Show PRISON PLATE PLANT URGED Manufacture of or automobile license plates and other state insignia by prisoners will save the state pf f Utah thousands of dollars a year Warden Varden Austin B. B Middleton of ot the Montana state prison said Thursday The state board of corrections has under consideration such a n plan and expects to decide upon it at its June Juno meeting Montana has operated a prison plant for the manufacture of license nse plates since 1927 and the saving has amounted to about a year a United Press dispatch from Deer Lodge Mont quoted Warden Mid- Mid He fixed the cost of making plates lates at the prison at about 7 cents cents a aset aset aset set 4 or 5 cents less than the price charged by private concerns Cost of oC the prison plant was recovered in the thel first two years of operation Warden Varden Middleton said |