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Show I 3 Millard County Chronicle "it Delta, Ut., Thurs., Nov. 4,1948 Keuuloii of Veis Set for Nov. 12 All former members of the 145th Field Artillery, of World War I, will have a reunion at the New-hou-hotel in Salt Dake City on November 12. Members of this or-ganization are urged to attend. Registration can be made at 56 South Main, Salt Dake City, or write to Ed Wayman, the World War I association, 145th FA, Building 95, Fort Douglas, Utah, giving name, address and battery. The Millard County Chronicle Published Every Thursday at Delta, Utah ', By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Owned by Frank S. Beckwith and Frank Beckwith Frank Beckwith Editor Frank S. Beckwith, Business Manager Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 OASIS Mrs. La Veda Bishop Mr. and Mrs. Milan A. Hutchings from Salt Lake City brought their daughter, La Veda Bishop home last Tuesday. Mrs. Bishop has been in Salt Lake City the past two weeks for an operation. Mr. and Mrs. Hutchings visited in Oasis and Delta until Saturday when they left for Sevier county to visit a day or two before going back to Salt Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Max Lovell and 2 children from Lark, Utah, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lovell. Ladd Kelly wound up the pheas-ant season with a broken leg. Late Monday afternoon he was riding on the running board of a car and slipped 'and fell under the back wheel breakimgg his leg. Helen Jean Christensen under-went an appendectomy at the Del-ta hospital Monday evening. The family of David Nichols held a reunion a week ago last Sunday. Mr and Mrs. Glen Brush from Los Altos, California, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Bond and sons, David and Kenneth from Salt Lake, Miss Pearl Nichols from Los Altos, and Gloria Stewart from Salt Lake City attended, as well as the mem bers of the family laving here. Mr. and Mrs. Brush and Pearl stayed and visited for two weeks, leaving last Friday to return to California. Peter A. Peterson, Mrs. Annie Skeem and Mrs. Evelyn Hawley were called to Red Mountain, Cal. by the death of their brother and uncle, Wily Peterson. They left Oasis Saturday, October 23. The funeral was held on Monday. Peter A. Peterson came back by way of Nevada and visited a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Ab-bott and family, arriving home last Thursday. Mrs. Skeem and Mrs. Hawley remained in California and visited until Sunday. Grant Peterson went to Salt Lake last Wednesday, for medical at-tention. His wife, Clare, and sister, Vesta Stanworth, went with him. Mr. and Mrs. Wash Roundy went to Salt Lake a week ago returning home the same day. Leo Day has an extra special gleam in his eyes the last few days. Being the proud papa of a lovely baby girl sets well with him. Mother .and baby are doing fine. Well, our town was visited last Sunday night by spooks and ghosts and worst of all some gas thieves who left just enough gas in one care to get 5 men half way to Clear Lake to work on the rail-road. They had to walk the last 7 or 8 miles missing a half day's work. That makes 2 days' time besides the gas. We don't welcome this sort of visitors. The Primary Hallowe'en party was enjoyed by the children of the ward last Tuesday. Games were the order of the day. Refresh-ments consisting of hamburgers, apples, candy and punch were by the children. Abner Ward and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ward from Salt Lake City, nephews of Mrs. Eva Cahoon, came for the pheasant hunt. Glen and Max Whiting from Og-de- n were guests of their sister and brother, Mr. a nd-Mr- Clarence An-derson for the pheasant hunt. Mrs. Hannah Willoughby has been visiting with her children, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Willoughby and fam-ily for the past ten days. She has been living in Murray and now she is moving to California. Thirl Stanworth from Eayo Vista California, has been up to see his folks in Oaesis and Delta. Mr. a nd Mrs. Duane Stanworth and three children from Mapleton, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Jack Willoughby during the pheasant hunt. i jiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiii 3 I NEW FURNITURE MADE TO ORDER 1 If you have been planning on buying new 1 furniture this fall, it will pay you to drop into I our shop and look over our catalog of furniture I Practically all styles are listed. j The frames are of the finest select kiln- - I dried hardwood and are double dowelled and I glued at every connection. You choose the i style and fabric. We order the frames and 1 within ten days the furniture is in your home i Custom made and guaranteed by us, and at I a savings of more than 20 percent to you. If you have furniture that needs recover- - 1 1 ing, drop into the shop and look over our fine 1 selection of fabrics or phone 1511 and we will 1 give you an estimate at no obligation to you. 1 if the upholstery or the seat covers in I 1 your car are worn or faded, come in and look I over our samples of leatherette and seat cover 1 ''j fabric. We will fit your car seats with covers I cut and sewed to perfectly fit each individual 1 unit. We use twice as much leatherette in these 1 seat covers as is used in factory-mad- e seat 1 covers. And at no extra cost to you. 1 See Gordon Twitchell 1 piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw National Advertising Representative NEWSPAPER AlKvlERTISIXG SERVICE, INC. (on affiliate of tfi. I National Editorial Association) Serving America's Adver.KsertanfJne Home Town Newspapers 188 W. Randolph Chicago I. HI. OFFICES Holbrook Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. 