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Show Rent Control, Pro and Con, Aired at Meeting '(Continued from Fete Oae) Rulon, Morgan of the Utah County Coun-ty Apartment House Owners' association as-sociation seid thif Is our offer to purchase our way Into tome personal per-sonal liberty, the price we're willing to pay to get controls abolished The decision was unanimous, un-animous, he Mid, at a meeting of the association last rriaay mgnv Landlords who have already tak en 15 per cent raises allowed under un-der lease agreements of the rent eontrol law will take no further furth-er increases until the end of the pledge date, he said. Tenants following the meeting expressed doubt that all landlords land-lords would adhere to the pledge, and pointed out that the apart-merit apart-merit house association had no ' means of enforcing it. Warns of Wage Demanas C. R. Van Winkle, secretary of the Utah County Central Labor control, AFL warned, "if you want to make sure of another demand for increased wages, then start decontrolling rents.'7 He declared de-clared that "no adequate study of the housing situation in Provo has been made," inferring that figures presented by landlords and real estate men were not completely accurate, and urged the city commission as a neutral governing agency to instigate such a study. He pleaded with the city commission not to take what he termed "hasty" action In the matter. Mr. Morgan said a "partial" survey by the apartment house organization had revealed 1 that at present in Provo there are 76 vacant apartments available for rent, a total of 89 motel units ranging from apartments to sin gle rooms, and TS rooms in private pri-vate homes. A considerable number of apartments, he said, are being held off the market because be-cause owners will not rent them under control regulations. Such a situation, he declared, no longer justifies the retention of controls. con-trols. Homes For Sale ! Thomas Norton, sneaking for the Provo Real X state board, said there are 'at present 318 homes for sale in Provo and SO in Oram, and plans for building between 550 end ooo nomes in tne rrovo-0em rrovo-0em area this year if demand Justifies it. Both Mr. Morgan and Mr. Nor ton, In company with other sneakers en their side of the Question, repeatedly hammered home the point that controls had been abolished on everything else, and that it was unfair and un-American to keep one reia tively small group under penal ties and regimentation. They pointed out that cost of maintenance ana ruei nave son sky high, and that they are compelled com-pelled to maintain their property on rentals frozen at 1941 levels.. "A plumber in two days time can eat up a month's rent," Mr. Morgan declared. Net Enout-h "Fit" Places John Vloyantes. speaking for a citizens' group advocating retention reten-tion of rent controls, maintained that not enough vacant "fit" places plac-es in which to raise a family exist in Provo today to Justify abolishing controls. "We are not against any reasonable increase on an investment," he said, but declared that too great a shortage short-age still existed to do away with SAVE UP TO 60 ENAMEL WEAR Double Coat L C - 14 qt. dish pan, reg. 1.09 now. 03C ENAMEL WARE Triple Coat 1 OQ Double Boiler, Regr. $2.35 now I.O PERCOLATOR, cup 1 ZQ Rof. $2.38 now 1 ,0 KETTLE WLID, S qt. 1 Qft Re. $2.45 now LOT KETTLE WLID, S qt. 1 ft Reg. $2.19 now ... I .OY KETTLE WLID, 4 qt. 1 AO Re. $1.75 now I.UO T KETTLE a Reg. $2.59 now I.07 BOWL SET ja 4 pc 49 c BOWL SET, 4 pc. n fr Fire King I .UU Red Hot While They Lost SPOTLIGHT El A Inside Control i"TV AUTO RADIOS, 48 mod. Vll OC Reg. 59.95 T I .YD Reg. 69.95 Qf-Clearance. Qf-Clearance. tz.yD Reg.84.95 CC QC Clearance WeV7eV "SILEX" COFFEE MAKER Reg. $4.46 now ., CORONADO SWEEPERS $49.95 Upright Bag Type $59.95 Tank Type- $69.95 Tank Type . 1.09 B read Boxes . . 1.49 Alum. Roasters .1.88 3995 45.95 54.95 98c Bicycle, Hiawatha Reg. S43.95 (24-1014 1114) Boys & Girls Models 38.88 Dinnerware, 32 Pc. Set $2.39 16 Pc. Ivory Breakfast Set $1.69 10c Ivory Fire King Cups 6c Platonite Cup & Saucer both for 10c 19c Plate 15c 10c Saucer 6c J9 A 225 WEST CENTER PHONE 121 In a Class by Himself controls. Re declared a shortage still exists in Salt Lake, accord ing to recent survey, and claimed the Provo condition was worse than Salt Lake. John - F. Jones, student hous ing director at Brigham Young university, quoted ""President Howard MacDonald of that institution in-stitution as saying "If controls are abolished, we will probably lose several hundred of our stu-dents." stu-dents." Mr. Jones said the uni versity at the present time has a waiting list of 2S8 veteran families fam-ilies seeking university housing. Of these, he said, 04 are living in Prove, It in Orem and 14 are waiting for a ehanee to come to Provo to eome to school. Denzil A. Brown, speaking for the real estate board, later declared that a survey had been made of these 258 families, and asserted 62 per cent of them ware already ade quately housed. Nine-Month Tenants Gregory Austin, representing the real estate board, declared that university students . were unsatisfactory tenants from the standpoint that they were here only nine months or me year ana "it costs something to move people peo-ple in and out." He emphasized his 'viewpoint was not based on personal habits of the students, but on the nine-month period of their tenancy. Referring to recent claims of a citizens' committee in the press that "five veterans groups were backing retention of controls, Mr. Morgan