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Show The only all-purpose station wagon ! Only the 'Jeep' Station Wagon gives you 4-whcel drive. As a business vehicle or a family car, it's the world's most practical station wagon. It has extra stamina for normal highway travel in 2-wheel drive, and shifts easily into 4-whcel drive to go through sand, mud, snow and soft earth, on or off the road, in all kinds of weather. It carries six people or up to 110 cubic feet of bulky cargo. The interior is washable easily cleaned for family use. The Jecp' Station Wagon is now available with power brakes. 4-WHER DRIVE TT-r- VVJjl; STATION WAGON ILLYS...ftorlrs largest makers of 4 wtieel drivn vehicles Ask for a demonstration today,.. CEDAR r.'.OTOn COMPANY 145 North Main Phone 1080 KAISER WILLYS & PACKARD Sales and Service Ifcu Safeway Staris m Mils Arises o Milk is of major importance to the whole State of Utah. Some 2,000 dairy farmers who produce grade A market milk including all that Safeway sells are vitally 'interested 'in .the prices they, receive for their milk. The 757,000 consumers of Utah tare just as vitally interested in the price of milk for there is no substitute particularly in a child's diet. For the past eight weeks (during the first "milk pricing truce" requested by Governor Lee) a committee appointed by the Utah Legislative Council has been studying milk costs and prices. On June 17 the Milk Study Committee presented its conclusions to the council. coun-cil. One of the major conclusions was that the sale of milk in paper cartons for less than 20-cents a quart should be prohibited. Safeway cannot, in good conscience, con-science, allow this conclusion to go unchallenged. SAFEWAY BELIEVES MILK SHOULD BE AVAILABLE TO YOU AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. THAT'S WHY SAFEWAY SAFE-WAY SELLS MILK ONLY FOR "CASH-AND-CARRY." As Safeway testified before the committee, you pay cash for milk at Safeway and carry it home yourself you save the cost of credit accounts and expensive home-deliveries. Safeway believes you are entitled to get this saving you earn it. That's why, Safeway presented all its cost figures to Utah's Milk Study Committee to show the committee com-mittee that Safeway could sell 3.8 butterfat milk for less than the going price and would be able to sell it for still less in the future . . . and can sell a not-so-rich milk (one that just meets state butterfat content requirements) require-ments) for an even lower price. Despite these facts, the Milk Study Committee has, in effect, attempted to force a "price fixing" agreement among milk bottlers and retailers. One council member stated the committee was "just more or less pegging" the price of milk out of stores at 20 cents. Such a pegged or fixed price if continued would prevent Safeway and other efficient organizations from passing their savings on to you. But you may ask what If trie price of milk is "fixed" a penny or so too high? As Safeway also pointed out to the Milk Study Committee Com-mittee if the price of milk you buy in stores is fixed just one cent per quart too' -high' it will cost the people of Utah almost $450,000 a year almost half a million dollars. AND WHAT IF MILK IS SOLD TOO CHEAPLY - BELOW COST? This, too, can cost Utahn's money. For this reason, it is Safewas policy never to use milk as a loss leader. Safeway will meet its competi-tors competi-tors prices, but has never and never will sell milk below cost to attract customers. Safeway sells milk as a business - to make money on it. As proof, Safeway presented its profit figures to the Milk Study Committee. In 1954 Lucerne Milk Company Com-pany of Utah, selling to Safeway, made a net profit of $137,326 26.11 on its investment while Safeway, selling to its customers, made a gross profit of $124,223. (For the first 20 weeks in 1955 Lucerne made a profit of $52,575.08, and Safeway continued to make its normal profit in milk.) AND SAFEWAY BELIEVES THAT TO INSURE A GOOD, STEADY SUPPLY OF MILK, DAIRY FARMERS MUST HAVE FAIR PRICES AND THOSE FAIR PRICES MUST BE CONSTANT. That's why, it is Safewas policy (a policy Safeway has never violated) to pay top market prices for milk plus a bonus for quality. Safeway believes that this is in the public interest because when the price farmers get for milk is protected, bottlers and retailers cannot pass the costs of competitive competi-tive pricing back to the farmer. Safeway presented witnesses to the Milk Study Committee witnesses who testified from experience exper-ience that where the price paid farmers for milk is protected, price wars do not occur. However the Milk Study Committee made no recommendation to protect the price dairy farmers get for milk. Safeway Works Daily With and For Thousands of Utahns 885 Safeway Utah employees received $3,541,876.37 in wages and salaries in 1954. 171 Utahns own 16,863 shares of stock in Safeway Stores. Safeway purchased the following Utah products in 1954. Purchases Total Purchases for Resale or Purchases for Resale or Use Outside of Utah Use In Utah of Utah Products Livestock and Meat Products $ 4,854,630.02 $ 1,929,904.66 $ 6,784,534.68 Poultry ; 422,564.00 63,042.80 490,606.80 Fruit (fresh, canned, frozen) 509,262.00 376,855.80 880,117.80 Vegetables (fresh and canned). 1,333,817.00 1,398,813.00 2,732,630.00 Fruit and Vegetable Juices 73,637.00 42,698.00 116,335.00 Dairy Products 1,652,945.09 1,050,907.46 2,703,852.55 Eggs 620,198.00 245,709.00 865,907.00 Sugar (beet) 712,302.40 474,151.20 1,186,453.60 Bread and Sweet Goods 721,389.00 312,954.00 1,034,343.00 Flour 522,943,00 1,482,043.00 2,004,986.00 Other Products 1,714,718.8 482,081.11 2,196,799.19 TOTALS $13,138,405.59 $ 7,858,160.03 $20,996,565.62 WHY SAFEWAY IS PUBLISHING THIS STATEMENT Safeway was born In neighboring Idaho. We have a big stake in Utah and a citizen's concern for Utah's well-being. , We believe we have a responsibility to the public, our employees, suppliers, and stockholders to publish the record of our testimony to the Milk Study Committee. Watch for these reports in this newspaper. |