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Show LTAF STATE r.O. ACS. Box 1IST Salt Life City, Utcfc Vr .0 iuauiocfunef I ill flltolMM if . UCEUIKf m TTfOCMMT TO 'f, SIS Volume 50 Number 10 TREMONTON. UTAH December 20. 1977 04337 Ski Bus Is Full But One Tremonton ski bus is full, but skiers may still be able to get on board for the ski slopes. .If sufficient interest is shown. City Manager Jay Hirschi said the city will retain a second bus to make the Saturday run to the Beaver Mountain Ski resort. Ski passes are on sale for $25 at the city office, 102 So. Tremont. Passes may be purchased by any one, not just city residents, and are transferable. The ski bus will make 8 Saturday trips to the ski slopes, weather permitting, Hirschi said. The buses leave from the city center at approximately 8 a.m. and return about 5 p.m. A i - "We haven't changed our minds any," County Commission Chairman Don Chase said late Tuesday. SHERIFF ART REDDING (right) waits at Commissioners Ted Burt and Don Chase (left to right) study his request for an unconditional leave of absence to attend the National FBI Academy. County Clerk K.B. Olsen takes minutes. The commission later denied the request. ive Beetf Coin fir efts Souglhft Yo Com (poiniy Airily U & I Inc. agents will be in the field in the next few weeks attempting to get sugar beet acreage committed for the coming season. .., The earlier-than-usu- move to get contracts signed, said company offi- cial, Keith Wallentine, is an effort to get the company enough data to assess the outlook for 1978 before the present campaign at the Garland factory is completed. Wallentine said, "We'd like to know what acreage is available so we can plan for next year by the end of. campaign." The contract effort, he emphasized, part of an acreage promotion begun last June. Acreage being processed currently at the factory dropped to 9200 acres this past season because of the combination of drought and low prices. The factory normally processes 15,000 acres of beets on the average. Wallentine also stressed that U & I Inc. has received good cooperation from beet growers. "I can't over is ILooGi Atf emphasize the way that the growers have cooperated." As far as what the American Agriculture strike will do ito contract efforts, Wallentine said he is unsure. " "The fact that we're out contracting has nothing todo at all with the strike," he said. The strike was something which couldn't be anticipated last fall when the acreage promotion effort was started, he added. And, although the contract results are being sought early to give U & I Inc. a chance to assess the situation early - before it commits any money to refurbishing the Garland plant for the following campaign, Wallentine emphasized strongly that the company is not in any way "using words such as deadline or ultimatums.. .that just isn't so." "We hope to have this factory running," he said. "It's been there since 1903 and we'd like to have it run at least again that long." Wallentine said growers agreed on 'Leader1 Announces Subscription Rate Hike Rising postal costs have been cited as one reason for a subscription rate increase announced today by The Leader-Th- e Garland Times. Effective Jan. 1, 1978, local subscription rate (Box Elder, Cache and Oneida counties) will be increased from $5.50 a year to $7.50. Subscribers may still realize a savings by subscribing for two years ($14) or three years ($19) at a time, said publisher, Curtis 1 IPir8pestf the basic contract which governs their ers, Holmgren indicated. Besides possibly contributing to the loss of a local relationship with U & I Inc. back in November-earli- er than in the last 15 market, he said, "It would mean that all the beet acreage we'd anticipated years. One reason for early agreement was so the company could get an T'W.iRfbe "planted in grain and other earlier assessment of beet acreage.. crops, which would adversely affect-price- s He is optimistic that the company farmers receive for them." " will increase acreage to an acceptable Holmgren said legislation in the farm bill "when properly implementlevel. ed" would bring farmers in the neigh"The national picture seems much borhood of $27 to $28 a ton" locally. more optimistic for an increase in Full implementation could take about prices... certainly the sugar situation four to five months. The program has had a good share of attention from provides a 13.5 cent price support. Congress and the Administration," A U & I Inc. letter to growers dated Wallentine said. December 9, noted, "We fully expect Paul Holmgren, president of the Utah Sugar Beet Growers Assn., said a any uncertainties to be resolved long before your 1978 crop is harvested. couple of meetings were held recently with U & I Inc. on the subject of beet Sugar from that crop does not become marketable until October 1978 and on acreage. "We're hopeful and confident that through 1979. By then the excess inventories and other current probthey will get... somewhere around lems will have been resolved and the 14,000 acres in Utah," Holmgren said. full implementation of the price suppHolmgren also said he hoped the ort program will be a reality. ThereAmerican Agriculture strike would not fore, you may expect the 13.5 cent level hamper contract efforts. to be the minimum you will receive for Failure to commit the necessary acres to beets would only hurt farm your 1978 crop." But, Redding will apparently have to do just that. The county commission must give its approval for a county elected official to be out of state for "We felt originally it was wrong for more than 30 days. Redding could him to go. and we still do." he added. That was how Chase announced thai satisfy the law by returning once every 30 days. The law does not specify how county commissioners had turned down Sheriff Art Redding's request long he must stay in the state. "I'll be back," Sheriff Redding said made earlier in the day for "uncondiwhen asked what he would do if the tional assent" of an academy leave for commission denied his request. "This the period January through March. will just reaffirm my feeling that it is a Chase said the county does, however, fully intend to live up to a court political action on their part." Redding said the situation boils ruling issued last Friday which said down to a personality conflict "beRedding is entitled to his $1,106 monthtween Don Chase and me." ly salary for at least 30 days. "There is no question in my mind as With that ruling in his favor, ReddTue-da- y to the benefit (of the school) to the ing approached the commission with a letter of request, noting: county," Redding said. Second District Judge Duffy Palmer "In light of the recent ruling of the court, I am again submitting a request Friday ordered the commission to pay for an academic leave for the period of Redding's salary for at least 30 days and awarded him $500 in lawyer fees. January through March 1978, inclusThe sheriff termed the case a ive, while I attend the FBI National landmark because it "gives some Academy. I am asking for your unconditional assent, thus allowing me authority back to other elected officI to concentrate 6H the academic bene'9 ials" and "sets a precedent that should elected officials disagree- - with the fits and not requiring me' lb fly back td ;'4 Box Elder County every 30 days." cont. on page three .....1 ' , Who'll Be 1978's First New Arrival? Starr. The publisher pointed out that subscription rates have not been increased in the last three years. Readers still realize a savings by subscribing rather than paying the news standprice of 20 cents a copy the publisher pointed out. Subscription rates for outside the local area were raised in November from $6 a year to $10 a year. ..Some $250 worth of prizes and gift certificates donated by Tremonton merchants await the first baby born at the Bear River Valley Hospital in 1978. . .In addition, some lucky person, man or woman, will win a $25 gift certificate to be spent anywhere in Tremonton just by guessing correctly the date and time that the baby will be born. . .For everyone else, the contest offers a painless way to get in on the New Baby Derby. Entry blanks are available at each of the participating businesses and in this issue of the Leader. No purchase is necessary but entries must be deposited by Dec. 31. See pages eight and nine. -- i JI: iff- - BRYAN PAUL JOHNSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Johnson, Garland, will celebrate his first New Years.; The youngster was 1977's New Year's baby born Jan. 8, 1977. 978 Will Be Year Of More Progress, Growth By Babson's Reports Inc., Wellesley Hills, Mass., December 29, 1977 Despite a number of developments that were either actually or potentially unfavorable, the nation's business turned in a solid achievement for 1977. There were, to be sure, spells of stuttering, but the encouraging fundamental economic factors cited in our forecast at this time a year ago more than offset any negative considerations. So, overall progress turned out to be pretty much in line with our predictions. One of the most unexpected aspects of 1977 was the persistently defensive psychological atmosphere, in spite of the fact that accomplishment was even greater than the historical expansion rate of the economy (in real terms, after discounting the effects of Inflation). Much of the skittishness of public sentiment ap parently came from such elements as bad weather, exceptionally encroachment of foreign goods, wrangling over terms of an energy policy, and getting used to the new national leadership. 1978 More Progress Anticipated reports, however, do not yet show development of the type of major imbalances that have brought past expansion phases to an end. Observe, for instance, the moderation in consumer spending as well as in additions to productive capacity by business, the absence of unhealthy speculation, and the swift corrections of inventory positions in virtually all parts of the business fabric. It is our opinion that this very state of quiescence should tend to keep the economic uptrend going well into 1978. Whether the peak will come late in the year is another matter, one which we cannot foresee clearly at this moment. If the exigencies of an election year sufprompt economic pump-primin- g ficiently early In 1978, business will undoubtedly react to such a fresh impetus and be able to postpone the danger of a crestover. In any event, it looks at present as though the nation's top-heav- y The present upward phase of the business cycle began in the spring of 1975. Thus, as 1978 makes its debut, the business advance is already 32 months old according to the Federal Reserve Index of Industrial Production. By past standards, this is fairly close to a median life span, so there is no question that the ascending phase of this cycle is aging. The old adage "Trees do not grow to the sky" could well make one wonder whether time may not be running out for this latest economic uptrend. Studies made by the Research Department of Babson's economy still has enough momentum to permit another stretch of progress on the business front for 1978 as a whole. Economic Profile Of The Year Ahead Twelve months ago, Babson's predicted that the bulk of 1977's economic strength would be concentrated in the first half of the year, with the final two quarters expected to comb at a slower pace. This scenario has proved accurate. In the year ahead, it is likely that the performance will be repeated, with more vitality in the first two quarters than in the final two. Barring labor disruptions, the first three-mont- h span of 1978 may experience the sharpest rate of advance. While the trend should continue upward throughout the year, the tempo will doubtless slacken in each sucessive quarter. All in all, 1978's results may turn out to be less impressive than those of earlier recovery days and will probably be extremely disappointing to those who insist on greater economic stimulation to make a significant dent in the nation's still vast pool of the unemployed. But such hopes are simply overambitious in view of the realities of worldwide economic stagnation and inflation. Even so, the new year should still turn out to be a period of domestic economic growth roughly on a par with our long-tergrowth rate, and perhaps a bit better. Public Sentiment May Remain Troubled Regardless of generally favorable prospects, 1978 will not be a trouble-fre- e year. There will be concern over the threat of increasing inflationary pressures and the resultant worry over the degree of credit restraint neces sary to keep prices in reasonable check. There will also be anxiety over still more foreign competition, especially as it relates to the loss of domestic jobs, the nation's trade balance, and the balance of interthe latter two national paymcnts-wi- th factors bearing directly on a weakened U. S. dollar. Gross National Product The Gross National Product (GNP), a statistical expression of goods and services produced in this economy, should register a gain on the order of in 1978 11 percent to 12 percent 1977. The with increment, compared however, will be bloated by the effects of inflation, and thus appear to compare favoraL. .vith the achievements of the past two years. But, after adjusting for inflation, the real GNP cont. on page cloven |