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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS THE RICH COUNTY REAPER Entered as second class matter Feb. 8, 1929 at the Post Office, Randolph, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. S1.S0 Per Year in Advance. SUBSCRIPTION Wm. E. Marshall, Business Manager Layton Marshall, Editor and Proprietor Labor Eyes Outcome of Miners Walkout as New Wage Guide; Japs Staging Slow Recovery It Will Own and Also Control Uranium and PlantSs WASHINGTON. This is what the new atomic energy commission, headed by David Lilienthal, will do: Conduct its own research, and promote research by others. Own and operate facilities for making fissionable material. No one else may do this except under license from the commission. Own all plutonium, uranium and other material which the commission deems capable of releasing i (EDITORS NOTE: Western substantial quantities" of atomic energy. Any now privately owned will be taken over and paid for. Prospect for new material. Buy fissionable material abroad, if necessary for defense. Distribute atomic material for research or medical use, making its own rules as to charges and other terms. Conduct military research and mak atomic bombs for the armed forces. License the manufacture of equipment and devices for using atomic energy. Issue reports on any atomic energy developments for industrial and commercial use. Take over for public use, with just compensation, any patents for making or using atomic energy. Control any dissemination of secret information. Issue regulations for safety, health and other purposes in the atomic Newspaper RaiaBBAii by Western Newspaper Union. When opinions are expressed In these eolnmns, Uniona news analysts and not necessarily of Lobbyists have long become a pari the nations capital, but until passage of the registration act recently the public has enjoyed little knowledge of their identity or worth to the interests they represent. ... Although lobbyist as a whole they are these of have attained a certain notoriety, this newspaper.) they exercise the perfectly legitimate function of protecting the interests of their clients by seeking passage of favorable legislation or fighting bills considered inimicable. While recognizing this function, congress also realized the necessity for placing the business above board and apprising the public of the interests at work in Washington. As the lobbyists registered under penalty of losing their lobbying rights or incurring fine and imprisonment if they failed, Purcell L. Smith, representing the power interests, emerged as the highest paid, drawing $65,000 a year plus unspecified expenses. . Going Backwards As miners in Johnson City, 111. (lower panel), and other mining communities sat around to await break in coal strike, John L. Lewis (upper left) fenced with government over new contract issue. John OLeary, UMW vice president, is shown with Lewis. field. Report to congress at least twice a year. John L. formed the CIO 11 years ago, CIO Pres. Philip Murray sounded the battle cry for another lamentOnce again it was John L. against round of wage increases by in prices which offset the rise ing the government! This time, Washington appeared previous boosts and assailing the determined to force a showdown uneven distribution of wealth. Seeking .to indicate the extent to with the burly United Mine Workers chieftain, but it had its job cut which recent price rises .have cent an hour out for it as 400,000 UMW members crossed out the 18 stood steadfastly by . their leader wage raise won by the CIO earlier and both the AFL and CIO threw this year, Murray said that steel workers now are earning $13.04 less in their support. As in previous UMW walkouts, a week than they did last March. to the ability of industry Lewis held a hand full of aces. Pun- Pointing to bear wages, Murray said higher ish him as it might try, there were last quarter of 1946 the 400,000 skilled and irreplacable that profits in15thebillion dollars comwould total miners who refused to go down into 1944. 10 billions for with the pits before clarification of the pared status of their contract; there JAPAN: were approximately 12,000,000 members of organized labor who looked On Mend with disfavor upon government General MacArthurs From use of the injunction to break a could draw U. S. the report monthly strike, and the courts were still to a picture of a vanquished nation decide the legality of terminating struggling to its feet after surviving the pact. the effects of total defeat. Suffering But, encouraged by the countrys from postwar abnormalities itself, overwhelming swing to the right in the U. S. has none of Nippons probkopecs. the recent elections and the possi- lems of rebuilding a shattered po13 rubles per kiloBuckwheat indusd bility that the courts might decide litical structure, a gram (49 cents a pound diplomatic in his favor in interpreting the legal try and a crippled production plant. rate, $1.11 official rate). Was 4 MacArthur reported: rubles, 30 kopecs. Passage of a bill providing for 34 rubles per kilogram Coal Mining Red Style Meat election, rather than appointment, of ($1.48 per pound diplomatic rate, From Russia, where the Communist local officials. $2.91 official rate). Was 14 rubles. commissariat has its own method of Increases in production of lumIn the commercial shops, bread settling labor problems, comes word oil, paper and aluminum to offber, was lowered 27 per cent, flour 30 of the working of a gigantic new coal set slumps in iron, steel and coke field in northern Siberia by slave laper cent, grains and beans 47 per and shutdowns in tin, nickel and borers from Lithuania, Estonia, Latcent, macaroni 46.7 per cent, meat plants. Arrangements to antimony Crimea. and via, yUkraine Consisting 33.3 per cent, bologna 40 per cent, to Russia, England