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Show ft THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, December 23, 1901 E1 Ammran 3ftrrk (ttlttzw Published Every Thursday at American Fork, Utah . by the ALPINE PUBLISHING CO. Catered as Second Class Matter, at the Postoffice at American Fork, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879. NATIONAL EDITORIAL rjg- - fj n H II U II H I . U I I W ft I M L j Subscription Rate $3.50 Per Year iriAiraioBxr AFL-CIO Reject Wage Limitations , Vhen.President Kennedy addressed the annual meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers, he was insistent that costs of production and prices be . held down, and he saiHnat on the following day he was going to tell labor the same, .thing.. N H e did mention) the same subject at the annual meeting of ihe AFL-CIQ. ttie next day, but he was much less-firm, and his Secretary i of Labor Goldberg pretty well vqi'ebjpil .advice within the next 24 hours when he told the-same group that there was plenty of room for bigher wagesi - 4 J .i ' ..Secretary Goldberg; in' a: letter to the Washington Post, says that this is a distortion of what he said, and that actually all he advised-was-that within the limits of increase of output out-put per maphour, there is room for k rise of wages. Regard?, less of whether thJa is what he meant to say, the AFL-CIO refused to accept even this soft restraint and before the convention con-vention adjourned passed resolutions embodying this rejection. rejec-tion. The resolutions, too, were passed Without a dissenting vote. Specifically, it was stated: "In collective bargaining in the pe,riod ahead, AFL-CIO .affiliated unions will press for wage advances as a vital means of increasing .inadequate consumer purchasing power." The reasoning back of this was put in this manner: "Purchasing power must catch up and keep pace with fast rising national productive power so as to help stimulate and sustain an increased rate of national i economic gruvyin. Unions were urged to bargain for higher wages, more -fringe benefits, and shorter hours with no loss of pay. Most industries, it was maintained, could grant all this and still lower prices. In a few it might be necessary to lift prices, but for the economy as a whole the price level "can remain V reasonably stable." The convention also called for increased government spending, or as labor terms it "an expansionary federal bud get policy," and it said that tax reduction might have to be postponed if Washington spends the amount it should. Now there is nothing new in any of this from the view point of labor. It has" been recommending exactly the same things for years. The reasons for emphasizing. this program - u: b um umc cue I. Consumer income in this nation is the highest in his tory, andcontinues to climb month by month and quarter by quarter. It is not lack of money that is holding back our economy; It is that prices are too high from the point of view of potential purchasers. .- ; 2. Both internally and internationally, competition is getting stronger almost by the day, and business is finding it increasingly difficult to equal even the profits of last year, which waa period of recession. We need lower, not higher, prices, and wages are the most important over-all cost of production. 3. Our international balance of payments is becoming more and more unfavorable 'and this calls for larger exports, We cannot increase our exports appreciably without lowering prices, and we cannot lower prices if wages continue to rise year after year. On our international deficit nothing less than our standing, as a world leader depends, and this must not. be taken lightly. 4. Every dollar that is available for an increase of wages is also available for a reduction of prices. Higher wages benefit only those who get the raise: lower prices benefit everyone, and help the nation in its international relations. In a word, this is a time for mature thinking. The reso lutions of the AFL-CIO convention reflect no such maturity, Geneva Works to Produce New Steel Improvemente moo rayi t ffiuffet With lm ' vBOTTLED BY mWL B9TTIO GO. 362 .'So. :M University Ave., Provo, Utah Back-Log From Citizen News Columns TEN YEARS AGO Lt. Col. Glenn A. Wright, commander of the 1475th Engineers Engi-neers since Jan. 31, 1941, was retired from that post Dec. 10, according to Easton Brown. The, " " Dorothy