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Show ing plants in Utah and the west. Reasonable freight rates on unprocessed un-processed materials have long been enjoyed by companies who nave followed the practice of .hipping our natural resources to ither areas to he processed. If Utah and the west are to enjoy their full share of industrialization industrializa-tion and if fabi icating plants are to be set up west of the Rockies and a decentralization of industry indus-try which will be desirable during dur-ing an atomic age is to materialize, material-ize, then freight rates on finished finish-ed products manufactured in the west must be reduced to whatever degree is necessary to put them on a competitive basis. The issue, therefore, is bigger than might at first be thought, for the industrial future of my state and other western states it largely dependent on its de-tei de-tei mutation '. ! Spotlighting UTAH Highway Safety Conference Called (lovernor Herbert B. Maw has announced a highway safety conference con-ference to be held in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, September 4, l'.Mtt The place will be New-house New-house hotel, and time, !l o'clock a.m. Law enforcement agencies, civic organizations and others interested in-terested in traffic safety have been invited to the conference. It is honed that this first statewide state-wide highway safety conference will set up a balanced plan in traffic prevention that will prove effective for every city and town in the state The governor states, "Our approach to the problem of highway safety must be positive and constructive. Defeatism has no place in our thinking when we consider a basic element of our existence. Motor vehicle transportation is an integral part of the social and economic life, of our country, and highway safety is inseparable from efficient effic-ient highway transportation. ; There is no more tragic waste of human lives, no more unnecessary unneces-sary background to human suffering, suf-fering, no more needless source of economic loss than traffic accidents. ac-cidents. Needless because a completely com-pletely adequate traffic safety program of state and local governments, gov-ernments, fully supported by the people both through organiza- j tions and as individuals, can bring ' down and hold down the highway high-way casualty list Experience proves that such a purposeful, all-inclusive program of traffic-safety traffic-safety will lower the accident rate". Iron Age and Geneva "Iron Age", the powerful or gan of the steel industry, in sev oral recent issues has paid favorable fav-orable attention to the Geneva Steel company. In the issue of August I!, 1948, it reported at! length the freight held at San Francisco on July 31, l!)4ti. and found highly relevant the testimony testi-mony of Governor Maw. Because of the prestige of "Iron Age" throughout the United States, as well as the pertinent information informa-tion contained in the following paragraphs, we quote salient parts of the article: "Geneva is the pin-up girl of western steel consumers, judging from the testimony given at the public hearing before J. P. Haynes. a gent for the Pacific Freight Tar- iff bureau, and assembled railroad rail-road traffic men, held July 31 to determine what, if any, opposition oppo-sition existed to the establishment establish-ment of an $8.00 per ton rate on finished steel from the Geneva Steel company in Utah to Pacific Pa-cific coast points. "Governor Maw, of Utah, considered con-sidered the matter of such importance im-portance that he drove all night to appear before the rail representatives. repre-sentatives. Stressing the importance impor-tance of the continued oDeration of the Geneva plant to the economic econ-omic stability of his state, Governor Gov-ernor Maw said, '-it is perfectly perfect-ly apparent that unless freight rates are materially reduced on finished steel -oducts. there! can be no industrial expansion of the west. In fact, the economic 1 future of Utah is so closely tied up with lower freight rates on j linished products from Geneva to points on the Pacific coast,) that its future industrial ex-j pansion is dependent upon the action of this board. At the pros1 ent time a number of manufac-1 turing institutions are awaiting the determination of this issue before accepting invitations extended ex-tended by agencies of the state to establish branch manufactur- |