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Show Building In Northwest Shows Gain Building permits Issued during Auftost by 92 Pacific Northwest cities totaled $48,242,008, an increase ' of approximately 50 per cent over August, 1949, arid an increase of $309,934 over the value of permits issued in July, it is reported by Construction News Bulletin, building trade journal published in Seattle by Pacific Builder & Engineer, Inc. The trade journal predicts that 1950 without doubt will be the biggest year in Northwest building history, pointing out that per mits Issued during, the first six months of 1950 totaled 35 per cent more than the first six months of 1949. July. 1950. build ing permits exceeded those for July, 1949, by 76 per cent Gains Reported Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming and Utah all reported gains over August, 1949. The greatest gain, percentagewise, was Utah's, an increase of almost 200 per cent over August of last year. Other phenomenal gains were Oregon's increase of 83 per cent and Washington s 53 per cent Washington led the states with $24,106,474, more than half the grand total. Oregon, with $9, 813.751. came in second. Below is a list of the six states in the order of the value of per mits issued during August State Aug., 1949 Aug., 1950 Washing.. $24,106,474 $15,676,467 5,414,200 Oregon ... 9,813,751 1,544,598 Utah. 4,573,944 Montana . . 3,385,799 2,651,686 Idaho 2,666,864 3,500,456 1,369,120 Wyoming . . 2,861,584 Totals $48,242,008 $31,183,731 After falling behind Portland and Spokane in July, Seattle climbed to first place in the list of leading cities with a total of $5,287,855. Portland came in second with permits Valued at more than $5,000,000. Spokane, with $4,337,659, is third. An even dozen cities reported totals of more than $1,000,000. In this list are two unusual names, Aberdeen, Washington, and BakOne big building in er, Oregon. each ' town swelled their usually small building values to place them on the list. Yakima and Pocatello, often not on the List, appear there this month. Following are the 12 P. N. W. cities that issued permits for building values at more than $1,000,000 in August. Aug., 1949 Aug., 1950 City . lr sjlh mmwm Hi ii ii in fffl-- Business and Finance $j liM ' Dollars Daring Sales Event d the parking situation. Gift certificates for merchandise in the Provo stores will be distributed throughout the county and will be given away on event streets of Provo during the five-da- y Dan. Dollar Persons by receiving the certificates will present them at the store whose name appears on the card anytime Friday or Saturday, Sept. 29 or 30, to receive trade discounts or merchandise.. Provo stores will dress up for the event with window displays, special offers, big discounts, banners, pennants and toppers. The event is being coordinated by the retail council and is participated in by all merchants of Provo. Retail merchant's council of Provo Chamber of Commerce has scheduled over-crowde- their third annual Shopping Days events with "Dollar Dan," the money Sept. man, back again to give away merchandise in the form of silver dollar gift certificates. 25-3- 0, five-da- y event, Geneva will furnish free buses transportation rides to the downtown area between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 noon, and will provide customers an opportunity to familiarize themselves with bus service in Provo. Council officials state that by riding the bus to town it also helps to eliminate the During RUKEYSER SAYS Inflation Stems From Fiscal Policies of New, Fair Deals By Merryle Stanley Rukeyaer INS Economic Commentator If President Truman intends to follow through on his current announced battle against inflation, he must turn his back on much of the "Fair Deal" program. For inflation is a money disease, and stems directly from the fiscal and monetary policies of the "New Deal" and the "Fair Deal." In the past, in peace and in war, ist, the late Lord John Maynard Keynes.. Interest rates were manipulated downward by the federal money for two purposes. Firsi, managers to ' prime the pump" by tempting ousinessmen, homebuilders, instalment buyers and others to use credit because the rental on it was so low. A second objective was to hide at least part of the burden of the great balloon of expanded public debt by keeping service charges per dollar borrowed fantastically low. cess of total tax receipts. in-lo- ng ar ... give-awa- . Sears Marks 25 Years In Retail Selling sub-defici- ts, c ar two-thir- Provo's municipal electric pow er department has contributed more to provo city 'a general fund during nine years of municipal1 power operation than the, entire city tax levy brought in during 1940 the year the municipal power system was started. This statement was made Saturday by J. Hamilton Calder, chairman of the city utilities board which administers the pow er division. Inquires Received He made the statement, he said, in response to frequent inquiries made to him by citizens as to "what the power division has contributed to the city." He declared the power system in nine years has contributed $163,991 to the city general fund. In 1940 the city's