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Casper Star-Tribune Friday, September 11, 1970 Cities' Revenue Droops Under 'Modern' System The cities' fears, expressed to the 40th Legislature, that a state take-over of their gasoline taxing abilities would mean less revenue for them have proven true, according to Walter Kingham, executive secretary of the Wyoming Association of Municipalities. Cities, such as Casper, which prior to the past fiscal year levied and collected their own one cent gasoline tax, are receiving less revenue now than they did under the old system, he said. Evanston Woman Dies at Ogden Matthews, 50, of Evanston, died WedEVANSTON- -Mrs. LaVern Rowley nesday in an Ogden, Utah, hospital after a short illness. Born Aug.

18, 1920, in Evanston, she was married to Leslie W. Matthews on April 30, 1941, in Salt Lake City. She was a member of the auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, Union Pacific Oldtimers Club No. 20, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was a member of the Woodruff (Utah) Stake Primary Presidency.

The stake includes towns in both Utah and Wyoming. She was a member of the Evanston Fourth Ward. Mrs. Matthews was a Cowboy Days Queen in Evanston as a girl. Survivors include her husband; a son, Joseph; and a daughter, Mrs.

Phil (Vicki Sue) Petersen, all of Evanston; a grandson; and two brothers, Robert L. Rowley of Evanston and Lorin E. Brown of Rock Springs. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday in the LDS Third-Fourth Ward Chapel in Evanston.

Friends may call at Bills Funeral Home 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday prior to services. Burial will be in the Evanston City Cemetery. Infant Girl Dies Michelle Rae Summers, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Summers of Mills, died Thursday morning at Memorial born Wednesday, Sept. 9 and is survived by her parents at the family home; paternal grandfather Chester N. Summers, Evansville; paternal grandmother Mrs. Sybil Galloway, Mills; and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. M. Brown, Alcova Route; one sister Lucinda at home. Private graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at Highland Cemetery.

Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Funerals CY AVENUE AT SPRUCE BUSTARD'S PHONE 234.7123 MRS. GERRI WRIGHTServices for Mrs. Harold W. (Gerri) Wright were Thursday morning at the Bustard Funeral Home with the Rev.

Douglas Scott, Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial was in Highland Cemetery. Pallbearers were Don Knerl, Harlan Boltz, James W. Oler, Henry Bridgman and Harry Hazelton. MRS.

FRANCES O'BRIENGraveside services for Mrs. Frances O'Brien, a former Casperite who died Tuesday in Los Angeles, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the family plot in Highland Cemetery, MRS. EMMA LOU STEWART-. Services for Mrs.

Emma Lou Stewart will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Bustard Funeral Home with the Rev. Arch Hewitt and the Rev. Jack Mueller of St. Mark's Episcopal Church officiating.

Burial will be in the family plot in Highland Cemetery. Either flowers or memorials to St. Mark's Episcopal Church will be equally appreciated. MEMORIAL CHAPEL Formerly Horstman -Ga 710 E. 2nd Ph.

234-0234 MRS. EMMA HILLIARServices for Mrs. William A. (Emma) Hilliar were held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Chapel with the Rev.

John E. Williams, pastor of the First United Presbyterian Church, officiating. Pallbearers were Walter Bowman, Don Cresswell, Frank Kusel, Pat Culver, Robert Creagor and C. H. Biederman.

Honorary pallbearers were Tim Barrett, William Utzinger, Matt Grishhaber, Charles Gehres, C. E. Havill, Wayne Tucker and Harvey Zerbe. Burial was in Highland Cemetery. GEORGE H.

ROWE Services for George H. Rowe will be conducted at Memorial Chapel at 3 p.m. Friday. Interment will be in the veterans' plot at Highland Cemetery, Cornett's HILLSIDE MORTUARY 243 S. Park.

Home Owned Ph. 235-6694 Realtors Told Boom 'Imminent' The reason is believed to be the unnecessarily large sum withheld from the gas tax collections for agricultural refunds, Kingham said. He explained that prior to the 1969 session of the legislature, cities were allowed to levy a one-cent tax and collect it themselves, independent of the six-cent state gasoline tax. The 40th Legislature passed a bill prohibiting cities and counties from levying their own gas taxes, and increasing the state levy to seven cents one cent of which was to be refunded to all cities, towns and counties in proportion to the revenue they generated. Previously the agricultural exemption was taken out of the state collections.

