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Show Pare Friday, August 8, 1958 THE UTAH STATESMAN 2 Crazy Math by Kepresentofiw By Rep. William A. Dawson . 50-ye- Sane heads prevailed in the House this week and we voted down a brand new spending scheme that would have added $8 billion to the national debt (repayable by the taxpayers with arifcerts. This $2 billion would then be loaned bade to municipalities to be repaid by the taxpayer (with interest) over a period. The federal government would 'have to pay 3 to 3Vi interest on the $2 billion it borrows. The municipalities would repay with an interest rate of slightly more than 2V:. Thus the taxpayers would have taken an initial loss of $10 million dollars in interest during the first year the program operated. HIGH SOUNDING Like all new spending programs, this bill had a purpose. The loans were to be used by cities and towns to build new sidewialks, jails, libraries or any other project without 'limit. Nobody questions the need for these facilities. But why they should be financed by a federal government stagger-i- n under a. tremendous debt was never explained. All records show that any provident city or town Iras no trouble selling its own bonds at a very favorable interest rate today. The government by in 50-ye- ar CALLING ON their congressman. Rep. H. A. Dixon, are two southern Utah youths, Jan Freeman of Fillmore, left, and Drew Moren (right) of Kanab, who were in the nations capital for the 1958 American Legion Boys Nation activities. They, along with 96 other delegates from 47 states, the District of Columbia' and the Canal Zone, visited the White House, Capitol building and other historic sites in Washington. high-soundin- g Aid for Utah Education farms, farm units are being consolidated and the average farm size has increased 25 acres over the past decade. More than a million farms were dropped from the census roll in the past decade. 2. Declining farm population. Rate of decline nationally is more than one million fanners per year. By Henry Aldous Dixon The bill Congressman Dawson and I have been pushing in the House to obtain for Utahs public schools the revenue from the lands given to them when Utah became a state is expected to be on the House floor shortly. It is estimated that the federal government owes the state more than half a million loans is beckonviting our towns to take out to ing our local communities down the steep slope bankruptcy. ar PARTIAL VICTORY Those of us who worry about embarking on new and untried spending schemes also achieved another partial victory this week. We managed to convince a majority of the House that legislation to gpant a $25,000 per year salary, plus $100,000 per year for a staff, plus an unnamed amount for office Cerspace, phis free postage facilities was dangerous. tainly in recent times no President (who now makes $100,000 per year) has suffered from lade of money after leaving office. SALARY REMAINS The bill as it passed the House still giants $25,000 per year. However, the $100,000 office allowance and other special privileges were de-- . letod. My opposition was based on the Constitution. It certainly does not contemplate nor provide for a The office or new federal office of offices (depending upon the number of could be dangerous. W might find ourselves subsidizing with tax dollars powerful propaganda machines not a part of, nor responsible to, the legislative, executive or judicial branches of our government. This type of office smacks of situations that arise when government officials are deposed in some unstable Latin American countries. It has no place in our form of government. ex-Presid- ent nts ent Review of Washington's Week There has been a persistent trend downward for decades. Reasons are high industrial wages in cities, acres of land. the selling of farms and the 'substitution of machinery WAGES These million acres represent school lands that for manpower. national have been absorbed by Indian reservations, 3. Larger marketings per farm. Since 1950 there Average wages in the United States are now 20 monuments. The and national pasforests and parks h has been a of per cent higher than they were in 1952 while the number the in increase sage of this legislation will permit the State to collect farms having marketings in excess of $10,000 per year cost of living has edged up by less than 9 per cent. this debt by taking over lands valuable for oil shale, and a. similar decrease in farms Labor now gets 71 per. cent of the national income-mo- re marketings having nonmineral of instead minerals waste, coal or other than under Truman and the average factory less than $5,000.. Big scale production per farm is lands. associated with lower per unit production costs. Conpaycheck in June 1958 was $83.10, exceeded only by sequently, as in the broiler industry, the mast efficient December 1956. FARM TRENDS IN BOX ELDER, WEBER HEADLINES farmers will be willing to boost production in spite The Economic Picture: Prosperity Hint Routs I have 'learned some interesting facts concerning of low prices. farm income in Weber and Box Elder counties and 4. Increased capital requirements. The trend Republican Gloom Washington Star, July 27. Imblie trends taking place in agriculture which affect toward enlargement of farms and toward mechanizapressive Farm Output and Rising Steel Production areas. Utah farmers as well as those in other tion both require increased Capitalization. Spur U. S. Economy. Bumper Crop Aids Farm