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Show JU1y g B3K7 Mftfteriidl ffEn ft m mm w ipi&o , sOTunsMHr, 23- - 28 - 2 Ml MMM mill employes affected by closing down of this unit was mude available in the plate mill and other Woman which had been in departments ON need of additional manpower. Services for Mrs. Edna Julia The Geneva plant was con-- I Merrick, 39, who died last expressly for the manu- - day, June 30, of a heart attack at facture of plates. Present demands, the Dragerton hospital, were con-- 1 are for the thinner sheet metal, ducted from the L. D. S. church at the Utah works could not be Sunnyside Tuesday at 2:00 p. m. With operations discontinued to this production with-- j She had resided at Sunnyside for May 31 in the structural mill at the Geneva plant and with a out tremendous expenditures, it the past three years, m warning from the WTar Production was explained by one WPB offiBoard that a slackening of de- cial. William B. Todd, director of ham Canyon, the daughter of La- mand for steel probably will force the WPB steel division, said the fayette and Elsie Elsie Hicks the plant to shut down by Sep- plant can't very well function un- -j Chidester. Besides her parents, tember unless new orders are re- less it has steel orders, and the or- - she is survived by her husband,, Todd said Lionel Merrick, Sunnyside; the ceived, considerable apprehension ders are easing off. has been created in western in- study of the facility is being taken following children, Florence, Le-- 1 ona, Willis and Lorence. Also five dustrial circles, and in Utah most wtih a view to seeing what other A1 Du-- 1 sisters, Mrs. Luella Powell, particularly, over the postwar fu Programs might materialize. ture of this huge plant. Those who report will be submitted to the chesne; Florence Anderson, Price; are willing to weigh all the reali- - Defense Plant Corp., which will Virginia Smith, Myton; Esther ties of the situation are at least then rule on final disposition of Allred, Altonah; Louise Mecham, Sunnyside; two brothers, Joe Chi- tempering their previously opti- - the works. mistic attitude. Conversion of the plant to shell dester, Sunnyside and Pfc. Lafe' There has been growing evi- - steel production would take an Chidester, with the armed forces dence, also, that all may not be estimated nine months and will somewhere in Europe, Burial was in charge of the too well in the effort of Utahns cost millions of dollars, it is claim-- 1 Mitchell Funeral home and inter- -' U. S. Steel ed. J. The Co., in action unified toward Henry looking the western states in the matter Kaiser and the Colorado Fuel &jment was in the Price cemetery. of over-a- ll industrialization, with Iron Corp., in expressing I Un! n in- -, continued Geneva operations as terest in leasing or buying the demands. This market, he said, is one of the most important factors, plant, naturally have taken this primarily in cold reduced sheets land tin plate. For there are signs that interest, factor into consideration. But, as he pointed out, the struc-- j especially political, in the coast) According to Walter Mathesius, states has veered to support for president of the Geneva Steel Co , tural mill, now closed temporarily, the Henry J. Kaiser Fontana, the best chance of the plant con- - can with its present equipment Calif., plant over Geneva which tinning operation through the produce some pi oducts which me if pushed, could leave this area transition from war to peacetime 1,1 demand for the civilian econ- y. And the list of such prod holding the bag. production lies in an early deter- War Production Board officials mination of the disposal problem I n. a p a conversion pro- - " ce md .d mu have credited the situation at The structural mill, he mill uis piovided oi.ginally with neva to navy and maritime cut-- 1 gram backs on orders for steel plate, pointed out, could produce prod- - facilities to produce only those Geneva, at present, has orders to ucts for the civilian market while sections required for ship building But a variety of products couM be carry the plate mill through Au- the plate null is being converted gust. Employment for structural to fit into the far western market pioduced by providing other rolls, ACTION URGED DISPOSAL M MMM..MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ed through on 'FORMER PRICE NEWSPAPER MAN make sure he Ml Funeral Held For Government Grazing Sunnyside Service Delays Its OF STEEL PLANT the hadn't thing. TAKES RIDE DOWN ITALIAN BOOT WITH ALLIED SUPREME COMMANDER He uses the same silvery engine plane. in use today on U. S. It is equipped inside, however tat am fort on long trips and asan aemi headquarters far the energetic The controversy over proposed grazing fee increases on Taylor d grazing lands temporarily was tied last week when the depart-convertment of interior revealed that it aet-an- commander. Dickey and his ed j is completed, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes notified Chairman Hatch New Mexico of the sem te 'biie fees at this time m- mm MDe mm IDEAL FOR Shcrwin-William- s SEMI-LUSTR- J-- E FINISH fcstTrf Made for happier housekeeping! 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THE ON - EYES KEEP YOUR just learning to fly. is ", i 5 steady hand, and paitly to the fact that Alexanders reg- uar American pilot. Capt. W. W. Dickey of Tampa, Fla., sat beside him at the controls, giving him of Mr und pointers Dlckcv Mis. H. E. Dickey, Tampa, was an air force instructor before coming over for this special assignment, I was stranded in Venice with a' scheduled flight called off and no vvay to get back to Rome to leae. next morning on a tnIx U I could hitch hike to I could get to pes or Caserta Rome in time-surSo I wont out to the newly open-i- n ed Lido Island airfield that morn-sal- e ing and soon everybody around knew my plight. Presently Field Guaranteed GLASSES FACTORY TO YOU! ed Nothing e Down$l GET COMPLETE EYE A Week! EXAMINATION NOW Marshal Alexanders party diove up. When Capt. Dickey told him of the stranded newspaperman, the field marshal invited me to come1 along with him, with a giacious invitation that almost seemed to say Id be doing him a favor, The previous afternoon I had MODERN OPTICAL OFFICES ,, .... ,A In Price . 