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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES " FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1960 Page Three Civil Defense Official To Address Farmers Union Meet William L. Shaffer of Battle Creek, Michigan, national Civil Defense official, will join the roster of well known speakers scheduled to address the seventh annual Utah Farmers Union convention Friday and Saturday in Salt Lake City, Douglas T. Simpson, president, said this week. Mr. Shaffer is executive secre-tary of the National Advisory Council on Rural Civil and De-fense Mobilization. The council's function, Mr. Simpson reported, is to advise the director of OCDM in the development, implemen-tation and dissemination of prac-tical plans for the organization of civil and defense mobilization in the nation's rural areas. Moss Will Introduce Mineral Lands Bill Senator Frank E. Moss an-nounced Tuesday that he will introduce a Senate bill to facili-tate Utah's acquisition of mineral rich land sections to which the state is entitled. The legislation will enlarge the rights of the state and clarify the law with respect to areas under mineral lease. Senator Moss, who is in Salt Lake City to conduct a public hearing, in-formed his Washington office of the decision. If the school land sections to which Utah is entitled fall in na-tional parks or monuments, or other federally withdrawn lands the state makes selections else-where, Senator Moss explained. And if areas thus relinquished by the state contain minerals, the state may select other mineral lands. Under present law, these selections may not bisect areas being worked under mineral leases. The law is not clear, how-ever on bisecting leased areas where work is not proceeding. The Moss bill allows the state to make selections which cut across leased areas except those in a "producing or producible states," he said. His bill is a companion to one introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman David S. King of Utah. Utah Sugar Meet Hears Warning On Cuban Actions The political upheaval in Cuba has brought into sharp focus the necessity and importance of a domestic supply of sugar, a U.S. sugar expert told the American Society of Sugar Beet Technolo-gists this week. In a panel discussion with the Canadian and British sugar beet spokesmen, Frank A. Kemp, president of the Great Western Sugar Co., Denver, and spokes-man for the U. S. beet industry in Washington, D.C., said: "Never before in history has it been so clear to the U. S. that a strong domestic beet sugar in-dustry is our best safeguard for a reliable source of that impor-tant food, sugar." Kemp pointed out that the revolution in Cuba has endan-gered U. S. supplies from that source and Castro's tinkering with the Cuban sugar economy "may bring changes in sugar production in many parts of the world with long lasting effects." He predicted that Castro will bring "higher sugar production costs and a decline in produc-tion. This, in turn, may stimulate cane production in other parts of the world but it will also have the effect of strengthening do-mestic sugar production in many countries." Sugar production in other march, he said. Japan is estab-lishing n rlnmpstir hppf. sntrnr industry, Turkey is an exporter of beet sugar and Chile has built or is in the process of building several beet sugar mills. Other countries are expanding or going into cane production. Two other speakers also dis-cussed the world sugar situation. They were Dr. K. W. Hill, asso- - ciate director of program, Can-- 1 ada Department of Agriculture, Otta, and Oswald S. Rose, Agri-cultural Development Officer of British Sugar Corp. Hill said that Canadian beet sugar production now was about one fifth of total consumption and that his country also relied heavily on Cubar sugar sup-plies. Research, he told 600 sugar scientists and agriculturists here from the U. S. and six foreign countries, is the key to mastering production problems and that the need for basic research was even more keen than applied re-search. Rose pointed out the similari-ties of sugar beet research prob-lems in many parts of the world. Research has enabled the British beet sugar industry to make big gains in the past 24 years. Yields have increased from 9.1 long tons per acre to more than 12 tons and "we have all the in-gredients for further progress. No longer is the sky the limit," Mr. Rose said. Society President, Harvey P. H. Johnson, in introducing the panel, pointed out that world sugar production in the last 10 years has more than doubled and that 43 per cent of the world sugar now is made from sugar beets. This 100 per cent increase in sugar production has come in the last decade, Johnson said, and it compares with a 45 per cent in meat production, a 30 to 45 per cent increase in wheat and gains and an increase of 35 per cent in production of fats and oils. The society held a four day technical convention here. Final sessions were held Friday. Advertising is one of the few callings in which it is advisable to pay attention to some one else's business.