Took; Utahs agricultural income in 1957 was approxi5. Regional shifts in production. For example, Steel Upturn Surprises Trade. Respects for Huge Harvest Lift Equipment Makers Sales and Earnings. mately $157 million. Agriculture comes dose after broiler and egg production has moved from the midmanufacturing income which is second to trade in west toward both the east and west The south has Unexpected Rise in (steel) Orders Cheers Economists total income within the state. The states agricultural become a strong competitor in production of cattle. Grain is Termed Significant. New York Times, 1954 and over million the income jumped $30 figure,. Cotton growing has shifted from the southeast to July 27. in 1958 there will undoubtedly be a healthy improveLEBANON the southwest. ment over the 1957 figure. The 'Princeton Research Service is conducting a 6. Higher yields. Already milk production per 87th out The First Congressional District ranked cow is increasing at the --rate of nearly 150 pounds per poll on approval or disapproval of the Presidents of 435 in total agricultural income when the last comyear, and eggs at ithe rate of 4 per layer per year. action in sending troops to Lebanon at (that countrys 1951. was in published For the average of all crops 1957 yields per acre request. The service said that in 400 interviews, 77 parison Last year Box Elder topped all of the counties in topped 10 years ago by more than one fourth, and per cent approved the Presidents decision, with 18 the state in agricultural income followed by Utah the boom in yields will continue. per cent disapproving and 5 per cent with no opinion. in (third Cache LIVING place. Dividing County and 7. Changing seasonal patents . Some trends County last years income among the counties according to which Evidence of a leveling-of- f in the cost of living may gain momentum are the distributed their estimated share of crop production indicates freshening of dairy cows throughout the year, early was apparent in the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that Box Elder farm income approximated $18,169,-00farrowing of sows, and on farm storage of grains. for June, 1958. In that month the index rose by a Cache County, $13,325,000; and Weber County, The effect is to level out monthJtomonth mere onetenth of one per cent and BLS spokesmen cycles. price $7,885,000. said living costs were practically at a standstill inas8. Vertical integration. This is growing partly as Products contributing to Box Elders farm ina result of the trends already mentioned such as the much as only an identical fractional increase was come in the order of their importance are: cattle and demand for increasing size, capital, managerial ability reported in May. The index historically has tended calves, $4,448,000; wheat, $2,690,000; dairy products, and know-how- . It is hard to know yet how the grow- to decline after June, they noted. The June rise was $2,447,000; poultry products, $1,849,000; sugar beets, ing trend toward vertical integration affects farmers. so slight it did not affect some union escalator clauses $1,457,000; sheep and lambs, $866,000; hay, $471,000; tied to the index. Flood costs remained 9. Increasing population. The U. S. population which. Ore and wool, $373,000. 'the for same the second month in a row and there is climbing at a of 3 million a year. Farm proA breakdown of Weber Countys income reveals duction will soon dip was no increase in the cost of services. Take-homhave to increase at a faster rate than dairy products brought $2,302,000; catlle and calves, at present to meet the 25 percent increase in con- pay of the average factory worker was at an e $2,001,000; poultry and poultry products, $723,000; sumers by 1975. By 1957 there should be a demand record high, $75.55 for a worker with three deand beets, $494,000; $332,000; lambs, sugar sheep for 50 percent more beef, 25 percent more sheep and pendents. hay, $187,000; wheat, $147,000; and wool, $121,000. lambs, 41 percent more hogs, 32 percent more milk, THE UTAH STATESMAN 60 percent more broilers and dhiclrens and 49 percent FARM TRENDS FOR THE FUTURE A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government" more eggs. HARRY B. MILLER, Publisher The technological revolution in agriculture has 10. Smarter farmers. Farmers who make a go H. V. WRIGHT, Editor been so explosive during the past two decades that of it in the future will be those who keep abreast of 421 Church Street Phone EM each farmer must be more alert to new developments new and better ways of farming, of important re- Entered as 2nd Class matter at the Post Office at Balt than ever before. Consequently, I thought you would search, and of the many. factors which determine Lake City, Utah, under the Act o March 3 1879 ' be interested in a summary of trends affecting farmers market prices. Those who fail to keep abreast of Subscription rate $1.00 per year Published weekly at 421 Church Street over the next five to 20 years. These are drawn part- these developments will have rough slewing. I am Salt Lake City, Utah ly from the work the Agricultural Research Service hopeful for Utah because our farmers are progressive National Editorial Association 1958 has done. and we have, an exoddnt extension service and Ag1. Fewer and larger farms. Although the family ricultural University in Logan to help Iteep them Vol. 12; No. 31 farm is holding its own in the proportion of total August fi, 1958 methods. one-fourt- - 0; e aH-tim- 49 in-prov- ed |