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Show IRATE CASE HEARING SET FOR FEB. 17 SALT LAKE. An. 19. The e-xse m Which the Sale L ike Commercial .club Is opposing rate changes which would Increase materially rates On shipments i f commodities to rjt&h from the south will bo heard by the interstate commerce com-merce commission at Salt lako on POb. IT. according to a notification rc- ch ed yesterday. Tho carriers published the changes hi ruling which would have re-ulteu in what traffic- men say would prove ) i rious disturbance to Inbound class rates from Texas, Oklahoma and Other Oth-er southern points oi origin. Immediately Immed-iately upon publication the Commercial Com-mercial club, through the Traffic Scr- lco Bureau of L"tah. filed 'a protest .ind the change was ordered suspend-id suspend-id until Ihe. hearing can be held. W. S. McCarthy, vice president of the traffic bureau, said yesterday that an effort will be mode to secure Si I'ostponment until II. W: I'rickelt of tho bureau, now in Washington pearing before tho commerce mom- mission, ran return. Mi Prlckott is representing Utah and seven other i western states in the general rato hearings before the- commission. oo |