-Howar- d Newton. Revenue Service Notes Withholding Rules Exemptions waived to increase tax withholding during the year does not mean the loss of exemp-tion benefits for tax filing pur-poses, Internal Revenue Service said this week. Research into the reasons why some taxpayers are reluctant to "drop" exemptions for withhold-ing purposes recvealed a fear the exemption privilege would be denied them at tax filing time. IRS says the waiving of exemp-tions for tax withholding pur-poses is strictly a bookkeeping matter. The taxpayer can and should claim all the exemptions to which he is entitled when he makes out his tax return. Insufficient tax withholding can result from a variety of rea-sons. A taxpayer experiencing this situation can arrange to have his entire tax liability covered by dropping one or more of the exemptions now claimed on the withholding statement filed with his employer. This means a larger sum with-held from each pay check during the year, IRS explained about $120 for each exemption waived. In a few cases in which even dropped exemptions for with-holding purposes will not cover all the tax due at the end of the year, the taxpayer may enter a written agreement with his em-ployer to have additional amount withheld, IRS said. Farmers Cooperative Sets S. L. Convention Farm people from this area and every part of Utah and southern Idaho will converge on Salt Lake City for the 37th an-nual meeting of the Utah Poultry & Farmers Cooperative on Sat-urday, Feb. 20. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Utah with the opening session at 9:30 a.m. D. O. Roberts of Henefer is president and will preside at all sessions. He also will give a re-port on the past year's activities of the cooperative. "This is the chance for all members of our organization to become fully informed on the operations of the cooperative. That is the major reason for the meeting. We urge all members who possibly can to attend," said President Roberts. General Manager H. M. Black-hur- st will give his annual re-port to members and C. K. Ferre, assistant general manager, also will participate in the report making. Other fine speakers will be included on the program. Officers for 1960 will be elect-ed, A fine banquet and program will conclude the convention. Helping President Roberts with the convention are: LeRoy Koyle of Spanish Fork, Theron Camp-bell of Providence, Vernon M. Jensen of Preston, and these directors: J. Arza Adams of Pleasant Grove, Alton S. Gadd of Nephi, Kendrick Harward of Richfield, Carl F. Lundell of Pey'son, E. Smith Peterson of Salina, William H. Schorr of West Jordan, Jesse W. Spafford of American Fork and Clyde C. Edmonds of Salt Lake City. Utah Hardware Men Look to Meetings More than 5,000 hardware, paint, lumber, nurserymen, and variety store dealers from Utah and throughout the west will be on hand for the Western States Harware-Housewar- es Shows to be presented by the California Retail Hardware Association on Feb. 14 to 16. On display will be the largest concentration of hardware and houseware and allied lines ever shown under one roof in the west. More than 250 national manufacturers from 41 states will display their products which will include hundreds of items not yet on the market. Merchan-dise on display is expected to exceed $2,000,000. Featured for the first time this year will be a modern lighting clinic, window display clinic and model store all three designed to show retailers how to better display and merchandise their products. The three day show will be staged at Brooks Hall, Civic Cen-ter, San Francisco's newest ex-hibition center. Mw GiUIette Adjustable Razor fii YOO CHOOSE EDGE EXPOSURE t7 nj FOR YOUR SKIN I BEARD 1 lHj mm fmmmJ Good Reading for the Whole Family News Facts Family Features The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Mass. Send your newspaper for the tlm checked. Enclosed find my check or money order. 