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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. 1937 STEEL: Has just closed the third best year in its history, with production the best since 1929. But this industry also is troubled with potential EC0N03HC HIGHLIGHTS HAPPENING S THAT AFFECT 5THE DINNER PAILS, DIVIDEND labor difficulties. RAILROADS: Traffic is good, profits are smalL Some executives feel that the ICC's refusal to continue the emergency surcharges is a serious blow. ICC says, on the other hand, that the emergency is over, that more will cover the loss. freight pick-up- s Time can only tell which side is right. In the meantime, the lines are continuing their expansion and betterment programs in both freight and passenger fields. AIRLINES: Seem to be making a steadily increasing appeal to that part of the traveling public which can afford the higher fares. One line reports a 122 per cent jump in business. As mentioned EMPLOYMENT: above, is still one of the most serious of our internal problems. Unemployment total is hovering around six or seven millions. Business must make big progress in production before this labor surplus is absorbed. Politics, taxation, labor troubles and technological advance are great obstacles to normal employment AGRICULTURE: Had the best gross income since 1929 in 1936. Crops were smaller, as a result of drought, but prices were higher in practically all lines. CHECKS AND TAX BILLS OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL. NATION- AL AND INTERNATION- AL PROBLEMS INSEPARABLE FROM LOCAL WELFARE During the year just closed, there has been fulfillment of hopes mixed with a number of disappointments in the industrial field. It is true that at production and sales indexes are the highest levels since depression set in. It is also true that various grave problems notably that of unemployment-are still a long way from solution. As a result, industry looks forward to 1937 with optimism tinged with worry. It is probable- that the most favorable outlook of all ia held Last by the retail trade businesses. more totaled year's December buying than $5,000,000,000-- as compared with 14.600.000,000 in December, 1935, and $3,700,000,000 in December, 1933, which marked the low point Consequently, seasonal employment last December (extra clerks and office oOo workers in department stores, etc.) was encouragingly high. This was re. In the near future, you are likely fleeted to some extent in the pro- to see a highly technical discussion duction field. However, payrolls are going on as to the merits and demeratiU abnormally low. its of "easy money." A synopsis of current business taFor four years, the Federal governfolken from authoritative sources, ment has steadily forced interest rates lows: down, in an effort to make money more UTILITIES: During plentiful. Any security holder can ED3CTRIC 1936, this industry spent $330,000,000 bear witness to that where Grade for new capital equipment This year A bonds used to command five and it will spend more than $530,000,000, sometimes six per cent, they now as a result of increasing demand. bring less than four per cent for the exmost part Principal expenditures will go for which Government experts say this is a panding generating facilities, d will be more than doubled. The polit- good thing, that money ical situation is a highly important holds back business expansion and factor so far as utilities are concerned construction, is thus a threat to reand will dictate their budgets and covery. Most private experts say this employment to a considerable extent. , is true, to a certain extent but that AUTOMOBILES: There seems to continuation of present trends, with be almost no limit to the public's ap- money growing cheaper all the time, petite for new cars. On the debit side may lead to an unhealthy speculative of the ledger Is the threat of labor boom in securities, to inflation, to troubles, which have already hit ma- higher living costs, and to a colapse chine tool and accessory makers. John in bond values. L. Lewis is known to be planning Security exchange spokesmen have a campaign to unionize General Mo- pointed out that present market actors, as a prelude to unionizing the tivity can go too far, that it is the rest of the industry. duty of all involved to avoid danger CONSTRUCTION: For the past that can result from a security boom. It is easy to become excessively five years, a major building boom at a time when money is has been anticipated. It has not industrial production is and However, during 1936 construc- cheap, not generally felt that is It 50 soaring. better was least at tion percent, than in 1935, with home building 70 current security values are too high fear i3 held only for possible exorper cent ahead. 