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Show Bidder Address wBggF vmuv sssssmbsssbsss EtSfmr KENTUCKY pUiK?! STRAIGHT BOURBON pJJyCS WHISKEY 22tjJ OTtt' WTO Irfewaf ieiyis PretetiM IFw Utah's laSirv $wai& During the first ''milk price truce" requested by Governor Lee, Utah's Milk Study Committee received testimony on the importance of protecting dairy farmers. Everyone in Utah is in agreement on this point. SAFEWAY ADVISES PROTECTION COULD ANY MILK LAW COST YOU MONEY? FOR UTAH'S DAIRY FARMERS YS, Test;mony was aIso given the committee to show that . . . , ,. . . . , , where the retail price of milk has been "fixed" by law, it has It ts Safeway s policy (published and in evidence to the com- inevitably been set loo high in order to protect inefficient, mittee) to pay dairy farmers top market prices for milk, plus marginal middlemen. quality bonuses. This policy has never been violated. , . "v Mr. Sverre M. OnJabl, Director of the Department of Agrt- However, Saieway's policy protects only the dairy farmers culture of the State of Washington, himself a dairy farmer) gave , , selling to Safeway. Other milk bottlers and retailers may not similar testimony: "... the producer must receive a fair price have the same policy or may not keep to it as strictly as or he will shortly be forced out of business but, by the same . Safeway does. token, I have always objected to the states setting a price (retail price) which would tend to favor inefficiency." That'g why It Is aso Safway's policy (published and ... , , .... In evdenee) f o work for lows or regeJoronj to protect the ,f th PrU You PaY for m,,k h " prevent price all dairy farmers get for their milk. Safeway and other efficient retailers from passing the savings of their efficiency on to you. w For example: At Safeway you buy milk in paper cartons, APP TUPDP AK1V CI If U I AA7C f0 Py cas'1 or l am carry home yourself Safeway saves money inCKC MINT SUV.M LAW J UK y nQt handing empty on j, returQ . no making REGULATIONS AT PRESENT? hundreds of expensive home deliveries , , . not keeping credit accounts and having no credit losses. There is one on the books in Utah right now. It is Utah's v . , , . . , , "Milk and Cream Marketing Act." This law is patterned after . An . YU arf nt,lld 10 '',ese sav,n1, yu ,hdP efrn t,,,cni California law which has been held constitutional. It provides i0" " them frm Safw8y anduotl?er ret,le" oni 'n8 the power to set minimum! on the prices paid dairy farmers for " "e 'ff ! CmpeK ' yUf ""T.t '5 UTTH ?" milk - and makes payments below the minimum, illegal. If in- " . JZZ" " ' yoked this law would give Utah's dairy farmers the protection 1ormrt w"' " " they need. Other ways to protect Utah's dairy farmers also are available. .. . A Federal Milk Marketing Order is one. 58 federal orders and - 1 rruim i ' ' . . agreements are now in effect and 10 more are being considered SAFEWA Y WOfnS uOlly With OttO 101 by the Secretary of Agriculture. These federal orders and agree- , J t II L ments also set minimums below which prices paid dairy farmers tnOUSOituS Of UtOuIS may not go. ,v.,. r i u if c .u n j -ii . . .. ' 885 Ssfewty Utah emptoyMt revived $3,S4I,876.37 is wages Today over half of the fluid milk consumed in the United d I ' ' 1951 States is marketed under milk price stabilization programs which nJ sa tries in l4. protect producer prices only, leaving free and fair competition 171 UUhns own 16.863 shares of stodi in Safeway Stores, to prevail at consumer levels. This includes the 58 federal order c , , , markets and 5 state pricing programs. Safoway purthasd the following Utah prodwts in 1954. Purchases Total Purchases lot Resale or Purchases . . . , . -., v faiReialeor Use Outside of Ulcih DO SUCH LAWS WORK? uMiauah .tu.uh p,0duc Livestock and . . Mr. Stuart Russell, who represents some 30 milk producer Meat Produtts $ 4,854,630 $ 1,929.904 S 6,784,534 cooperatives throughout the United States, testified: "I do not Poultry 422,564 68,042 490,606 know of any major price war that has occurred in any of the Fruit (freh, tanned areas where federal milk marketing orders and agreements are in frozen) 509 262 376 855 886 117 tull force and effect. Nor do I know of any in States which have y j , j ,, , , effective state milk control commission laws that control prices e9 a " ... at the producer level." nned) 1.333,817 1,398,813 2,732.630 Fruit & Vegetabla Juices 73,637 42,698 116.335 Mr. Russell also explained why these laws work: "The Dairy Produtts 1,652,945 1,050,907 2,703,852 reason is very simple: If distributors cannot pass. the cost of the Eggs ;, 620,198 245,709 865,907 price war back to the producers, they will not wage a prolonged Sugar (beet) 712,302 , 474.151 1,186,453 retail price war." Bread 8 Sweet Goods 721,389 312,954 1,034,343 V''" ' '''' -. Flour 522,943 1,482.043 2,004.986 No testimony to the contrary was presented to the committee. other Produtts 1.714,718 482,081 2.196.799 TOTALS $13,138,405 $ 7,864,157 $21,002,562 WOULD ENFORCING PRODUCER PROTECTION " ' COST YOU MONEY? w ir ; WHY SAFEWAY IS PUBLISHING THIS STATEMENT NO! The committee heard experienced testimony that fed- Safe-woy was born in neighboring Idaho. Wa hovo a big eral milk marketing laws do not increase the price you pay for iia in Utah an(j a citizen's eoncern for Utah's well-being, milk in fact, the Milk Study Committee itself found that - . -". ! r... such cost is so minimal as not to affect the price of milk on , We belift,v we hve o, responsibility to the public, our em- the retail level. The federal order does not set resale prices and P,oyees' PP'i' "d stockholders to publish the rord of our the evidence indicates it does not materially affect said prices." ""ony to the M.lk Study CommlHee. A state law could be just as inexpensive. Watch for these reports in this newspaper. nnnnnnncnaaaaisaEHnsancniiacnDti ' FOR BETTER MEATS GIVE US A TRY! POULTRY CHEESE QUALITY MEATS f BUTTER EGGS BINGHAM MEAT CO. Clarence Robison VV. II. Harris Clinton Robi9on ; Phone 5 We Deliver ; """"""""" l"BBI"l"Hl,IIB"' . 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