tax collections for that year StmdayV September IT, ltS3yl Provo EBusiness iistrict in Midst Sreales. Building Boom Provo is "in the midst of one of the ' greatest business district building booms In its history.. This as evidenced Saturday with a survey of the business area where hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of new construc- tion and remodeling is planned, underway, or nearing completion. Ground was broken during the past week for the new Sears building at Second North and First West. The modern structure. with nearly 50,000 square feet of floor space, is to be finished next summer. New Office Building Work also got in full swing on a new office building at Third West and First North, which Dentil A. Brown and J. Elmer Jacob-se- n are building for the department of employment security, Utah industrial commission. The structure, to be completed by Dec. 1, will contain 4500 square feet of floor space. Facing First North, with an entrance also opening on t Third West, the building will be of brick and cinder blocks, with a tile front. The department of employment security currently is occupying offices in the AFL labor temple. The Firs Security bank remodeling and expansion program is goin forward, and progress is being made on the remodeling of the new front for the Hoover Clothing company, 78 W. Center street. New Penney Store C. Penny company recently Jj announced It had signed a long-ter- m lease to occupy a new building to be constructed at the corner of First West and Center, where the community hotel formerly was planned. The structure will include 50,000 square feet of space. Work is expected to get underway soon. Construction has been in progress for several weeks on the new Barbizon of Utah plant and office building at Twelfth North1 and First West streets. Lumber Compajay The Anderson Lumber com-- " pany, whose offices and ware houses at Fifth South and See- ond West were destroyed by fira" last fall, is in the rebuilding pro ' cess. The offices are nearing com- pletion and a warehouse on the! south east side of the property has been finished. The former of ' fice building wlll be replaced with a new warehouse, Clark's, The Man's Shop, a new' store on University avenue between Second and Third North, ia' the newest Provo store completed. Its grand opening was held re- -'' cently. Fir mace's Expands store this week Firmage's launched an expansion program9 when ground was broken at the'' rear of the establishment for an' addition which will greatly en-- ? large the selling space of '1 tha-stor- Hamburger Returns For Day; Marks Anniversary it, W ry of medical care the Dentist Begins Practice Here ""Jw!1"! T Insurance Clerk Wins Recognition ot x n ce HAYMONS Prescription Center ultra-conscio- us AVE.-PHO- fiSLMmfMiiS ...and$fithe il M mK V Mm M Mm ul rill H ''MM MM MB JL I JfU Jf W G Miff dHfTPItfQ 0 nUiUIN&IJJbWtllf&d AM I ' . I 000 "' "' Foremost ia sales and popularity! That's Oldsmnbil Hydra-Mati- c Drive! Oldamobile pioneered Hydra-Mati- c over ten years ago and today to a new Oldamobile has carried Hydra-Mati- e vrrftV'" And only Oldsmobile combines Hydra-Mati- c "Rocket" Engine! Drive with the So buy with an eye on the engine, and buy with "Rocket an eye on the drive! 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It to mrtmmWS9SSP ty Vf- -t' 7 nt M ds Providing a smooth t Safeway Stores, Inc. has an- nounced plans for a new super'1 alone were $199,624. and store parking lot to occupy ' The power division has paid half of the block the entire north to Provo the $196,991.02 city genSecond between and Third WestJ eral fund and Provo city school and between First and Second" system, he said, during the years North. 1940 through 1949, in addition .tending Weber junior college By UNITED PRESS Meantime, Safeway has just and paying operating expenses here. a remodeling program completed iivc-iH- n nc making all payments on schedule a xnow ne nas j Mii.uunci ' " on its bonded debt. This is brok- turned to Provo and Ogden fora summer home in atJU I rfis remodeling famed and now store - i im rir r4 Lr rv minioirt vattj-tten down as follows: $124,124.68 one day Saturday and q fund lined up for places son Hole. Wyo., a winter home in on Wes directly to the city general people "i!;; , as a contribution of 18 per cent at the "Wimpy Wafer" stands to Hawaii, and a home in JOgden's ce s"pplf The utah of the annual net profits of the eat their fill at five cents a throw better residential district; Supply corn- He operates a lunch stand in Pany recently moved into power system beginning in 1948, as a grateful Salisbury salesman and with partners operates ious neW quarters at 69 East Cen- -f averaging between $30,000 and observed the 23rd anniversary of ter after extensive remodeling:. start. his $31,000 $72,866.34 in other -yearly; Provo, and in Reno. plus shoestrong y ' 1: i " paid to Provo city and Provo city Carl M." Lancaster, "hamburger schools in lieu of taxes since 1940. king" who has prepared his fa This payment in lieu of taxes has vorite receipe for the lieutenant been at the rate of $7500 per year governor of Hawaii, Red Skelton, $3700 to the schools and $3800 and other movie