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Show BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Realty Board Head Thursday, August 8, 1968 County Is Good Income Area Elder county stood out a better.than.average market during the past year, ac. cording to a national survey of Box as ' ; 1 ; ; 1 ; - i ; ! ; business, just released. It relative strength Is re. fleeted In the level of earn-lng- s In the area and In the amount of consumer spend. lng done In local retail stores. THE FIGURES bearing this out are contained In the new, copyrighted Survey of Buy. lng Power," Issued by Sales Management. It analyzes com munltles In every section of the country with respect to business activity and growth potential. It shows that Incomes were high In Box Elder county In the year. Local residents had net earnings, after payment of their personal taxes, of $69,. 665,000, as against the prevl. ous years $68,307,000. Just what this amounted to, as far as the Individual family was concerned, was found by dividing the dollar total by the number of households. The average per household was $8,708. This was more than the Moun tain States average of $8,156 and that of the State of Utah, ; $8,353. WITH THAT much money available for discretionary ; spending, consumers could be ; expected to be In the market - place In force. And they were, making It a big year for re. tallers ; 7; i ; ' I ( 1 - Even so, records were brok- en In a number of retail lines as consumer spending In the year reached $41,705,000, bet. terlng the previous years $39,074,000. Because con. American sumers did not spend up to the hilt last year, saving more than usual, they now have a reser. voir of funds ready and waiting to be used when they feel the time Is right. HOW LONG THIS wait and see attitude will continue will the war, the upon depend economy and the elections, a University of Michigan sur. . Brigham Citys Joyce Frls. by attended the 34th National of the 178,000-membConvention National Federation of Business and Professional Womens clubs under the theme, United, Share, Act. The July 21.25 meet was held In Minneapolis. SHE REPRESENTED the Brigham City BPW as a delegate to the convention and acted as a National Nominat. lng Committee Representative from the state BPW organiza- tion. She was one of some 4,000 delegates and members who heard Dr. Thomas O. Paine, deputy head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C., predict that United States wo. men would make space flights before 1979. Insecticide IN ANOTHER I1 Qur 7ime Market Is Growing Af On Duty At Viet Base Lieutenant Colonel Lynn N. board president Maughan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Maughan of 859 North reported also that a recent Main, Brigham City, Is on duty Home action by the Federal Loan Bank Board has added at Tan Son Nhut AB, Viet-naIn mortgage million $600 Colonel Maughan, an air funds to the current supply. The area SAVINGS AND loan assotop sales month In most areas of the country, because buyers ciations have been required are anxious to get settled to hold 7 percent of their de. before the start of the school posits In cash. Recently, this was cut back to 6V2 percent, year. Mr. Mclntire said, freeing MR. MCINTIRE noted that the additional $600 million. the survey of existing-hom- e According to FHLBB Chair-ma- n John E. Horne, there sales conducted by the DepartIs a chance this liquidity ment of Research of the could be cut even Association of Real Estate Boards found that sales further to 6 percent In an volume was highest in August effort to permit the continua. In both 1966 and 1967. In ad. tlon of reasonable mortgage in the dition, he said, the median financing activities sales price peaked near Aug. months ahead. In such an improving cliust In both years, then be. mate for sales, home own. gan to ease. Mr. Mclntire, moreover, ers who have any Intention of recounted several recent ac. selling In the near future may tions which Indicate a lessen, wish to consider taking the lng on the shortage of mort. step now, Mr. Mclntire said. In any event, they might gage money for single.family wish to discuss their real home purchases. First, from savings and loan estate situation with a Real, associations. tor, who Is a professional Invest most of their In real estate and subscribes funds In home mortgages-we- re to a strict code of ethics as fewer than expected at a member of the local and the end of June, when Inter- state boards and of the Na. est is posted to accounts. tional Association of Real recent Second, average Estate Boards. prices in the Federal Nation-a- l Mortgage Associations weekly auction for commit-ment- s to purchase FHA and VA mortgages have gone up. operations officer, is a mem. her of the Pacific Air Forces. Before his arrival In Viet, nam, he was assigned to Mo Chord AFB, Wash. The colonel was commis. sioned in 1949 upon comple. tlon of Officers Training School at Lackland AFB, Tex., and served during the Korean War. He Is a graduate of Clifton (Idaho) High school. Colonel Maughan Is mar. rled to the former Darlene Cole. the best , recipe for with-drawa- presentation, Mr. Daniel Parker, chairman ; of the National