1 year $20 6 months $10 3 months $5 Name Address City Zone Stat PB-- i Concrete Conclave Slated for Logan A one-da- y Concrete Confer-ence will be held February 25 in the Edith Bowen auditorium at Utah State University at Logan. Registrations for the confer-ence are being taken by Prof. William A. Cordon of the USU Civil Engineering Department. The conference will be conduct-ed by the University's Engineer-ing Experiment Station, the Civil Engineering department, and the College of Engineering. Alan C. Carter, Salt Lake City District Engineer for Portland Cement Association, will preside at the morning session; Vaughn E. Hansen, director of the USU Engineering Experiment Station will preside in the afternoon. The program will open with an address of welcome by Clay-ton Clark, acting Dean of Engi-neering at the University. Morn-ing speakers will include Ken-neth O. Cummins of Detroit, the technical director of American Concrete Institute. Cummins will speak on Technical Progress in Concrete. Other morning speakers will be Chris Pickett, Portland Ce-ment Association District Struc-tural Engineer; Allan Flandro, manager of the Utah Sand and Gravel Corp., and Prof. Cordon. The luncheon speaker will be, Milton R. Merrill, Vice president of Utah State University. He will be introduced by Prof. Cleve H. Miligan, head of the USU Civil Engineering Dept. J. R. Walton, Project Engineer of the U.S. Bureau of Reclama-tion from Dutch John, Utah, will speak in the afternoon on "Con-struction at Flaming Gorge Dam. Also on the afternoon program is Paul Buehner of the Otto Buehner Co. of Salt Lake City. Buehner will discuss decorative uses of concrete, a field in which his company has earned a na-tional reputation. Derwin Merrill, a graduate re-search assistant at USU on a fellowship from Ideal Cement Co . will discuss concrete dura-bility. Walter C. Oram, an engineer with the Salt Lake City district i of Portland Cement Association, will be the final speaker, dis-cussing "New Shapes in Con-crete." Physicians9 Share Of Medic Dollar Shows Big Drop Physicians and dentists are getting a smaller share of the medical dollar today than they did 20 years ago. That fact wasI revealed by U. S. Department of Commerce data analyzed by the American Medical Association, Harold Bowman, executive di-rector, Utah State Medical As-sociation, reported this week. In 1938 physicians received 31 cents of the medical care dollar, but the physician's share in re-cent years was 24 cents or 22.6 per cent less than 20 years ago. Dentists received 13 cents of the medical care dollar in 1938 but their share dropped to 10 cents in 1958. The study shows $16.4 billion was spent for medical care by Americans in 1958, an average of $95 a person. However, this represents just 5.6 per cent of the $293 billion spent by Ameri-cans that same year for all goods and services. "We spent more for recreation and more for tobacco and alco-holic beverages than for medical care in 1958, and continue to do so in a typical year," Mr. Bow-man reported. The total consumer expendi-tures for medical care in 1958 showed spending for hospitals totalled $4.3 billion, physicians $3.9 billion, drugs $3.3 billion, dentists $1.7 billion, health in-surance $1.4 billion, opthalmic products such as eyeglasses and supplies $1.1 billion. Another $769 million went for osetopathic services, the private duty nurses, chiropractors, chi-ropodists and other curative or healing services. Items showing a major propor-tionate increase include hospi-tals, which received 17 cents of the medical care dollar in 1938 and 26 cents in 1958. This rise was attributed to expension of hospital service, their greater use by the public and increases in equipment and staff. After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser Ben Franklin. King Phosphate Bill Receives Okeh By Subcommittee A bill which would enable suc-cessful phosphate prospectors to obtain federal leases on their discovery without opening them to competitive bidding will be reported favorably to the House Interior Committee by its min-ing subcommittee. Rep. David S. King of Utah, sponsor of the bill, has been so advised by the mining subcom-mittee, which held hearings on the bill Thursday morning. Mr. King said the Interior committee itself was expected to act on the bill next week. It has already passed the Senate under the sponsorship of Sen. Frank E. Moss of Utah. The bill would establish two year prospecting permits to pro-tect the prospectors' claims," Mr. King said. "If within that period, the prospectors can show the Secretary of the Interior that there are valuable phosphate de-posits on their claims, they will be entitled to leases on any or all of the lands covered by their permits," he said. "In the absence of a permit pro-vision, the government has been able to issue only leases and these have always been awarded through competitive bidding, without regard for the person who made the original discov-ery," Mr. King said. "Often the hard working pros-pector who made the discovery has been edged out of it in the bidding," he said. |