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Show Page FIRST, tke individual, under. GoJ I aw?, with certain unalienable right?. erafb South Salt Lake Entered as 2nd Class Matter at the Post Office in Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published weekly on Friday. By Mail Payable in Advance Subscription Rates 1 in UiLA., $3.50 Elsewhere in $3 Utah, year, Anywhere cents 10 Single Copy, Published Weekly at 2185 South 9th East Publisher-Edit- Friday, July SOUTH SALT LAKE HERALD 2 or IN 6-2- 333 J. Dohn Lewis --- ---- No. 28 Vol. 24 not like the price cutting let them do something either within their own private associations framework, or individually compete. INSTITUTE OF BEAUTY CULTURE GJ&ISIIE.'S ONLY SCHOOL WITH Let the prince keep to his court and the taxation he finds necessary to' pay for his ruling. Let the elected representatives of the people think more about restricting government and their own jobs than restricting the marketplace. Please, if you agree with this editorial, dont write your representative or governor to change the law. He will only hire someone to read the increased mail and thus raise 14, 1961 HYDRAULIC CHAIRS NEW Street Location Just East of KUONG JOU CAFE You'll be amazed at the modern equipment, beautiful furnithings of Carel't Utah's most modern Beauty Institute . . . air conditioned dryers, cool and quiet, hydraulic chairs, stereo music. Meet famed Instructors Anna Low Allred and Elaine Caldwell and their . assistants SCHOOL SPECIALS Shampoo and Set $1.00 taxes. by Graduate What you can do is increase private property and conduct your freedom endeavors in the marketplace. J. Dohn Lewis Editorial Signs $1.25 B Div. National American Cosmetology Schools 1019 EAST 2 1ST SOUTH HU MEMBER 73 of the Times We are concerned about the law, passed at the last legislature, and called S.B. No. 159. This is the law which states: (4) No other sign or plac- ard stating the price or prices of gasoline other than the price on the computing device as required by subsection (1) and the sign allowed by subsection (2) shall be posted or maintained on the premises on which said fuel is sold or offered for sale. Subsection (1) refers to the posting on the computing device and that it must be dear and legible. Subsection (2) refers to the posting of the prices on the computing device which shall be posted at the beginning of the business day and shall remain in effect for a period of not less than 24 hours . . . An allowance is made to change the price to compete with a price posted by a competitor in the same community. ... The complete bill occupies sheets of one and legal size paper double spaced. We will not attempt to quote the entire bill but will keep it at. hand for reference while writing this editorial. one-thi- rd Our concern with S.B. No. 159 is that it is discriminatory and hurts the general public. Here again we have the state interfering with the free market not to the benefit of the consumer. This editorial will not con- cern itself with the argument between the major producers and distributors and the independent stations. There is a point or two that could be made in this direction. Rather, we are concerned that a man cannot, on his own property, erect a sign, the size he chooses, stating the price of certain gasoline he sells. The last legislature saw fit to hold the businessman down to a sign, displayed on his computing device, which could only be . . not less than seven inches in height and eight inches in width, nor more than twelve inches in height and twelve inches in width. . . This law was an outgrowth of the gas war and the displaying of large (over 12 in.) signs calling attention to the fact that a certain station was selling gas for, say, 23.9 cents per gallon. The 9 tenths might be real small on the sign. Thus the law makers had a suppose-edl- y moral piton to tie the to. law So now, through coercion, business will be curtailed and perhaps another small business man will go under. The state cannot today, or at any other time in the past, increase production. Nor can it by law benefit the people when the state enters the marketplace. If enforced, this law will see it that Mr. John Q. Public pays the full 37 cents for his to gasoline. We are for competition. We feel certain that the majors can defend themselves competitively. We do not like to see gas war for .we feel that it is the station operator who is hurt the most. But regardless of the natural results of the gas wars the state should keep, to quote Ernie Ford, its cotton pickin' hands off the marketplace. If the public doesnt like the posting of the signs they wont patronize the gas stations which display the big price cuts. If another company does RETREAT from the HEAT ELECTRICALLY ! 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