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Show V rr 3.1 3 C-- y I f 1 m I Wednesday, November 3, 1976 supplement to the National Enterprise Utilities Lawyers Will Bargain with Group Another Bureaucracy Attorneys for on the Horizon Utah Power and Light Co. and Mountain Fuel Supply Co. will soon be negotiating with attorneys for Utah Welfare Rights Organization to dis- cuss the possibility of changing company policies. Responding to a petition from the welfare rights group, utility lawyers agreed Wars haw Promotion Smashing Success People lined up to get into the store. Salespeople reported spectacular sales. Customers who had never before been in the store came and loved what they saw.' It was and is Keith Warshaw & Co.s Sunday in the City promotion, initiated October 17, and continuing every Sunday from then on. It was a big gamble for said Sherle Ropkey, us, For advertising director. our first promotion we advertised on the radio for three days and bought a double-truc- k in the Sunday edition of For us, the newspaper. thats a lot of money. But it has been a sensational success, better than we had dreamed, she said. We discovered people are looking for something to do on Sunday. The secret to the promotions success, she commented, is providing entertainment. People dont want to downtown and go come just shopping. They want to be entertained, she said. On the first day we had 200 people for our monkey and that lasted show alone only half an hour. The brunch, featuring Continued on page 3b for the Welfare Rights Organization, E. An attorney Barney Gesas will meet soon with utilities lawyers. to enter into good faith negotiations with the group to determine on what points they could agree, before asking Public Service Commissioners to help them iron out differences. and welfare Utility rights representatives will be attempting to create uniform policies regarding termination of service, deposit requirements, and grievance procedures for customers. The citizen organization wants to prohibit all deposit A person requirements. Continued on page Sb Political Confrontation Meat Industry and USDA at Standoff Beehive Machinery has lost about 80 percent of its domestic business and over $300,000 cash out of pocket because of what the company president calls a political confrontation between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the meat industry. But Ray McFarland, Beehives president and owner, says he will recoup all losses when the USDA relaxes its hold on mechanically deboned meat. McFarland says he will drastically increase the prices of the machinery used to debone meat in order to make up for domestic losses. The Sandy, Utah based firm produces about 90 percent of the worlds deboning equipment. Mechanically deboned meat has been used for the past 25 years, McFarland said, in baby foods, bologna, hot dogs, canned stews and frozen pizzas. The USDA recently put an indefinite hold on all meat mechanically processed until it is determined whether or not it is safe for consumer consumption. The USDA has also stopped separation by similar machinery. McFarland said that his company produces and sells a machine used to extract tiny bits of meat from fatty waste that would otherwise not be useful. The meat, he said, was formerly used in frankfurters and baby food. fat-prote- in fat-separat- ed Association Protests He said that the American Meat Institute has filed action against the American Poultry Industry to stop the sale of mechanically deboned poultry frankfurters. The meat industry needs a share of the frank industry, McFarland said, in order to make up losses caused by the USDA action. And, he said, there is virtually no difference between red meat and poultry that has been mechanically stripped. Nine consumer groups based in Washington have filed action against the USDA for its failure to study the effects of mechanically deboned meat on consumers. McFarland said no further action had been taken by the USDA because top government officials were too involved with elections to take a stand either in favor of or in opposition to the mechanically processed meat. Weve been informed that nothing can be done until after the election when a study will be conducted to determine the effects of what the government calls potentially dangerous' particles found in machined meat, he said. McFarland referred to calcium particulates and flourides found in the processed meat and said that the meat is harmless. Europeans especially are demanding our machinery because they dont have such an abundance of meat as we do in this country. They have to stretch every ounce of their meat, he said. We have also been marketing our machines in Italy, Russia and China and we will go to whatever socialistic or Communist countries we have to in order to survive. McFarland insists that his company will continue to operate at substantial profits. We've been increasing our profits by 100 percent every year since we began operations in 1958. This year we dont expect the same profit margin but we will make substantial gains through foreign sales. We have found that people in most other countries are very appreciative of meat and they use it for all its worth. Without Tires, Roads will be Slippery by Dean Alsup Review Staff W riter rophic impact on the availability of snow' tires for large trucks in Salt Lake City this If early predictions by Salt Lakes major tire retailers hold true, its going to be very difficult to buy certain sizes of snow tires this winter. The shortage would pertain mostly to large truck tires and some of the more common sizes of passenger car tires. winter, predicts Lou West-ovegeneral manager of the nations major tire manufacturers Five of were on strike from late April through August of this year and the effect of that rubber strike could have a catast r, Brad Ragan. Inc. Ragan is one of the state's largest retailers of truck tires. Westover said that most tire manufacturers produce winter tires during the summer months. Unfortunately, he said, thats when the tire makers and union leaders were at a bitter standoff. Good Year, Firestone, Goodrich, U.S. Royal and General Tire companies were all on strike. Westover said that several of the companys summer tires are in dangerously We are low supply but completely out of snow To make the situatires. tion worse, he doesnt know when the tire companies will catch up to winter production. Were trying to turn out enough retreads to accommodate some of our customers but thats not much consolation to the trucker who needs winter treads and cant find them, he said. Luckily, the situation is not nearly as severe for passenger cars. The states largest dealer, J.W. Brewfer Tire Co., has an adequate supply of passenger car snow tires, but a spokesman for the Brewer company said that truck tire buyers will find certain sizes of snow tires very difficult to find. Owen Kimball, treasurer for J.W. Brewer, said that much of the companys $11 million annual retail business comes during the early winter months from the sale of snow tires. The Brewer company, fortun- ately, isnt overly dependent Continued on page 4b |