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65-cent Increase in Count;
Levy Marked By
Proposed Budget
In an Atmosphere about as dejected as a dentist's waiting room, the Board of Supervisors in meeting Wednesday morning authorized the publishing of the proposed county budget for 1953, marking i an increase over 1952’s levy of 5 *2.50 per *100, to *3.15 per *100. The 65-cent increase was expected, but was received with all the welcome of a boil on the end of the nose. Apru 6 was set as the •*" ./greeting to accept the budY
>fjr public hearing.
I jjjpervisom, one by one, plieO**' jstions as to whether this or that nem could be cut; could expenses be pulled down even a little here or there; and the answer was always the same. If the extra $1'50 didn’t go to the health department, then the department would hsva to be abandoned. The schools couldn’t run on a penny less. _ Every place that could be cut, was Cut.
The decrease in valuation of county property was the whole answer. There is less to tax, and so taxes ar* higher; expenses are I more, so -more money is neded.
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