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Show v ' , .7 4 i ' 4 fm V DAILYHERAtD ' '"J n "WIOVO, TJTAJt COUMTT, WEDNEBDAT. JDNB l. I4 PAGE 5 Navy Airmen Told I!ovtol!o!d0vn VifPryingSharft lel are officially Informed that in pnark is a co.ward, out Are Warned to play sale in eye-to-eye encounter by keeping on their pant and sock?. Rules n conduct when cast adrift in shark Infested waters came to light recently In a 22 page brooklet "Snark Sense" pre pared by the U. S." Navy's ayia- uon irauunz oivuuon io proviae euuienuc it numorous, approacn to the shark. Oon Is Help .tThat," it adds cheerfully, "rep-sents "rep-sents -one man's opinion." JL. gun in the hand of the airman or 1 seaman approached by n in- oulsitive shark can be a help, the booKiet concedes, xne gun snoum be i fired but fiot into the shark. Ins Idea is to frighten him wlth-ouf wlth-ouf spilling blood which will at- Chances of whipping the shark . teamed "may not be loo per cent" the booklet warns. "But remember, re-member, it advises, "your life in surance company was not too happy about you when you fell In the water." For the man without a gun,, the Navy suggests what it terms a "pretty desperate . countermeas- ure." Bold On to a Fin - "Swim out of the line of his charge;-grab a pectoral fin as he Intervention To Stop Robot Use Scorned by Eden LONDON, Jun 23, (ttD Foref ign Secretary Anthony Eden flat ly rejected in commons today a proposal to, seek the Pope's Intervention Inter-vention In a condemnation of Ger many's robot bombs as "an indis criminate engine of war." Eden gave, a curt "No, air' when the suggestion was posed by independent-Tom Dry berg. His Holiness, the Pope, no doubt already is aware of the use which at present is made by the Germans of this pilotless aircraft,' the foreign secretary explained. Dryberg pointed out that the Pope Jn the past had condemned indiscriminate warfare against civilians and asked Eden "could it not be put to him that condemnation condem-nation by him of this particularly barbarous weapon would carry great weight with the German Catholic hierarchy?" 1 fThia is a matter for the Pope himself," Eden replied. "I don't propose to make any request of the kind." Ins In Italy United Press War Correepoadenttacklng In the Chiusi-Perugli rome, June s olk) Allied ctnsmasned forward sue mues m , A. . S I . A. A. " V 14 More Cities . Switch to City Manager System CHICAGO (Cl?)-Fourteen more mayors lost their shirts to city managers by midyear, 1044, making mak-ing a total of 572 cities and towns goes by, and ride with him a long in the United States now operat as you can hold your breath." The admonition to retain pants and socks is based on a superstition super-stition that sharks can't see dark objects. The superstition, "Shark Sense" said has Some support so it is best to play safe by heeding It. . Some of the things which naval personnel are asked to keep in mind are: "There is very little danger from sharks, people suffer more from shark fright than shark bite, you can't winfrom a shark In "a biting match but you can win in a thinking Snatch; above an don't be frightened just because a Shark happens' to be In the same ocean with you if the truth were known, the shark probably is more frightened of you than you pos-sibly pos-sibly Can be of him." - lore Shark Stories Navy men are cautioned against believing anyone's shark 'stories "even if he can show you the ocean In which: it happened." A shark, they are reminded, is a fish and "a fish story quickly gets out of hand. All fish stories are .not lies, but very few ere ever handicapped by Statistics." ; .- The .airman -who drops Into tropical waters, authoritative data Indicates, can expect to see a Shark in half an hour. "The experts," relates 'Shark Sense,' "say you are to take no action; merely remain41 calm and continue riding in your life jacket or rubner boat as though no shark were near you. Don't let the shark mistake you for a corpse. Presentlythey Present-lythey say he will go on away." ing under' the city manager plan, the Public Administration Clearing House reports. Twelve clues in 1943 exchanged their mayors for city managers, and the first five months of 1944 found 14 more cities joining ranks. The stalwart little state of Maine leads all other states this year in the switch to