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Show i the Utah - - 50 Employees of S. V. To 6A Weekly Newspaper Devo Good Government Vol. 11; No. 35 Salt Lake City, Utah Frid GOP Women f Region Two Go Region Two of the Federation of Womens Republican Clubs will hold its convention at the Temple Square Hotel in Salt Lake City Saturday, Sept. 7, beginning at 10 a.m. Thq program will continue throughout the morning with an afternoon session following the luncheon at 12:15 p.m., according to Mrs. Ruth M. Smith, director of Region Two. Featured guests at the convention will be Senator Arthur V. Watkins and Congressman William A. Dawson. Senator Watkins will discuss the status of the national legislation and what it means to the state of Utah. He will be featured at the morning session. Congressmani Dawson will be gust speaker at the afternoon Demand Revamps Cow Ownership iule Milk ition Other speakeiw lclude Hazel T. Chase, president of the Utah Federation of Womens Republican Clubs; Dee Abbojt, Salt Lake County vice chairman; Mrs. Blanche Richards, immediate past president, Holladay Study Club; LaRue Jex, national committee, woman for Utah, and Mrs. Juel E. Trowbridge and Mrs. Helen Brown, both of Davis County. Others on the convention program include Mrs, Smith, Mrs. Dryce J. Fairbanks, vice president of the Young Republican League of Utah Mrs. Don Jacobs, president, Tooele Womens GOP Club; Mrs. Fern Escandon, chairman for election officers, and assisted by Mrs. George Huntsman and Mrs. Dee Abbott. Music for the luncheon is under the direction of. Mrs. Elizabeth Otis, Mrs. Smith said. Agricultural Officials To Keep Selling On Wool Surplus Stocks There has been quite an interchange in the ownership of the dairy cow, particularly in the past decade. Increasing population and a shift in the population from rural to urban areas, along with an excellent quality and pasteurized milk program, has established consumer confidence and created a greater demand for market milk. Most of the production of grade A milk has been recruited from the manufacturing milk producing ranks, and in many cases the necessity for buildings and equipment required for grade A production, developed the need for larger herds to meet the increased costs. This same process eliminated some grade A producers, and their herds were taken over by the larger producer. Farmers able to obtain social security on reaching proper age have gone out of' the milk business and their herds have been sold to other producers or taken out of production. Increasing demands for quality milk in the manufacturing field may be the means of additional i WASHINGTON The AgriculAn Agriculture Department ofture Dept, announced it plans ficial said sales have dropped be- changes. no changes in its program of sell- cause the most desirable wool With the competition for dairy ing surplus wool at competitive has already been sold. He pre- products market becoming more dicted the government will start demanding, the higher-price- d bidding. The announcement, a spokes- accepting somewhat lower bids in dairy products will have to meet man said,- was made to soothe an effort to get rid of the re- higher standards. trade fears that the governments maining surplus. If the producer of manufacturThe announcement said the reremaining wool stocks would be ing milk is unwilling or unable . - dumped at drastically reduced prices. The spokesman said, however, the surplus wool will be priced a little more realistically in the future. The sales program, begun in November 1955, was designed to million pounds of get rid of 1 wool acquired under government price support programs. The inventory has been trimmed to about 20 million pounds, although sales have trickled off in recent weeks. Only 34,000 pounds, for example, were sold last week. . maining surplus should be sold by the end of December. This would require sales to move up to near the 6,225,000-poun- d monthly limit, although the ceiling hasnt been touched Officials said the since April. more realistic pricing and the anticipated fall pickup in wool sales should turn the trick. ' A farm agency official admitted that the department had been mulling major changes in the wool sales program and said this probably explained ithe trade rumors. picture. Insurance Plans Being Probed A. E. Buckwell, Utah State Insurance Commissioner, reported Saturday that his investigation of automobile insurance policies s in sevshows that eral companies are being overcharged. But our investigation is really just getting off the ground, he Salary Increases Salary adjustments for approximately 850 Salt Lake City employes probably will be announced sometime this week, Mayor Adiel F. Stewart said Tuesday. The new salary figures are expected to take effect on the Sept. 15 payroll, the mayor said. All raises will be retroactive to June 1, as announced by the commission several months ago. The mayor and the commission issued the oral statement on salaries following an executive session in the mayors office at which Wilbur C. Parkinson, president of the Salt Lake City Employes Assn., Inc., asked for a fair adjustment of salaries. Comparable Jobs Mr. Parkinson particularly requested that the commission attempt to bring salaries in line with comparable jobs in private industry. Mayor Stewart said, That is just what the commission is now attempting to do. He said that the commission has had several meetings and is now trying to apply the results