Grant, of American Fork. They are the parents oi four children. Owen Tibbltts, manager of the American Fork J. C. Penney store for the past 5Vz years will retire from that position on Jan. 1, he stated Wednesday. Mr. Tibbltts came to American Fork from Provo where he was employed em-ployed with the company for six years. He plans to go Into private business. Jeanette Royle was hostess Friday night to a group of the younger teen-age set, at a Merry Christmas Party at the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Homer F. Royle. Enjoying the fun were Joyce Skinner, Nancy Boley, De-Lene De-Lene Storrs, ValaJeanae Runolf- son, Myra Bean, LaRue Frand-sen Frand-sen and Norma Jean Shelton. TWENTY YEARS AGO An audience of 1265 turned out to hear the Christmas Music Festival In the Stake Tabernacle Sunday evening. The festival was sponsored by the Alpine Stake MJA. who for the past several years has put on a Christmas program. Other years the program has been presented early Christmas morning. Married during the past week were Maxine Taylor and Howard Bleak; Helen Johnston and Emory Taylor; Zella Hansen and Fred Nesbltt; and Vivian Sea- strand and Bruce Evans. Walter Hunter and Floyd Loveridge, workers for the State Road, are home convelescing from Injuries received In an accident ac-cident at the Point of the Mountain last Sunday night. They were placing cinders on the icy highway when a car skidded out of control and hit their truck. They both received leg injuries, cuts and bruises but were not Injured seriously. THIRTY YEARS AGO Wayne E. Chadwick, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Chadwick of this city, was formally pledged to the Delta Phi honorary missionary mis-sionary fraternity at the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young University. Eigh teen new members were initiated at this time. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Esther Hlndley Eastmond, formerly of American Fork, who died In Provo, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph P. Gourley, Sunday, afternoon. She Is survived by two sons, Dr. Elbert El-bert H. Eastmond of Provo and Frank H. Eastmond of Salt Lake City; and another daughter, Mrs. James Johnson of Nampa, Idaho. Practically all the equipment for the new American Fork Hos pital has arrived and been Installed. In-stalled. ' The hospital is now in operation and is declared to be' one of the best in the county. Dr. O. S. Richards who Is In charge of the hospital Invites any of the other doctors in the district to use the hospital and its facilities. Two nurses. Miss Lucille Harmon and Miss Beth Blackwell, are In charge day and night. Even though In operation only ten days it Is. a "going lnslttu- tlon," witl!. three confinements, two minor operations, an Infected Infect-ed hand and the accident suf fered by Miss Ellison. Geneva Works is one of eight U. S. Steel plants across the country that will produce "a new patented ste'el Improvement Improve-ment which will bring outstanding outstand-ing cost and weight savings to the construction and machinery Industries," L. B. Worthlngton, Corporation president, said today. to-day. Mr. Worthlngton said the new improvement "greatly extends the range of usefulness of our used Cor-Ten high- strength low-alloy steel. "We can now impart to this stetl in thicknesses three times as great as before the same high strength and full weld' ability that have made the alloy al-loy world famous since U. S. Steel introduced lt In 1933." This means that in thicknesses thickness-es up to a full one and one-half one-half Inches, Cor-Ten steel now has a minimum yield point of 50,000 ounds er square inch and is weldable by all conventional techniques. He explained that until now these properties were available only in Cor-Ten steel products up to one-half inch thick. Mr. Worthlngton credited the patented development to "years of unceasing metallurgical research re-search tM lifeline on which depends ait continuing ability to serve the free world's industry indus-try with new and improved steels. "In this Instance," he said, "we can now serve the construction construc-tion and machinery industries our key markets for steel plates, bars, structural shapes and wide flange sections with stronger, more versatile and less costly forms of these products." He stated that the biggest savings to users of Coi-Ten steel will come