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Show . - THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, April 7, 1960 4 Amrrtran Jfark (ttltton Published Every Thursday at American Fork, Utah by the ALPINE PUBLISHING CO. Entered as Second Class Matter, at the Posioffice at American Fork, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate $3.50 Per Year iy tAira loser The Weather and Business No nation in the world collects as many business statistics as the United States. In terms of volume the most important is our federal government. It collects the figures with great care and then subjects them to the most up to date methodology methodo-logy of processing. In the latter is an allowance for seasonal variation whenever there is a significant pattern of this character. - A seasonal variation usually is determined by calculating the average change on a monthly basis over a period of years. Such a change may be caused by attitudes of the public, by supply, by the weather, or by any number of other factors, Bu it is not possible to make a correction for abnormal weather alone. The best that can be done from a statistical viewpoint is to include changes in the weather with every thing else that varies from one season to another. , Business Feels Winter's Blast v """" The reason for going through all of this is that we have just had an extraordinarily bad late winter and it has had a direct effect upon many of our business statistics. A few examples will bear out this statement. Because of the weather retail sales have not come up to forecasts. The proof that weather has been the culprit is shown by a section-by-section study of such sales. In those areas where the snow and cold have been the worst, sales have been lowest. In areas which have had more normal weather conditions, sales have been much better. Construction also has been delayed by weather. In many Mae 4f cimnlw wrae'mrwt nnceiKIa r cfort nrviota TViic Viae been true in road building, in industrial construction, and in housing starts. As a result of lower activity in these fields there has been less buying of machinery, of office furniture, of household appliances and home furnishings, and so on. The bad weather has hurt automobile sales because in much of the country it has been almost impossible to drive over the roads. This has caused a piling up of inventories in the hands of automobile dealers and a curtailment of automobile auto-mobile production. This has backed up to the steel producers and is one of the reasons we have had an easing in this field. Production and Employment; Production over-all has been hejd down and it may well be that the one percent decline in the Federal Reserve Board index of production in February was caused by the bad win ter. Thatr employment has been held down goes without saying, and increased absenteeism probably was the cause for the slight decline in the average hours worked per week in manufacturing. And profits, of course, have been hurt Those areusFs6me of the""moreobviouspartsrDf the business picture which have been adversely influenced by the bad weather. What the total amounts to is not measur able..... J , .... . ,,- , ,.; Now; with the coming of spring, the weather is certain to get better. It will take time for this to be reflected in the business statistics published by the government, but before too long we should see appreciably more encouraging figures. With these better reports, business and public confidence will improve, and the uptrend will be less subject to question. Burton says state should safeguard highway funds In a recent talk before the Utah Highway Users Confer ence, C. Taylor Burton, Direct or or Highways, asKea mat safeguards be placed on highway high-way funds from being used for other purposes He stated (hat during the past ten years some $12.4 million has been diverted to other state departments. This includes $8.2 million from motor fuel revenue, and $42 million from vehicle registra tion. In explaining the handling hand-ling of revenue from the vehicle ve-hicle registration he said that the first two million dollars is earmarked for the cities and counties through the B & C road fund The balance above this figure Is divided between the Highway Department and the cities and counties, less what is diverted to other state departments. Mr. Burton stated that in some counties the B & C fund is apparently not being used fpr roadwork, the purpose for which it is intended. Some funds, it appears are being used for equipment and various oth er types of expenditures. In speaking of the usage of money obtained from highways taxes, Mr. Burton stated that there are two possibilities to prevent fund diversions. One of these is to enact an anti-dlyer- sion amendment to the State Constitution. Utah is one of the few western states that does not have such an amendment amend-ment he said. In Colorado, he pointed out, the amendment states that all revenue paid in- to this fund by highway