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Show f iCt CMS SfcfctALS Serials Orders Dept. ... University of tytah - sLcutah iin.if WilWmwimppityl. .i,. iiiuiwji.jjiii i WESTERN AMERICANA 8HU2 mmmmmmmmmmmmm ViLv-:- i ' VOLUME 1, NUMBER 37 re Supreme Court Decisions See Details Page 9 Salt Lake City. The property will be furnished with storm and sewer lines, streets, curb and gutter, underground power and telephone lines and street lighting. Total cost to prepare the section for industrial occupancy will be approximately $1.5 million. Over four miles of railroad track will be provided for the area. Track construction will commence as weather permits. Mr. Godfrey estimates that investment in buildings for the first phase will exceed $25 million. Weber Industrial Park West industrial site in west A 270-acOgden will be developed to augment the present Weber Industrial Park. The property is being acquired peby Ogden city over a riod for a maximum cost of $849,-70An initial payment of $100,000 is being financed with federal revenue sharing funds. The land, being sold by Ogden Industrial Properties West, Inc. and Ogden Industrial Properties East, Inc., is expected to accommodate industiral expansion in the Greater Ogden area predicted by 1980. The triangular property is bounded on the east by Hooper Road, on the west by 4 and on the north by the Stratford's Corner Road. The new park will be developed and marketed by the Weber Industrial Development Bureau, under the direction of Nathan H. Mazer. re 10-ye- ar 0. U-8- Corporate Stmcture Responsible - System Provides Customers Top Service - - :" , -i st st e, ar find it." U.'iiHw jji " v- - ..- -v - MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1974 A Utah equipment manufacturer is having trouble meeting a growing number of orders. The company wants to locate a complimentary firm to do additional press work for them, in order to accommodate expanding business. A cookware manufacturer in Utah must send all the way to the east coast to import phenolic handles for its products. Besides incurring greater expense, erratic delivery times often interrupt the production timetable. Capabilities Study Solutions for both of these problems could possibly be provided by a Capabilities Study recently completed by the Center for Business Research and Economic Training at Weber State College. "The Capabilities Study was initiated In response to several requests for better information concerning the manufacturing processes existing in the State," said Dr. Dale S. Cawgill, Dean of the School of Technology, Weber State College. Info On Existing Capabilities The study has a two-fol- d purpose. One is to supply information on the capabilities of existing industries in the State. This information is not merely in terms of the products manufactured; it defines the actual manufacturing processes, the equipment used, the physical facilities of the plant, and the availability of component parts or technical services to outside firms. This data is In This Issue: Hill referred to an independent Mountain Bell Public Relations study conducted by the Touche-Ros- s Manager Kenneth O. Hill said yesAccounting firm at the request of terday the Bell System's corporate Communications Comstructure is responsible for provid- the Federal mission, which showed that Westing its Utah customers with the ern Electric prices are only 72 perworld's finest telephone service at cent of the average lowest prices of reasonable prices. outside suppliers. That's 28 perHill said if the Justice Departcent lower than other telephone ment's anti-trusuit is successful manufacturers. in breaking up AT&T, higher tele- equipment He said if Western Electric is phone rates and poorer service will separated from AT&T, telephone result would seek higher He said telephone customers have equipment prices increasing received cost savings because of the market levels, thereby serto cost the telephone provide close relationship between the manvice. ufacturing, research and operating Commenting on the anti-truunits of the Bell System. the Wall Street Journal wrote: A coast to coast suit, "AT&T is indeed a monopoly. phone call, which cost $2220 in But it is a heavily regulated mono1915 now costs only 70 cents on much as Congress inweekends if you dial yourself. And, poly, pretty tended it to be when it wrote the while the Consumer Price Index Communications Act of 1934. has risen over 73 percent since "Out of all this we arrive at one 1958, residence telephone rates in Where is the problem Utah have increased less than three questiion: that justifies risking possible dampepercent over the same age to the efficiency of a vital part riod. of the U.S. infrastructure; damage At Issue in the suit is AT&T's to the investments of innumerable single ownership of Western Elecsmall investors and pension fund tric Manufacturing Company, the beneficiaries; possible damage to an Long Lines company which handles research and developinterstate long distance calls, and important ment enterprise? If there is a prob23 operating companies such as lem that justifies all this we can't Mountain Bell. 16-ye- m li.M. ij.ii.ij,ffiMijiw Utah's Manufacturing Capabilities Studied Bell three-minut- ihiiii SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH New Industrial Parks Vital To Future of State 157-ac- 1,111 ' - The establishment of industrial parks play a vital role in the economic development of Utah., According to the National Industrial Zoning Committee, an industrial park is a "tract of land, the control and administration of which 'are vested in a single body, suitable for industrial use because of location, topography, proper zoning, availability of utilities and accessibility to transporation." These ' improved parks are noted for their attention to landscaping, architecture and environmental quality. Currently, Utah has 32 such industrial parks, accommodating about 430 firms and employing approximately 13,400 persons. Upland's Centennial Park A portion of 1600 acres held by Upland Industrial, a subsidiary of Union Pacific Corp., was dedicated as the initial phase of the Upland Industries' Centennial Industrial Park. According to John W. Godfrey, Upland Industrials president, the subdivision is part of 317 acres which the company has annexed to jwwtay ..p.iiji.iB 11.1m Legals Suits Divorces Births Bankruptcies Business Telephones New Corporations Water Service Supreme Court Decisions Third District Court Trust Deeds Warranty Deeds Quit Claim Deeds Liens Bankruptcy Sales Uniform Commercial Code Filings 2 3 4 5 6 6 6 ; . . 