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Show Price increase restarts baling wire release Production of vital baling wire for Utah is under way again. This is a happy ending to a classic example of how price controls can hurt more than help a situation," a Utah farm leader commented REC0RD--field record for rate of penetration was established last week by this diamond bit manufactured by Williams Bit Company of Greenville, Tex. Inspecting the bit after the run completion are, left to right, Ray Hansel, Rocky Mountain manager for Williams; Delmar Hade, Gulf Oil Company drilling foreman; Mike Bethune, Williams field engineer, and Leonard Schiller, tool pusher for Noble Drilling Company. The bit completed 2,355 feet of hole, at a rate of nine feet per hour. PRODUCTION Penetration record set by Gulf with Williams bit A record for the most economical diamond bit run in the Uintah Basin, for runs in excess of 2,000 feet, was established last week when Gulf Oil Company's Evans-Ut- out at bottomed e 12,905 feet. The record ws established under the supervision of Delmar Hade, drilling foreman for Gulf Oil and Leonard Scheller, tool pusher for Noble Drilling. diaThe bit, a Williams 202V mond, produced a run of 2,355 feet in 262.5 rotating hours, resulting in a penetration rate of just under 9 feet per hour for the entire interval. This produced a savings of some 18 in footage cost over any other diamond bit run in excess of 2,000 feet in the Uintah Basin, representatives of the bit company stated. Ray Hansel, Rocky Mountain manager for Williams Diamond Bits, pointed out that the economics of diamond drilling involves the cost of the bit, plus the cost of the drilling rig to produce the required amount of drilled footage. He added, Diamond bit runs in excess of 2,000 feet of hole will be a common occurrance in some sections of the field. However, the true evaluation of these runs will be in the combined footage and the rate of penetration." The Gulf well is adjacent to State Highway 87, northwest of Sand Wash reservoir. Sp Jay R. Pope in army re-enli- sts Specialist Four Jay R. P.ope, 23, son of Arza Pope, I a point and Mrs. Marie Greenland, Salt Lake, reenlisted for four years in the regular army while assigned to Ft. Carson, Colo. He is a mechanic in service battery of the 20th Field Artillery's 2nd Battalion. His wife, Alta, resides in Roosevelt. today. When the Cost of Living Council froze baling wire prices last fall and held them there for months, the manufacturers couldn't make a profit producing it, so they stopped," explained Elmo Hamilton, president of the Utah Farm Bureau. The Council granted an increase in late January after refusing two earlier requests from the factories for price advances. But it was only 18 percent-sti- ll below the point where producers' profits would match what they could make on other products. However, upon urgent requests from Utah's Congressional delegation, the Council reconsidered this month and granted a higher increase to the Colorado plant that supplies Utah farmers with almost all their baling wire. Smaller factories around the nation which fall below a dollar volume limit set by the Cost of Living Council are producing wire with no price ceiling. Utah's source is the only large factory given the higher price limit Hamilton praised Senators Wallace Bennett and Frank Moss and Congressmen Gunn McKay and Wayne Owens for their successful efforts on behalf of Utah agriculture. Farmers and ranchers in Utah who bale their hay with wire were facing a real crisis this spring, Hamilton said. depending They had alternatives-most- ly on the use of neighbors' equipment. But when hay is ready for cutting, it loses nutritional value quickly, and thats just when the neighbor would need his own. equipment CF&I Steel Corporation of Pueblo, Colorado has manufactured almost all of the baling wire for Utah in recent years. With the granting of the new price producincrease, they went into tion, 7 days a week. The first wire will be shipped to Texas and Arizona, where the hay season is earlier. They tell us, though, that Utah may get as much as 90 percent of the baling wire we had last year," Hamilton revealed. And since 1973 was a very good year for hay," he added, this supply may get us by. He cautioned, though, that the wire may get to farmers a little late for their first crop, especially in Southern Utah, because of the time it takes to distribute it after manufacture. He also pointed out that Utah will have to compete with other Western states for the lower than normal supply of baling wire. Consumers will definitely benefit from 24-ho- 13 STANDARD TRIDELL NEWS FROM: Mrs. IjOrna McKee . . . 247-317- 7 MBsaBBonaa e Mr. and Mrs. Ray Natani are the parents of a baby girl born January 21 in the Duchesne County hospital The baby weighed 8 lbs and 4 oz and will answer to the name of Brandy. Merlin and Duane McKee and Eddie Miller made a trip to Logan Friday. Jerry Goodrich hurt his foot Thursday night while playing basketball in Vernal He will have to stay off it for approximately a month. Mr. and Mrs. Ray llxslem were in Provo Saturday where they attended sessions at the Temple. s Bishop and Mrs. Errol Merkley and two children were recent visitors in Salt Lake City. They visited at the Stewart Sanders home. s Mr. and Mrs. Merlin McKee are the parents of a baby girl born Jan. 28 at the Duchsne County hospital. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hall of Malta, Ida.; Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Loren McKee. The baby was blessed and named Melinda in Fast and Testimony meeting Sunday. J. L. Kitchen celebrated his 85th birthday Friday, Feb. 8. Friends and relatives called on him to wish him a Happy Birthday. Howard Merrell who is a student at this move, the farm leader explained. He pointed out that if part of the hay crop had been lost through lack of handling equipment, hay would have gone up in price, causing a rise in meat and milk prices. The very act of holding down baling wire prices would actually have caused an increase in food prices, he said. This is nearly always the case with politically defeat their inspired price controls-the- y own purpose." Any action that disrupts the normal a supply and demand cycle-whetprice control, a production control, a boycott, a truck strike or other articificial influence-usual- ly reduces supply, increases price, or both, said Hamilton. the weekend at home with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. 1 Hall, Malta, Ida., are visting at the Merlin McKee's. They came to see their granddaughter. Mr. Hall returned to Idaho and Mrs. Hall remained to help at the McKee home for another week. The Tridell M. Men team won their game Wednesday night in Vernal where they defeated Vernal 6th with a score of HYU spent 55-44- employed by Loren McKee, e Christa Ross left January 25, for a months vacaition in Meat, Ariz.. with the Val Ross family and the Ray Buckwalter family in Las Vegas. Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Murell and Mr. and Mrs. DeVon McKee returned Tuesday night from a two week vacation to the Southwest. They visited in Las Vegas, Nev.; Phoenix and Mesa, Ariz.; Long Beach, Pamona and Death Valley, Calif. They also spent one day in Mexicali Old Mexico. . Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Goodrich and family are visiting relatives in Salt Lake for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas McKee left Friday morning for Casper, Wyo., where they will visit the Vernon Davis family. Mr. and Mrs. Loren McKee accompa nied the Van Tassell's to the Provo Temple Wednesday. 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Visitors in the studio since their grand opening, have registered in the prize drawing, and Kathy was announced the winner. "It's the first thing I ever won," she added. J SIZE. I WINS February 14. 1974 |