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Show PAGE TEN TIIE BOX ELDER Semi-Weekl- Newspaper Successor to y 1HE.BOX ELDER NEWS 1896) (Established and THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL (Established 1909) Published by The Box Elder Inc. Puunahed every Tuesday and Friday afternoon at Brigham City, Utah, and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, in January, 1909, under the act of March News-Journa- 3. BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH L, hes done rather well in a business way that always made us think Hizzoner is a smart man was the fact that he practically refused to wear hats or neckties. Rut the last several times weve seen him, hes been wearing a tie. When we see him wearing a hat, were going to start worrying. Neum-iouru- al A NEWS-JOURNA- l, William M. Long, Editor Charles ,W. Claybaugh, Business Manager Mrs. Gladys H. Johnson, Advertising Manager Ralph R. Channel!, Mechanical Superintendent Subseripfion Rates Anywhere in Box Elder County $3.00 a year, $2.00 for eight months, $1.00 for four months; outside Box Eldbr County, $1.00, ' a year. Single copies 5 cents. These cold, icy mornings, your to turn over than its engine. Six pairs of nylons, please. medium length. eight and Clerk : Im sorry, but we dont have any. Were expecting some any day, however. Could I take your name and call you when come in? they Subscriptions must be paid in advance, at office Lady: Dont you know the wars over? I of publication or by mail. want some nylons, and I want them right tried to look the other way and pretend the little black and white kitten outside th N.-- J door the other morning wasnt there. When Clay and I went out for coffee, it was still there, though. It followed us the street, sort of And A month or more, now, weve needed a we up hadnt any more than got our coffee haircut and been trying to find the barber- saucered and blowed when in came Tuffy, shop without customers so we could get the Claybaughs carrying the one. Finally we hit the lull the other mornkitten. Clay (and I use the word precisely) I hate to do it, I told ing in at Dougs. groaned. him, but maybe Id better hae one of those six-b- it high-clas- s haircuts. Trying to clean up a newspaper office may For you, Doug said, were cutting pricnot be a losing game, but youll do better es. Youve let your hair go twice too long, giving 20 points and betting on the Bees, so Ill give you two 37L-cehaircuts. for or against. Size one-hal- f, ...BETWEEN THE Perhaps this week youve been solicited for the purchase of tickets to the March of Dimes Ball, to be held Saturday evening, January 26, in the Box Elder high school gym. If so, let, us hope you bought generously. Of every dollar you spent for a ticket (admitting two) to the March of Dimes Ball, cents will go into the fight ninety-od- d infantile against paralysis, the dread disease of childhood, the crippler! Expenses are being held to a minimum, although you may be assured of a grand time, a dance you will enjoy and which will be worth your time if you attend. During the past year, a polio epidemic of Unprecedented proportions raged through the state of Utah; Box Elder county was not missed. As a result of this epidemic, the expenses of the Box Elder county chapter of the Na- tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis have been unusually heavy. The Box Elder county chapter has provided hospitalization, braces, shoes, transportation and nursing equipment for old and new patients. When polio strikes, the local chapter assumes full financial responsibility for the treatment necessary, regardless of whom it strikes, wherever it strikes, in Box Elder county. Right now the Box Elder chapter has two patients in the Salt Lake County General hospital, at a cost of about $8.72 each per day. So line yourself up with the foes of this disease. Join humanity .in the battle. It isnt something far away, of little concern to us. The battle is being waged right here in our own county, every day. And to serve in this fight, youre only asked to pay a dollar, or as many dollars as you cap, for & ticket to the March of Dimes Ball., " Clerk: So do I, Madam. Lady: Ill bet your wife has a dresser full of brand new ones at home. Clerk: If I had any, she would have. If you think you customers are tough, you should hear her! Lady: Shes got them, all right. Shes just afraid to wear them, or then we could prove it. Clerk: When they come in, I can let you have one pair. Ill phone you and hold them for you. Lady: I said bix pair, and its six pair or nothing. Clerk: Youre telling me! Wait a minute heres the express. Maybe theyre in this returns (Clerk goes to back,' shipment. carrying boxes.) Here they are. Six pairs, medium you say, size eight and length. Lady: How much are they? n a pair. Clerk: A outrageous! You profiteer, Lady: Its you. Just keep your old nylons. Ill wait until you come to your senses, or the O. P. A. catches up vith you. Im