the city managed plan. In town meetings 11 Maine cities went over to the new plan of government. Michigan and Maine, with 55 and 54 respectively, have more manager cities; than any other state. Virginia has 46, Texas 45, Florida 40,- California 37, Penn sylvania 33, and Oklahoma 28 Highest ratio of city manager cities is found Mn the group be tween 50.000 aim 100.000 popula tlon 29 cities, or 27.4 per cent having adopted the plan: second highest are the cities of more than 100,000 population, 23 of the 92 cities have made the change. In the United States the largest council manager city Is Cincinnati, 455,000 population; the smallest. Teterboro, J., 40. Under the city manager plan, known more formally as the coun ell manager plan, the manager Is appointed and his tenure of office controlled by the city council Thirty municipalities have aban doned the plan since 1908 when Staunton, Va., became the first community to go under the plan Cotton growing in India dates backifarther than written history Spectacles have been in use by man since 1300. and 8th army troops, battling! through rugged terrain and stiffening stif-fening German, opposition, hammered ham-mered but gains running up to six', miles on a 100-mile front In central Italy from Perugia to the Tyrrhenian seacoast, a Communique Com-munique said today. ah along we rront me uer-mana uer-mana were putting up a desper ate rear guard action, - taking every advantage of the hilly ter rain to slow the Allied pursuit and give their main forces time to dig in on .the Ptsa-Florence-Rimini line 40 to 60 miles above the present battle front. - American units on the west coast highway advanced to within about 30 airline miles of Livorno (Leghorn), occupying San Vicenso after a savage house-to-house bat- tla Civ Yvi Ta . J Inland ,nnfh. Yankee column- mopped up iso lated enemy units in Belvedere and drove forward. three miles to take the hill town of Sassetta. Bitter fighting also raged on the approaches to Siena, 4& miles inland, where ' American armored forces fanned out along a secondary second-ary east-west highway and cap tured Travels and Sluusdino. the latter ,-Only 17 miles southwest of Siena. Front reports said the Ger mans demolished Travale and turn- the town into a huge tank trap In a futile attempt- to halt the American advance. Enemy resistance was reported particularly, heavy on the Amer ican sector,' where the Germans brought field, artillery, anti-tank guns, mine fields and extensive demolitions into play. ' On the American right flank, French troops beat off strong enemy counter-attacks and ex tended their bridgehead on the north bank of the Orcla river. taking San Quirico D'Orcla, 23 miles below Siena. British 8th army troops at- aarea oevona Chlusi to take the village Gioeila.) . The British also seized Portd four miles, due north of Chiusi, while other columns captured: the twin heights of Monte Bagnoiaand Monte pacciano, fives miles north or -rerngia. Eighth army spearheads also took Colombella, seven miles northeast, of Perugia, and Pag-liaccia, Pag-liaccia, two .miles to the east. A naval communique disclosed tedly that French naval 'units attacked an escorted enemy con- voyvin the Adriatic sea during: the nightxpf June 16-17 and destroyed at least one Nazi vessel, Saturday Deadline For Auto Use Stamp SALT LAKE CITY, June S7 - (tra-Utah collector of internal revenue, William J. Korth, warned today that Saturday was the deadline for purchase, without being subject to penalty, of the new $5 ' federal automobile use stamp. Only 8,000 of the stamps Lhave been sold so far in Salt Lake rt. J' charged XKXSCC! CHICAGO from nsoscx uE the' Honorably dlav Army K- Corps after two years .of service, Pinkie, a German shepherd, Is now on a hew warJob His master, Herman Bush, chairman of A the Chicago committee of Russian War Belief, Be-lief, has put Pinkie on duty at the organization's. warehouse, . to guard clothing- and other gifts for Russia. ' v- 'v" 'C'' Jeep Very Usefu Toledo, .04 fmm-'tnmw ing" nature of tKermy's robust "jeep" is evident in the giant vic- , overiaLMotofs, inc,-.piant here.'; Plsjtl 'employees are using oner of the company's early experi mental models of the Jeep" to aasrav utvw ' jvww v y everything from potatoes to awjeet corn.' , .. i Allies Occupy Jap Stronghold