Show washington GJON N NS raw 1 9 t ti p I 1 amour OUR congressman R 0 F GRANGER r fwu C coal 1 l ftp yu outlet t t for r the vast onon ol of coal m 1 utah nay y be forth cali eventually to from im the plan of miming ing c 0 secretary ickes to ask conga t r authority to construct a for or hority ot pj for extracting petroleum tu products ird ete from coal secretary ickes In informed furnard the appropriations n C ommittee committee rouse house appa plas av that extensive t v 0 tests h have been made of the extraction process and the results red have P proved d successful ef he in lists that it such a de development velo avoid mt m t is E ea at this tune time to avoid an ex similar to that in the de neri am enee Z ineat of synthetic rubber while the proposed petroleum extraction plant would be constructed at pittsburg there is no doubt but there would be merit in efforts th that t to d develop elop similar plants in other 1 coal I producing areas utah te US is particularly attractive in field in that t it its coal lp supplies Plies this are enormous old im nl na and d in addition atio it has vast t resources es of I 1 low w grade on coal and n iny heavy oil bearl bearing sh shale e such uch a development le ant m utah would id aate serve to duple ent the a gradually dealy diminish ing supplies of oil secretary detary ickes pointed out that at ne new discoveries of natural to petroleum reserves in the united butted stat states last year were only sl 17 9 oer cent of the depletion of such waves one hundred tons of high grade gade b bituminous t binom coal should yield about 13 gallons of gasoline and two iko hoo hundred diled tons of lignite or low grade coal should yield about plon gallons to HE no OPA Bumb lings of opposition to the office of price Admina administration in litah and elsewhere in the nation ir ire g to the point that 2 UK organization is threatened with marial disintegration whatever LE is tilt the final gutc outcome ome tine original PUT pur p poe for which the OPA was organ id will have to be ii preserved arvad the nation cannot afford f f ord now OT or any broo during amu the war or immediate ty 4 thereafter to relax it its fight a ruinous maims inflation sore some members of corar congress s are talking about breaking u up the pros ent art organization bud and scattering its functions among various agencies they feel that OPA has attained the cdx paradoxical l P position timi of 1 being both arbitrary and vacillating 1 huting in short it lacks a definite policy and this in has proved disastrous in an attempt to in fix prime prices all the way up and down the line so that the smallest number of people will be injured abigt resignations mi of 0 ao aa policy makers have occurred others will follow whatever is in the find out come I 1 it is hoped that the basic principles of OPA will be main hauled mauled ined a definite policy will bem be established in I 1 dished and that OPA field workers k will be instructed I 1 to caa carry out OIL that policy to the letter at the mo me me ment I 1 t the conclusion is that the pub lie ile is a entirely willing to cooperate with th the OPA but that its agents g ente in many instances ins tannes have demonstrated dern 0 nitrated the dictatorial u attitude wind of refusing to return that cooperation i farmers paying debts i to governor government ot secretary of agriculture stated that the farm credit adius batem latem reports report that 20 land bank loans wre were paid in full before the altur an maturity tur t y date during the first quarter of this year this MS was as dou ble the number of such payments dorm during g the same months in 1942 eighty eight y five per cent of a so called high risk loans learn had been repaid on time and enough payments have been made to bring the repayments up to 91 per cent of the total amount m t due caus calls for workers for peak season food C canning unless an extra extraordinarily ord m ar 1 effective t ry job m is done tins this year i in recruiting t new workers in the food canning and processing industry and in maintaining the nucleus of exper fenced workers accustomed to work ing in each local car cannery mery I 1 some crops tom will go to waste and the supply I 1 ol 01 y of earned canned and processed foods will become tigh tighter er therefore an urgent ale plea is being made for youths housewives mechanics and others who are oth edvise occupied during he test rest of the year to register with their local U S employment service of fice or them their county agricultural ex tension agent to assist in this z es sent ial industry the preservation of food is as important as the pro and certainly the need for all out production of food is now apparent to everyone most arable land before the war russia had more arable land than any other oth er |