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With a new fiscal year scheduled to begin July 1, officials of many Utah County taxing units – school districts, cities, etc. – are busy these days mulling budgets, preparing for public hearings, and projecting tax levies. In relation to this, the Herald makes these suggestions: 1. We urge taxing units to employ every appropriate… Continue reading Hold Line on Tux Levies

Vandalism of road signs costs the taxpayers of Utah large sums of money each year – and besides that, destruction or obscuring of signs creates dangerous hazards for the driving public. To give an idea of the extent of the sign destruction, the Department of Transportation budgeted $70,658 for fiscal 1977, calculating it would take… Continue reading Vandalism: It Costs You!

When you read or hear the ominous-sounding figures on unemployment, you are only getting part of the story – the gloomy side. The good news is that more American workers are working than ever before. in America’s history. And that goes for the situation right here in Utah County where the employment picture is far… Continue reading Optimistic Job Picture

Tax burdens for the average Utah property owner have become increasingly heavy in recent years – and they’d be heavier still if it weren’t for the big percentage of the total tax paid by owners of commercial and industrial property. According to studies by the Utah Foundation, private tax research organization, owners of business and… Continue reading Utuh’s Property Tux Bill

There ought to be a better way to go. in registering dissatisfaction with a tentative contract settlement. than a “wildcat strike, “‘ About 400 employees of Mountain Bell Telephone and Western Electric Co., staged a short wildcat strike Wednesday to protest a three-year tentative labormanagement contract accepted by the Communications Workers of America. Picket lines… Continue reading The ‘WiIdcut’ Phone Strike

The verbal exchange the other day between Labor Secretary Ray Marshall and Utah’s Sen. Orrin G. Hatch gave a clear glmpse of battle lines drawn in the fight over the controversial common situs picketing bill in Congress. The bill would permit striking construction workers to picket and possibly shut down — an entire project in… Continue reading Not in Public Interest

Attention has been drawn to salaries of postmasters as a factor in the postal department deficit. The whole subject of finding ways to economize seems timely, with a proposal afoot to boost the cost of stamps for first class business mail to 16 cents. In Utah it costs the U.S. Postal Service well over $2.5… Continue reading Review of Postal Salaries

Hats off to the smaller cities and towns of Central Utah – they really got out the vote Tuesday! While some of the major cities were allowing a minority of the voters to make the decisions at the polls, many of the little towns really showed the election spirit and appreciation for the right to… Continue reading Smcill Cities Set Example

Provo School District will hold a special election Tuesday to seek voter approval of a $12 million bond issue to finance a building program, That leaves less than a week for the district to finish its task of acquainting the public with the proposal…and for the citizens who haven’t made up their minds to analyze,… Continue reading Provo’s School Bond Vote

Americans traditionally have believed in fair play. With this in mind, there is cause for concern e regardless of how people stand on the Equal Rights Amendment – about a feature of the proposal to extend the ERA ratification deadline. Under the extension resolution now before Congress, the states which have not approved ERA are… Continue reading Fair Pluy on ERA Extension