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MEET exHer dad, on the other hand, has had one of those but week end afterward, for a periences that make your hair stand on somehow or other he never gets around to writing us about it. So Evelyn Is writing that story up for him. All right, dad. That makes yoo a Distinguished Adventurer, and a full fledged member of the club. A lot of good yarns begin with a man in the driver's seat of an automobile. This is one of them. In 1918, Evelyn's dad, George Kerr, was working as a truck driver for a company in Medf ord, and one trip he made in his truck he'll never forget in all his life. Puzzled by the fact that traffic nals, widened streets, stricter Z laws and other safeguards have i2 uuwuig w iio.il, mc augment and tint campaigns conducted . vnrlmia ap'enpies have -- 0 ,w nnf uecreaae rfeAtha., state enforcement tr. t a recent convention blamed viijn "ranka $ safe-drivi- rip-roari- ng George's Truck Had a Heavy Load. It was a warm day in September. George was driving a five-to- n ng ciiiimiO'i weucxcoiiiicoii, txa well pidity" for most accidents. &3 gh. Civic clubs, Red Cross and safety organizations have released! noou oi uuggeauuna mrough thtl noted press. Private citizens Mrs. Zetta B. Averill of jeniuns mso aave Deen neard, gesting variously: deputizing alldjj. vers and requiring them to arrest report au accident participants; ne. er and more stringent driving im Aber- bought 6 new deen, Washington, Studebakers and gave them to her friends as presents. Mrs. Averfll was one of the first two women flight-Sh- e to take the truck loaded with corrugated paper boxes. I n lower speed limits; Is shown boarding the huge There's one thing that ought to be explained here that is, I in membership flying boat that those boxes were heavy. A truck load of paper boxes doesn't I National Safety Council; and sound like much weight, but these boxes were folded flat and curatives. theoretical piled high on George's gas buggy. Wins Facing officers also is frequent t It was a five-to- n truck, but that load of boxes weighed every ounce W. P. A. Worker of trial juries when difference tons. of six Sedan President are ers brought to court and extra j That load of boxes was to go to Salem, and, although George had Forecast of magistrates, particulaftl Election driven never he had leniency town of a been in the nearby Lynn good many times, drunken in driving cases. One raij to Salem. to were To on. Lake City, where n in Salt case and less drove than to in get right spectacular Nothing Lynn good time, George got Salem, he had to cross the marshes that lie between the two towns-- had the predictions of various Americans perior court justice reduced a Qui con- court drunken? driving sentence toil to cross them over the floating bridge. who participated in a "I don't know whether that floating bridge is still there, or whether test conducted by The Studebaker $15 fine recently prompted City M it has been replaced by a more modern and more solid structure. Corporation. While polls of stupen- Ellett to hold a "bargain day" inta! "That bridge was built' of 137 layers of board placed on the dous proportions were "going hay- fic court in protest. top of the swamp, and those boards kept sinking so that they had an amateur forecast the popuConfronting the problem of redd wire," to be reinforced twice a week," Evelyn says. as well as the i the death-to- ll Roosevelt with vote President for lar ing to It was said around those parts that nobody had ever been able lf of of ber accidents, of error police official; than an less find a bottom to those marshes. But that's something George Kerr cent. backed by civic organizations art! one of per didn't know about. enThe five winners of Studebaker manding and may force through , If he had, he might have traveled from Lynn to Salem by an President sedans came even closer to legislature a bill requiring rigid t tirely different route. tests before issuance of li about was that know much didn't floating Another tJbing George predicting President Roosevelt's final vers' Although still in nebulous form,fc official popular vote than did some bridge. if proposed, require rigid test bill, "sharpshooters" who waited until af The Sign That He Didn't See. ter the election and then tried to sup of sight, hearing, other physical There was a sign at the entrance to it that said: ifications, as well as mere drfe in their estimates. "Nothing over 6,000 pounds allowed on this bridge. Anyone immediate reporting of all it ability; The best forecast was made by over vehicle a 6,000 pounds proceed at their own weighing driving cidents x surveys to show: trans-Pacif- ic state-sponso- safety-campaign- s; other In i pre-electi- one-ha- lis i q risk." But George didn't see that sign as he rolled onto the bridge approach. So, with a load alone that weighed 6,000 pounds, and a truck that weighed almost as much again, he started across. It