4A at THROUGHOUT WW- 31 THE WEST .WAV .A East Main lb. Price DIRECTORY Price C-- EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE E. BERTOT MERCHANTS 1 time'ago'th.d'fe1 marshal's fixing things up the friendly ivay BUSINESS REPUTABLE i.'?6' Sporting Goods 202 W. MAIN AUTO Ll1 jal! which could be done in a fewiran!e lunrlsThe increase was opposed vig- weeks time. The immediate bottleneck is the orously by the livestock industry uncertainty as to disposal polities at a series of public meetings be- fore a senate subcommittee, one of and a postwar operator. Pressure for Disposal Renewed which was held in Salt Lake City This latest closing action and and another in Ely, Nevada. Spokesmen for the range users prophecy of a probable comp'c'.e has of couise stimulat- - took the position that no increase od Utah interests to renewed pres- - should be justified at this time; that nothing be left undone that they had been given assur-- j the elforts to bring a favorable ance that fees would not be in- by the government to private creased during the war emergen- operators before there is a com- - cy; that in any event, any change plete shutdown of the plant. All should be based upon a careful those who have been working for range appraisal. postwar operation of the facilities' The livestock industry also took are unanimous in supporting the the position that fees should be contention of Senator Abe Mur- - collected only to cover adminis- dock, that insistence must be on a trative expenses, claiming that transfer while the plant is still a 'such a policy was pledged at the going concern. For should such time the Taylor grazing act was transfer not come before plate or- - passed. dors are filled (provided there are no new orders, and the plant close down, there is grave fear that it would then definitely become a political football with the possi- -, bility of it being kicked eomplete-- I ly out of the picture, Right now, and for a long time past, Geneva, being the largest ofj the war plants for which disposi- tion is sought, has been investi-- 1 gated, piobed and surveyed, the general findings of all this being) that, industrially, it can be suc-- I cessfully and profitably operated on the basis of pretty accurate an-- ! ticipated markets in a rapidly growing industrial west, and on the potentials of postwar industrial needs in the Far East. That Geneva has been and continues to be used by politicians for various typos and degrees of maneuvering has been an obvious part of all discussions relative to sale by !DPC to private operators. PRICE LUMBER & WE PAY CASH MARKET TRICES FOR LIVESTOCK See Us Before You Sell On Price-HelpHighway Phone 242-- plain1 . BECKEL EASTERN UTAH V" Lets talk it over . . . Have a Coke A .Zfl" Ot. - aci in everything, but especially in,has a fine sense of h four bronze horses that date back straight as a ramrod he InnW to the time of Alexander the Great. ery a general He is an accomplished horseman. ln? Capt. Dickey, who has llown me back to Rnmi in Churchill, Kl.ng George, King waiked off the field here out Peter of Yugoslavia, Tito and most waiked an American 0f the other high Allied officials knew. His fast B.25 general and generals, took off and landed' but Alexander the sleek handled the controls all the way down the Adriatic coast and across Whereve you been so long" the mountains to the Allied force He ard headquarters airfield. "In the phone booth talking to Dickey kept up a running fire of;my girl- But someone wanted b questions and answers about fly-- 1 use the phone so we had to get jngi and the field marshal follow-- ! out. b ' WASHABUE de- Marstoi tovin8 Alexander, supreme Allied commander for the Italian war theatre as his pilot. In a clip- ping from the Herald sent to Mr. Hills father, L. A. Hills, is the story of just how it bapj'ned: s Lee is a brother of Earl Price, and started in the lutei Paer business m Price, Columbia the from Sduating f Sir Harold school of journalism. He has held terminmg reasonable rates several top ranking positions with Director Foi sling said at grazing eastcm daily papers. Here is the service headquarters in Salt Lak story: City that the study referred to hv (Via Bomber Caserta, Italy Mr. Ickes was started in 1940, but Most British Tommies Packet) at the end of 1941, would discontinued give a month's pay for an because of manpower ' shortage. He I had the other day. t ri n nov er was still a experience I not only rode half way down problem. He was unable at to say just when the study the Italian boot in the private Would be resumed or 01 edict when ldane of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, supreme allied com- it would be completed. for the theater, but had The study, Mr. Forsling ox mander the marshal himself for a pilot. ... ' . He also notified ,lra;sai studv with a view of " two-ste- that orshngrectorof the trriz- -pg :n 'cPrvce to rontinup the ' nd ... lands action would beadceiTto increase ' Ge-la- sskjtssj h Your friendly country garageman is used to meeting all kinds of people and jobs. Hate a Coke someone says, and they talk things over country belongs in such a friendly situation, just as it belongs .in your icebox at home. Everywhere, Coca-Colstands for the pause that a symbol of a friendly way of rejreshes, doing things. stjle. 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