The refund is now paid out of the revenue generated by the seven-cent tax, he said, including the one-cent due to the cities. Thus, cities expected their revenues to be decreased by the 6 or 7 per cent ordinarily paid out in refunds to farmers and ranchers for gas they burned in off-highway driving based on 70 per cent of the total gallons they purchase.) This was expected to be offset by the more efficient tax collection which the state would 'operate, Kingham said: cities and towns were not always able to collect all the taxes due them. However, the past fiscal year has found cities which previously collected their own gas taxes receiving slightly less under the new system than they did before, he said. Upon his investigation, Kingham said he found the Wyoming Revenue Department was withholding 20 per cent of the total collections to pay agricultural exemptions which in the past had amounted to only 6.2 per cent of the total. He noted that the law says only the amount which is "necessary" to pay the refunds should be and said he believed 20 per cent was more than necessary.

This is not the bone of contention, however, Kingham said. The Revenue Department has said it does not know how much is necessary in this first year of operation under the new system. Kingham said he believed the department selected 20 per cent as an arbitrary, safe margin. What concerns him, he said, is what will happen to the remainder of the 20 per cent withheld after the agricultural exemptions have been paid. Will the surplus money then be distributed to the cities, towns and counties? Kingham said he didn't know the answer and was told by one official in Cheyenne it would take an act of the legislature to get this surplus money distributed.

It was to get an answer to this question that an opinion from the attorney general was requested, Kingham said. There are other questions Kingham said he couldn't get an answer to. He couldn't find out why the figure cent was decided upon when past experience showed the exemptions were 6.2 per cent of the total, he said. He couldn't find out how the money was being handled -whether it was in the agricultural refunds fund established by law or whether these funds were being freely intermingled with the same 1 fund from which the cities' allotments are drawn. we're doing is inquiring," Kingham said.

"We're not trying to make trouble. There's no question of shortage of funds. We know the money is there somewhere." Education Group To Hear Changes In School Code A report on legislative changes in the Wyoming school code will be presented at a meeting of the Wyoming Education Council beginning at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Holiday Inn in Casper. Don Painter, attorney for the State Committee on School District Organization, will present the report.

Also on the agenda is a proposal to improve the Wyoming retirement program to be presented by Don Shanor, executive secretary of the Wyoming Education Association. State School Superintendent Harry Roberts -will discuss the 1969-70 school financial picture. A representative of a management consulting firm will give recommendations for a financial management information system for state public schools. The final topics scheduled involve possible legislative changes to include institutional education programs under School Foundation funding. Council co-chairmen are Rudy Anselmi of Cheyenne and Gerald Carroll of Buffalo.

Supreme Court Upholds 1964 Damages Suit CHEYENNE (UPI)- A $25, 806 judgment awarded to the town of Dayton, against a Laramie firm on a 1964 suit: involving a leaky waterline was upheld Tuesday by the Wyoming Supreme Court. The firm of J.T. Banner and Associates contracted with the town to supervise and provide engineering services for construction of a waterline from the Tongue River to the town. The 1964 lawsuit alleged the line developed leaks because of electrolysis due to improper laying of pipe. improper protection of the pipe or using the wrong pipe for existing soil conditions.

The town sued for $121,645. District Judge John Raper, sitting in Albany County by assignment, awarded the town $25,906 and the high court upheld that decision. The president of the National association of Real Estate Boards blamed inflation for the difficulties of the housing industry, but predicted a housing boom in the future, at the Wyoming Association of Realtors convention Thursday in the Ramada Inn. Rich Port of LaGrange, was the main speaker at the 18th annual convention which ends Saturday. The high scost of building homes, Port noted, discourages potential builders from developing land they already own.

At the same time he said the housing industry is being kept in a "second class" position, even though it is economically one of the most important in the nation, while it is expected to provide homes for an everincreasing population. We are "on the threshhold of the biggest housing boom of this century," said Port. "The backlog of demand is ready to go when the money market is ready." Port blamed "runaway inflation" on a "past administration" in Washington which piled up a budget deficit of $26 billion and then "refused to come to grips with the problem until too late." Port suggested the government should have taken steps, such as increasing taxes, to balance the budget. "Inflation is a long way from being licked. It may get worse as efforts are made to reverse recessionary trends," commented Port.

The real estate leader said "calamity" can be prevented by "sound credit policy, a balanced budget and abandoning the theory that printing press money is the cause of real In spite of all this, Port gave a ray of hope, noting that the money market was easing slightly and the sale of existing housing was improving. He does not believe interest rates will "ease substantially." Now is a good time to buy real estate, he said. "It's going to go CLENCHED FISTS greet Vice (far right). The group was led old Kelly Walsh High School (second face visible from MRS. EMMA LOU STEWART Emma Lou Stewart Dies Here Thursday Mrs.