always having Clerk: (To himself.) these nightmares. Ill have to quit eating before I go to bed. - It stands to reason that Power and Light company, its giant power plants and scale production, can procona unit of electricity siderably cheaper than docs our small city plant. Yet the pany. Utah with large duce LINES... By A. L. Beck and G. N. Apderson aid Uti agains State ued a attle bs cat al well-writt- proxinr L i elec-teria- j ls j , ' j I low-peri- .... Aeredrome-Florrennes-Juzain- bea of th s to Hf tten b exten J. S c pro ah St. the bi ife his lescrib lures, estock thei fol tre a I I catth Stat d y Just take a look through this telescope 'and yourself next spring! Hows your tractor running? Wish you'd had it overhauled a few months ago? Well, theres still time. Between now and the day you want to take your equipment into the field well make the repairs you need. Our shop is loaded it always is these days-b- ut well schedule your work and get it out on time. Just tell us what needs to be done. You can be sure of this: Any job we do here is done right. Farm equipment is our business. We know it from the ground up. We re implement men and that means we can take your farm tools and put them hack in working order. Youll find a big stock of genuine IHC parts on hand hen at ail times. And from now on well have more new McCor equipment, too. Let us know what you need. long-rang- e jble in the $13, appln spra gri he pmei b lland yea fc appe 4- -t duri In (ie stat c $. r, so d be; lk of U fe gest les bull 1 or Servi' mick-Deerin- g BRIGHAM TRUCK & IMPLEMENT CO. B-2- 6, 27 North Main Street 1 ! ... &- Rulon Baron, mayor of Br ham City, was appointed to board of directors of the U Municipal league by offJc and board members of league, meeting at the h Utah Fliday night in Salt L, reported. A total of 2,650 cases of com- - City, Baron will fill the unexpu, municable diseases was report- ed for the entire state, as com- - term of Carl Wold, f0 pared with 1,357 for the pre.' Brigham City mayor. y. people of Brigham City know In the Tuesday evening, Jan- DuPonts, owned and that for years they have purchoperated uary 8, issue of the News-Journ- the postal service, rates would ased electricity from their city our friend, Bill Long be so cheap? plant at rates 15 to 20 percent the editor, went to some length, lower than those charged surbut fact-shin a In a Handbook for Veterans rounding communities supplied editorial, to discredit some of of World War II, printed by by Utah Power. The revenues the theories of government and the U. S. printing realized from the municipal economics this column has ex- office, we government found the following power plant have enabled the pressed. Bills editorial was an question and answer. city to keep its property taxes ambitious attempt to prove, Question. About what is the a great deal lower than those of once and for all, that any med- per diem cost to the government surrounding cities not having dling of government, cither in to hospitalize a veteran? municipal power plants. This the form of regulation or com. Answer. It costs on the av- has meant that the people of petition, with the holy pie of erage for all types of cases Brigham had more money to private industry, was exceed- $2.75 per day to provide a vet- spend at the local grocery store, the local service station and the ingly wasteful and costly., The eran hospitalization, which meat of Bills editorial is atten-to- n local clothing store. It has meant eludes skilled medical follows. one-hal- f, highly trained nurses, ex-- j less money to flow into the cellent food and transportation, massive coffers of Wall street, of course. But we believe they When the government buys and dental care. Our readers know what they have plenty; The local poWer materials, it pays as much and dollar-nineteeplant has increased the wealth often more than a careful pri- - pay in a private hospital, of Brigham City. Thats an elvate contractor would pay. When 'the government hires Quoting from David E. Lil- - ementary bit of economics, Mr. labor, skilled and unskilled, it ienthals book Democracy on Editor. invariably booms the market. the March, a report on the We know When the government builds Tennessee Valley authority and that the Utah Power and Light company figsomething, it wastes more ma. the reactions of the private and more working time trical power utilities to govern. ures its profits in a different than any private contractor ment production of electricity, manner than we figured the could hope to do and stay in we find the following: Rates profits' of the Brigham power One thing even more than the fact that business. jnot markedly higher than those plant. They figure their proYet the government can announced by T. V. A. in 1933 fits according to their invest der the noses of everyone. Just send us the build better homes, cheaper, and vigorously denounced at ments. They have made vigor, facts, your approximate location, and