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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER. THURSDAY. LEAT.C3 9, C2JC3 TWO BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER Entered at Milk Leads Farm Cash Income Utah, as Second Class Matter tie Postofflce at Tremonton, 1938 1530 1459 JAMES WALTON, Publisher I. P. WALTON, Editor and Eusinesa Manager I 1937 1936 Published at Tremonton, Utah, on Thursday of Each Week 1430 - 1 Phone First West Street 1SZ3 23-- J cof- -' America In pjtchanrre " for rubber, fee and other raw materials this coun- try needs. Foreign trade experts of .0 ine uepa.i tiucuu ,..irr. Rtot , Treasury- and Commerce o Le pal luicjjt uiii.ittij, and rep resentatives of other govern- monta Rarter would be applied first to wheat, it is said, and if successful, then later to cotton and other crops in which farm surpluses exist. -- SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' ONE YEAR (In Advance) ' SIX MONTHS (In Advance) THREE MONTHS (In Advance) THINGS TO WATCH FOR 5100 50 1932 991 Free to Pjublifc U S. whera cataloaa and "Tl.eWy place dvertiam M maltT coveting any line of buuneaa or product can be obtained Fraa tad Without Obligation ia the' American Industrial Library. Writ a (or Buaine'n Advertiainc Matter yoo aro iaJnrm-- f) in; aamo WiU beproispllyforwudcd. !F.EICAM IKBHSTRrJlL LIBKABY NATIONAL a c a: IDIIORIAt a i. t To Your Town as well as to your Country i i 990 U 1289 U53 000 to The rising tldo of farm cash from milk ha added nearlyon$440,000 the milk cans the dairy farmer Income since the low of 1933. Figures show total farm cash. Income for each year In millions of dollars. per ILK led all product as the were down approximately 4 1937. largest single source of farm cent from "Milk delivered to homes and cash income in 1938 with a total in bottles, which brings stores 6.5 was of $1,430,000,000. This only tbe highest price, probably 1937 farmers than the cent less figure per conof $1,630,000,000 according to the would have suffered greater deterfor but Milk Industry Foundation and was sumption declines $440,000,000 greater than the low mined efforts by milk distributors to push sales. of 1933. "Cash income from milk is also "AH farm cash Income dropped 12.9 per cent, government reports important as It J chiefly cash paid Foundahow, from $8,208,000,000 in 1937 to monthly to farmers," the is cash $7AWr000rO00 in 1938, excluding tion points out, "and this current purthe in used is statethat the goreniment payments," chases of merchandise and supment said. "These figures show the Import- plies. "The milk industry is a huge ance of milk as a mainstay of farm and milk distributors and are power. buyer They purchasing Impressive because milk producers in many markets account production was estimated to be for one of the largest single outlays tram 4 to 5 per cent greater during for cars and trucks, feed, oil. gas. Bte yea? md tales) of ftstd milk Urea, groceries and other supplies." PATRONIZE VOUR LOCAL MERCHANTS non-poro- time-savin- ! j i par-deolar- ty mii.mimmimimiHmiiiHiHH.mimiiHiiiintmi 1 aVMHaajaaaaaaaalaaMBna, Fixing by both legislative branches of 400,000 as the state's biennial contribution to the teachers' retirement fund. Passage by the lower house of bills providing for local option by counties, cities and towns; educational study; women's eight ?hour day; marble machine regulation; repeal of the average monthly inventory law; setting up of a medical cooperative and for amendment of the constitution to permit split legislative sessions. Approval by the senate of measures to appropriate $25,000 for a study of occupational diseases; to increase the mark-u- p price of liquors and wines; to put the state highway patrol under civil servicie, and to place health departments of first and second class cities under civil service. Killing by the senate of a bill proposing to tax natural gas and by the house of a measure to raise the mine occupation tax. Out of a melange of nearly 00 bills pproved by either the upper or low-e- r house last week these are considered outstanding in importance to the state at large. Only one the teachers' retirement measure won the approval of both branches. Up to Saturday night, with sine die adjournament but four days away, the legislators had acted upon approximately 220 of the 640 bills introduced. Forty-thre- e have been passed by both houses and signed by the governor. These include five resolutions and memorials. Twenty - two have been killed and 43 withdrawn for one reason or another. Nine have been tabled. On Monday there were 57 d bills awaiting action by the bouse and 74 house passed measures awaiting action by the senate. Ten bills passed by both branches were waiting approval or disapproval of Governor Henry H. Blood, who has thus far vetoed but two measures. senate-passe- STEAM ROLLING STOHL