Show f' I PAGE 4 v f of geography so much part of the land that they might have been here since the Ice Age We forget that there Is no form of Utah Published Every Thursday At Gunnison transportation that can servo all sections of the country at all times of the year nothing in matter Entered at the postoffice at Gunnison as second-clas- s sight which can remotely replace Our trains on our tracks under the Act of Congress of March S 1879 productive power and consumptive capacity depend on tax paying efficiently operated railroads It's time we realize That they have as much right us any individual they serve to make a living" There is glamour in the new wheather it be in transportation or anything else But when it comes to moving goods and valupeople the new carriers able as they are certainly havoben’t made theold stand-b- y solete Trains running on tracks still carry the bulk of the basic freight of the country — the the farm crops the machinery The applications an artlcal on electric power In products of the factories They following utmost the on contro the it touched with it which do State have been filed with the swiftly in all seasons and Engineer to appropriate water verjy between advocates of pub- dependability and the sup- weathers State of lic developement In Sanpete County In And that fact shows the natthe entire porters of public enterprise Utah throughout year unless otherwise desig- this regard it said: “The govern- ion's stake in solvent and prognated all locations being from ment must work with rather ressive railroads The farmer the than against the private compworker the Industrialist the conSLB&M anies to maintain a healthy in- sumer — all Cf them depend in 19788 — A L Fredrickson offFederal In the one fashion or another on the Centerfiefld Ut 25 eec ft for dustry past the pri- rails for markets and Jobs and a well icials have Intimidated irrigation use from a 100 and 500 ft deep at a vately owned utilities stunting high standard of living In the bet field of transportpoint S 1320 ft and W 25 ft their expansion in a number of from ME Cor Sec 3 T20S R1E regions In planning and admin- ation the train stands alone and used from Apr 1 to Oct 15 istering its projects the governto Irrigate 300 acres of land em- ment must take care to let pri- WnO ELECTED Sec vate business know Just wher it IIARRY TRUMAN braced in Nfc NWV4SWV4 3 T20S R1E SVtSEV4 Sec 34 stands and to cooperate with it Ever since the election some In power distribution and otherT19S R1E labor of the more prominent 20033 — August Otten Ster- wise" leaders have been claiming that ling Ut 20 sec ft for domestic That is a very moderate state- the unions elected (Mr Truman use from a well bet 50 and ment of the case Socialized powto them the biggest 200 ft deep at a point N 1072 er (has been urged with a fan- According ft and W 1570 ft from SE Cor atical determination which has single issue was the Act Sec 8 T19S R2E enormous the overlooked totally That will take a good deal of 20088 — Ivan E Nay Center-fiel- cost to the taxpayers which has Ut 022 sec ft for domes- led in some instances to waste- proving to anyone who has made of a cursory examination even n well bet 75 ful and unnecessary duplication tic use from Dewand 125 ft deep at a point N of existing facilities which has the final returns Governor the in industrial ran ey strongly 88978 ft and W 4828 ft from attempted to hide the fact that states where the labor vote is WYe Cor Sec 27 T19S R1E free enterprise largest and carproportionately 20221 — Stanford Madsen American Industry and power Mint! Ut 3 eec ft for Irrigation still supplys most of our elec- ried most of them The Presihand did exother on dent the use from a 124n well bet 200 tricity and which has disreand 800 ft deep at a point N garded the remarkable Job done tremely well In the agricultural labor where organized regions from SW 1388 ft and E 889 by the private utilities In meet- amounts to u small minority of The R3E Cor Sec 8 TIBS ing demand and thus prevent- the population water will be used from Apr 15 ing anything like a serious Arizona provides a most interto Oct 13 as supplementary power shortage esting example Mr Truman supply to irrigate 1280 acres of We will need vast increases in carried it easily Yet at the same land embraced In Eft Sec 31 our power supply In the future time the voters approved a meaR3E WVi WV4 Sec 32 T17S And let no one believe that only sure outlawing the closed shop Sec 5 EW Sec 8 T18S R3E is capable of That the government certainly doesn’t look as If 20224 — Croft Christensen handling it The private indus- the people want labor to hold the 02 aec for Ut ft Mayfield has the greatest expansion the whip hand In government or try use from a in its history In full the people well bet T5 and 200 ft deep at program now By 1937 Its capacity Mr Truman does not owe his a point S 1105 ft and & 1340 swing will be increased by 80 per cent remarkable success to any group from NV Cor Sec 17 T19S The public treasuries will not or any class He wasn’t elected R2E contribute a penny of the cost Protests resisting the granting by capital or agriculture of any but will instead heavy new other segment of the nation lie of any of the foregoing appli- tax revenues fromget the plants and was elected cations with reasons therefor by the American which are being people