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Show Get Bonus Check .... History Is Made - Utes Pay Federal Income Tax History was made this week by - the members of the Ute tribes from Fort Duchesne, Ouray, Ou-ray, Myton, Randlett and White-rocks White-rocks when they began filing income tax returns with Uncle Sam on Tuesday and continued through Wednesday and Thursday. Thurs-day. It was the first time in history the Indian had to share the white man's allergy to the ides of March, when the rank and file tribe members had been confronted with the necessity neces-sity of paying income taxes to the Federal government. Tuesday was a day of mingled joy and dismay for the Ute Indians In-dians who lined up at the Roosevelt Roos-evelt office of the Commercial Bank of Utah to receive another per capita payment of $300, and they continued through the line to pay their income tax to officials of-ficials from the Internal Revenue Reve-nue Department, who had spent nearly a month teaching the nearly 1800 members of the various var-ious tribes that it was their American duty to pay a tax. Reports from the federal collector col-lector of internal revenue officials offi-cials indicate that approximately approximate-ly 75 of the 1735 returns to be filed were handled Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. A total to-tal of $93,000 in taxes was expected ex-pected to be collected from the tribal members. Oldest person on the reservation reserva-tion to file a tax was Mrs. Tav-I Tav-I ian Lincoln, 104 year old member mem-ber of the White River tribe, who resides at Whiterocks. She was told, however, that she did not have to pay the tax. Youngsters Young-sters one year and above paid their tax just like dad and mom. All registered Indians on the reservation, who were included in the per capita and the oil royalities, were required to make the minimum tax payment of $54. Some went into higher 1 brackets up to $25,000. |