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Show Speedy Construction Of Glen Canyon Road Urged The Kanab-GleCanyon road should be completed with all possible haste and should not be held up while other routes to the damsite ar studied. Utahs Governor-elec- t George D. Clyde took this stand in Salt Lake City Thursday. The U.S. Bureau of Public Roads has designated the Kanab route on the primary system and the road should be built before are supply routes to the dam-sit- e n A Weekly Newspaper De Good Governmev Salt Lake City. Ut Vol. 10. No. 47 established in other directions, Mr. Clyde said. ILr fcllo The governor-elec- t declared a route proposed through Bryce Canyon to the damsite should not be built in place of the Kanab route. i Speed Essential not depreciating the feasibility of the Bryce Canyon road. My only interest is to get going on a road to the damsite so that business can supply mateUtah ready pounds of turkey per capita commercial production of turkeys mean about $20,000,000 in new rials for the dam. If we dont during 1956. There will be 3 oven-ready million pounds con- wealth annually to the people of hurry, we will lose out on a great sumed within the state, and about Utah. opportunity, said Mr. Clyde. half of this total poundage will be enjoyed during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. The other half will be consumed during the other holidays and regular days during the year. Easter has become the third biggest turkey day of the year. Need, for a state library was 6. A full 100 per cent of Utahs ray described by two speakers from The officials held out one 1956 turkey crop is being procalso did not see of they Utah hope State College Agricultural essed and prepared oven-read- y addressing the Womens Legisla- much chance of the administra(eviscerated). This is a complete tive Council Thursday at the State tion asking Congress for more realization of the present national taxes. Capitol. trend toward evisceration. Officials said that, to have a tax At present we have no legis7. The evisceration of Utahs lative reference service to pro- reduction of any consequence, it turkeys takes place largely in the vide research material for legis- would be necessary orto have a $4 billion evis- latures and no state library to budget surplus of $3 seven government-inspecte- d a but declared there is year, they ceration plants in Utah. These provide information for state dea no of such prospect surplus as plants, located in Ogden (2), Salt partments or citizens, said Prof. conSituation as the present Lake City, Moroni, American Milton Abrams, USAC librarian. long tinues. Prof. Abrams is former chairFork, Nephi, and Salina, employ a unique processing method that man of the legislative committee One official declared that, 'with eliminates practically all. .pin- of the Utah Library Assn, which new government feathers. Consumers this year will has drafted a bill to provide a to find well be would it spending, merely have to stuff and truss the state library program. This pro- ways to cut outlays in a number bird prior to the actual roasting. posed library, he said, less urgent sectors. should be a strong independent of 8. The Utah Turkey Federation agency. points to the fact that much of A board to adminthe success of Utahs booming tur- ister the proposed state, library key sales has been because of off- program would include five memseason promotions. Carefully co- bers at large, including two from ordinated with the advertising rural sections, and a representaprogram of the National Turkey tive each from the State HistoriFederatkm, these promotions have cal Society, secretary of state made housewives, chefs, cafeteria office, the department of public A top Washington, Nov. 30 managers and other commercial instruction and law library, said official said the food: handlers turkey conscious Mr. Abrams. Monday Treasury administration will ask for seasons. Full outside the holiday likely Such an organization, he said, rates excise another extension of 50 of all turkey consumed in would qualify Utah to receive Utah Will be enjoyed during sea- considerable federal financial as- scheduled to drop next April. sons other than Thanksgiving, sistance for its library program. Under present law, tax rates on Christmas and New Years. The Dr. Joseph A. Geddes, professor autos, tobacco and liquor will turkey industry is one of the first emeritus at USAC, ' described drop automatically April 1 unless agricultural groups to use "self needs for establishing regional li- Congress acts to extend the preshelp" in developing markets. This brary services throughout the ent rates. increased the per capita consump- state. for the tion of turkey by 35 For the past several years ConBookmobiles would be logical nation in the first six years of means for circulating library gress has extended the higher such promotional enterprise. rates on these products each year. books in some areas, he said. The likelihood of another exten9. Utah is important as a tursion was stated by Dan T. Smith, key egg and poultry producing top tax assistant to George Hummillion State. In 1956 about 2 phrey, secretary of treasury. turkey eggs were produced commercially in Utah. Some 90 of these were set and the balance shipped to producers. At 30c per egg, Utah hatcheries A brought an additional wealth of I am The year 1956 Will see Utah turkey growers send a $15,000,000 crop of turkeys to market. With nearly 90 of these birds being shipped to markets outside the state, Utah has become the heaviest turkey export state in the nation. These figures indicate the popularity and national demand for high quality Utah turkey. 2. Utah stands nationally as the seventh ranking state for production of turkeys in number. Poundage-Utah ranks even Higher, wise, since the average weight of Utah turkeys per bird is greater than those raised in most other leading turkey producing states. 