presented in evidence af fidavits from three commanders that their posts had taken no ac tion for or against the matter. These were Legion posts 13 and 51, and Veterans of Foreign Wars 2162. The affidavits declared that any . sentiments expressed by members en the matter reflected only individual and not post attitudes. at-titudes. Student Attacks Board Willard Wall, representing married veteran students "who were having difficulties finding suitable housing at a price, they can afford," told of his own difficulties dif-ficulties in finding housing wren he came, back from war. He attacked at-tacked the real estate board and apartment house owners as wanting want-ing controls abolished to "give them the right to charge all they can." "I challenge them to find one decent apartment in Provo at a price we can afford to pay," Wall declared. He attacked the real estate es-tate board, saying: "Do they expect ex-pect us to buy a house when we come to school, and pay them a commission, and sell it when we leave school and pay them another an-other commission?" Mr. Dodge of the AFL Central Labor council attacked the figures fig-ures oresented by the SDirtment house owners and real estate con-! cerning vacancies. "They just dent' make sense in Prove right now," he declared. Conflicting Pictures Conflicting pictures were claimed by each side from classified classi-fied advertising in the Daily Herald. Her-ald. LeCrande Young, speaking for the citizens group to retain controls, presented a month's issues of the Herald in evidence, i I f ' ur WOT i 0 , -f J DAILY HERALD Tutaday, April 19, 1949 S mand for Communist bridgeheads bridge-heads on the south bank of the Yangtze was totally unacceptable but that the other two might be negotiated. " A group of three government leaders meanwhile arrived m Nanking from Chikow, presumably presum-ably after obtaining the opin ions of Chiang Kal-fthek on the) This student tries to eetdt p en his neglected studies ea the sidewalk ampu. of the Collet e rf the City of New York, while fellow students parade in the background. An estimated 1500 CCNY students picketed the collage in pretest against two faculty members whom they accused of racial bias. Jn as earlier saelee, 21 students, seme of them ee ode, were arrested for disorderly conduct. Nationalist's To Refect Ultimatum From Communists NANKING, April IB 0TJf Acting Act-ing President Li Tsung-Jen's Nationalist government has decided de-cided to reject the Communist Ultimatum on peace' terms and is drafting counter-proposals to submit to the Peiping conference, confer-ence, reliable sources said today, Observers believed the Peiping Peip-ing negotiations would break down tomorrow on expiration of the Communist ultimatum. They expected the civil war to be resumed re-sumed unless the Communists extend their deadline and compromise com-promise on three major demands. de-mands. These three demands, which the government has refused to accept, are: 1, Permission for Communist forces to cross the Yangtze river and occupy five bridgeheads and five towns on the south bank. 2. Nationalist armed forces to be handed over to the Communists Commun-ists for reorganization. 8. Formation of a Communist-dominated Communist-dominated coalition government to rule China. Official sources said the de- current basis. mm r.v Mil' u hi .a declarinf that over the month, advertisements seeking apartments apart-ments outnumbered available places for rent in the eolumns by five to one. Mr. Morgan presented present-ed the April 17 issue, declaring that apartments for rent outnumbered outnum-bered those seeking them by three to one. Mr. Morgan also asserted that a great many 'people 'peo-ple seeking apartments in the Herald are "shoppers." He de clared they are already suitably housed but are "shopping" for something they feel might be better. bet-ter. Mayor Collard handled the meeting in a neutral and impartial im-partial manner, onlookers' agreed. He limited opposing sides to exactly ex-actly the same amount of time, both in presentation of their cases and rebuttals. Some present at the meeting declared afterward that it lay within the power of the Provo area rent advisory board, consisting consist-ing of five members from Span ish Fork to Lehi, to abolish rent controls if the board wishes, and reinstate them later "if the situation situa-tion got out of hand." Others claimed the recently passed federal fed-eral law supercedes this provision, provis-ion, and that local controls can be abolished If the city commission requests it and the governor ap proves it. UTAHN DIES PETERSON, Utah, April 19 (U.K Funeral services were pending today for James Carrigan, 83, former state legislator from Morgan Mor-gan county. Carrigan died yesterday of a heart ailment, while attending Easter services here. ATTENTION! HOME OWNERS!! We Made A Sensational Purchase Girls' School Swept By Fire ! SEATTLE, Wash., April 10 (U.R) A pre-dawn fire swept through ' the offices and gymnasium of the' Helen Bush private school for; girls today routing 15 students, from a dormitory nearby, a school ! official reported. The official said no one was injured. in-jured. The fire was believed to have been started from a defee-j tive oil furnace. About 200 students attend the! scnooi, but only 48 live in the dormitories'. Royall Indicates Early Retirement WASHINGTON, April 19 (U.R) Army Secretary Kenneth C. Roy-all Roy-all indicated today he doesn't expect ex-pect to hold his job much longer. 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