Association and of the of Manufacturers TOTALLY MAN-MAP-E CARPETS OF Parker Pen company, Janes, III SOLUTION PYEP ACRYLIC PBER said that the Wise, vllle, FAS BROUGHT A A 'EW PMENSLON Is quality of performance TO THE HOME. CARPETING FORMERLY needed now more than ever. USEP ONLY IN THE LIVING - PINING The convention elected new AREA CAN NON BE SEEN IN THE officers, adopted a legislative BATHROOM ANP BASEMENT. KITCHEN, Three kinds of systemic platform and held special e. are currently on the vents and Federation business market for home gardners, sessions. according to A. Fullmer All. red Box Elder county agent for the extension services at BC Utah State university. Systemics In granular form or combined with fertilizer probably will control aphids and mites for four to six weeks after application. Water Is necessary for uptake of the explained Reed Sergeant Donald W. Me. chemicals, Leod, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Roberts, Extension entomo. V.7 C.H. McLeod of 2812 South loglst. Cindy Lane, Midwest City, SOME CONTROL of other Okla., at Saglek Air Station, N APPTON, Insects will' probably result, - ... LIVING AREAS OUTS! PE OF Canada. His wife Barbara Is the If applications to the soil are THE HOME SUCH AS PATOS, POOLS daughter of Mrs. Douglas Dor. made before damage Is de. ANP TERRACES ARE BEING rise of 170 South Fourth West, tected. Foliar systemics prob. CARPETEPPUE TO THE PACT THAT ably will last a shorter period MONSANTO SOLUTION-PYEBrigham City. ACRHAN ACRYLIC FIBER, USEP BY HEY Sergeant McLeod, a supply of time, but are easier to use. The small was package sys. CARPETING MILLS ARE PROVIPNG Inventory specialist, selected for Ills leadership, temlcs Include: CARPET UNPER QUALITY CONTROL Used in the soli STANPARPS. STRETCHING, MILPEYV, exemplary conduct and duty performance. He Is a member as granules or In combina. A SHRINKAGE, ANP SPOT REMOVAL C of the Aerospace Defense tlon with fertilizer. Usually ARE NO LONGER PROBLEMS, one or two percent concern Command. is a highly The sergeant Is a 1964 grad, tratlon. uate of Theodore (Ala.) High toxic material. The low percent, however, reduces the vere Infestations School. sprayed on foliage. develop. hazard. It should be used cau. Cygon (dimethoate); Sold as New Hampshire whs the dettously and It Is essential an emulsifiable concentrate to as Sold R: cisive state In the ratification that dosage rates be follow, a low percent emulslflable be mixed with water and ap. of the Federal Constitution. ed. It will perform better If to he mixed with water and plied to foliage. used In the soli before se. More than 92.9 million tons of cargo passed through the Panama Canal In the 1967 fis- oooa vvwc Local Airman that these prices Indicate mortgage are willing to take fewer discount points in return tor FNMA cash purchase of government. backed home loans as the average price rises. The number of points shown by FNMAs auction Is a general guide to home sellers about prevailing money market conditions, and Mr. Mclntire quoted FNMA Presi. dent Raymond H. Lapin as say. lng the higher prices demon, strate the continuing tone of in the mortgage optimism market. The market is stead, ily improving. HE EXPLAINED orig-inato- Is Graduated folks newly moved to one phone call (or coupon add hostess with baskets gifts and information about the city, stir in genuine hospitality, and youll have a generous and delightful welcome. Just phone below), of From AF School Airman Wayne M. Walker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Walker of Corlnne, has been graduated from a U.S. Air technical school at Force Sheppard AFB, Tex. He was trained as an air. craft mechanic and has been assigned to a unit of the Tac. tlcal Air Command at Davis. Monthan AFB, Ariz. The airman Is a graduate of Box Elder High school, Brigham City. Brigham City Take elconiMgon Phone 723-894- 3 WELCOME NEWC0MERSI Use this coupon to 1st here. j us know youll Name Address. City Please hive the Welcome Wagon I Hostess call on me I would like to subscribe to the I already subscribe to tho out coupon and mill to Circulitlon I Dept., I mmmmm wmY Fill P ,Tii0T META-SYSTO- vey of consumer sentiment Indicates. For the near future, the pre. cal year. dictions are that both dlscre. tlonary purchasing and the rate Iowa State was of saving will remain relatively the first Land University Grant college high. opened on a coeducational baThe Hcpubhc of the Philippines. .supplies half of nil coconut products in the world. siivs the National Oeoernphlc. EAGLES IN HOUSTON Past Grand Worthy President, D. D. Billings (right) of Brigham City, is shown with Grand Aerie membership director, Maurice Splain, Jr. of Pittsburg, Pa. and Michael Ansari, "Cochise of of Tv's Broken Arrow series of a few years back. Ail three participated in the 70th annual Grand Aerie international convention of the Fraternal Order of Eagles which concluded yesterday, Saturday, in Houston, Texas. Wins Air Award big. and political uncertainties with re. gard to Vietnam, Inflation and taxes, which led people to be more cautious In their spendlng tlian they would have been otherwise. 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