3. For 1956 Utah has produced million turkeys nearly 2 This would include a total of 2,322,000 heavy breeds, mostly of the large Broad Breasted Bronze variety. The 395,000 light breeds are made up from small Beltsville Whites, Jersey Buffs, an,dRpyal P.alrrs, Utah turkeys are processed .and made in the following sizes: 5 0 lbs. for mature toms; lbs. lbs. for mature hens, and As in all modfor the ern industries, turkey producers offer the housewife a complete line for selection. This years turkeys will range from 4 to 30 a size for every family. lbs. 4. The present Utah turkey crop is about 2 per cent less in number of birds .than last years crop. A sharp cut of 47 per cent was made in light breeds and an increase of 14 per cent was made id heavy breeds. This jump in heavy breeds creates the largest turkey crop in history, pound-WisThere will be an y record, of 41 million pounds processed in the state this year compared with 37 million pounds for 1955. 1. . oven-read- y 10-1- 16-3- 4-- 9 fryer-roaster- s. ... e. all-tim- e oven-read- oven-read- y 5. In keeping With the national average, Utahns will have eaten approximately 4.5 or more oven- - The annual election of officers for the Salt Lake County Republican Club will be held Dec. 12 at the Blind Center, 3rd East and 1st South at 8 p.m. There will be a program and light refreshments. All members and their partners are invited to attend. This will also act as a Victory celebration of the Republican Party. Present officers to be released are: O. Rex Sutton, president: Roy Glazier, first vice president: Wayne Eldridge, second vice president; Frank Russell, treasurer, and Ken B. Price, secretary. Be sure to attend so that the new officers will be elected by a majority of the members. could be built later. If the route is pushed now, it means the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads will have to redesignate U&. Highway 89 to the damsite. We have no time to lose on this type of planning, he continued." Scouts Delay Gov.-eleClyde said he could not understand why some contracts on the Kanab-Gle- n Canyon road had not already been let. It is my understanding," he said, that federal matching funds for some of the road work is available. This being the case, we should get busy and get the initial contracts. The governor-elec- t also hit at the Utah Road Commissions plan' ning and designing of interstate highways. He said the commission was behind in its work on interstate planning, that federal money is available for Utah roads but that Ve arent ready to use it. ct Need For State Tax Cut Prospects Dim Librarys Cited With New World Tension preiiureson state -- nine-memb- er Extension Of Excise Taxes Predicted Booklets Available Election of Officers , SLC Republican Club He said the Bryce Canyon road On How To Obtain out-of-sta- te Increase In Price Of Patent, Copyright Tires Forcast For 57 have ideas of the birds Many people they were hatched in wish Utah in grown to others want works patent; Utah. of art copyrighted, and many seek 10. The Utah Turkey Show was to register their trademarks. originated in 1948i The main purTo assist the public in accomposes of the show were to help these objects the U. S. bring about' better breeding of plishing Department of Commerce, meaWype turkeys and to make its Patent Office, has preUtahns more conscious of the tur- through $750,000. About 50 -- key industry which has rapidly become one of Utahs important sources of agricultural income. That first show, and subsequent shows, accomplished these goals to a great extent. However, UTF directors feel greater emphasis must still be encouraged to impress the citizens of the state with the just significance' of the turkey industry. Breeding, hatching, and pared booklets that are helpful in understanding the basic requirements for obtaining, a patent, copyright, or trademark. Ask the Salt Lake City Field Office of the Commerce Department, located at 222 South West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, or your nearest Chamber of Commerce how you may obtain these booklets. Slower Road Program Urged He suggested slowing down on the new highway-buildinproon and and off river gram holding harbor projects and various public works until slack times. g He declared that the law passed by Congress this year authorizing a $27 billion interstate highway -- building program should be revised to provide for more flexibility in carrying out the program. This would, not mean, .the source said, that the program would not be completed in the 13 to 15 years contemplated now. rt should be possible, however, he said, to speed up construction in slack times and taper it off in boom periods. Under the program as authorized, he said, the government will be going ahead full speed on a mammoth program at a time when most other areas of the economy are bidding for labor and materials. He comment-mente- d that this is not good ecoroad-buildin- g nomics. U. S. Steel Pays $1,900,000 In Property Tax Officials of United States Steel Corporation delivered checks for property taxes totaling more than $1,900,000 to county treasurers in four Utah counties today. Utah County, home of the Columbia-Genev- a Steel Divisions Geneva Works, the Keigley limestone quarries, and the new Utah pipe mill of the Consolidated Western Steel Division, received payments over $1,200,000. F. Ray Friedley, assistant comptroller of Columbia-GenevSteel Divithe checks to sion, presented Utah County Treasurer Maurice A slight increase in prices of auto tires and most other rubber products was forecast for 1957 recently by H E. Humphreys, Jr., president of United States Rubber Co. Bird. An overall upward trend in proChecks totaling over $128,000 duction costs has been given add- were delivered to the treasurers ed impetus by the Suez Canal of Carbon and Emery Counties shutdown, Humphrey said. W. M. Daniels, general superby Our prices are running be- visor of coal mines and quarries We would like accounting. hind, he said. to see higher prices in 1957." In Iron County, Carlos Taylor, this he will general supervisor of accounting said, Earnings year, be the same or a bit below" the for the Columbia Iron Mining companys 1955 profit of $5.25 a Company, delivered a check for share. more than $590,000. a ( |