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Show Local Stores Continue Half Holiday Until WMC Clarifies Stand Although considerable attention i has been given to the criticism dlr- ect d tt the plan pf businefs firms; throughout the state during the! past week by the War Manpower Commission, local stores wer? closed Wedneday afternoon in accordance' with a program anonune'ed recent-j ly under w hich the stores would j clofe each Wednesday afternoon during the summer months. I After the WMC had crltlcis d the closing program through the press; of the state, local merchant met to i consider the mutt r, but since no' direct contact had been made with' the government ag ncy they decid-j ed to proceed with their closing plan until the matter is clarified by th WMC. Merchants of Price met with the Commission after the crit:cism was announc d, and were readily granted grant-ed permission to continue the half holiday, therefore local merchants fe 1 that Fimilar permission would be granted here. Only en: local store has received any dir.ct infomation cn the matter. mat-ter. Ray Nickolls, manager of the Safeway store, having received word late W dnesday from his district office that it would be absolutely-necessary absolutely-necessary for .the Cedar City store, b cause of its affiliation with the Safeway chain, to discontinue the half dioliday. The J. C. Penney i store may come under th-; same 1 regulations, but no orders have yet been received by C. J. Beasley, man ager. l |