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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1955
Page
2
The Times praises the Elks Lodge Parowan Lions Club and local merchants for ensuring no child went without toys and no family faced hardship this Christmas. It acknowledges unseen helpers and criticizes none while stressing the added warmth from shared compassion.
The column laments vandals stealing Christmas lights while praising city workers Winston Orton Frank Mortensen and Max Hendrickson for keeping power demand under 300 KW on Christmas Eve. Water headworks manipulation stored enough water to cover peak load, saving several hundred dollars on power for the year. Last year’s peak exceeded 500 KW.
Utah faces a growing burden from around 80 special districts and authorities authorized to tax. Combined levies amount to about 2.45 million dollars annually. The piece argues for better coordination under general county government rather than many quasi independent taxing bodies.
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