5731 Grond Cantrol Tarmlnal Bldg., New York, N. Y. 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For the fifth time since the war railroads have lasked the Interstate Commerce Commission for increas-es in freight raes. This one is for a 13 increase and, if allowed will bring the increase to $4,100,000, since the war on freight and pass-enger revenue. It is difficult to un-derstand the reasoning of the rail-roads in such a request unless it is in anticipation of further increases in labor and operating costs. If this is true the railroads must assume the responsibility for encouraging such increases land the subsequent stimulus to the inflationary spiral. Agriculture has been openly ac-cused of being responsible for infla-tion because the cost of food is high to the consumer, yet, the facts show conclusively that farm-ers have done a magnificent job of producing a maximum, which is the best possible anti-inflati-formula. As a result of this all-o-abundant production prices to far mers are slipping off, only to be absorbed by increased freight rates, increased handling costs and in-creased profits to the middlemen. Surely the American public is in-telligent enough, and the students of economics are smart enough to understand what is taking place. Here are a few .actual facts to get your teeth into: It takes 6 pounds of wool to make a suit of clothes. This suit could be bought for around $50 last year and will cost you $75 this year. Wool brought the farmer 41.9 cents per pound on September 15,1947 and 46.3 c per pound on the same date this year. Figure it out yourself; 6 lbs at 41.9 equals $2.52, and 6 lbs at 46.3 equals $2.78. First note that the farmer received $2.52 'for the wool which sold as a suit for $50 and that the increase in price to the farmer of 26 cents on the wool this year resulted in a $25 increase in the selling price. Last summer, of the apricots sold, in nearly every instance where shipment of the fruit was necessary, freight companies got Avo to three times more for hand-ling the fruit than the farmer did for his entire year of work. Do you know that under present cost of transportation, handling & distribution it would cost 12 cents a quart to put water through the processes required for milk and place it on the consumers door-step? For the four to six cents that the farmer receives it is often necessary for him to maintain bet-ter conditions for his cattle in his dairy barn than he can provide for his family in his home. Consider also that substantial number of farm products are al-ready considerably lower in price to the farmer than last year. Here are a few of them: Wheat has dropped from $2.43 a bushel to $1.97 a bushel. Other farm products have also dropped; rye, $2.48 to 1.39; Corn 2.40 to 1.78; Rice 2.33 to 2.16; Oats 1.08 to .687; Butterfat .84 to .756; .and eggs, .53 to .514. Meats have remained high be-cause of the tremendous demand. During 1935-3- 9 when we were plag-ued with undisposable "surplus" the number of beef cattle on farms and ranches totaled 41,815,000 head. Average dispoabble consumer income was $535 per person, and the people consmued 126.2 lbs, of meat per person. In 1947 farmers had 53,399,000 head of cattle; .the cash dispoable consumer income was $1,205 and the consumption of meat 155.2 poudns per person. Now back to this freight rate: question: During the first eight months of 1948 estimated net income of the Class I railroads (after interest and rentals was $86,000,000 compared with $53,000,000 in the same period last year. Net operating income of the ClassL carriers for the first six mdnths of 1948 was $421,000,000 as compared with $289,000,000 during the same period last year. On top of this the railroads are asking for an increase in rates which will amount to $1,092,000,000 to cover a raise allowed and ex-pected for railroad workers of $381, 170,000 per year on the 132 major railroads. This boost of pay for workers will result in almost $3 increase in cost of living for each $1 of increased wages. Considering the fact that if farm ers received nothing for their pro-ducts it would make little or no difference in the price consumers would pay, it is about time that tne American public took a good square look at the real reason for inflation and, if they are really against increase in prices, take action to halt this vicious trans-portation handling cost wage in-crease for elss hours and less pro-duction cycle, which if not stop-ped will bring the whole inflated structure down on this nation's head. Farmers are already feeling the pinch. If labor and the rail-roads think they can push these additional costs on to agricvulture they will most certainly hasten the collapse of our inflated economy. In the interest of national wel-fare the Interstate Commerce Commission should most certainly reject the application of the rail-roads for any further increases in freight rates at this time. Paid advertisement by the Millard County Farm Bureau. |
