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Show Defense Industries Needed In Rural Areas of America Centralization of all defense industries in-dustries In the centers of population together with the retarding of peace-one industry is having a disastrous affect upon rural America, Amer-ica, and unless administrative authorities hi Washington find a way to help the outlining area, preierably by a wider distribution of tne uualler defense Industrie.;, rural areas face a dreary futur;, not only for the duration but durin-j the adjustment period after the war. There Is no better example of this situation than right here in southern south-ern Utah and hi Cedar City. In spite of the fact that Utah lias received re-ceived a generous share of the defense de-fense industry -- developments already al-ready completed, or proposed the southern part of the state has received nothing, except the appio-ltaiiun appio-ltaiiun for airport development t Leant City. It is true that his par of the state should profit to some extent as the result of these in-uuuics, in-uuuics, because the iron ore for the steel plants at Provo must come from Iron county, and regardless of where the alunite processing plant is located the alunite must come from the deposits at Marysvale. However, unless the state and national na-tional administrations recognUe the lact that the southern boundry oi Utah is not between Sprlngville and Provo, and put forth a real ef-lort ef-lort to bring some of the benefits hum the deiense efforts to this part of the state, development in southern south-ern Utah will be set back many years, and tne people generally will tui.tr heavy loss. With the restrictions already placed on the automobile Industry and Uie elicit this lias had on relabel re-label bus.ncased, many families have already been furced to leave Ccuur cuy, bccuuoe the heads of uieu ldinnics can fmd employment employ-ment only m thic&ly populated centers. cen-ters. ine location of the proposed ar-u. ar-u. noop.iui in Cedar City would do i..ucu iu itiiu.e the situation he.c, t-ui, n tins is imposiUie, sun.j suuie way can be luuiu by the gov-eiinnent gov-eiinnent to establisli some sort of deiense uidusiry hi this part of the state to avoid an exodus to the norm which would have a disastrous disas-trous cliect on rural communities, and darken the future of the people wno have struggled to build up this pun oi uie great state of Utah. |