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Show the-LEASED the-LEASED GRAPEVINE Fathers who are not supporting support-ing their offspring are costing Utah taxpayers $148,000 each month, according to the Utah State Department of Public Welfare. Wel-fare. The $148,000 is the amount padi out as assistance by the department de-partment to the families of errant er-rant husbands or fathers. John Farr Larson, director of the department's de-partment's bureau of children's services this week proposed that the state set up a special bureau to put a financial pinch on the runaway providers. The Utah State Department of Public Welfare is planinng to ask the 1959 Legislature for a more lenient law regarding the treatment treat-ment of penniless transients. Clyde S. Edwards, department chairman, said this week the department de-partment now is limited to one half of one per cent of its total public assistance program for aid to transients. He said the department will ask the legislature legis-lature to raise the limit to one per cent. Dollar volume in Salt Lake City department stores sales ran seven per cent above year ago levels for the week ended Dec. 20, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco reported this week. Dr. Glen R. Leymaster, professor pro-fessor and head of the department depart-ment of preventive medicine at the University of Utah College of Medicine has returned to his post after 18 months as medical advisor to Thaoland. . Loans to finance $3,334,166 in real estate projects in Salt Lake City were disbursed by western home office of the Prudential Insurance Co. during the months ended Nov. 30, John E. Edwards, investments manager reported this week. Samuel (Sam) Woodhead, 73, 1277 Yale Ave., prominent Salt Lake businessman, died Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at -his residence of a heart ailment. ' The case for Weber College's expansion to a four year school was put before a group of representatives rep-resentatives and senators of the 1959 Legislature this week, Ira A. Huggins, former legislator of Ogden, and chairman of the Weber College Advisory Council welcomed the two-dozen council guests at a dinner in Hotel Utah. Department of fish and game spokesmen this week listed Jan. 10 as the final registration date for muskrat trappers planning to trap any of the six state owned waterfowl refugees. All registrations registra-tions should be made with the conservation officers in charge as listed in the 1958-59 furbearer proclamation. In the event the number of trappers registered exceeds the number believed to be in the best interest of the management of the marsh a drawing will be held on January 17 at 10:00 a.m. at the respective marsh headquarters. head-quarters. The six refuges are Locomotive Springs, tthe Public Shooting Grounds, Stewart Lake, Clear Lake, Ogden Bay and Farming-ton Farming-ton Bay. |