through a reduced re-duced amount of fabrication, plus the fact that there will be less weight to handle. "In general," gen-eral," he said, "three tons of this steel In a bridge, building or item of machinery will do the work of four tons of conventional con-ventional structural carbon steeL "We believe that the extra strength of these improved products, pro-ducts, together with their complete com-plete weldability and superior resistance to atmospheric corrosion, cor-rosion, will make them especially especi-ally useful In several Important market areas," Mr. Worthlngton Worthlng-ton said: As examples, he pointed out that: 1. Short-span bridges which make use of built-up plate girders, gird-ers, can now be more economically economi-cally and simply designed with rolled, lighter weight wide-flange wide-flange sections of the Improved steel. 2. Building columns can also - There's Fun For Everyone Roller Skating Skating Every Night (Except Suns, and Tues. 50c Matinee Saturdays 2-4 p. m 25c Thursday Special 35c Skate Rental 25c Monday Night-All Night-All the Family ............ $2.00 For SPECIAL PARTY RATES & HOURS Call FR 3-9187 Riverside Skating Rink 531 West 12th North PBOYO, UTAH be more economically designed with these wide-flange sections instead of using lower strength steels which call for heavier sections sec-tions or built-up columns with mover plates attached. 3. Bridges of any size, either welded or riveted, can now ben-efiteflt ben-efiteflt from the high-strength steel's superior resistance to atmospheric at-mospheric Corrosion, which improves im-proves paint life and reduces maintenance costs. 4. Heavy, bulky castings used in such items as earthmoving and construction machinery can now be made more simply, more economically and lighter in weight by welding together plate and bar sections of the stronger strong-er steel. Other potential ' applications listed by Mr. Worthlngton include: in-clude: booms and other movable mov-able parts for cranes, center sills for railroad freight cars, and tee and elbow fittings lor line pipe where high strength is needed to match that of the tubular lengths of cold expanded expand-ed steel. He said patents for the new development have been obtained obtain-ed in the united States and eleven el-even foreign countries; patents are pending in five additional countries. He added that these patent rights are beln? extended extend-ed to the nineteen steel pre? ducers in the United States and abroad who are licensed to make and sell Cor-Ten steel products. tf. S. Steel produces the improved im-proved steel at Its mills in Homestead, Duquesne and Clairton, Pa.; Youngstown, Ohio; Gary, Ind.; South Chi cago, HI.; Geneva, Utah; and Fairfield, Ala. Chastity Is the cement of civilization and progress. Mary Baker Eddy Children are all foreigners. We treat them as such. Ralph, Waldo Emerson With Our Boys Melvin L. Provost, radarman TOXt BAtl seaman apprentice, uo.' of Mr. and Mrs. L. Vane Pro vost of 151 S. Second St., American Amer-ican Fork, is serving aboard the radar picket escort destroyer destroy-er USS Haverfield. which recently rec-ently completed 30 days' duty as the U. S. Navy's station ship In the harbor at Hong Kong. Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil; our great hope lies in developing what is good. Calvin Coolidge ; Notice to Creditors ESTATE OF ELIZA C. SBARLR. Deceased. Creditors will present claims, with vouchers, to the undersign ed Executor at the office of Heber Grant Ivlns, Attorney at Law, 73 North Center Street. American Fork, Utah, on or be fore February 21, 1962. s Leslie C. Searle Executor Heber Grant Ivlns Attorney for Executor American Fork, Utah First publication: Dec. 21, 1961. Last Publication: Jan. 11, 1962. Don't fake tnanctl wtfh eyesahf! Correct vision is essential to faff progress In school end la life! Oonl let poor vision handicap your child. Ha cannot achieve hit best grade unlets he Mts dearly oH without ifraiR. ?Kt wHi 17 E DBS JEWELRY LEHI. UTAH SET THE CAR YOU IV ANT now . i ' .1 '.tV. j , Vi if ! V- 171 Til A BANK LOAN Got your eye on a good buy in a new or late-model used car? You can get in the driver's seat FAST via an auto loan from us. The cost of financing will be LOWER (your own comparisons compari-sons will PROVE this to you) Terms will be arranged to suit you; Service will be PROMPT! 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