Show Time to Shake Off Winters Winter's Torpor And Look Around Spring Is Here It is human nature to grumble about the weather Any time we have an unusually unusually un un- usually heavy rain or snow or the thermometer thermometer thermometer ther ther- drops below zero or flirts with witha a hundred we yell our heads off We Ve did a lot of that weather grouch ing in Utah this past winter We Ve kept telling ourselves that things were ter ter- We Ve talked so much about the bad winter that a lot of people still act as if the snow was three feet deep and the mercury at 10 below Its It's time for all of us to open our eyes and take a good look around When we wedo wedo wedo do we discover disco that really very little harm barm was done The Thc other day the United Press took tooka a look around the countr country at the livestock livestock livestock live live- stock situation They found that cattle and sheep losses were actually very small For the country as a whole only third one-third of one per cent of the cattle population was lost and a little more than one per cent of the sheep tion Losses in western states ran a little heavier than the national percentage but the total loss is not great enough to have any serious effect on the livestock in industry industry industry in- in which is in a very healthy state as a result of long years of high demand and good prices The state department of employment security reported the other day that the normal winter unemployment peak was definitely passed From now on increased construction agricultural and other activity activity activity ac ac- ac- ac will ill see a steady gain in job place place- ments Local and national business analysts agree the future looks promising W. W S. S Law general sales manager of the Norge division of Borg Borg- Warner Borg Varner corporation here for an intermountain dealer meeting said there is a bright year ahead for both businessman and consumer and he pointed to continued high employment and better bargains for the shopper Nationally industrial production has held at a high level with the index at relative to the peak of last November There are about as many jobs as last year with year with more employment certain as activity picks up from rom now on Retail buying is picking up rapidly in Salt Lake City with ith the coming of spring with far better bargains offered the consumer consumer consumer con con- sumer and higher quality merchandise The buyer is now able to go out and shop and choose choose and and that's a decided gain meaning more for the consumers consumer's dollar and healthier more alert and competitive business Frankly its it's time for all of us to shake off the torpor of winter inter Look Lookaround Lookaround Lookaround around at the sunshine and the greening grass Spring is here I Lets Let's make the most of it |