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Show Show Profit By Use Or Prisoners of War Prisoners of war labor utilized under private agricultural contracts last fall to harvest Utah crops returned re-turned a S54.432 profit to the government. gov-ernment. Major General William E. Shedd, commanding general of the Ninth Service Command, declared today at Ft. Douglas, Utah. During the 1944 harvest season war prisoners performed 19,732 man-days of labor in peach and pear orchards and sugar beet and onion fields within the state. The $54,000 profit derived from PW labor performed in Utah represents rep-resents only a portion of $2,416,510 paid the Treasury Department by private contractors for work performed per-formed in western states agricultural agricul-tural fields and orchards by war prisoners over a six-months period. Harvesting of crops throughout the Ninth Service Conmmand was assisted materially wherever critical criti-cal labor shortages existed by performance per-formance of such labor. Prisoners are employed only in areas where free civilian labor is unavailable, Gen. Shedd emphasized. emphasiz-ed. Labor by prisoners at Utah military mili-tary installations, employed in essential es-sential work in shops, laundries and on the grounds, amounted to an additional 312,807 man-days. The $54,000 profit realized by the government through employment of war prisoners in Utah represents the difference between the 80 cents per day paid each working prisoner prison-er received in canteen coupons and the per day wage employers would have had to pay civilian workers for identical tacks. In order to make such labor a-vailable a-vailable in man-power shortage areas without subsidizing the private pri-vate contractor, the War Department Depart-ment follows the policy of requiring requir-ing private contractors to pay to the Treasury Department the same wage rate per unit of work performed per-formed by war prisoners that would have been paid to free civilian civ-ilian labor for the same amount of work. Most diseases which attack poultry poul-try are not inherited. However, there is one pullorum disease which is transmitted from the mother to the chick through the egg. This disease causes heavy losses during dur-ing the first week of the chick's life and may be controlled by e-liminating e-liminating disease- carrying hens from the breeders. Such carriers are determined by an examination of their blood. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP Statement of ownership of the Millard County Chronicle, published publish-ed weekly at Delta, Utah. State of Utah, County of Millard, ss. Before me, a notary public, appeared ap-peared Frank S. Beckwith, business busin-ess manager of the Millard County Chronicle, who says that the publisher pub-lisher is the Chronicle Publishing Company, editor, Frank A. Beckwith, Beck-with, managing and business editor, edi-tor, Frank S. Beckwith. That the owners are Frank A. Beckwith and Frank S. Beckiwth. That there are no bondholdrers, mortgagors or other security holders. hold-ers. Frank S. Beckwith Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of March, 1945. Frank Beckwith, Notary Public |