that more quickly, than private in- -' that time as impossible are now ous pleas, in the past few years, of your friend. Something of your present dustry can. being charged by private util- - that their profits were practic- How? Well, maybe its thciRies. They are returning a pro- - ally nil and they would go surroundings also. An exciting way of sayfit to the prvate companies in a broke were they forced to way they keep books. ing Hello there! I havent forgot. of higher costs. And the er rates. We dont know how And heres the column. If you dont care II residential rate for the they arrive at such ridiculous Mr. all sounds That fine, this for it well, it wont be the first time Maybe its the but your editorial waslwble country, which was 5.52 conclusions. litor, ' space has been wasted with its omissions. cents in 1933, was 3.67 cents in way they keep their books. conspicuous Remember Fellows . . . Or perhaps its due to a little You threw to the public a beau- 1942. e, stock watering, a little juggling Belgium tiful theory. An outworn theory run- of Laissez Faire. and as the A converted gas line hose of a It seems, that the private pow. of depreciation costs, a little inwere either flation of their operating costs to our old Irishman would say, wi' er companies ning somehow from buried beer-ke- g or fleecing the public prior to and original investments, tent. What a party! What conversation! nary an example to prove it. 1933 or they suddenly became maybe just a little downright want to give the What a night! Tom, George, Ralph, Ike! We, therefore, in this article, those more efficient after T. V. A. re- - skullduggery. Where' are you? Dave now adv. salesman, public, omitted. Spceifc ex- vealed the actual cost of pro-you things N. Y. C. Why not solve that birthday electricity. Anyway amples of government interfer- ducing To R. It. Engineer . . . ence in the sacred field of pri- rates came down, And that 6ft problem News-Journ" subscription is Believed to be in Maine We made a pact vate enterprise. brings us to our ace in the hole, Brigham Citys own Mu- - welcome present, a couple of kids canoeing at camp. The The United States postal de- nicipal Power Plant. sun was sinking in the still, dear waters of subThe budget issued a report, early estimate, When were very old partment a Vermont lake. in 1945, covering its operations mitted by the city council, for 30 years from for the men, you said solemnly year 1944. That report the year 1946 now. Lets come back. The appointed showed the postal service had a!ed revenues of $224,500.00 from time has come. This summer June 10th. slight deficit during 1944. The the electric department. Total Think such doddering old men can still pad- deficit was almost identical! expenditures for the depart-wif- h the revenue the depart- - ment will be $125,650.00. This! 40 years dle that canoe? 'Virginia lawyer ment would have realized had it will leave the city with $98,850.. young. charged usual rates for service 00 profit from the electric deMagic In Calvados given free to federal agencies, partment. And we want to d CalFill her up," you shouted. Drink abolished its free rates to mind our readers, at this point, vados! and again Another Calvados! servicemen and the congress-- that $60,000 of the total Good for the soul. All night long in the litfranking privilege. The mated expenditures will be paid tle cafe at St. Marie Eglise, Normandy ; un- postal service, then, is a going to Utah Power and Light It realizes sufficient pany from whom the city will til I, too, shouted with you Bring Calvato revenue pay its operating purchase approximately dos! Morning dawned. Back to our unit - third of the total electric power we weaved. Damn good of the fellows to j distributed. So nearly one-ha- lf meet us, we thought, as they stood a good The Post Office will ship a ; of the total expenditures of the distance away and waved and called. Damn ten pound parcel post package department end up in the cof- - j good of us to wave back at em too our bal- to New York City for $1.T7. furs of Utah Power and Light cents it will deliver one- - .company as payment for one-ha- lf ance being what it was . . . Johnny Ive For six ounce air mail outside the third of our electricity. Even often wondered What great power looked limits of the U. S. then, the department realizes a after us that day, as we ignored the shouts continental and for three cents will deliver profit which is almost 45 per. and gestures of our fellow Gls and walked a sealed letter to any point in' tent of the total revenue. j j 1 innocently through that heavily mined field the U. S. We wouldnt argue with 'the! unhurt. What do you think? LieutenDoes anyone seriously think editor that the small . Brigham ant now Univ. of Calif. if one of our leisure class City power plant. is. as efficient Stella Writes a.4 Utah Power and Light com- You walked out. I never .saw you again. families such as the Pewter the Do We Want 'em Federal? It