boost laexports mostly of political dissidents, the sugar 53 per cent, dried fruit 50 and Australia to pay for needed imbarracks wooden housed borers in are per cent. (The dispatch did not and subsist on porridge and 600 grams ports. give prices in these shops.) of bread daily. About 33 mines have Expansion of trade union membeen developed in the 5,000 square bership to 3,745,000, with 24 per cent mile field. Government Puts Ban on being women. Prospects of improved rice, Building of Play Centers wheat, potato and barley yields to WASHINGTON. The government aspects of the case. President Tru- relieve a severe food shortage, neL. to to set was John the push banned the construction of swim- man limit in his efforts to wring wage cessitating substantial imports. rollerboardwalks, pools, ming and hour concessions from the gov- HOUSING : coasters, drive-i- n theaters, parking ernment. ; lots, concrete tennis courts, and New Wrinkle conUnder the walls and fences of wood, brick or The public received its first g09d concrete when any of these projects tract, the miners received $75.25 week, in con- look at the Lustrom corporations weekly for a costs more than $200. The civilian production adminis- trast to $23.88 weekly for a shorter heralded porcelain enameled steel tration also took two other steps de- week in 1939. Lewis latest demands home in Hinsdale, 111., outside Chiweek cago, and the showing marked ansigned to aid the housing program: were said to call for a other step in the battle of the com1. It reduced from $15,000 to $1,000 with earnings approximating those the amount of repair and other work for 54 hours. pany with the Tucker automobile Arrival of the latest soft coal corporation for possession of the that may be donf. in industrial, utilo plant. ity and transportation buildings crisis saw the government prepared huge bituof The took a sensational turn battle distribution for builda unless without the emergency permit, with charges of Preston Tucker, the ings have a floor area of 10,000 minous stocks. Only householders, hospitals, utilities and other essen- auto magnate, that a prominent square feet or more. 2. It proposed a $20 a ton subsidy tial public services were to receive Washington attorney had promised to wire nail manufacturers to in- deliveries. Railroads were sched- to use his influence in having the crease their output. The industry uled to haul only food, clothing, National Housing authority remand o advisory committee took the plan medicine, fuel and other necessi- its order turning the to Tuckto locomotive if the reduce Lustrom ties and pasunder consideration. plant given er corporations legal business plus senger service by 25 per cent. Humming again after the crip- a stock interest. Named as the atMother Gives Baby Popcorn; pling strikes of last winter, indus- torney, Theodore Granik vigorously n Child Strangles on Kernel try faced another to con- denied the allegation. In using its emergency powers to fuel and serve them supplies spread CHICAGO. Before putting her walkout. of over the the period help speed vet housing, the NHA to son, Gerry, bed, o to award the huge moved his mother, Mrs. Blanche Phlaum CIO Goal to Lustrom after War plant some him popcorn. gave Like the AFL, the CIO watched Assets administration had leased the She and her husband, Paul, were the coal strike with interest, not facilities to Tucker. In eyeing the the awakened by child, who apo because of the injunction proonly plant, Lustrom deon to be choking peared something condemned could clared build 85 of the it that by ceedings generally lodged in his throat apparently the houses a also because Lewis acheated radiant labor but popcorn. of concessions months new six into after going wage day They took the boy to the office of quisition large-scal- e 400 a day for boosts to blaze the and output, way promised T. Dr. Kessler. Charles Dr. Kessler within 14 months. The houses sell line. applied artificial respiration and all along the where for in Atlantic $7,000. City, Meeting tried to remove the obstruction, but in his died arms. Gerry LABOR: New Crisis While Japan marched back up the road of recovery, neighboring China remained beset by the political indifferences and economic evils that have retarded her progress during this century. As both Nationalist and Communist forces prepared for a bloody civil war for supremacy, Chinese currency took a terrific nosedive, with the U. S. dollar commanding as high as 5,000 Chinese dollars on the black market. Coal jumped from 350,000 to 450,000 dollars a ton. Housewives scrambled frantically for commodi- ties. Throughout the Communist stronghold of northern China and Manchuria, Red battalions threw up fortifications and girded for battle as Gen. Peng predicted stirTeh-hw- ai ring victory over the Nationalist invading forces. These forces were reported pressing into Shantung province along the Tientsin-Pukorailway. w RUSSIA: Struggle for Power From behind the iron curtain came whispers of a mighty tug-of-w- between . , UMW-govemme- nt war-base- UMW-govemme- nt 54-ho- ur 40-ho- ur Dodge-Chicag- Dodge-Chicag- slow-dow- three-year-o- of CHINA: . Butter Costs $2.50 or $5.75 A Pound in Moscow Stores MOSCOW. Butter is listed in the Russian rationed food shops at the equivalent of $2.50 a pound at the diplomatic rate of exchange and at $5.75 a pound at the official rate of exchange under a decree of the of ministers council adjusting prices. Prices were Increased in the rationed shops and lowered in the unrationed commercial stores, where goods have cost more. Butter is listed at 66 rubles per kilogram. Before the rise it was. 22 rubles. At the diplomatic rate the ruble is worth 12 to the dollar; at the official rate it is worth 5.2 to the dollar. A kilogram is 2.21 pounds. Other prices: 15 rubles per kilogram Sugar (56 cents a pound diplomatic