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Show Up and Down the Street Firm to Divide $5 Million Among Beet Growers Sy Clarnaee D. vtVUams Pockets of sugar beet growers for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. in Utah, Idaho, Montana. Washington Washing-ton and South Dakota will be lined with silver this month when the compsny divides an estimated 13.000.000 among about 4200 growers. Officials announced an eatlmat-ed eatlmat-ed total payment of $8,000,000 will be paid to the growers in the November No-vember and December beet payments. pay-ments. Checks for the. estimated first f 5,000.000 will be mailed to growers grow-ers Nov. 19 so they will have them for their Thanksgiving shopping. Thia money ta for beets delivered to f actories during October. The December payment will be for November beet deliveries. Approximately 1100 Utah growers grow-ers will receive checks. There ara three factories operating In Utah. Officials announced that beet factories will qperato until about th. end of the year. Store) S. Incrwcu. Chain variety store ssles In the nation for ths month of December are forecast aa 3.6 over the December De-cember ssles a year ago, aaid word received here Wednesday. November No-vember sales were estimated as 0.2 below ssles for the same month in 348. The percentage was takea from IS of the largeet chaina. Cruel. OH Avarofl. Up During the week ended Nov. 12 the daily average United States crude oil production waa boosted by 45.925 barrels for a total daily average for the nation of 5.135,500 barrels, ssid the Associated Press. In the increase, Utsh Jumped from 550 to 3350. barrels; Wyoming Wyo-ming registered lncreaaea from 7300 to 135,100. A trend Firm Shewing Distributors and dealers from Utah, Idaho and Nevada attended the ahowing of the International Harvester company's new 1950 line of refrigerators and freezers st ths Newhouse hotel Thursday. The meeting waa directed by P. H. Cushman, district manager. T.l.viiion City Op.nt Newly remodeled' headquarters of Television City, Inc., 908 E. 4th South, opened Wedneaday at 1 p.m. with special .door prises given to visitors.. The a tore, which will retail re-tail Btrom berg-Carlson. Hoffman and Emerson television sets, will remain open until 11 p.m. Kenneth Ken-neth B. Strand, president and general gen-eral manager, aaid. ' Int.rtain Imployet Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wheeler entertained en-tertained employes snd psrtners of the J. K. Wheeler Meehlnery Co. at s banquet Tuesday evening, I marking the fourth birthday an-niversaxy an-niversaxy of ths concern. The j event was at Rustic Acrea. I Forty-four persona attended. |