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Show USDA Assumes Authority For Sugarl Rationing Transfer of sugar rationing and price control authority to the department de-partment of agriculture under the recently enacted sugar control extension ex-tension act of- 1947 will hate no immediate, effect on most individual indi-vidual consumers. Ration stamps will continue to be validated and cashed as before. be-fore. Applications for new consumer con-sumer ration books, replacement of. lost or destroyed ration books, and the usual industrial sugar rationing ra-tioning will continue to be handled han-dled by the field offices which had been handling the job for OPA. Nationally, the agency will be called the sugar rationing administration ad-ministration within the department depart-ment of agriculture and will operate op-erate until expiration of rationing ration-ing and price functions of October 31, 1847. Inventory controls on sugar may be retained through March 31, 1948.' Consumers are promised 35 pounds of household sugar this year, and up to 50 pounds if supplies sup-plies increase. Sugar rations last years were 25 pounds per person for household use. The 35 pounds will include sugar for canning no special stamp for this purpose is expected to be available Industrial In-dustrial rations can be increased, only after individual consumers are taken care of. The new sugar legislation pro-j vides that the secretary of agriculture agri-culture may suspend sugar rationing ra-tioning and price controls, in whole or in part, any time before Oct. 31, if supply and demand conditions warrant. Round-the-World Steno New Vari-Typer shown in Cleveland writes practically all languages, including the Scandinavian, Eskimo, Bengalese, Esperanto, Es-peranto, and Devanagari. Foreign alphabets, quickly interchangeable, inter-changeable, come on curved plastic type fonts (see above). Just fit the font into a cylindrical aperture atop machine, and you're ready to type (see insets). PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1947 Amtnrl 'Ugh I'r-ond 'How!' The World REYKJAVIK, April 18 (U.R) The volcano Mt. Hekla erupted again early today with greater violence than before. Farms 20 miles away were shaken by the eruption. MUNICH, U.R) A marching column or about 1,000 Jewish displaced dis-placed persons demonstrated in front of the British consulate here yesterday in protest against the execution of Dov Gruner and three other undergrounders. PEIPING, (U.R) The arrival of nationalist airborne munitions and reinforcements at Shlhcbiac-huang, Shlhcbiac-huang, 220 miles southwest of Peiping, have removed a Communist Com-munist "threat" to that important railway junction, pro-government reports said today.' NANKING, (U.R) The appointment appoint-ment of Sun Fo, son of the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen as vice president of China, was announced today. He will continue to serve as president o'f the legislative Yuan. Farmers in Favor Of Atomic Bomb DES MOINES. Ia. (U.R) More than three-fourths of American farmers believe the United States should continue making atomic bombs for defense, a survey by I the magazine Successful Farming revealed. Only 18 per cent of those interviewed inter-viewed favor stopping bomb production pro-duction and destroying those al ready produced, the magazine said. The Purvey showed that the farmers interviewed believed atomic bomb secrets should be withheld from Russia. "Views of an bverwhelming ma-! jority point out that Russia would not allow a United Nations com mittee to investigate her country, even if the United States did destroy de-stroy its bombs and stop production," produc-tion," the- magazine said. New Threat to Garden Pests MIDLAND, Mich. (U.R) Dow Chemical company has announced commercial introduction of a powerful soil fumigant that will control attacks by wireworms and nematodes, two of the country's worst garden pests. No special equipment is needed to use the fumigant, which will sell as "Garden Dowfume." Idaho Amputees Getting Service - BOISE; Idiu. April 18 UR- Ninety-six Idaho amputees are being furnished with complete service and appliance maintenance, mainte-nance, Leon Fields, manager of the Idaho veterans administration administra-tion office, said today. Fields said that Dean W. Clark, World War II Idaho veteran whoi lost a leg in combat, is in charge of the service. , i Each amputee is entitled to a card which entitles him to re pairs of appliances .up to $35 1 without prior authority. 'He-Man' Lamps Marriage Aid LOS ANGELES (U.R) Five ceramists here arc staging a male revolt against over - feminized bedrooms. Part of their campaign is to turn out '"he-man"' lamps 'to replace re-place the fussy, frilly kind with which they claim women have flooded the American home. "Men want mathematical lamps with straight, balanced lines and perfect simplicity. " Casey Roberts, who organized the Robari Guild Potters for his four World War II veterans associate, said. "We've found out that many 7 I 1 s CHINESE Mrs. Ton Chin of Cleveland types a letter home. r vrX " ri, I v , X ' ARABIC Evelyn Nader, a Syrian girl, writes letter in Arabic. I .1 : 4i X' . i; i i ''-L-4 Cfr-" AtC p - y , y - v J -- , r.'