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Show INDEPENDENT Sugar House, Utah Thursday May 21 1959 , Page Three the tax administration machinery. The 1959 Legislature enacted leg-islation which will prevent one county service area from over-lapping another. Nothing was done, however, to alleviate the problem created by other overlapping special districts. Inequity of the New Sales Tax In many communities of the State, the 12 of 1 local-opti- on sales tax, recently enacted by the 1959 Utah Legislature, may produce half as much revenue as is now being received by cities from the local property tax. This opinion was expressed in a report just released by Utah Foundation, the private govern-ment research organization. The Foundation report 'ob-serves that problems of local gov-ernments in Utah have been stud-ied for the past several yeras by a number of special commit-tees and by the Utah Legislative Council. Although a large part of the legislative program recom-mended by these groups was not adopted by the 1959 Utah Leg-islature, several important mea-sures were enacted. Among these were the 12 of 1 local option sales tax, an optional strong-may- or form of government for first and second class cities, and permission for counties (but not Cities) to accumulate funds for capital outlay. Foundation analysts estimate that during 1958 city taxpayers in Salt Lake County paid more than $1 million in taxes to provide municipal-typ- e services for resi-dents living outside incorporated cities. Based on 1958 property valuation, a 3.7 mill county-wi- de tax ($3.70 per $1,000 assessed valuation) was required to pay for the municipal services pro-vided by the county in such un-incorporated areas. City taxpayers paid this county tax in addition to city levies imposed for furnishing the same services within their respective communities. The study points out that al-though a County Service Area Act was enacted in 1957 to help correct the inequity of dual taxation of city residents and provide improved municipal services in unincorpor-ated areas, only one county (Davis) has established a county service area during the past two years. Greatly complicating local tax administration in Utah, according to the Foundation report, is the sharp increase in the number of special districts that have been created during recent years. Be-cause these districts often overlap each other, the problem has be-come even more complex. Cur-rently, there are 57 tax areas in Salt Lake County, 49 tax areas in Weber County, and 33 different tax areas in Davis County. This burden enlarging along the same lines. All of this, of course, would be greatly injurious to the pri-vate power companies and to the competitive enterprise system. The House passed the legis-lation by a vote of 245 to 170. This is less than the two-thir- ds required to override a pre-sidential veto, and some opponents predicted a veto unless curbs on TVA's monetary operations are voted by the Senate. NO COMMENT By: James W. Douthat Washington, D. C. Powerful support is developing in Congress for legislation to apply the nation's antitrust laws to at least a sub-stantial segment of union labor. Industry hopes that the move-ment will spread to cover all or-ganized labor and thereby pro-tect the nation against unions giant monopoly power. This would mean applying to labor organizations the same anti-trust laws that now apply to in-dustry. Impetus for such legislation came from an all --important state-ment by Sen. McClellan (D- - Ark.) chairman of the Senate Rackets Committee. Many members of Congress look to him for leader-ship in this field. Senator McClellan called for antitrust legislation to deal with labor racketeering in the trans-portation field. His statement resulted from evidence produced by his Com-mittee that outstanding publica-tions had been compelled to pay tribute to racketeers to assure delivery of newspapers. These revelations, the Sena-tor asserted, "clearly indicate the time has come for Congress to seriously consider the enactment of special antitrust legislation in the transportation field. His staff was instructed to prepare legislative recommenda-tions for consideration by the Sen-ate Judiciary Committee. "It is obvious to the whole country," Senator McClellan said, "that the labor unions themselves cannot handle the critical problem of racketeering." The Kennedy labor bill passed by the Senate contained no anti-trust provision. However, there is pending in the House a bill by Rep. Hiestand (R-Ca- l,) which would make labor organizations subject to the antitrust laws. In addition to the Hiestand mea-sure, industry favors bills by Rep. Barden (D-N.- C.) chairman of the House Labor Committee. Among other things, they would regulate union operations, protect the state laws against federal preemption, provide for a secret strike ballot, and regulate union activities. Industry also advocates legis-lation prohibiting compulsory EVA vs. Private Industry The Senate now becomes the battleground for the all-impor- tant controversy over whether the Ten-nes- ee Valley Authority should be permitted to carry out expansion plans free from controls by Con-gress or the President and in competition with private industry. Opponents contend that if TVA wins congressional approval it. is possible it might serve as a pre-cedent leading ultimately to a vast extension of government power throughout the nation. Specifically at issue is per-mission for the TVA to issue $750 million in revenue bonds which would be a revolving fund to construct new steam plants for expansion of power facilities. This amount is generally re-garded as a "foot in the door" figure-whi- ch would lead to insis-tent demands from government power advocates for ever increas-ing funds. Private power supporters fear that this would be accompanied by territorial expansion, and, that other government power projects would seize the opportunity for ! err i -- ' ' - it I 1 minfflf r- - T.. m Photo shows at right, Ielt Marshall of the Duraclean Co. presenting a factory training diploma to Mr. William Sommer, local manager of the Duraclean branch. As indicated on the diploma, Mr. Sommer ' has proven to the management at Duraclean headquarters that he is capable of rendering superior service in all phases of cleaning, mothproofing, soil retarding, flame proofing and spotting. The Dura-clean office is located at 3055 East Mill Creek Road. China The Sleeping Giant. May Awaken Millions of Chinese peasants have recently been introduced to the "Communes" by their Red bosses. The "Communes" com-pletely destroy family life and substitute a jam-pack- ed central living facility exactly contrary to . the ancient Chinese way of life. Already many brave Chinese have fled from the Mainland to Formosa, and other off-sho- re Islands to es-cape this new strangulation of their already lost freedom. The Chinese people have ab-sorbed many conquerors down the ages. Will China be able to swal-low these Red Devils who have sold their souls to a pack of rats? Will the great Dragon again belch fire at the enemies of a great people? The Chinese are a long suffering people with a fierce pride in their homeland and their ac-complishments in the arts and sciences. Within the shrunken breast of the poorest peasant there beats a heart that longs for the return to the China of the ages. A China that asked no one for charity, even when famine and floods wrought their havoc. A China that astounded the world with its creative gen-ius in all fields. We of the western world have never known enslavement or dom-ination of a foreign power. God grant we never shall know this humiliation. But let us hope that once again the great sleepingDra-go- n that is China may awaken and devour this horde of invaders who rule with the mailed fist and without pity, understanding, . or even humanitarian concepts. EJS. Ease PAINS OF HEADACHE. NEURAL-GIA, NEURITIS with STANBACX TABLETS or POWDERS. STAN BACK combines several medically proven pain relievers ... The added effectiveness of these MULTIPLE ingredients brings faster, more complete relief, easing anxiety and tension usually aeconv Panyin Pai"' STAN BACK I LH ftl ' I :?Tfl ' gainst any KAlAM ' - A jjp preparation f"TrOWOltJ you've ever I used I '"VSjfCSX. Personals Don Cooper. , Winfield, Kansas, Lieutenant Commander in the Na-val Reserves, is attending the National Defense Resources Con-ference at the University of Utah. 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