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Show oo BUTTER BILL B SEN. CRAIG OP WEBER Salt Lake. Jan. 29 Anticipation of legislation in Utah requiring that there be 16 ounces of butter in every "pound" package sold has resulted in the decision or one of the largest butter distributors in the state to order or-der hundreds of thousands of labels of new design for packages that will each contain a full pound. This in formation was given to the senate committee on state afrairs vesterday by Willard Hansen, Jr., state food and dairy commissioner and ex- officio sealer of weights and measures. The question of butter packages was discussed dis-cussed before the committee by Mr Hansen. Deputy C. E. Condie and T L Irvine, city sealer of weights ana measures. Mr Hansen told the committee that the present butter packages In Utah had cost the people of the state hundreds of thousands of dollars and Mr Irvine said that he had after (areful and thorough investigation compiled figures to show that the citizens of Salt Lake alone paid for $3,0uo worth of butter every year that they did not receive. In explaining the provisions of the bill Introduced by Senator William rralK of Weber, Mr Hansen said that it wa.i the model adopted bv the gov-ernment gov-ernment and alreadj enacted In fourteen four-teen states, and that Utah was one of the only two states In the union that stood for 15-OUnce pounds." He assured as-sured the committee that then- would he no opportunity for butter dealers to raise prices, because they were to be compelled to give full "weight to the consumer, giving as his reason that they wore selling full-weight pounds In Wyoming and Idaho, and the butter market was definitely regulated regu-lated by the Elgin market through competition. "I have been connected with and familiar with the dairy business all my life, and I know positively that the enforcement of this law cannot affect af-fect the price, but it will give every, body a "square deal. " said Mr Han-sen. Han-sen. "Some of the largest creameries n the state have alreadv 'seen the light, and only today Mr. Jensen informed in-formed me that he had decided to pack full-weight pounds and had ordered or-dered many thousands or new labels all of which will be marked B ounces The creamery people are anticipating an-ticipating this legislation The... are only two states now that permit the sailings 14 or 15 ounces for TEnSf Utah ha been severely criticized bv government officials In that matter and the butter men realise that the Ume for making hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars from short packages has passed. It is not fair, either to permit one firm to mark its pound packages 14 ounces awl sell it -t 40 1 cents a pound, while another mark-' its packages 15 ounces and another $ . m may s II an honest pound and get the ; same 4(t cents." oo |
