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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor ' YOU CAN HELP DETERMINE HOW MUCH YOUR TAX BILL WILL BE IN 1956 . . . Next Tuesday. Dec. 6, 1955, at the hour of 2:30 p.m.", pro-perty pro-perty owners of Duchesne' County will have a golden opportunity to help their Board of County Commissioners set the 1956 budget. bud-get. That's the date of the annual county budget hearing. Several months ago, when the word went forth that Duchesne Du-chesne County had set a 5'0.65-mill tax levy, which includes the school's share, a wave of protests resounded and a lot of angry word's were spoken. There were some unfortunate circumstances involved which made it necessary to hike our 1955 levy for school purposes. . - I am not trying to infer that something could have been done to avert the' sharp hike in our tax load. But, this I am sure of not very many of these people who yelled the loudest when the high levy was announced, took a couple of hours' time' a year ago and attended the budget meeting of the county. Here Is Your Chance, Mr. Taxpayer of Duchesne County! Next Tuesday the commissioners are seriously urging taxpayers tax-payers to come to their 1955 budget hearing, Next Tuesday Afternoon, Af-ternoon, December Sixth, at the Courthouse in Duchesne, at 2:30 It's true we elect men and women to run our country, but unless we occasionally let them know of our desires, they can get into a rut, or become carried away by their own enthusiasm, and a few mistakes will be make. I have a lot of confidence in the men and women running our political offices. However, they are just like you and me human to the extent that they will take it for granted that you're satisfied with the' way they are doing things, unless you once in a while take time to put them straight as to your thinking. You are being extended a special invitation to meet with your commissioners next week and talk over money matters with them as they affect the coming year. vEv "When a man and woman marry, they become one. The trouble starts when they try to decide which one!" Mary McCoy. Mc-Coy. vEv EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN SHOULD TAKE TIME TO COUNT HIS BLESSINGS . . . Maybe you, as an American citizen, are a little tired of hearing how lucky you are. Sure, you're thankful to live in a democracy', in a strong, rich country where there's plenty for all, where freedom is an everyday thing, not a forbidden idea to be whispered at night. . . but how much does "luck" have to d'o with it? It wasn't luck that brought the Pilgrim Fathers to America, it was their subborn determination to find a better life. . . it wasn't luck that turned the struggling young country into the richest and most powerful on earth, it was hard work and far-seeing far-seeing vision. Above all, it wasn't luck that preserved a democracy for . almost two hundred world-shaking years. It wasn't luck that made the "American way of life" synonymous' with a high standard' stan-dard' of free, decent living. Things like that don't happen by luck. They happen because men make them happen because men who believe in freedom, democracy, and a good way of life, work fight and die for them. Now that you've enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner, and the long nights of winter are approaching, you'yy probably feel, like taking a long snooze. What's wrong with a nap? Nothing, if it's the honest rest of a man who is wide awake when he is awake' who realizes that his blessings, as an American, are not only - his heritage, but his charge', that his "luck," hard-fought and hard-won, can be easily lost. vEv Some 26 million U. S. families snap l1 -billion pictures annually an-nually with their own cameras. t One acre out of every ten planted in the U. S. is lost annually to insect damage'. 30 |