ELEVATOR CO. Thone 41 - Tremonton, Utah One disapproved because of a techni- "Behind the Scenes In American Business" ! cal defect has been repassed. The adopted teachers' retirement fund bill limits the state's contribution to the fund to $400,000 each NEW YORK, Mar. 6 BUSINESS The retirement system is It was becoming apparent last week costing the state general fund more that the threat of a raw silk shortage, than $600,000 for the current coupled with rocketing prices, might The request for the ensuing cause some mills to shut down in this was more than $800,000. Sev- country before long. Only 17,500 bales eral measures to lessen the state's of raw silk are in transit from Japan, burden had been introduced and the which reports it has sold all the new approved one is regarded as a com- silk in its stocks. Dealers expect a promise. The senate passed the bill boost in the retail price of silk stockFriday. The retirement fund now con- ings after Easter. Aside from the pos tains more than $900,000. Payments sible crisis in this industry, U. S to date have been about $68,000. businessmen saw nothing on the do- The local option bill passed the low er house by a vote of 37 to 21. Under puts a form of socialized medicine it counties, cities and towns can into effect. If passed by the senate whether they will have state and approved by the governor the orliquor stores, provisions being that ganization of medical cooperatives of a political entity's reg- will be permitted by law. Under the istered voters may petition for an bill as amended the state board of election. If a majority decides against health would direct the cooperatives, the sale of liquors, it will be unlaw- membership of which would be re ful to operate liquor stores or make strlcted to legal residents of the area sales in the area. affected. The educational study bill provides H. J. R. 1 calls for a constitutional for the establishment of a commission amendment to provide for split leg to investigate the state's various islative sessions. It alms to correct school systems with a view of report- existing conditions caused by a jam ing educational needs to the 1941 of bills at the end of the present six state legislature. The measure calls y session by providing a recess for an appropriation of $25,000. Com- during which legislators may better mission members wilil serve without familiarize themselves with proposed pay. legislation. The women's eight-hou- r bill as Approval of the bill to provide for law to all a study of occupational diseases adopted extends the industries trades and occupations ex- marks the end of current session efcepting canneries and concerns pack- forts to have occupational diseases ing perishable goods. Domestic ser- included in the workmen's compensavants are not included. tion act. Its sponsors expressed hope The marble game regulation bill that the study will result in reports creates a state board of amusement upon which action by the 1941 legis control to regulate the licensing and lature may be based. bill provides The liquor mark-u- p taxing of marble machines, pin games and similar devices in which the ele for an increase in the price of liquor ment of skill predominates. Its sup- by a 50 to 60 per cent mark-u- p and porters favored a tax large enough in wines of from 40 to 50 per cent. to put the machines out of business. d measure provides A Repeal of the average income law for treatment of ailing miners at the ended many months of opposition on state tuberculosis hospital to be erectthe part of business and industry to ed at Ogden. Another will enable the what they held to be harmful bur- state to participate in federal aid to dens imposed by its provisions. The education if proposed national legis repeal vote was 48 to 8, revealing lation is enacted by congress. Unem large measures of support from all ployment compensation is clarified legislative elements. and simplified by another approved The health cooperatives measures bill fllliHMIIMlir'iHNIinlllHlMMIHHmillMIHnmMlllMHnm bien-nlu- de-Ci- one-four- th mestic horizon to alter their predic- tion that another step upward toward f ull recovery would begin sometime during the spring. Iron ore movement, depressed last year, is expected to bej heavier this spring. This is vital tO( in the West and North-- ; west. One major steel company plans to operate 64 ore steamships out of its fleet of 73; the company last yean operated only 29 ships. That retailers woolen goods expect a good sales improvement is indicated by reports unfilled orders on hand in woolen! mills are some 60 per cent higher than a year ago. vice; the whole batch is mechanically wrapped in a special fabric belt which can be unloaded by hoist and carried direct to extractor or dumped into a truck tub . . . For department stores and specialty dress shops where lipstick stains made by customers