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Show Korea, Mr. Healy asserts. Gasoline tax collections also jumped nearly 10 per cent, or more than $200,000 in the quarter, quart-er, compared with a year, ago. Taxes on fuel for dlesel engines used on the highway increased 30 per cent, but this increase represents only $30,000 for the quarter. Oleo Revenues Compete With Liquor Tax During the first quarter of the current fiscal year the people of Utah, which claims dairing as one of its principal industries, consumed something in excess of two and one-half pounds of oleomargarine per person. The increase in consumption was about 25 per cent. However, the increase in revenue from the oleomargarine tax during the same three-month period was 1 125 per cent. The revenue more than dou- I bled, because a year ago much of the oleomargarine marketed was being sold uncolored and paid a tax of 5 cents per pound. Now apparently the Utah public prefers the colored kinds and ! pays 10 cents state tax per pound consumed. ! In the past quarter over $150,-I $150,-I 000 was collected in taxes, or at the rate of $600,000 a year. The tax is becoming a rather sub-I stantial revenue-producer, it is noted by Patrick Healy, Jr., chairman of the commission. The revenue for the first quarter of the current fiscal year far surpassed sur-passed that from the sale of beer stamps or the sum collected for the school lunch fund on the sales by the liquor control commission. com-mission. It produced about 60 per cent as much as the tax on the sale of cigarettes. Sales Tax l'p Of much greater importance ! in dollars and cents, and still of great interest from the econc- mic standpoint, is the fact that i the sales tax receipts jumped more than $500,000 in the same quarter, compared with a year ago. This increase, however, measured proportionately, is only 11 per cent but that growth shows the increased buying at higher prices that marked the early period of the hostilities in |