8 9 12 12 12 13 13 13 ,..13 Boise Cascade to Add Plant Boise Cascade Corp. has announced construction of a $3.5 g million plant on a site in the West Jordan Industrial park. According to Orion H. Wood, assistant general manager for the company's Western Housing, the new facility will have the capacity of turning out 700 houses a year in five years. Production will start in the fall of house-buildin- 25-ac- re Division-Manufactur- ed not available from any other source. names of individual firms remain confidential, a client is given a list Purchases The secondary purpose of the of potential businesses which he study is to investigate the extent might contact. Most Processes In Utah that manufactured products or Almost every manufacturing promanufacturing processes, equipment cess studied is to be found within or facilities utilized by Utah firms are purchased from sources outside .the State. Of 25 processes or services indicated as purchased out of of the State. Where significant destate, only seven are not presently ficiencies are noted, efforts could performed by Utah companies. be made to attach supportive inThese services are precious metal dustries to fill gaps. vacuum g 600 Firms Contacted deposition, blending stainsand, 600 molding hard sawing goods Approximately manufacturers were contacted by less steel, casting glass, porcelain coating steel, aluminum diffusion a mail survey or personal interview. discs Among the Standard Industrial coating and fabricating for press brakes. Classifications studied were OrdRaw materials in the form of nance and Accessories, semifinished products (not natural Wooden Buildings and Strucresources) are the items most fre-tural Members, Furniture and Fixquently purchased from out of state. tures, Chemicals and Allied ProIn some instances, component parts ducts, Rubber and Miscellaneous are imported because of availability Plastics, Primary Metals Industries, or lower cost. Virtually no services Fabricated Metal Products, Machinare purchased outside of Utah. Electrical ery (except electrical), It flnnpflra that mnst Titan mann. Machinery and Equipment, Translatiurers are unenieu lowara as-portation Equipment, Professional and Scientific Instruments, and sembline comDonent carts and shipping them rather than operating Sporting and Athletic Goods. factories. Data Computerized Information Exchange Urged Findings were catalogued oh comAccording to Dr. Cowgill, Utah puter cards and programmed so companies should be encouraged to that answers may be quickly forthexchange information about their about on specific capabilities. Persons desiring such inquiries coming information should contact Dr. manufacturing processes, capabilities, and the availability of these Cowgill or the Utah Industrial Proservices within the State. While motion Division. Out-of-Sta- te sand-castin- 12-fo- Pre-fabri-cat-ed self-contain- ed , Sweet News For The Consumer John Adams once said that sugar was "an essential ingredient in American independence," because of the colonists' opposition to the sugar acts imposed by the British government. Adams would have felt right at home today, in view of the revolutionary sentiments expressed by bakers, housewives and other consumers faced with a five-fol- d rise in sugar prices within a single year. However, those troubles may be declining, since the recent speculative bubble now shows signs of bursting. Spot raw sugar prices peaked at 64 cents a pound in late November, compared with 11 cents a year ago and 20 cents last spring. But within two weeks of decline the peak, a as the market price fell by the two-cedaily limit day after led to a drop in the soon This day. wholesale price of grocery sugar a drop which may soon show up at The neighborhood supermarkets. as came about easing development stratospheric prices attracted larger supplies into the market ac-curr- ed nt - Legislative Distortions The 1974 price upsurge reflected the uncertainties caused by the U.S. attempt to deregulate an industry which had been highly regulated for decades in practically all coiin-tries of the world. By rigid controls over supply, the U.S. government Initially, the factory will employ but will build to a .under the Sugar Act of 1937 had work force of 200. 100 persons - tried to protect domestic producers and consumers from volatile fluctuations in world sugar prices, albeit by maintaining domestic prices somewhat above world market levels. This legislation represented effort of a typical the depression era. But the U.S. sugar program was not at all unique; industrial countries generally have produced most (if not all) of their consumption requirements under protected conditions. About 35 percent of the world's sugar is produced in Europe (including the Soviet Union), and production shares amount to 28 percent for Latin America and 25 percent for Asia and Africa, but the U.S. accounts for less than 8 percent of price-stabilizati- on the total. The U.S. moves out of the speculative atmosphere of 1974 and in the direction of a free market, the record-hig- h prices of sugar and products should depress consumption considerably. By some estimates, cutbacks in sugar usage by housewives, confeck bakers and tioners, makers could mean a reduction in purchases. Per capita consumption could fall well below the recent level of 100 pounds but that should still be enough for the average sweet tooth, considering that this amount is about ten times the per capita consumption of John Adams' time. William Burke sugar-contain- ed soft-drin- nt r 1975. ot ( n. -- ' |