of the recently completed job eval uation survey to the adjustment in salaries. He added that comparable jobs between departments are being brought into line and that a virtually complete new schedule of salaries should be ready this week in order to allow the auditor to apply it to the Sept. 15 payroll. Adequately Paid Mayor Stewart said approximately, per cent of the 1,000 city employes affected by the sur-vewould not receive raises. This group, he said, already is being adequately paid, and, in some cases, employes are receiving more than the new schedule sets up. He said, however, that in accordance with a former ruling, salaries of these people will not be decreased, but that the new and lower salary will apply when the position becomes vacant. Not affected by the salary adjustments are the police and fire departments, with the exception of the meter maids in the police department. These civil service divisions were granted raises early last year as a result of a successful referendum in the fall of 1955. y S.L. Business District Making Comeback Salt Lake City is following in the footsteps of larger cities in the United States showing a healthy comeback growth in its business district Vernon F. Jorgensen, director, Salt Lake City Planning and Zoning Commission, said that while many people keep moving to the suburbs, the growth of the city and. county is large enough to keep the city's down-towsection the focal point. In outlining what the city planning and zoning commission is doing, Mr. Jorgensen said it is moving forward to continue to see that planning in the city follows a master plan. "We are predicting an increase in population of Salt Lake City by 50,000 by 1975, compared with approximately 200,000 now, said the planning expert. We expect Metropolitan Salt Lake to reach a population figure of about in 1975. The figure is now approximately 300,000. He said with population increases to contend with yearly there must be proper and adequate planning and zoning engaged in by the city planning . - n 660,-00- 0 commission to prepare for the fu- - ture. The city planning commission, according to Mr. Jorgensen, has three principal features it is working on. 1. A plan for tiie pattern of land" uses throughout the city. 2. A plan and program for community services to be provided by public and semi-publi- c agencies. 3. To coordinate these two plans with the development of a comprehensive master, or general plan. Mr. Jorgensen could make downtown property owners feel good about the general trend when he said that in many places one can find a surge to make the big city the most popular place in which to live and do business. The recent new construction in Salt Lake City, and that which is planned fo the future, has proved that decay is far from setting in in the areas where skyscrapers are located, said Mr. Jorgensen. Our commission members are working constantly to properly prepare the master plan for the citys physical development, he (Continued on Page 2) policy-holder- Credit Report Shows In Buyers Bill-Payin- to make the changes necessary to meet the demand for improved quality, he too will fade from the fo L. g Slow-U- p Ability customers. The level of sales is re- per cent on July 1, 1956. Manufacturers and firms who garded as above those of 1956 in thus the sell to wholesaler? reported a the retailing trades drop is not attributable to a de- median of 80 per cent of their accounts receivable in a current cline in total business. condition as of July 1, 1956. There D. K. Porter, secretary-manage- r of the Intermountain Association was no change in the status of of Credit Men, said that as of the wholesaler accounts as the Are you paying your bills these median on July 1, 1956 was also 80 per cent, Mr. Porter said. days? Intermountain to the According For all types of accounts the Association of Credit Men, reage of receivables was tailers in the Salt Lake area have average 47.9 days compared with 38.7 days been paying their bills to others one year ago, Mr. Porter said. more slowly this year than last. This in ava slow-uAnd this reflects, it is reasoned, erage represents of nine payments days. a slow-u-p on payments from their reThe was conducted survey by July 1, companies selling to ( said. His investigation prompted one insurance company to refund to 745 policy holders an average of more than $16. Questionnaires received from policy holders in another company, he said, revealed that all but a few have been over$12,-06- 7 charged. The investigation will be extended to six or eight firms, he said. The emphasis is on collision insurance policies in which the policy holder is put into class two. Class two, higher than other classes, is for the insured having a male driver under 25 In most cases, he said, the incorrect rating have been made when a policy holder contracts for insurance when he makes a a contract for a time payment on tail establishments reported to the regional group in acwith the research foundation of a car. The car salesman frequentmedian 73.7 per cent of their counts receivable in a current the National Association of Credit ly acts as agent for the insurance condition. This compares with 84.4 Men. company in writing the policy. p Packing malarial for Hia 2,200 mila trip to Utah, art Congressman H. A. Dixon, left; Miss Loah Dunford, cantor; and Miss Batty South, right. Rep. Dixon will open an off! ca In tha Ben Lomond Hotel, Ogdan, around the middle of September. |