-f I.P X"" '""', l ' V- - ... '. - - - k .. o' - V"' ' !t- Signs to Brighten Frisco Drive SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) Larger and brighter neon signs soon will be installed along the 49-mile scenic drive inside San Francisco, which touches every noted beauty or historical spot in the city. The drive, first marked out for the benefit of tourists in 1938, permits visitors to "see the city" in a leisurely three-hour drive. Points covered on the route include in-clude Chinatown, Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, the yacht harbor. Palace of Fine Arts, the Presidio, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Cliff House, the Pacific Ocean Beach. Lake Merced, Golden Gold-en Gate Park, Twin Peaks, Hunters Hunt-ers Point, Mission Dolores and the shipping area along the Em-barcadero. Free Shipping Season Closes The 1947 tree-shipping season from the Utah State Agricultural College forest nursery has now closed, Raymond R . Moore, extension forester announced today. to-day. There have been 110,000 trees of twelve different varieties shipped ship-ped to farmers of Utah and Nevada Ne-vada this season, Mr. Moore reported. re-ported. These trees included both hard and soft wood varieties. Cost to farmers average two-and-onc half cents per tree. All orders received from here out will be returned with money, or if the sender desires, will be back ordered to next year, Mr. Moore said. Most trees are now budding and cannot stand to be shipped, he explained. Symbols of the past met one of the future when delegation of Nebraska Indians watched a Navy helicopter land on the Capitol grounds with a tree, grown near Chicago, as part of Washington's Arbor Day ceremonies. Tree was planted in the Capitol park. POSTMAN TELLS WORLD ! MEMPHIS, Tenn. (U.R) Add ! housing shortage notes: A post-man post-man making his delivery rounds ; here carries a sign on his mail I bag which reads, "Apartment wanted. No children." Growing Pains, Japan's Trouble TOKYO. April 18, (U.R) Pplit ical "growing pains were Diamea i partly today for Japan's acuta economic situation. Supreme headquarters officials believe the Japanese people and their government are responsible in large measure, for the nation's lethargic approach to reconstruction. reconstruc-tion. Joseph Z. Reday, chief of th industrial division of supreme headquarters' econo m i c and scientific section who is now. it) Washington, reported that 'anti government' political pressure was slowing economic recovery. Reday said before he left for the United States that the Japa nese economic stabilization board, had failed to function "effective ly" since its establishment in May, 1946. In listing what he said were the causes for the board's failure Reday cited "the unfamiliarity of the Japanese with the board! aims, the reaction of the Japanese government with political oppor tunism the neglect of the econj-omic econj-omic situation which has grown ever more threatening over the past year." ' "All these factors," he said, "are pointed up by the tug of war between conservative groups in power in Japan, and increasing pressure by socialist and semi-socialist semi-socialist political forces in the country, including labor unions which have taken full advantage of allied permission for them te enter political activity." Such "political adventures," he said, were to be expected frorj poverty-stricken nation withouj experience in democracy. t 'They must be accepted as the growing pains of the new Japa nese society," he said, "but th effect is hardly conducive to ec onomic stabilization and acceler ated industrial production." In troducinO Our New Shoe Salon COPTIC Laura Massif, of Cairo, Egypt, Western Reserve University Uni-versity student, types in Coptic, modern form of ancient Lgyptian. Extension Staff Meeting Planned Home demonstration agents and (sistant extension director for specialists of the Utah State Agri- home economics, announced to-J to-J cultural college extension r.erv- day. lice staff will hold a breakfast' The breakfast will proceed the meeting at the Temple Square annua- convention of the Utah jhotel in Salt Lakt City, Saturday. State ..Economics association 1 April 19. at 7:30 a. m. to 9:00 o uhic'r will be held ir. Salt Lake m., Mrs. Myrtle D. Peterson, as-, City oi- the !0th. j i The entirr staff f specialists 'marriages have gone on the rocks and at least 18 of the agents will I because husbands are too embar-!be in-attendance, Mrs. Peterson j rassed to relax in a bedroom said. Current county home dem-I dem-I which looks like a ladies' powdei onstration problems will be dis-I dis-I room." .cussed. mm won ii i ii r CM;. aiM BID BLDCK3 PERMANENCE . . . flIN1 WIT flPil V I t T r M BEAUTY. . mitiii n m situs . . . 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