and he is the President must be in affidavit form with other properties In the light of all this of all built the with filed the people He doesn’t even extra copy and Newsweek’ suggestion that gov- owe allegiance to the Democratic State Engineer 403 State Cap- ernment cooperate with the leaders — most of them desertmujt 1 on Utah Lake itol Salt City industry is Just plain common ed him when they thought his or before January 22 1949 sense cause was lost and he won In Ed II Watson deplte of those unadmlrable STATE ENGINEER NOT A FACT OF GEOGRAPHY fection pub Nov 25 1948 has chance a Truman 6 Harry of San FranThe Argonaut Last pub Dec 23 1948 cisco paid a well deserved trib- to go down In history as on of ute to the railroads when it siad: the great Presidents — as a man torn "Basically we have forgotten In who when the world was this country Just how vital rail between slavery and freedom stood staunchly for the liberties our lives to and is transportation and was too big to living standards We have come of mankind to regard the railroads as a fact admit allegiance to special interests of any kind The whole civilized world hopes that he may measure up to the responsibilities that have fallen upon him He has a chance aow to rise above group prejudice or gfoup selfishness oonnison ualley hews i ' f :r built the ft - 1 t ft lit I I GIFT BUY A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS This 1948 Christmas the family will be one long remembered set their sights on a gift that PLAN FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS If will work for every gift that will last for many years uervant In the home member of tho family — a and be a WE STOCK SUCH A GIFT KELVINATOR REFRIGERATORS t KELVINATOR ELECTRIC STOVES OENDIX WASHERS & IRONERS RADIOS a RADIO PHONOGRAPHS SEE THEM TODAY AND MAKE PLANS FOR CHRISTMAS At GUNNISON THE GUNNISON VALLEY HEWS DELIVERY SuiTII APPLIANCE PHONE 4133 — GUNNISON A very Interesting program to Improve the quality and quantity of medical care was presented by Dr William B Rawls In his inaugural adress at president of the Medical Society cf York Times account some of its dlcative of the positive approach toward medical problems that is being taken by thousands of doctors Dr Rawls said that his program was an answer to the advocate of compulsory health Insurance which he described as ineffectual econom"medically ically unsound politically dang’ erous According to a New Skyllno Gardens TRESII CUT FLOWERS TOR EVERY OCCASION Electrolux Vacuum Cleaners And Air Purifiers PRODUCTS PARTS — SERVICE — ELECTROLUX Agent - General American Life Insurance Co LaVyrlo Larson -T JAY DALLEY Gunnison Yory Times account some of Its main points are: Developement of voluntary health and hospital increased hospital insurance in suburban beds particularly and rural areas development of group practice and the development of a plan for helping the Indigent There are two particularly Important phases to this First of all It is designed to do it through voluntary means — not through compulsion by the government In other words It Is based solidly on the principal that underlies all real progress in this country — free action by free men to get a needed Job done Dr Rawl’s goal is to make voland medical hospital untary care lnsuranse available to everyone In the country The remarkable progress made by the various plans In the field in recent years is proof that it san be done and without putting a political in a position of bureaucracy sweeping power over the practice of medicine COAL MINERS’ JOBS Fortune recently ran an exceptionally interesting item concerning the convention of the United Mine Workers It said: "John L rumbled about more Lewis pay for his miners but what really worried him was 'the fact that coal production was running well ahead of consumption for the first time In seven years Some 60000000 tons were piled " above ground The reasons for large stockpiles of coal are varied One lies In the remarkable performance of the Industry In getting the product out and meeting the heavy demands upon It But the signito Mr ficance of the situation Lewis and anyone else with an is that interest in the industry coal is a fuel which is sold in stiff competition with other fuels — and that the cost of coal will have a direct bearing on the size of future markets That is important at a time when it looks like Mr Lewis plans to make further heavy financial demands on the operators It might be possible for the union to demand and be given wages so high that the price of coal would soar into the stratosphere But the union could not make people buy that coal or prevent them from burning something else So in time there would be less and less employment in the mines and inflated wage scales wpuld be meaningless The average hourly earnings of coal miners approaches $200 The average weekly pay check is around $77 and many miners earn $100 and more No comparable labor force is paid so well that situation alive Keeping should be the miners’ first concern — and it cun only be kept live if a large and growing coal market exists Utah current pieces as a result of the high prices Henry J Taylor commentator radio and author said recently in response to a letter from a bookkeeper “You say that in business profits the dollars today look like dollars but they behave like the