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Show eral increase in the assessed valuations val-uations of homes and buildings. J. Lambert Gibson, Utah's Tax Commission chairman, points out that while the tax does not recommend increased in-creased building and home valuations, val-uations, it does not mean that the tax load will remain the same. The actual tax bill facing the taxpayer will be governed by the mill levies set up by local taxing units. Pat Pay Checks Go Begging According to James K. Rich ardson, Utah Metal Mines association, asso-ciation, a lot of Utahns evidently evident-ly prefer white collar jobs at less wages than fat. pay checks in the Utah mining industry. An exaggerated fear of accidents acci-dents was blamed by Mr. Richardson Rich-ardson for the present mine shortage. "Although," he pointed point-ed out, " Utah metal mines have had only 24 fatalities in two years compared with Utah's skyrocketing traffic and home accident rate." Figures revealed by Mr. Richardson Rich-ardson indicated that the average aver-age monthly -wage of general industry taken ' from textile, wholesale, retail, lumbering and manufacturing firms was S174 a month, while the same average aver-age monthly wage for persons employed in the 111 metal-mining firms was $216.96 a month. Employes in the 19 nonferrous metals and produce firms including in-cluding smelters earned on an average of $214.50 a month. Spotlighting I UTAH 1 .More Room For Navajos Padre Liebler of Bluff, Utah, better known as "Father Liebler' Lieb-ler' among the Navajos, is anxious anx-ious to extend the borders of the Navajo indian reservation. Feeling Feel-ing out Arizona authorities, he tvas told that public opinion was against extending the reservation reserva-tion lines any further into Arizona Ari-zona territory, so he came to Salt Lake City to feel out the public opinion relative the matter mat-ter in Utah. Father Liebler presented his arguments in behalf of expanding expand-ing the Navajo indian reservation reserva-tion before the publicity and industrial in-dustrial commission. He pointed out that the Navajo indian nation na-tion is the only indian group now on the increase and that they need more room. Pointing to a map of southeastern Utah, and to that part of the Navajo Reservation in Utah some 150 miles long and 30 miles wide, he projected the possibility of extending ex-tending the reservation borders up into the waste lands of Kane, Garfield and San Juan counties. Father Liebler is an Episcopalian Episco-palian minister who has a parsonage par-sonage at Bluff and his work is entirely with the Navajo in-dians. in-dians. He is attempting to teach the youngsters the rudiments of reading and writing and to interest in-terest them in silver smithing. Stock Ranges Improved Heavy fall rains in various section of Utah has greatly improved im-proved stock ranges, many of which have been in poor condition condi-tion since 1943. Livestock in most parts of Utah are reported to be in good condition. Tax Assessors Get Info Utah tax assessors are being asked to give their full cooperation coopera-tion in seeing that l?40's assessments assess-ments based on homes and buildings be carried out in every county to the full 30 per cent of the valuation. This means, however, there will be no gen- |