is to be hoped that someone of the city, governing body discussed the situation with Ccngressman W. K. Granger when he was in town last week the matter of public woVks projects for Brigham City. .Writing from Washington this week, Congressman Granger explained that the. Federal Works agency now is approving projects for the advancement of federal funds provided by congress for the preparation of plans of public works. The idea is to get the groundwork completed and out of the way, so that actual construction on public projects may be started as soon as labor and materials are available. Recipients of such advances in Utah, in addition to the town of Perry for a water facilities program, include the agricultural college for an engineering building, Pleasant View for water facilities, Ogden city for fire protection facilities, the Logan board of education for three school facilities' projects, and the Ogden board of education for additional school facilities. ' Is Brigham City in a position to qualify some of its planned and hoped-fo- r fiublic improvements under Federal Works, or are we going to have only what we can pay for in cash or with municipal bond issues? This question is not rhetorical. We can think of good arguments for both sides. But its something that should be decided now. Times Remember Mike the night Shaun was born? Yrou bought him a bicycle and a flute a real flute. IIow we laughed at Confusing foolishness! What fun we had! Its Its hard to understand what would cause your been eight years now Shaun plays that a youngster presumably a youngster de- flute well, too. But youre not pretty liberately to destroy property when the de- here to hear him. Mike Wont you come? struction could not conceivably do him any Miami, Fla. good or even afford the sort of destructive Calling Portland, Ore. pleasure gained from the sound of breakDoes the gentleman Technocrat, whose ing glass and puts the property owner to advertisement appers in a weekly paper, reconsiderable bother and expense. member a certain conversation ten years Every so often the cutting of upholstered ago train from Albany to Buffalo, N. Y.? seats in motion picture theaters becomes so Reference Oxford. persistent the theater owners must take posi- To Young Matron tive action to curb it. In todays issue, From Ex.-A. O. Thats what you managers of the two local picture houses are called me in 4:3 your O. A. O. Have you offering a $25 reward to anyone furnishing forgotten the night you slipped past the M. information leading to the arrest and con- P. on Pier 9, for a last goodbye. Fellars viction of perpetrators of such vandalism. kidded. But worth it I thought. And Wed like to think it is someone from out- now Im hack. Y'oure married. Women! side, not a Brigham City boy or young Bah! I hate em. But kid! I just want man, who has done such a thing. But evi- to know. Are you happy? If you are O.K. O.- K. dently this is not the case. Im glad. From Pvt. to Capt., now Its hard to understand why. Its hard to garage owner, Emporia, Kan. believe that any of bur young people could Former Bookie . . . stoop to such utterly wanton vandalism. Pvt. Minneapolis. Paris was wild with Its all very confusing! joy! Free again! City full of M. P.s. To keep ordinary guys like us out. We dodged, eh Louis? But not so the girls for each Tug At The Heart Is Ye Dignified Scribe an incurable - ro- battle a kiss. For each victory a lonmantic, or is their drama, romance, the stuff ger kiss. Laughter and songs everywhere. for a dozen novels in a column weve just Made our way to a cafe Fresh folk music run across in the trade publication, For sudden silence. Strong gayety then ? and clear came the strains of the Star The column is headed R.' S. V. P. and Spangled Banner all eyes on us each girl the final paragraph explains: Y'ou dont stood each man saluted. A tribute to our have to mention names. rour friend will uniforms! God! How proud we were. Rerecognize the episode a secret message, un member? Charlie Sgt. now reporter. ' reported, Nine cases of chicken pox and five cases of measles were the reonly communicable diseases tne for in City Brigham ported week ending January 11, according to the weekly summary issued today by the state department of health. No new cases of influenza were reported in Brigham City for the week, although else- where in Utah 2,284 cases were nt now. Join In The Battle " five-year-ol- d, Lady Customer: 18, i9lJ week. The influenza t If' Nine Cases Chicken Pox' vious demic seemed to be centerm-TSalt Lake City, where Reported In Brigham , cases were cars We half-heartedl- 1879. JANUARY FRIDAY EVENING, re-an- esti-ion- 1 corn-concer- n. one-cost- s. j J I ... j Ei E ESSENCE OF IT Hi ioocl ... I It H !. " Cl 1 Re-leo- se tv UL Paity-j&it- tc 'Hciy66n4 )'Qetolve: bot To make sure the line is not busy before placing tf wet a call. ;T To avoid making several calls in immediate succession. 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