stars, turned to the city, which was the amount back the calendar to charge the cost and proportion of taxes being paid prices he charged when he opened His annually by the, Utah Power and his first hamburger "joint." Light company when the Provo three Ogden cafes and the Snappy Service in Provo doled out the DENTIST Dr. D. Creed Brim- - municipal system took over. Mr. out Calder that den'burgers for a nickel, complete pointed will who hall, begin general of the total of $196,991 paid dur- with onions, tomato, pickle and tistry practice in Provo. celeing the nine years, $33,300 has lettuce during the one-da- y gone to schools and $163,991 to bration. Steaks were going at 35 cents the city general fund. In 1940, year the power system started', a plate; hot cakes and coffee all the city's tax levy netted $159,624. you could drink were living up to their popularity and going "like hotcakes" at 15 cets. Pie was five cents a cut. That the cost of medical care hag risen, no one can deny. Dr. D. Creed Brimhall will beBusy Man gin general dentistry practice in But the rise has not been out of proportion to the general Sweltering under the heat of association with Dr. Frank T.j red-hcustomers and the griddle advance in the cost of living. At the same time the quality Reynolds at 71 S. 1st E., it was Mrs. Jean packed three deep behind the Allen, senior clerk at stools announced today. of medical service has been immeasurably improved. of his "Snappy A son of Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Provo's district office of Metro- Service" cafes in Ogden, LancasConsider that today your physician has invested froca Brimhall of Provo, Dr. Brimhall politan life Insurance company, ter didn't have time to estimate is a graduate of Provo high school has been named clerk of the how much he'd lose on the annieight to ten years and about ten thousand dollars in his and her picture will be versary fete. and Brigham Young" university month, education alone. He has no chance to earn until he ia "We're losing money," Lancasand received his dental surgery put on exhibit in all company the state. or twenty-seveter chuckled, "but think of the twenty-siyears old. He must htve aa from University of Southern Cal offices throughout Allen recently authored turnover!" ifornia. At the university he was anMrs. in office a good neighborhood, good equipment, a ear, article printed in The ProsHis slogan in 1937 for his awarded the Arthur C. LaTOuche pector, encompany magazine, good clothes. honor award for operative excel titled "On "Snappy Service" lunch stands The Outside Looking was He the sack." 'em by to was "buy the nominated and lency Pharmacy, too, has stepped up its standards. Almost which gained wide acclaim, could to charge only a Omicron Kappa Upsilon national In," and as a result was awarded hon- nickel afford for his hamburgers. every state now requires four years of college and a year dental fraternity. ors. sold ground beef stores Grocery or two of practice before registration. All this adds up tlv His wife is Elinor BrocRbank She is the wife of John O. at two pounds for 25 cents; choice Brimhall, and they have two Allen, BYU student. 77 E. 4th N., beef steaks better medical ervice for you. at 15 cents a pound, children, Martha Lynn and Den- and the daughter of Mr. and and three-ouncube steaks were Mrs. Claude For Conder. the five cents each. Eggs were 18 nis Creed. Dr. Brimhall also served over past, three years she has worked cents a dozen. three years with the Army Air in the Provo office of MetropoliChucks His Diploma Force during World War II, part tan Life Insurance company. Lancaster first came to Ogden of which time he was held Priswith the idea of being a schooloner of war in Germany. teacher. He held a diploma from "SOUVENIRS" PAID FOR Colorago State Teacners' college, JACKSON. O.. (U.R) A former where he played a stellar role as CARRIES A SPARE of When student who prefers to remain tackle. But, CONCORD, N. H. (U.R) (FORMERLY PROVO DRUG) Lemuel Sheep reported to police anonymous has mailed $1 to the the struggle he had to get his eduNE SO NORTH UNIV. 23 a soon convinced himself wallet containing cafeteria of the local high school. cation, he the loss of $1344, he assured them that "my He explained that it was for the that what Ogden needed most PROVO, UTAH other wallet" containing $240 was "several souvenirs" he had taken was a "five-cen- t" hamburger as a lift to the Joe Colleges at- in the past. safe in another pocket. 5-Ce- meat-hung- administhe Roosevelt-Truma- n trations in all except the two years that the 80th (Republican) If President Truman is to congress temporarily reversed the doThus. more than give lip service to exin trend, spent considerably the battle inflation, he . ti o 1 Colder Cites Contribution Of City Plant Stores to Give Away 'Silver against will have to back away from policies previously followed. SpecifTrend Upward ically, he will have to ihtervene Except for moderate downward to instruct the treasury deDart- revisions in 1945 and 1948, the, a Skop with the trend of tax receipts has been operation of mterfering the federal reserve upward. Accordingly, over the gyStem in order to keep the span since 1932, the deficits terest rate on its own borrowing have been caused by excess on the artificially low. spending side, rather than by. Secondly, through an overall, forbearance or tenderness to-- I consolidated nrneram including Seattle $5,287,885 $5,229,705 ward the taxpayers. taxation to meet the rising higher . Portland interlude military expenditures, the Tru 5,035,190 3,201,380 Through the five-yeSpokane .... 