cause costly markdowns on dresses sanitary shields which are held between the teeth and completely cover the lips; packed in dispensing wall cabi- nets, customer pulls one out before trying on a gown. . . A fluid that adds to the life of typewriter rib bons; it brings the ink from the unused part of the ribbon to the worn portion, and also dissolves hardened ink in old ribbons. DUE to-- . drop nit; iv vm i (jiii ii'ii r rrt uijuun due to s eady rise in o-- product while pnees are controlled customer reaction and mark n1 U. S. Supreme petition. tncts power of National Lab?f lations Board; strikl ! illegal. . . President RoovJ'S. CIO and AF of L to hold ference: Lewis and nvccii amw.Ks man committees to comply with I ministration request. .. rSi sit-do- Let's Talk It Over Get the Facts on AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE Substantia! Saving As Great As 40 TO Careful Drivers FEIENDLY claim service at PHONE FARMERS AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE er or 136 Mo. 4 may expect a busier month. The average retail price for the country is down about a cent a gallon from last year, but further retail establishments BH You Can't this long silver bullet of a Nash! Get in and go! Feel the terrific getaway of Nash's new-typ- e O. W. Goldskerty ance of the Fourth Speed For-war- d! TREMONTON, UTAH Try out the magical Weather Eye that banishes dust and chilly drafts. See how quiet and easy this big, wheelbase Nash sedan rides! Come In today! 117-inc- h $ PHONE 137 m iiijivi 949 DELIVERED I5'VffW"Wfl(l'.laaaj HERE SUodva1 Equipment and Federal Taxes Included ifi!E (Wait aioawall tint uJ rtarwaaaUauUi') i OFPliJ SP1C 1AL Advertise Today and Quit Tomorrow Pauttt This Big 6 Victoria Sedan Motor Co. 99 horsepower engine . . . the new range of perform- Extra Cut) Optimal Etuttmint-Sltg- bt $2S.10 ALUMINUM Si WITH EACH NEW ELECIRIC RANGE Motpoint ALL-ELECTR- IC RANGES MODELS FROM You're not talking to a mass meeting .... you're talking to a parade The Bear River Valley Leader Tremonton, Utah Telephone 23-- J C I fM and Up See Our Full Line of Ranges on Display at Your Hotpolnt Dealer SCnOSS-REA- OODEM D ELECTRIC CO. STORES ThoD. HI IBKMONTON ' V '..; -, t1f- DBIVE IT! It's ;v siZ'K Jr,L, . ur seate-passe- ' was'$225 J,Z 40aiH! Corp. 1938 earnings 302 from SS S1 oa,. thgh every bit as exciting as it I a. ' est since 1924 ! u y0Pji Manufacturer, building materials plan r prices. . . American fits last year dropped Sugac m Jj per cent of sales. X n Jy SUBTRACT Despite a considerable increase in cash income of farmers since 1932, the depression low point, talks with agricultural leaders reveal that in many regions farmers are obtaining very little more merchandise with their added spending money. One reason, of course, is a general rise in prices, but another, nnt on nVivinna nArliflnis ics trip in- creasing burden of hiaden taxes. The averare weeklv tax bill of the Ameri- can taxmer has now mounted to where lt equas 23 2 per Cent of his total cash income acC0rding to a recent study prepared bv the National sumers Tax Commission in Chicago, In other wordSi even he does on an not have to pay income annual net tacome of say $900i he must subtract $208.80 before know-o- f how much he can spend for actual merchandise. The latter figure repre-thgents the amount he will pay in hid. den taxes during toe year in retail stores or in cnonerativps 1-- ty-da- tower ' ft,.- both "W1JI tli(l Sa w may Rctp me pumps pace sufficient to ra ' ;Umir--l in another mnntk r so. WASHINGTON With a 250,000,- MORE GAS March gasoline sales 000 bushel wheat surplus to dispose j will rise six per cent over the month of, it is understood the Department last year, it is now expected. That of Agriculture is considering the prac means 100,000,000 more gallons, or bar- - 3 3 to a car. So owners and em-tticably of arranging three-wa- y deals with foreign countries. For ployes of America's 200,000 service of all example, the United States might stations comprising one-eigh-th ship wheat to Germany in exchange for farm machinery and other man- ufactured goods, which would, in turn, be reshipped by the U. S. to South ogw, wniie lair-bov.-- i. to Co. profit in 1938 $878,580 loss in surface like glass, metal, year paid taxes of or plastic, yet can be pulled off without leaving a trace. . . For commer cial laundries, a new washing machine g unloading dethat has a M KilaeaHo Building Chleto. IUII vv 1933 Jtol HEADLINES IN 10.000 Drivato in.-,.- . S. selected by A safei manufacture m Unitirvw ty automobile door lock for proctec tion of children it operates automati cally from the manifold vacuum and prevents the door from being opened while the engine is running. . . A new type of label which adheres well without moistening to any smooth, $2.00 decline.- ... not price amiM "jc spring or summer st f in refiners' hands ar |