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Recommendation last week was made to the county board of superâ€" visors by R. M. Lobdell, county suâ€" perintendent of highways, that apâ€" proximately $936,000 in principal and interest due on three highway bond issues be paid from the Motor Fuel Tax for the next five years ratherâ€" than from direct taxation. Such a course, he said, would save taxpayers about ten cents on the $100 assessed valuation. TO PAY OFF BONDS Lobdell Suggests Plan to Board for Next Five Years to Reduce Taxes FLMS HOTEL cnjoy Sborious Jab Vacation Damp a EXCELSIOR SPRINGS waters. Comfort / Luxury/ Food to delight the most jaded appetiteâ€" with special a‘fen: tion to those who must observe diet rules. Amid the serene beauty of stately Elms, glorious in their new Autumn colors, you will find the vaca tion of your dreams. 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Over the entire peâ€" riod of five years, Lobdell pointed Lobdell also encouraged the board to slash the appropriation about 4 cents on the $100 valuation, which would result, he said, in a total savâ€" ings of about 14 cents on the $100 assessed valuationâ€" as far as road costs are concerned. <o+ â€" suggestion that the board add the Second bond issue to the 1st and 4th, now being paid out of the gas tax, and retire three issues in this fashion which would leave only the 3rd bond issue on direct taxation. Urges Slash @MISSOUR| es THE PRESS [on the present basis would fall about $150,000 of meeting the payâ€" _ments. This lack. of income could be met, he said, through drawing upon the gas tax money reserve built up by the county. Suggests Reserve Lobdell argued that a sufficient reserve should be maintained by the county at all times to protect a promise made by the county board of supervisors at the time of the vote on the 4th bond issue of $1,â€" 250,000 that it would be paid up out â€"of M. F. T. earnings and not out of direct taxation. There is a chance, he admitted, that the gas tax money might be diâ€" verted to other channels by the general assembly, which would A lt rat "Such a situation would not en. dure, in my opinion, because pub. lic sentiment soon would force the general assembly to put back and keep the gasoline tax money for the purpose it is intended," he explained by the way of assurance that this | income would not be torn from the ' county permanently at any time. i Finance Head Agrees Assistant Supervisor Arthur W. Vercoe, of Highland Park, chairman of the finance committee, said the committee was in agreement with Lobdell‘s suggestions and that the county board, in his opinion, would conform with the recommendations as a means of making a sharp cut _ _/ _ in the cost of county government. *"* â€" The entire savings in the budget to be passed at this session will be | about $200,000 to the taxpayers in ‘ comparison with last year‘s approâ€" priation, Vercoe said. f + Lobdell also reported on the progâ€" ress of highway construction in the | 90 days just ended. The county, he : said, has been offered elm trees to plant on the new Druce Lakeâ€"Gages | Lake road and he stated that if the planting would not be too costly the trees might be set out this fall. â€" â€". make a strong reserve fund neces. sary to protect the pledge made to the public by the supervisors ty keep the bond. issue out of direct taxation. Get a can today from one of the dealers listed below and you will discover that reason. 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