4,337,659 1,659,569 since V-- J day, this column has man administration will have to King County 3,839,138 2,354,485 consistently urged putting the create symbols to give the public Salt Lake City 2,376,582 572,935 nation's house in order through confidence in the of Tacoma 2,081,050 1,459,836 structure, on the one hand, and the dollar. Action soundness will speak 1,805,450 1,014,100 through curtailment of Casper y 1,534,215 450,076 spending schemes, on the other. louder than mere words. Ogden Rising; Prices, Higher Costs Aberdeen . . 1,494,290 41,095 The objective of such fiscal reto Up despite the great dePocatello 118,725 1,200,000 form was to provide the nation preciationnow, over a decade in the Yakima 1,086,867 291,699 of reserves financial purchasing power of money, the Baker . . . 1,007,032 64,552 with strength, which could be drawn full implications of the inflation upon in interludes of emergency, potential have not been translatsuch as war. ed into rising prices and a higher cost of livinff. The inflation potential develop- - one reason for this ed from chronic governmental is tnat important the has, to a public which increased circu- - stantial decree, sterilized the in- lating media, primarily in the flationarv effect of the ereatlv form of greatly expanded bank ?rged credit base by reducing deposits and to a lesser degree the velocity of the turnover ol in increased circulation of cur- u.ids at their disposal. Concrete- A milestone in the history of rency. ly, the rate of turnover of bank Cheap Money Policies is slow and sluggish, Sears, Roebuck and Co. the comOn top of that situation, the deposits to the tempo which of compared pletion of a quarter-centur- y Deal-Fair New Deal tended to prevailed prior to the in is celebrated depressed being retailing potential inflation nineteen thirties. promote Provo this week. through cheap money fallacies "The celebration is particularly borrowed from the British theor Thus, in the future, success in not in it that only significant the fight against inflation will marks the 64th anniversary of Spanish Fork Bankers depend more on a candid facing Sears, but also marks the 25th of the causative factors, rather School Attend enSeattle of our company's anniversary than on superficial attempts to try into the retail field," said H. SPANISH FORK .The 1950 deal only with the symptoms and J. Heisch, manager. "All Sears retail stores throughout the nation session of the Pacific Coast Bank- results. By way of illustration, one way ing School held recently at the are joining in this event." circumscribe the inflationary Mr. Heisch recalled that Sears' University of Washington was at- to of "hot money" in the time effect tended this for the second year first retail store was opened in; time of when government takes the company's mall order plant of the by Paul Lambert, manager a war, ratio of the tptal output office of the Fork rising Spanish Roin Chicago in 1925. General is of Commercial Bank Utah. of goods, through levying highbert E. Wood, present chairman The school, founded in 1938, is er taxes on the rank and file of of the board of Sears, was at by the Bankers Assoc- consumers through a widely difthat time a vice president and it sponsored of iations Idaho, Montana, Ore- fused sales tax. in was his enthusiasm and faith but they gon, California, the retail store idel that prompt- ton and Nevada. Utah, Washing- areNoa taxes are pleasant, alertdevice for political exto out the ed the company try Mr. Lambert hopes to complete ing the voters to the fact that periment. three-yecourse next year government cannot give them Soon similar stores ' were open- the and obtain his certificate of something for nothing. ed in several other Sears mail Other officers of the order plants. In October, 1925, graduation. Bank of Utah who the first store outside of a mail Commercial Evans-vill- e, attended the school were Roy W. in was order plant opened Robert Hanson, Montgomery, Ind. Mendenhall and Ferrin Today the company's retail div- uordon ision comprises 654 stores located Lovell. in 47 states and accounts for apof the proximately UTAH POULTRY BUILDS company's sales volume. REAL UTAH AGRICULTURE The Provo store of Sears was 1932. in irst opened February, Last Monday morning, ground ESTATE was broken for a large new Sears tore in Provo that will approxiLOANS mately double the number of emThe new store will be loploye. cated on the corner of First West and Second North and will carry several new lines of merchandise. The store now employes 81 men and women. Mr. Heisch has been manager since 1941. . SUNDAY HERALD News of Industry, Markets, Real Estate NEAREST OLDSMOBILI DEALER WASDEN MOTOR SALES, 1131 NORTH 5TH WEST, PHONE 2650 SEE YOUR -- J VAUiS PROVO, UTAH |