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Show UTAHN LEAVES WITH DATA ON FACILITIES Stanley J. Stephenson, executive execu-tive secretary of the Utah Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association, left Sunday for San Francisco to confer with officers of the ordnance department depart-ment of the United States army on plans for utilizing Utah's machine ma-chine shops for making national defense materials. After conferring with James W. Silver of Ogden, chairman of the heavy industries division of the defense committee of the state manufacturers' association, and M. J. Greenwood, general chairman chair-man of the defense committee, Mr. Stevenson announced Saturday that the association has completed a survey of 35 0 Utah machine shops and a final summary of the survey will be available in several sever-al days. "The final breakdown or condensed., con-densed., summary of the survey will show the number of machines, the age of these machines, the present number of mechanics employed em-ployed in operating them, the maximum number of employees engaged at these same machines in past years, the number of hours they now are operating, and the number of hours they might be operated if called upon to produce defense materials," Mr. Stephenson Stephen-son said. The survey will enable ordnance technicians to determine what might be made on the machines of Utah and in what quantities certain cer-tain articles might be turned out. Already indicated, he said, are that there has been a decrease in number of mechanics employed here because some have been drawn to government projects elsewhere, else-where, and that additional mechanics me-chanics must be trained if the state is to obtain orders for a considerable con-siderable number of Utah shops. While in San Francisco, Mr. Stephenson also will confer with the quartermaster department to learn what may be done toward employing facilities and using the supplies of Utah food and clothing cloth-ing manufacturers. |