was George's helper who first noticed that things were going wrong. The truck was halfway across IN THE DEAD MIDDLE OF THE BRIDGE when suddenly he cried out: "For Pete's sake, George, look. The bridge is sinking!" GEORGE DID LOOK AND HIS SCALP BEGAN TO CREEP AND FUNNY, CHILLY TWINGES BEGAN RUNNING UP AND DOWN HIS BACK. THE BRIDGE BENEATH THEM WAS OUT OF SIGHT UNDER MUDDY SWAMP WATER. AND THE WATER ITSELF WAS UP OVER THE RIMS OF THE TRUCK'S BIG WHEELS. The next thing George heard was the helper's voice again "Come on, George. We'll have to jump for it!" That's the last George saw of his helper for a while. He was over the side of the truck like a monkey, and George was left alone on the seat. From somewhere behind, he could hear his helper's voice calling to him telling him to get off that truck before it was too late. But George didn't ge4 off. That truck and the load it was carrying had been entrusted to his care. It was his responsibility. He'd heard about those marshes heard people say that anything that went down in them never came up again. But that applied to the ".ruck as well as himself, didn't it? periodical Houston W . Glasgow, a WPA workhighway and street dangerous Presisaid the He Los er in Angeles. an eye towards impwJ with tions dent would win with 27,752,420 votes; of hazzards;s or correction ment President Roosevelt received 27,752,-30-9 and m in increase size, equipment votes an error of 111 votes. of the state highway patrol; d ers Other prize winners were almost as of existing tel accurate. The man who was farthest ing and simplification to pert designed laws, off of the five winners, only missed understandable! more easier and ; the actual vote by 1,173, ' cases to juries. There were almost a quarter of a sentation of to wait for state aid if Unable e million contestants of which sixty-nintheir problems, Salt Lake City m and per cent picked officials, reiving on stricter Roosevelt. The official returns show announced increase;! ment, recently Roosevelt-Landon that 62 J per cent of the and rmrchased Ef forces traffic vote was for Roosevelt. equipment to aid the force. ol I six-tent- hs pipes were froze up. The sleigh n sea helped to liven up the situation as all sleighs were put to use j By Barbara Christensen spent the i with Yvonne Welling at Salt 14 end A sevier blizzard raged for nearly 3 days last week and all road going City. east and west were blockaded for A woman may or may not 4 Hard Decision for Him to Make. nearly a week which resulted in a no small Sunday School, Primary her way with her man but a ' Was he going to abandon that truck the property of the people who very no Relief and the and school Mayor in Florida has her .way' while week a was of check his still there Society chance landed him pay every rooms were The water her Governor. it empty. across? nearly getting On the other hand, George had a wife and five small kids at home. He owed a duty to them, too, didn't he? What would happen to them if he went down in that swamp and uever came up again? It was a tough decision to make, but George made it. He , threw bis truck into low gear, fed it the gas gently, and started crawling along toward the other side. ' It seemed as though he'd never make it. The bridge sagged beneath the weight of the heavy load. The truck was moving at a snail's pace, but he didn't dare make H go any faster. Nothing to do but sit tight, hold his breath, and pray that everything would be all right. The water rose higher and higher. It was almost up to the hub capj. What if it got into, the engine and stalled the motor? George didn't (want to think about that. What if the flimsy foundation of floating planks broke out from .beneath him altogether? He didn't like to think about that either. ELWOOD Mrs. II. P. Rasmussen , Out of the Water to Safety. Then, suddenly, he noticed the truck was rising higher out of the water. He .was almost at the end now. Another minute and he'd be across. George didn't breathe while they were crossing those last few m yards. Then he was on dry land again truck and all and he stopped anA "sat there a few minutes to get control of his jumping nerves. j His helper, back on the other side of the bridge, saw him get across safely, then followed on foot. After awhile they continued on their way and delivered their loadj 'but it wasn't until they were on their way back and passed thfi bridge approach that they saw the sign that read: "Nothing over 6,000 pounds allowed on this bridge." "Then," says Evelyn, "Dad nearly collapsed when he realized juat how close call he had had." f r I f tnej I Please send me QTHE Boarding Clipper j 1Yr. Illustrated Mechanics Plymouth to ynvti?n mu Death Around The (Vo Due To Motor Accide CIVIL SERVICE EXAM' partmental service at Washington, D. INATIONS ANNOUNCED C. 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