rate, $1.48 official rate). Was 5 rubles. Rice 19 rubles per kilogram (71 cents a pound diplomatic rate, $1.64 official rate). Was 6 rubles, 50 CAPITOL HILL: Lobbyists Register ld Dodge-Chicag- j Dodge-Chicag- five-roo- : WNU Washington Bureau UU Eye St., N. W. Rural Areas Mosts Affected By Shortage of Teachers ED radio come- remarked that dian, recently he now knows that the reason his grade school teacher looked that way was because she was just hungry. While this may not be literally true, the recent report of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement oi Teaching bears out the statement oi the radio entertainer in that it describes the school teachers of the country as generally the forgotten people whose ability to carry on irrespective of work load, living costs and other worrisome factors is taken for granted. The report asserts that one of the serious defects in the public education system is the apparent country-wid- e neglect of the central figure in the educational process the teacher. There is no denying that the serious shortage of school teachers in the nation today is hampering and lowering educational standards in our public school system. According to Dr. Frank Hubbard, director of research of National Educational association in Washington, there was a shortage of approximately 109,000 qualified school teachers last year and the shortage for the ensuing year will be approximately the same number. This shortage is revealed by the number of emergency certificates for teaching which have been granted. Such temporary paper means that the bearer is not qualified for a regular certificate, measured by the standards of the state. T1 SKELTON, ar top Russian officials ' Shifts of Population of school teachers are Shortages for the drivers worst in those states where seat when Josef wartime population and influx Stalin passes from the picture. While Stalin first favored Andrei Zhdanov, 50, chairman of the Soviet parliament, for the mantle of succession, Georgi M. Malenkov, 45, has slowly come to the fore, recently being promoted to all - powerful politburo shaping Russian policy. Also in the Malenkov and gle for power are Lavrenti P. Beria, head of the dread secret police, and the v strug-Zhdan- ov of extremely high birth rates have brought about tremendous population increases. According to Dr. Hubbard, this migration of population has moved toward the rim of the country to the west and east coasts, to Louisiana and the Great Lakes regions, and hence the school teacher shortage is worse in these sections, particularly in California. California educators declare they need 4,000 new teachers each year for the next 10 years to meet their educational needs. Dr. Hubbard declares the causes underlying this shortage in quali- teachers are cumulative over years and conditions are worse small towns and rural areas than fied the in in the larger cities. Gen. Nikolai A. Bulganin, vice minister of armed forces. Despite his er Teachers migrate from the smallschools and smaller communities prominence in foreign affairs, V. M. to larger schools and larger comMolotov lacks party support for the munities, drawn by more attractive No. 1 spot. salaries and better living condiWriting in the French paper, tions and more economic opportuniLOrdre, Claude Vivieres declared ties. And so rural schools drawthat Russian officials are anxious ing upon to fill teachers unqualified to avoid war during the unsettled the gaps, have considerably lowstate of party affairs to prevent er standards today than in prewar rival nations use of bickerings to years. upset the Communist regime. BUSINESS: Making Money Higher Pay, More Prestige Immediate and necessary rem- edies to cure the shortage and to ' Payments of extra dividends indi- prevent a further breakdown in educational standards, according to Dr. cated the general prosperity of Hubbard, include: American business. $$$ Goodrich brought payments for 1946 to $4.50 per share by declaring a dividend of $1 and a special payment of the same amount. $$$ By authorizing an extra dividend of $1.25 a share in addition to the quarterly payment of 25 cents, Briggs & Stratton boosted disbursements to $2.25 this year. $$$ Elgin National Watch company declared an extra dividend of 50 cents a share besides making a quarterly payment of 25 cents. Steel and Wire $$$ Keystone company increased its quarterly dividend from 30 to 50 cents and authorized a special payment of 25 cents. $$$ In declaring a 40 cent dividend, Homestake Mining company brought payments up to $1.40 for this year after making no disbursements last year. Meanwhile, the treasury department ordered all corporations to report on their 1946 tax forms if they paid out at least 70 per cent of their earnings in dividends and reasons if they did not. In this way, the government hopes to prevent withholding of dividends to scale down stockholders income taxes. . 1. Immediate steps to make salaries attractive enough to prevent further losses of competent teachers. This is coming gradually with about a 30 per cent increase in school teachers salaries since 1941; 2. Make salaries decent enough to attract young people into the teaching profession and to prevent them from going into other lines of work to earn a decent living; 3. Streamlining of teacher educational institutions to make life and study in these institutions more attractive to stu- dents; 4. A program of recruitment in high schools and colleges to prove to newcomers there are real opportunities in the teach- ing profession; 5. A broad and long-ranprogram of raising the general prestige of the teaching profession, particularly in the matter of public thinking toward school teachers. 6. Eliminate many subordinate problems such as housing, poor school construction, inadequate school equipment and facilities and oversize classes. ge ' |