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Show Mi IProduction, Wages the Utah mp u VoL The 11, No. 5 Salt report of the Utah 23 per cent, while the number of Economic and Business Review, a homes built dropped 17 per cent. Other elements of weakness monthly publication of the University of Utah, said More in the 1956 economy, the Review Utahns produced more goods and noted, were a 15 per cent drop services, earned more wages and in new car sales and a slight one salaries and spent more money per cent slump in agriculture income. than ever before. Devoted to Weekly r Reported At Record Level c? ament N City, Utah The publication goes on to say that Utah, experienced its most prosperous year in history during 1956, and that employment climbed 3.4 per cent. Some 274,000 Utahns earned $1,344,000,000 in the 12 months. This was ah increase of 8.6 per cent from $1,238,000,000 in 1955. The average per capita income was $1,645 per man, woman and a 5.9 per cent Increase. child Friday, Febnary 8, 1957 Air Safety Is More Important Dixon Sponsors Than NavalLandMonopoly Bill ToLiquidate It isnt land space but air space which Farm Surpluses is the crucial issue being year-en-d ... Indications are that Utah to grow in both refining and the production of crude petroleum since discoveries of new oil fields in Utahs Paradox Valley assures increased production in the future, the Review said. About 140 wells have been drilled during the year, with some 40 per cent producing oil or natural gas. Production of steel also climbed 2 per cent over 1955, despite a midsummer labor dispute at Geneva in July. Total steel production was only 60,000 tons below the peak production in 1953. Most farm products ended the year at crop levels above 1955, the publication said, but Utah approached, but did not duplicate the national crop production which equaled the e records of 1948 and 1955. Despite a tight money market, bank loans, time deposits, shares and savings, U.S. savings bonds sales, bank debits and tax collec tions showed increases during will-contin- ue Greatest, gains in production studied by both Utah Senators and Representatives. A recent A bill which would for provide in during collision in southern California brought death un- a research program to find new smelter the yearof were noted tragic mid-ai- r zinc and output lead, children at play in this uses and markets for crops is be- silver which climbed nearly 33 expectedly to the innocent bystanders ing pushed by Congressman H. A. per cent over the previous year. instance. Dixon (R., Utah) as one solution Copper production climbed 11 per Nation-widas well as in Utah, safety of public transpor- to the oversupply of farm prod- cent. For nonferrous metals as a tation is an important matter bigger than government itself; bigger ucts. whole, the 1956 production did not than private enterprise; bigger than of any and The bill, supported by the mem- reach the previous peaks of 1952 all kinds. The public you and your friends have never com- ber of the research subcommittee and 1953, the publication noted. of the House Committee on Agripromised safety. An airlines code of operation lists safety as State tax collections skyrockculture, would give the Departthe first consideration. No roadblocks should be established in ment eted million of Agriculture $50 by almost 20 per cent .durthe air by permissive action. the for expanding 'research programs ing year. Construction, measured in additional Even the National Safety Foundation as well as the Airlines for fiscal 1958, with building permits, climbed Pilots Association (AFL) advises against the granting of a bomb- funds thereafter. 1956. Part of the proposed money to in an area anyone ing range by public airways. would go to find a cheaper tan- Writer Hints Teachers Total bank debits for Ogden and Salt Lake City hit a new With all of the open West, it would seem both Illogical and in ning process for leather and new high of $6.2 billion 12 per cent bad taste for the Navy to pursue its efforts to establish uses for leather which would help than 1955. raise cattle prices. Should Put In 8 Hours higher a range right in the thick of Utahs highway of the air. collections for the year toTax price of inedible And we are puzzled but good! Congressman William A. Recently themore million a 20 per cent taled $67.6 than doubled Is it generally known that teachbeen Dawson wires and writes from Washington, D.C. that the Navy fats has 1955. over increase the new uses discovered ers are conforming to command is embarrased and annoyed by the lobbying from by Crude oil deliveries to Utah through research by the Departworking hours which sel- refineries increased 11 should per cent. officers on the hill in Utah. Every consideration has been ex- ment of Agriculture, which dom measure up to an eight-hou- r climbed electric Net power to output Utah the tended these lobbists. The time has come to politely advise them be of special interest job? And who suffers? Principals 8 cent. say the young boy or girl suffers per that the elected legislators will speak for the people of Utah now livestock industry. comnew Research in from the lack of personal counfinding Retail sales increased in greater that all of the facts have been sifted. mercial