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Show I Mayor is to Head I Committee to Control I Bistritoaifion of Coal Pursuant to Instructions from ihe gpovt mor s ofricc. Mayor T. Samuel BrowninR today took steps townrcMhe organization of a civir. committee which shall have control of the coal supply in Osdrn and1 pas? upon requests re-quests for fuel. The committee will be selected at a meetinq to be held at the Weber e 1 ub tonight. This committee will be clothed with extraordinary powers to meet the present crisis due to Lhe dwindling m-ply m-ply of coal in Mqden and vlcinlt It is very likelj that even orders for coal front households will be scrutinized scrut-inized and passed upon by this com-I (nlttee before i' will be delivered i Whether certain industries in Og- den will be fnreed to close is -aid to dept Dd upon the supply of coal which i Immediately available here, Coal will be distributed under the priorities -chedule, railroads and the army and navy coming first and retailers last Schools Supplied. Supt. Karl Hopkins of the Ogden public school system -aid today the schools seemed to be fairly well supplied sup-plied Even in the event of a strins ent curtailment in the supplies he thought the schools could continue in days. Fred G. Taylor, manager of the Amalgamated sucar company, said the company needed about 15,000 tons of coal to complete the campaign, The company was hopeful, he said, tha: the wants would be supplied in view of lhe importance of supplying the nation! with sugar. JYord came from Chicago that the packing plants of the west weir to be considered as essential industries and receive fuel to lusure operation. It was estimated today that if railroads rail-roads will icqnire about 90 pei ceni of ihe 2i"'i ears of coal produced daily in Utah The Wyoming output is materially ma-terially curtailed by reason of the strikes in many camps This mean.-that mean.-that the daily supply of coal 10 be doled cut in the state is to be very small YY. H Che vers, general agent of the Cmon Pacific, who has been Instructed to nrrange for drastic coal curtailment, departs for northern Utah cities this afternoon to urge economy in the use Icf-coal. |