Emma Lou Stewart, 82, 1224 South Elm, died Thursday afternoon in Natrona County Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Born Feb. 2, 1888, in Keokuk, Iowa, she took nurses training at Graham Hospital in Keokuk. She worked there until she married James E. Stewart on Dec.

10, 1927, in Bayard, Neb. They came to Casper that year. She also worked at Natrona County Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Stewart was a member of St.

Mark's Episcopal Church and its Guild, Order of Beauceant, Daughters of the Nile, Tamah Temple and the Zila Club. Survivors include her husband; two sons, William G. Ainsley of Cheyenne and Raymond W. Ainsley of El Cajon, two stepsons, Stanley E. Stewart of Casper and James Earl Stewart Jr.

of Apple Valley, and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Bustard Funeral Home with the Rev. Arch Hewitt and the Rev. Jack Mueller of St.

Mark's Episcopal Church officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in Highland Cemetery, Either flowers or memorials to St. Mark's Episcopal Church will be equally appreciated. Nation Guard Association Meets Friday An authority on civil rights and civil disturbance will. be featured speaker for the fourth annual Wyoming National Guard Association meeting at the Henning Hotel in Casper Friday and Saturday.

James P. Turner, deputy to the Assistant U.S. Attorney General, civil rights division, will address the Saturday evening banquet. Guardsmen from throughout Wyoming are expected to attend the meeting which opens Friday at 4 p.m. with registration at the Holiday Inn, followed by a social hour.

The association, which has 2400 members from both the Air and Army Guard is actively involved with youth organizations and projects. Registration at the Henning Hotel, convention headquarters, will be conducted at 8 a.m. Saturday, the same time a board of governors meeting will get underway. The first business session begins at 10 a.m. with the second session scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

The 67th Army Band of Cheyenne will play for the dinner dance at 7:30 p.m. Lt. Col. Elmer R. Bell, Air Gruard, and Maj.

Kaye Lord, Army Guard, both of Casper, are convention chairmen. Mrs. Roger Portz, wife of Lt. Roger Portz, military police commander in Casper, and president of the Casper National Guard Auxiliary, is in charge of arrangements for women guests. President Spiro Agnew Stokesberry by a denim-clad 17-year- a Democratic student, Greg Stokesberry, UPI left.

UPI Wirephoto1 said he is a member of the Students for Society, a student revolutionary group. Youths Greet Agnew With Fists Clenched By PHIL MAULEY News Editor A handful of Casper high school students, led by a 17-year-old member of the Students for a Democratic Society, greeted Vice President Spiro Agnew at the Casper Air Terminal Thursday with the clenched fist Harry Taylor? Just so we don't disappoint Vice President Agnew, let it be said that he made what he called a "congenital lapse" Thursday evening at the $50 per person cocktail reception. Agnew praised Gov. Stan Hathaway and Republican Senatorial hopeful John Wold, "who served so effectively in the Congress." He next put in a plug for Congressional hopeful Harry "Taylor." After a few moments, the Vice President, apparently informed of his mistake, apologized to Harry Roberts. Agnew explained, "A Congenital lapse which happens once during a campaign." He added, "I can promise you that will be the headline story tomorrow." "Power to the People" symbol.

Greg Stokesberry, 17, who told the StarTribune he is a student at Kelly Walsh High School, said he and the group of 14 other high school students, showed up at the airport "to let him know that not everyone agrees with the Wyoming Republican party and that we favor a feasible withdrawal from Southeast Asia." Stokesberry said that when he and a group of students gave the clenched fist "Black Panther" sign, the Vice President asked: "What does that mean?" "What does that question mean? Stokesberry said he in turn asked Agnew. "Where have you been living?" The Vice President than addressed the crowd surrounding him "Show these gentlemen to the washroom," Stokesberry said. Stokesberry, who said he has lived in Chicago but has been in Casper for the past year and one half, and the other studentsmale and female, then followed the Vice Presidential party to the Ramada Inn headquarters where they huddled around the entrance to the motel. The students said they were mostly from Kelly Walsh High School but some attended Natrona County High School. Roberts Seeks Support On Nixon Administration Republican congressional candidate Harry Roberts, kicking off his general election campaign Thursday, asked Wyomingites to support the principles of the Nixon Administration in order to "bring stability and progress to the future of this nation." Roberts, speaking at a rally for Vice President Spiro T.

