increase the tax levy tho the insinuation in his statement that lint he expect to run rno lor for a second term was tl ti at the cites levy had bad been under what it should have been ia in tile the past for political reasons will be abbert in ills his case lie he referred to an audit of the cites accounts which Is just ciolll completed and said that while the accounts indicate a sinking fund of on hand there la 13 actually no money on deposit the fact of the matter is he said that other funds of the city particularly the ahe special funds ila haie e borrowed from the sinking turn and now none of them have any in money 0 ney and therefore there toro cant repay the sinking fund the only alternative therefore as he sees it Is an all increase lin the general tax levy and people may expect about a tour four mill increase so tar far as he I 1 is s concerned speaking of tho the cites levy last year bear it was 15 mills which is not lot excessive as compared with levies by many cities in the state even a moderate increase will ill leave it low er cr than that of many other cities during mayor Christen sens tenure of office the levy was reduced from 17 to 14 mills and it has never been boosted back up the lower levies probably would have been adequate except that mounting tax delin quenches quen cies both general and special during the depression so reduced the cites revenues that available sinking funds were used tor for other purposes to preserve the cites credit city manager leland perry states that delinquent taxes due the city at this time run well uell over the amount of shortage in the sink sinking funds and that by reason of the cites lien tor for these taxes its condition is net so bo serious as the hie reported absence of sinking funds would indicate the report ol of tho the recent audit Is awaited with much interest for the light it Is expected to shed on the cites financial condition brooks was up from st georg e the first ot of the week in fit an attempt to tind find out who alo painted dixie colleges big letter D on the hill with crude oil someone he reported had obliterated the whitewashed attractiveness of the letter by completely ro covering vering it with oil because became of the rivalry between dixie and E D A C students gium the latter were suspected just as last spring students from dixie were suspected of prematurely igniting a bonfire which 13 A C had planned tor for an evening celebration sheriff brooks apparently learn any thing so the secrets of who ruined didies D and who started B A C s bonfelio continue to be mysteries to tile the general public the junior high school under the direction of pratt bethers ed a play on wednesday evening the man higher up it la Is reported that exact tto to take the liay to parowan carowan tor for presentation at an early date mr T A gardner of the twin pines service station motored to salt lake city on oil business matters wednesday night mrs gardner accompanied compa nied him to visit briefly with her he sisters mr air val hafen of the dixie school facility acuity and some other st george Georgel people were business visitors in ill cedar city on Wed wednesday nesda charles B petty of petty alator co spent wednesday in bearer beaner on ill Lu matters bill snow of the 0 P company Is taking a brief vacation following a recent which featured a bad cold the southern utah Wool growers association held an enthusiastic annual banquet and meeting at the el EI escalante hotel last saturday evening following the feeders day pro program gram at the B A C during tho the day present at both functions were 3 M jorgensen president of tile the utah Wool growers association and secretary james james A hooper of the same organization president E G petersen Peters cn and dean E J maynard of tile the U 9 A C at logan and many prominent feeders and ers of the locality both the feeders day program by tile the college and the Wool growers a banquet were good noticeable was the optimism reflected in the coun tenancies ten ances of wool growers as contrasted with their attitude for the past two or three years |