users must be earmarked for the highway department. The other factor the state should consider, he says, was for expenditures of monies on a basis of ' miles traveled. This would call for revenue to be returned to cities and counties on the basis of miles traveled by vehicles within the area. Back-Log-From Citizen News Columns 10 YEARS AGO Snow cover on Timpanogos Divide is greatest record with 09 inches. Excess snowfall and precipitation continued to pile up on the Timpanogos Divide during the month of March, according ac-cording to the report issued by Thomas A. Walker, superintendent superinten-dent Timpanogos Cave National Nation-al Monument. VP x 7y Don't let lack of ready cash check-mate your , hopes and aims for the future. Look ahead, plan ahead and save ahead with purpose and persistence ... and you'll have "what it takes to make the right move ' Mat the right time for your success and happiness. Your FIRST move is to open a savings account here. Then keep" adding to it regularly. This simple strategy will WIN for you!. PEOPLES STATE BAtE OF AMERICAN FORK Member of Federal Depwtt Insurance .Corporation. All deposits insured to $10,003 york was resumed this week at an accelerated pace on the installation of larger water mains, for the city's water sup ply by Nells Fugal and Sons, contractors." Richard Devey, senior high school student, has been chosen chos-en by the faculty to represent American Fork at the annual Bait Lake Rotary Club Youth Conference which will be held April 22 through 25. 20 TEARS AGO Guests at the annual Junior Prom will find themselves in a beautiful sea-green world, replete re-plete with all the surprising creatures of the briny deep (even to the mermaids), when they enter the ballroom at the high school gym, tonight Mrs. Stephen F. Beck visited in Salt Lake City last week with her daughters. A party was' given by Mrs. Jay Conder Friday night for the LaConda club. 30 YEARS AGO American Fork City secured the 1930 Utah-Idaho District Convention of Lions Clubs which is' to be held May 28. District Governor Holman secured sec-ured the convention for us on the grounds that the American Fork Lions Club was one of the most active in the district and from the fact that American Fork City is one of the best towns in the district. There was no mistaking the desires of the taxDavers and citizens of American Fork City 1 rn t.hp Issiip nf hrmtlnir niir I city for a new . water supply and the rebuilding of the dis tributing system when the bond election was held April 1. Two hundred fifty votes yes and only on-ly five cast a negative vote. Plans for the Utah County track and field day, to be held in the "Y" stadium. May 2. were discussed in detail Tues day at a meeting of the committee com-mittee in charge. . Women complete bowling inst. classes The following ladies have completed an eight hour bowling bowl-ing instruction class at the Jack and Jill Bowling Lanes, co- sponsored by American Fork City Recreation, ' Marvin; Allen, bowling director: Joyce With ers, Phyllis Christen, Arvlna White, Wilma Ross, . Mable Smith, Virginia Hosking, Nedra Elkington, Doris Carson, Marian Mar-ian Wilkinson, Sylvia Hanson, Mltzie Draper, Zilphal Wilkin, Dorothy Evans, Helen Zunlch, Virginia Fox, Alga Carting, Er-ma Er-ma Zannl, Jo Stuger, Shirley Hatch, Dorothy Strasmirg, Marie Ma-rie Larson, Donna Woffinden, Elaine Long, ' 'Shirley Austin, AdaBennett, Mabel J Larsen, June Wild, Bonnie C. Bennett, Johnell Adams, Catherine Wag-staff, Wag-staff, Connie Nielsen, Jean Smith, Shirley Gray, June Dean. Merrill Bateman awarded Nat Fellowship Merrill Joseph Bateman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Bateman Bate-man of this city, has been a-warded a-warded a Woodrow Wilson National- Fellowship f or-r graduate study in the' academic year 1960-61 at any college. in the United States or Canada. A year. long nationwide hunt for future college teachers ended end-ed with the announcement by the Foundation of the names of 1259 winners of Its fellowship awards. Sir Hugh Taylor, president of the Foundation, estimated that the total value of this year's awards will amount to almost $3,000,000. Each winner receives $1500 plus family allowances, plus full" costs of a year's graduate grad-uate tuition. The . winners were nominated by faculty members, and were selected after being interviewed interview-ed by regional committees of educators, with subsequent approval ap-proval and additions by a national nat-ional committee at the Foundation's Foun-dation's headquarters in Princeton. Prince-ton. This years winners came from 335 universities and colleges col-leges in the United States and Canada and were selected from 8,800 applicants representing 861 institutions. In the fall of 1960 they will enter 83 different differ-ent graduate schools in the Un ited States and Canada. Most are in the Humanities or Social Soc-ial Sciences but there are also 224 scientists among them. 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