pieces How come? bookkeeper wrote like look don’t "Dollars pieces in ledgers of course’’ "Nor do Mr Taylor answered they look like that in printed often are which financial reports big pointed to as indicating ’’ profits Point Overlooked “But in relation to sales the current rate of profit is generally running below prewar — a point often overlooked where do the “Furthermore dollars go? What are they needof the dollars ed for? Over 80 all manufacturers will employ this year go for better tools betbetter products ter research Better Jobs must come from profits reserves and surplus Picture False “Look at any factory you see In many cases the cost of the plant replacements that must be made are seven times the net depreciated book value Much money shown as profit is actually a terrlfis understatement of depreciation required by tax laws Through inflation theis presents a very false profit picture now “An important oil company shows that 57 cents out of every dollar it paid out last year for repairs and replacements went purely and simply to meet higher costs since the war An important model changeover for an automobile for example now costs about four times prewar Washington Snapshots levels” LOOICING AHEAD fr GEORGES I BENSON PrttUttt—MtnHi Criltft fatef Jlrttfui IT PAYS TO FIGIIT loves a fighter Everybody For that reason the popularity of Harry S Truman is running pretty high at this time All the pollsters all the mistled have had their say President Truman was the man who wouldn't be licked Mr Truman apparently the only candidate who really took the opinion polls to heart While the general public was being lulled to sleep by everybody’s opinion as to the outcome of the election Candidate Truman got in their and fought The result was that Mr Truman got voters enough to come to his aid — enough to win Nor will this experience be the end of the pollsters They were probably correct in their reported findings Their samplings were calculated on the basis of some 90 million eligible voters But only about 47 million (little more than half) of these eligible voters went to the polls to vote And not a few of these were fighting for Mr Truman An American Ideal Preferences for candidates in cent the voting on Nov 2 were not the 44444f4444444444t444444 Dollars behave like 50 L sail w If You VJant It Back ft Hurry In Keep your money in the bank where every dollar is available Your funds are upon demand PROTECTED - GUARDED - INSURED UALLEY GUHHISOH Member Federal BAI1K Insurance Corporation Deposit i il same as reported by the poll and living standards to go down What 50 per cent below the present before election takers happened? My guess is this: a level who those of larger percentage gtakes Are m h 1 favored a fighting man went out World trends are toward gov case with the was than vote to ernment management with hi standards of living Step by steo who thought he would win any- - America is being pushed in that k how In other words the opinion direction A few and ’Ji each ourseKesP polls were interpreted by we may cancfitabe — by Mr Truman in such that we a way that helped elect Mr Tru M and lhe c man and by Mr Dewey in a way munlsm lhal follows iL a! that defeated Mr Dewey mlBl und(rstad w The important thing is that facts- More important we must the fighting man won This is an active in preserving the 7? American principal The man damentals of °ur American uaj kc who who works the hardest jje be is favored in the 0ur others gladly fought Our nation success for struggle freedom They pledged forta has been built by heroes sung ancj honor to its preservation 3 and undersung who lived by that “eternal vip price ls rule May I submit that in these lance” Are we willing to figit le critical times it will not be pos- valiantly by every means: for America to keep her form radio press screen isd traditional place as the most conversation — to present favored of lands unless Ameri- - America’s freedoms? If so it lb cans are willing to take up the can keep our freedoms Other fight wise they will pass away a from Greece and Rome It tala G Fight or Die a valiant heart Those who t: Why has America more natare those who fight 1 ional income than any other six 5b nations you can name? Why do more American youth have more E chance to go to high school and I1 college than in all the rest of the te world put together? Why do It American workers have the highest wages in all the world? Here are some of the reasons: we have the right to own property to operate our own businesses U P To Operate Utah Parks V and compete with each other to Announcement was made thb invest capital in industrial tools wqek that the National Prf American n Service and the JJnion Pads wk're Railroad Co have reached in "al lorl'oe ireement on a new ”e twentj jd a J ‘ctallnli t “°r“T' k' 6 tie -- - - eonrtltutton1 gov- - unity twill £“v‘d “loPPOtl for us to double our contract covering the concent ta Z1(m NaU(ml prki National Park and Nod j Canyon Rlm 0 Q Ntto 7 !?: wages and standards ol living as th Fortst we did during the last genera- provides for the operation tlon If we turn to government the concessions at Coder BraT and thus kill our National (Monument management It Incentives we can expect wages (Continued On Page 3) t WPM Ofi! OVER and got Gme&tiC-afo- d NOW! 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