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Show Industries to Spend $20 Millions To Increase Nation's Fuel Supplies BY S. BURTON HEATH NEA SUf f Correspondent NEW YORK (NEA) Four Industries In-dustries are expected to spend between be-tween $20 billions and $25 billions bil-lions in 1947 and the next four years,, mostly to make sure that there will' be fuel, to heat your home, run your factory, and keep your automobile and the boss trucks operating. Perhaps .$2,500,000,000 is being spent this yean Orders covering more than half of the huge total have been placed. Others will be placed as fast as supplies, materials ma-terials 1 and manufacturing capacity capa-city permit. It is necessary to say "about" and "perhaps" in discussing these vast expansion projects of the petroleum, electricity, gas and railroad Industries, because they are victims of our national slowness slow-ness in getting' reconverted. What has happened, actually. is that the companies making up these industries have decided how much they should and can spend: they have placed all the 'orders they can set accepted for delivery soon: and now they are waiting for machinery, supplies, building materials and the like to come through. The petroleum industry is spending $4 billions this year and . next, for refineries, pipelines and other plant and development In siders believe that as much more will be spent as fast as it can be. This would total almost half as much asthe industry has invested from its birth down to this year, But it will not add 50 per cent to capacity, because costs have in creased enormously. The natural and manufactured gas industries are spending $730, 000,000 this year. Of this $143,-000.000 $143,-000.000 is for Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines, nJw bringing hundreds of thousands of cubic feet of natural gas east every day Other pipelines head west. One informed source estimates that the industry will spend at least $7.5 billions in the next five years if they can get the materials and equipment they want. $5 Billion In S Years The electric power industry has a $5 billion five-year program. Slightly under $1 billion is being spent this year, because of steel shortage and delayed output of manufacturers who went through long strikes last year. If produc tion permits, they will spend more than $1 billion in each of the next two years, and then taper off. - Class I railroads have 851 locomotives loco-motives and 105,261 freight cars on order, of which almost half are open top cars. If they can, they want to spend about $300 millions a year for five years on locomotives and freight cars, plus as. much more on roadway and structure, in addition to passenger train equipment. This would buy, among other things, the hopper Cars "heeded to haul coal. - They were supposed to begin .getting 10,000 cars a month the middle of last ' summer. On the ground of steel and other shortages, short-ages, the delivery schedule was cut in half. Meanwhile cars are wearing out, beyond use, faster than they can be replaced. War Blamed All of these industries have been criticized somewhat for lack of vision or of daring in not anticipating antici-pating these needs and preparing against them. There is no sure way of knowing whether they would have expected what has happened. But they offer the unanswerable un-answerable defense that during the war they were not permitted to build for today's peacetime needs. They could use materials and manpower only for pressing war needs. After years in which they could not legally or patriotically order plant equipment, they have come into a postwar boom that almost nobody expected. The demand for their products has skyrocketed. Since 1939 the use of gas for v.. -PC rlt '-.A in the 18 months ended June 30 about 2,800,000 gas water heaters were delivered, and there were more than 600,000 orders on file. More than 250,000 house heaters of various types, using gas were delivered in the first seven months this year. This was not quite up to the 1940 rate, because of the ban Imposed by many companies com-panies oh such Installations. From Pearl Harbor through 41946 some 600,000 ranges, 400,000 water heaters. 590,000 radiators and two million 'refrigerators were among the new electrical item put into homes. miit 3ROVO, UTAH , COUNTY. UTAH - SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1947 Inquest Set in Mysterious Death Of Colorado Youth PUEBLO, Colo., Nov. 1 (U,R)i performed ' an autopsy on the Four volunteers who helped re trieve the body of 17-year-old Kenneth Vannest from a sealed limestone 'quarry tomb , today were deputized by the sheriff's office, presumably to continue Investigation In-vestigation of foul play, although an autopsy failed to substantiate such a theory. County Coroner C. N. Caldwe.ll, youth's body, but announced that he found no evidence of foul play. Dr. Caldwell said there were no bone fractures -"no markes to Indicate In-dicate injury or wounds to the skull and chest." The condition of the body, however, prevented examination of any of the intestinal intest-inal .. organs, he said. Dr. Caldwell announced that Salt Lake May Be Site for Session an inquest would be held early next week, but no date has been set yet. Meanwhile, because of purported pur-ported threats against .the youth, the sheriff's office disclosed that the four unidentified volunteers had been deputized. No reason was given for having the volunteers volun-teers deputized. Young Vannest's body was re- WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 U.fO ! Sen. Elbert Thomas, D., Utah, said today the state department was considering Salt Lake City as the site for a proposed Inter-American Inter-American conference on con servation of resources. "I have recommended to the state department," Thomas said, "that if such a conference is held Salt Lake City would be a su premely good place to hold it. "It is better' always to have these conferences in a place which affords object lessons. Utah could offer almost all va rieties of land for study." Thomas said he wrote the de- covered from the limestone quar ry Wednesday night, after eight days of digging. partment after "hearing a report" that such a conference was being planned. JAPANESE WOMEN GRANTED SMOKES TOKYO, Nov. 1 (U.R Japanese women today won another round in their battle for equal rights with men. Hereafter, the government ruled, both men and women smokers will be allowed 50 cigarettes ciga-rettes per month Under new rationing ra-tioning regulations. Previously, men have received 90 and women 30. Smokers of both sexes, however, how-ever, joined in mourning a 66 and 2-3 per cent increase in the price of cigarettes announced simultaneously. "Birrest Inch:" It will cost $70 million, carry, natural gas from Texas to California, be ready this winter. , t,,.m.in,lliWy IK" IX Vofcin c p Vft'Jt -1. -"--. Petroleum: The industry 'will spend $4 billions this year and next for pipelines like those above, refineries, etc. cooking, water-heating, house-heating house-heating and operating refrigera-.' tors has increased by 12.6 billion ; therms a year, or about 80 per cent,.', . J Since 1939 some 5,800,000 homes-' '4 have added electricity. The num ber of electrified farms has doubled. And each customer usesj half again as much current as! he did then. As a result, demand j has doubled while private companies com-panies were able to step up capacity ca-pacity by only about 20 per cent. Whether they would have kept up if the war had permitted is any- j body's guess; but it is a fact that they not only could not buy new generators they even had equip ment taken from plants where it already was installed, and moved to navy ships and turned qver to our hard-pressed allies. After allowing for replacement of worn-out units, there will be some 550,000 more oil-burning home furnaces in use this winter than a year ago. Since the war began, the number of homes heated with oil has increased by 40"ter cent. Figures on equipment using these fuels, and thus contributing to the tightness of supply, are not very complete or reliable. 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