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Show J THK BULLETIN. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH j News j Behine I theNews! by PaulMallon Js? Released by Western Newspaper Union. PRODUCTION LAGS STILL PRO VINO SERIOUS WASHINGTON. Mr. Trumnn and his reconverler, John Snyder, have been bragging that the "pro- - duction of civilian goods and serv-- ices nas reacnea the peak of all time. They want to prove by some un-explained general-ized figures on in-come and dollar volume that pro-duction hag been more than restored and reconversion 1 accomplished. 'Tain't so. There Pres. Truman are tricks in it, to wit : A foremost weekly index of ac-tu-production from a non-gov- - ernmental source places our output for the week ending March 23 at 131 compared with 143 a year ago and about 127 for 1941. Miscellaneous car loadings are less than a year ago. as are steel, electric power and lum-ber production, but "other car load- - ings" and paperboard production are above a year ago. Messrs. Truman and Snyder did nnt tahulnto nrtnnl vnlitmp nf nro- - duction but only dollar volumes and income, and they made no allow-ances for price in-creases. Further-more, they said only that "civilian" production was at all-tim- e peak. There is no way of telling how much of the J. S. Snyder above - cited pro- - duction is still army, navy and marine, but a por-tion must be. So the discrepancy Is somewhat greater than the figures indicate. MANY ITEMS STILL ON 'HARD TO GET LIST' Producers themselves tell me the situation Is bad. Ford pub-licly closed his plant for a week the very day the President spoke, because he could not keep enough steel on hand to warrant continuous operations. Every producer has that same trouble in one way or another. Manufacturers cannot get little things. An air conditioning im.i1.it finds his narticular kind of steel for certain parts diffi-cult to obtain because the steel companies will not manufacture much of it, saying they lose $15 a ton on It because of the OPA ceiling. The steel companies are producing other more profitable lines. Then the air conditioning man finds for a time he cannot get motors, finds a shortage of bearings due to strikes, cannot get production of a special cop-per bolt which is essential. His production line operates off again, on again, off again and the doctors are operating on the manufacturer. As far as "civilian services" are concerned, there are not any re-stored around here. Cleaners re-quire three to six weeks to clean a suit, shirtmakers and many other lines inform their customers flatly: "We are not taking any more orders." They will not even con-- i sider delivery months hence. Parts for auto repairs are unavailable throughout the United States in some vital cases. A tailor took an order for a suit the first of last November and gave the first fitting at the end of March five months later. He will not promise the suit by summer. Some outfitters are al-- ! ready stopping orders for summer suits imagine it, next summer's SUI tvffrtnt ucnmrmjl"ipc in Washingoton are getting bad again, only'inferior grades of a few lines having been available the past few weeks. There are no autos, coal, refrig-- ; erators, nylons and only a few ra- - dios. A considerable (say 10 to 15 per cent) improvement In sales stocks can be noted in many lines, and a bare beginning toward res- - toration is noticeable. The experi- - ence of the average citizen in these parts will strictly deny, however, any claim that production has been restored in "civilian services." Now there has been a great acceleration In dollar volume of production in such lines as liquor (but not good liquor), depart-ment store sales and some par-ticular food products, and these no doubt caused Mr. Sny-der's figures to swell to the con-clusions he induced the Presi-dent to make from them. But if you figure a 25 to 50 per cent increase in such items (I have noticed in my purchases price in-- I creases as high as 400 per cent) even the visible results of great- - er production in restricted lines do not loom formidably when com-pared with the job of sizing the pro-duction bottleneck up to demand. As measured with demand, we can-not yet begin to speak of "produc- - tion." Mr. Truman has a