uses for sugar and wool selling and, the result has been a proportion in Utah than across the Utah has no quarrel with the Navy nor with their officers are also contemplated. sharp increase "in 'drop-out- s nation ($889 million for the year) active or reserve even though they persist in replaying the Under the provisions of the bill, high school students. and established a new state recHome-wor- k same record again and again. On the other hand, we should the' Secretary of Agriculture is almost an out- ord. Wholesale sales, on the other to custom too seldom a re- hand, did not increase as much as and have would dated grant business-likfor e the diplomatic, authority be grateful approach' of the many reto in funds fast the college growing dis- across the nation-jump- ing agricultural quirement only 5 agencies within the state who are unified in their objections to search centers, make various types tricts. But all of these most im- per cent, compared to the nations b granting the Navy a jet, range in an area already of laboratory and field studies and portant facts grow from seeds 8 per cent. over crowded by high mountains, restricted land, and by present employ research specialists. planted earlier in the school lives Department store sales were up, of traffic of the military and airlines. teachers, principals and studay air but the bottom dropped out of dents. Senate support of , the bill No. new car and truck sales. On the 65 will end the d and permit action on other im- Sugar Beet Acreage The best treatment which can other hand, used car sales jumped be given the number one problem 2 ; per cent. portant business. today is to circulate considered Allotment Increased ofopinions of educators who do not Construction across Utah hit a high. It climbed from Congressman H. A. Dixon (R., necessarily hold high official po- new e but school sitions the in system million in 1955 to $140 mil$113 announced today that Utah) on contact do children who your lion in 1956. A large percentage Utahs sugar beet acreage allotthe firing line Monday through of this came from construction of ment has been increased to U. acres for 1957. This is an in- Friday, only nine months a year. a new anhydrous ammonia plant and expansions at Geneva Steel crease of 3,561 acres over the 1956 Heres food for thought-practic- e of and allotment 30,614. by parents legislators. near Provo. Pres. David O. McKay of the ucation, as a regent or trustee e, self-interes- criss-cross- ts all-tim- ed ill-advis- ed school-on-the-jo- b toss-bom- , Barlow-Fowles-Hammo- nd merry-go-roun- . all-tim- Pres. David 0. McKay Will Speak At ofU Founder's Day Banquet 34,-17- 5 . Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- at the U., Utah State Agricultural Saints will deliver the prin- College and Brigham Young and as superintendent of cipal address and dedicatory prayer at the annual University of the LDS Church Sunday School Utah Founders Day banquet on system, the educational arm of Feb. 28. the Church. The banquet, scheduled for the Appointed to the Council of the new U of U Union, also will mark Twelve in 1906, he served as ,a the formal dedication of the $2.5 counselor in the First Presidency million structure which opened from 1934 to 1950, as president of on New YearS Day. the Council from 1950 to 1951 and Marvin J. Bertoch, banquet as President of the Church since chairman, and J. Grant Iverson, 1951. president of the U. Alumni Assn., During a recent tour of the new said they expected the largest Union, Pres. McKay said the crowds in history to attend the building was a monument to the combined banquet and dedication Universitys plan to integrate soservice. cial education with academic adPres. McKay is a U. graduate vancement. He termed the build receiving a normal degree in 1897 ing among the finest in the naand starring on the schools first tion, if not the very finest. A recent personal project underfootball team. All the members of his immediate family have been taken by the venerated Church educated at the U and one son, official is the proposed construcDr. Llewelyn R. McKay, is chair- tion of a memorial theatre on man of the schools language de- the U campus. A bill to authorize construction of the structure will partment. of an introduced soon in the State be arat&i supporter Long higher education, Pre.. McKay Legislature. In the light of President Me holds four honorary degrees in addition to his baccaloureate degree Kays deep interest in the Univerfrom the U. He has served as sity and the part he has played principal of Weber College, com' in its prograss, we could not have missioner of Church schools, mem- - found a better Founders Day ber of the Church board of ed-- J speaker, Mr. Iverson said. y Uni-evrsit- y Mrs. Re?d H. Richards, seated, visits Utah's senators following her designation as "U.S. Lady of the Year." With Mrs. Richards are her husband and her family of seven adopted children. Seated, left to right, Mari, 3; Sen. Wallace F. Bennett; Mrs. Richards; Lt. Col. Richards; Sen. Arthur V. Watkins; Fawn, 5; Back row, Kerry Lynne, 12; Larry, 10; Lee George, 13; Barry, 10; Kerry, 1 0. Lt. Col. and Mrs. Richards are natives of Salt Lake City, but are now living in North Carolina, where Col. Richards is stationed. |