CHUNGKING, June 27 (HE) Allied troops have completed the occupation of Mogaurig, former Japanese stronghold - on the MyltkyinarMandalay railway in northern Burma, a communique announced today. The town, second Japanese Mo- gaung valley base to fan in a week, was captured yesterday by Chinese troops and Gurhka and British units i of Maj. GenW. D. A. Lentaigne's air-borne Chindlts. Occupation. - of Megming, 36 miles east of embattled Myitkyina, I Climaxed a bitter threeaoay bat tle in which the Allied forces.! supported by American fighter- bombers, circled the Japanese forces and attacked from the south and east. , : I The communique described the town as a focal Japanese base, which had served as the supply center for the entire enemy cam paigns in the Mogaung and Hu-1 Kawng vaneys. im BlG.COQLl ADrlnKs m corn.' , .r , t ,vi ii ! ' ' . "i i. Hi ' ..ii i i In I 1 i'it New Rate Redmicltioinis - Effective Iniy 1:" Provo City Municipal Power and . ' -Ijiglii ." -IUsch; rrr -. m 1 riml l ' fii ill f m P I I &iPBt til I Jgi Lfe : mi IS i) : iiS i Is? hr .A ii, iil WILL SAVE ANOTHER $21,728.67 THE NEXT SIX 1 i MONTHS OF THIS YEAR: i , S Savings- ALREADY MADE BY PATRONS OF PROVCS MUNICIPAL POWER PLANT BY REDUCTIONS AND DISCOUNTS tinder previous pre-vious costs, mad& possible by the ownership and management of oar own municipal power plant: 1940 1941 1942 1943 Total ... $ ..4....... 18,538.53 30,295.75 34,778.44 40,728.12 .... .......$124,340.84 1944 First Six Months (al- , ready saved) ....... $24,815.3 24315.63 1944 N e x t Six Months (without any further -i reductions) ......... 1944 Next sk Months (ad ditional savings by new rate .reductions) 21,728.67- '"' ' "i LlS V Total Savings for 1944 ... . ........ $71,359.93 Grand Total $195,700.77 ivinrs for last six months of 944 will be apportioned as follows: -Residential . Users 325.68 18,014110 t 88887 ; j i s - . ii-J, Total Savings for six months under new low; rates ....... $21,728.67 2. Commercial Users S. Heating and Cooking-General Cooking-General Users v Chairman J. Hamilton Galder says: "The Board of Public Utilities of Provo City is far more interested In giving every consumer a square deed than, in making profits for JhMunidpal Power plant Each class of users must be treated fairly. Adjustments In rates have been made with this edpi in yiew. All users get reductions, but, some get more than others, and the reason simply is to be lust and fair to all Oiir previous rates were brfsedon a pattern ofrale shructures which independent and unbiased studies revealed to be out of proportion to certain consumers. The new rate schedules are designed to adjust the rates so that all pay their just share." t ; . M The entire Board concurs in this statement, and ihey have 1 adopted unaxumousiy the Mfr. INOtCt low rate schedules which were published by ordinance recently in the public press. ' after having made a special study of Proyp's municipal powe New Rate Schedules Ayerag 9.72 ClaaBlflcatlons: (Only those listed here whose rate are affected) Estimated Revene-. Revene-. for 1944. 1 Rate Reductions EffecUve July 1. Number of ' customers 1. Residential . . . . ... . . . .$215,468.40 & Commercial .......... 17158.00 3. General Heating ': and Cooking , ..... 4,494.60 3.09 21.05 1.73 5,157 606 75 e. Actual Reductions during last 6 months of j . , -. ' IM , $3,325.68 18,014.10 388.89 Total Savinp for last six months of 1944 . , . . ..... . , . . . . .... $ 21,728.67 Durhs & McDonnell Engineering Co. i and light schedules, concluded: ; vt 1' , : - . Commercial lighting and small powr customers contributed considemblyv morel ian their .equitable share to the 1942 revenues of the department. It is recommended that a newschedule be ' adopted; 'v and that this schedule be available for all commercial service including lighting, heating and snail power .... . '!..., . Residenticd consumers as a group contributed less than teir equitaW sh to the 1942 revenues of the department. Therefore no substantial reduction to this classification is indicated . at the present time . . . . ..... . . . The schedule for controlled storage and electric water heaUng service should be continued. This is a special rate for electric water heating. The . consumption is measured by a separate meter, as onginauy aesignea uus rotw w nuwacu w w w r -I |