faculty of mak-- ! ing the sensational appear to be commonplace. His army day die-- I turn was a i IKE DON'T WANT TO GAMBLE . . . Gen. Dwight I). Eisenhower toltl members of the senate mili-tary affairs committee that fail-ure to extend the draft act meant to (ramble with pence and security of the world. On various oc casions General Eisenhower has asked for continued draft. w ft BPHIHBfl v " iiyiBiBff'iHIm I GMrKV !fvAHi9HIH Kl c0xtON CARNIVAL TO REOPEN . . . Dedicated to the past, present and future of the cotton M the Memphis Cotton carnival will resume this year after bowing out to the war effort since 1941. ft h shows previous carnival which will be outdone this year. The 1946 carnival will sparkle with a iBf ades depicting growth of the Mid-Sout- lively street dances and songfests. Exhibits will show 9 ttgn al nci as new applications and artificial fibers and plastics. ' 'V :AJ?a lo KIDS WITH QUINTUPLET KIDS ... The goat population on the Eoit7. farm near Ludlow, Ky., is Increasing rapidly these days. Five kids is a rare feat for one birth, even in goatdom. Shown here with the mother and her quintuplets are the proud Folt children, Edward and Janet. ROYAL HAT STYLE . . . Exhibit-ing a gracious smile and wearing her Easter hat, Princess Elizabeth of England leaves Town Hall, Not-- S tin: ii mi. England, after attending a concert given by a children' I choir. I LEGION S" " Hr HEADS WOMEN VETERANS . . . Mrs. Patricia M. Deuse. Astoria, N Y , national commander of the Legion of Women Veterans, a new veterans group, believed to be the first of its kind in Amer-ica, is shown at her desk in Brooklyn. Mrs. Deuse is an ox-m- nc and served for 19 months in the women's reserve of the U. I. marine corps Before that she wrote for California newspapers and radio. wP HOI D OPEN ELECTION ... An estimated 24,000.000 voters went to the polls In Japan to select IESE for a new natlona. house of representatives. Unheard !t Typical of most voting places was the Votsuya ward office, Final results will not be known for some time, but Red yJT BREAKS WORLD RECORD . . . Joe Verdeur, Philadelphia Turn-- crs club, who broke two world's records at AAU meet held at Balnbridge, Md. He eclipsed the 200-met- er and the 200-yar- d n.arks, following navy discharge. Wm&Himtfm'tiiiitmi Milium. ' NOl IMPRESSED BY BASS CATCH . . . Little Bill Rogers shows only disdain at the catch of nine-year-o- ld Susan off pier at Blunt's Bay, Colington, N. C. Spring arrived on time at this North Carolina coast village and Susan is out to repeat her record of last ycar-wh- ich Bass have increased during the wr. he says was best in the region. SOVIET AMBASSADOR . . . Niko-lai V. Novikov, present charge d'affairs in Washington, who has been named to replace Andrei A. Gromvko as Soviet ambassador to the United States. Gromyko will remain with UNO. SAM'S OLDEST REGIMENT ... The color rwrd of the fiment, oldest in the U. S. army, with some members wearing IE mes of the Colonial wars, is shown during colorful ceremony of the toberg, Germany, which marked the deactivation "mier Lt, Gen. Goeffrey Keyes. eikr ONLY CIVIL WAR NAVY VET ... A chipper skipper is Henry Doll, 97, who claims to be the only-livin-naval veteran of the Civil war. He is now living at Philadel-phia Naval hospital. TOO YOUNG FOR LICENSE . . . Young Jackie Fiorillo, 16, Flushing, L. I., N. Y., is pictured in cockpit of his light plane on completion of solo flight from Reading. Pa., to Flushing airport. George W. Edwards greets the young flyer. Jackie is still a student. He must wait until his 17th birthday, August 9, before he will be granted a pilot's license which will permit him to fly. 9ShUhhIBhhBbiIk WOMAN PADRE . . . The Rev. Elsie Chamberlain has been ap-pointed by the Royal Air Force as its first woman chaplain. She is 35 years old and a graduate of King's college, London. SEARCH OF TITLE . . . Billy Pittsburgh Adonis, who LTs to wrest the worlds S weight boxing crown from Louis, hrn they Champion Joe York in June. meet in New 80LD8 ELECTION ... A voter of the "b Posters put up by various parties and Jrlieal ce i the recent Greek elections. In J--? onv fcUB campaign, the voting itself W- -jg pcrsuade nd wing groups fighting a losing Scott the election. Populist party won. |