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Sacramento, June 17-Fresno County has adopted a local sales aud use tax ordinance and has contracted for state administration effective July 1, announced the State Board of. Equalization. S,even counties have not yet passed county- wide sales tax ordinances : Santa Barbara in Southern Caiifornia, San Mateo in the San Francisco Bay Area. and the five mountain counties of Alpine. Amador. Plumas. Siskiyou, and Tehama. The last-named county and its three cities will contract for state administratioh effective October 1. 1959.

-In^Fresno County, the City of Fresno has adopted a rate gf^.92% {or the firsi 18 months, a rate of .90/o for the next 12. nronths, and a rate. of .88/o thereafter, aid each of the other 14 cities in the county has adopted a rate of .95/o tor

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Douglos Fir-Whire Fir-pine-Mixed Species the first 18 months, .93/o f.or the next 12 months, and .91/o thereafter.

Artesia, a newly incorporated city in Los Angeles County, and Del Mar, a new city in San Diego County, are also expected to sign up in time for their programs to go into effect on July 1.