Agnew, said there were several clear -cut questions evident in the campaign for the state's single seat in Congress, and Wyoming voters would have to decide "which way to go." "Does Wyoming want to support a peace candidate who has already charged President Nixon with 'phony promises on withdrawal?" Roberts asked. "Or does Wyoming want a congressman who will support the first president who has outlined a clear -cut plan to bring a termination to "Make America Better" is the national theme for Realtors, he said and cited some of the projects the country's 1,578 real estate boards are engaged in. Particularly he pointed to a Montana program to combat drug abuse and a "light the night" program in Missouri to reduce crime. Both have been successful, he said. Other projects have included providing housing for elderly and low income families, promoting vocational education, building parks, playgrounds and community centers for underprivileged, beautification of cities and fighting pollution.

Port urged real estate men to become more involved in politics, to run for office, to work for candidates. He said the national association had established the Real Estate Political Education Committee, a bipartisan group, which would help candidates get elected and also politically educate real estate men. Port said that real estate only has value if America is kept beautiful and kept great. He urged his fellow Realtors to help preserve American society and culture and pointed out that there are no real estate men behind the Iron Curtain. Hansen Keynotes Alaskan Kickoff the fighting by U.S.

troops in Vietnam? "Does Wyoming want to support a return to the big spending days of the LBJ Congress of the middle sixties?" Roberts said, "or does Wyoming want a man who will work for a reduction in the increase in federal expenditures and a halt to our everincreasing national debt?" The 52-year-old Roberts, who is currently ending a 4-year term as the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction and is a member of the University Board, also commented on campus unrest, saying that Wyoming needs a congressional representative who supports the governor and the University Board in their efforts "to maintain discipline at our unviersity." Roberts said the Nixon administration needs the assistance of a Republican majority in Sen. Cliff Hansen, in Casper Thursday for the Republican party campaign kickoff sparked by Vice President Spiro Agnew, leaves today for Anchorage, Alaska where he will keynote the Alaska GOP campaign. Hansen will speak at the Republican State Convention in behalf of Ted Stevens, running for the unexpired two years remaining on the term of the late Sen. Bob Bartlett. Stevens was appointed by former Alaska Gov.

Walter Hickel, now Secretary of the Interior. Hansen said he was asked to keynote the Alaskan GOP campaign "probably because of coming from an oil producing state and being somewhat aware of the problems and public lands, too." It's Gonna Warm Up United Press International LARAMIE Fair and a little warmer Friday. Increasing cloudiness Friday night. High Friday mid 70s. Low Friday night 40-45.

High Saturday near 60. Precipitation probability 5 per cent or less Friday 10 per cent Friday night. RAWLINS- Fair and a little warmer Friday. Increasing cloudiness Friday night. High Friday mid 70s.

Low Friday night 40-45. High Saturday near Precipitation probability 5 per cent or less Friday 10 per cent Friday night. Temperatures Albuquerque 82 60 Atlanta 89 68 Big Piney 72. 19 Billings 71 41 Bismarck 67 40. Boston 76 60 .25 CASPER 76 30 Cheyenne 73 37 Chicago 70 60 .23 Cleveland 76 64 .04 SOUTHWEST WYOMING Generally fair and little warmer PREVIEW OF ESSA WEATHER BUREAU FORECAST TO 7:00 P.M.

EST 9 -11 70 Friday. Increasing cloudiness Friday night. Highs Friday 70s. FAIR MILD SEATTLE SHOWERS MONTREAL Low Friday night 40s. Highs SatMILD TORONTO I BOSTON urday 60s.

Precipitation probability 5 per cent or less Friday WARM and 10 per cent MILWAUKEE. MILD NEW FORK Friday night. DENVER KANSAS CITY BIG HORN BASIN- Increasing SAN FRANCISCO cloudiness Friday. showers or FAIR 0 occasional rain developing lower WARM ATLANTA elevations and local snows 80 SHOWERS developing mountains Friday FT WORTH UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST 1 and continuing through SaturMIAMI day. High Friday 70-75.

Low WARM 90 Friday night 35-45. High Saturday 50s. Precipitation probability 20 per cent Friday 40 per cent Friday night. Around the Area, State and Nation Denver 76 38 Detroit 74 65 Douglas 74 32 Fort Worth 87 73 Helena 73 32 Houston 92 77 Kansas City 75 55 Lander 72. 36 Laramie 74.

34 Los Angeles 86 66 Miami 87 81 Paul 69 49 Moorcroft 71 34 New Orleans 90 71. New York 83 69 .20 Oklahoma City 81 61 Omaha 72 44 Phoeniz 101 78 Portland, Ore. 81 52 Rapid City 73 36 Rawlins 72 33 Rock Springs 75 34 St. Louis 73 57 14 Salt Lake City 77 45 San Francisco 69 53 Seattle 71 49 Sheridan 72. 32 Washington 93 72 .85 W.

Yellowstone 64 24 80 34.