Show THE 12 1949 AUGUST FRIDAY EVENING OGDIN (UTAH) MB STANDARD-EXA- 3A I 1948 Boom Year Credited To 'Nest Egg' Spending Charlea Molony WASHINGTON Aug 12 AP— It now appears that one reason why IMS was such a boom year was that the nation's families by and large spent part of their nest eggs For all the record high marks It made in income and profits and employment 1948 was just a "rainy day" for half the families who had saved against its coming That at least is what they told the people who made a sample survey for the federal reserve board to see how people were faring By long-awaite- d ''Emergencies and sickness" were named by that many people as a cause for their having less in gov- ernment bonds and bank accounts in early 1949 than they had in ear- ly 1948 It wasn't the only reason Near- of ly half — including vast numbers those who cited sickness and emer- gencies— said they've blown some savings on a car the television set some furniture or something of" that sort A third of all families put down the deflation of their savings hoards to spending on goods and services-- plain "living costs" in some cases 'Luxuries and Trawl' A sixth gave repairs or additions to their houses as their reason while a seventh said the record showed that "luxuries and travel" had burned a hole in their pockets In any case the "median" bond and bank account savings was down to $300 in early 1949 from non-durab- le Timber Menace early 1S48 (Median means middle sized— half were above ana half were below) some The tendency to spend savings extended to all occupational groups Judging these groups by their median amount it appeared that: Government bond and bank account savings of business owners and managers dropped from $1400 in early 1948 to $1300 in early 1949 Clerks and Salesmen For professional people — Doctors lawyers etc — the fall was from $1350 to $1100 for farmer operators from $500 to $490: for clerks and salesmen from $500 to $400 for skilled and workers from $250 to' $200 Although total holdings of gov ernment bonds went up the proportion of American families with an investment in these bonds went It has down the survey said dropped to 45 in each 100 now from 60 in each 100 soon after the war ended f $320 in semi-skill- tsas tn Bonds Banks Color Film May Aid Fight Upon g ed Crushers to Help County on Roads BRiGHAM CITY Aug 12 — To speed up maintenance and construction of Box Elder county 'a approximate 1700 miles of roads and highways aside from state road commissioners today had purchased and received a $18000 portable rock crusher The crusher will be use immediately The pressed into machine is mounted on pneumatic tires which allows it to be readily moved from one gravel pit to another it was explained WASHINGTON Aug 12 AP)— The air force has promised to take color pictures of the Spokane area to help in a fight against an' unidentified threat to timber la the Pacific northwest Senator Cain said today Ponderosa pine regarded as one of the finest types of timber trees has been attacked by some type of defoliator the senator said Some other species' of trees and shrubbery have also suffered he added The city and county of Spokane each has agreed to put $3000 and the state has matched this amount making $20000 available for investigations and a control campaign An essential requirement is color pictures of the area Senator Cain said He added he had conferred with Defense Secretary Johnson and General Hoyt Vandenberg of the air force and quoted them as saying that an air force photo unit will be assigned to the Job The source of the trouble has not been established It may be an insect Cain said or a fungus or pollution of the atmosphere The color pictures will show a brown coloring on affected trees Cain said and thus indicate the extent of the trouble area as well as its definite location Trees in commercial timber stands as well as some in parks and on residential properties have been affected h) Stork Calls at Cooley Hospital vui imuunnin Pink Blue ' 'Parity' Trend WASHINGTON Aug Last month's level Is the lowest product tends to move more or since December 1941 Officials ex-- I less independently dajtBRatag pect prices to fall below the parity meparodlt?have been selling point by late fall if present crop much less than parity for production prospects are borne out po- Not all individual farm commodi-- i months particularly the gramscotton ties-ha-ve followed the pattern of i tatoes dairy products eggs These proauns nave ' the general farm price level Each and oilseeds been bringing less than the so- - I I I i 12 CAP)— called fair level largely because tt available tn oversupplv Others-m- eat animals in partial-fo- r i tat iliavi keen htteaflna much mora than parity and more than theiflHH era! farm price level They in ine main are- - proaucis imcn are ' still short of demand tfat£ I : let CplMV MOTHS RUIN YOUR GRASS DO NT The price advantage fanners have enjoyed since late 194 1 may turn into a disadvantage within a few months So predicted agriculture department economists today as they eyed prospective bumper crops to be harvested in the fall and a sharply increasing supply of porka due to hit butcher shops in month or so These seasonally increasing supfarm products are expectplies of ed to- - pull down prices of many products The department has a standard This for measuring farm prices standard is called "parity" When prces are at the level of this standard they are deemed to be equally fair to the farmer and those who buy his products A July price survey showed the farm price level to be 2 per cent above this parity or "fair standard" That meant that on the basis of this measuring system farmers had a slight advantage over users of his products In the decade bef re the war the consumer had" all the better of it Farm prices averaged below parity — in fact djuvn to 50 per cent of parity in 1933 The war with its increased Jemand for food pulled farm prices upward In December 1941 the farmers' long disadvantage turned ' into a slight advantage Month by month the farmers' favorable position grew and grew until price ceil ings brought a halt But removal eoa TK they toy tnfo lown hatch fr v ii'o 4 -v fhSlB1sMSS Aey Get rd j- the '1 cf your " mil r-- I f f 1 L iPffSflMwrtlflfllllliW 1S Sox treat 730 tq ft 5 ' M Broadcast PEST CONTROL also IIMMb ft $4tS from the es seats ft gets rid of nrtft and 0rf fsst Mj w 6'i wwwva 25c PER ONLY and skunks tV'mli DAY WW- Hot them such THE BUDGET PLAN WAY revs tvtwt at a n r- - te Onl feed on atffteatS A 1st 220 & No mixing or harmful to grasj pe'i ' b-- Js ' HEATING T— NaSW Street Net tproyg JL J KiALLREDm PUIJWBING pelage ' '"" iuc vug otrtns were reported toSguowing Cooley Memorial hosday from pital here: Ernest and Jeanae Marble Anderson Salt Lake City ton fa to 20 S105-- 12 of price controls after the war permitted further increases By October 194 farmers' reached a record peak of 33pmes per cent above the parity leveL Then as postwar world shortages began to disappear farm prices started downward Bumper Yield May Reverse Au-gu- st 3 Charles Henry and Joyce Holmes Johnson Brigbam City ton August it-Lars and Clea Christensen Buist Brigham City daughter August 5 Stephen and Ethel Buth Myers Zundel Willard son August Robert and Phyllis Brockbank Morgan Willard daughter August 6 Shirley and Doris Ann Johnson Bishop Kaysville daughter Ausi 'ti gust 0 ):$ aaaie aimer nunausr! 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