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Show M , From where I sit ... &t Joe Marsh JfL If You Can't CWW Lick 'em-Join 'em Just back from visiting with my From where I sit, getting along daughter's family and playing with children is like getting along Grandpop to two of the cutest with grownups it requires an kids you ever saw. While there I effort to see things from the other picked up a couple of new ideas person's point of view. At any on child raising: age, there's no accounting for If your child's learning to use tastes. Take my neighbor who 8 pen, provide an old fountain keeps a parakeet and drinks hot pen -filled with bluing. Looks cofree in the summertime. That and writes like ink, but won't seems strange to me ... a man stain clothes or furniture. who's partial to hound dogs and a ar i , v i i cooling glass of beer. But I'd be Maybe you have a boy, like my ,, , ., ar , , ..-i . , . childish to say it was wrong, grandson, who thinks he s too ' old for a bib but isn't. A big s cowboy bandana works just as s'OC iaJJ? well, and looks he-man to boot. ( Copyright, 1955, United States Brewers Foundation Z U F E IT AUTO REPAIRS Front End Alignment Complete Automotive Service Expert Body and Fender Repair and Painting HAND and POWER Lawn Mowers Sharpened and Repaired FREE PICKUP and DELIVERY 109 East 1st N. Phone 624 Am. Fork Buy your Milk from ADAMS DAIRY Home Delivery Three Days Each Week Richer and Fresher Milk for the Entire Family Phone 5352 How Siferay Stands on Mill Prices o Milk is of major importance to the whole State of But you may ask what if the price Utah. Some 2,000 dairy farmers who produce grade A of milk is "fixed" a penny or so too high? market milk - including all that Safeway sells - are Aj af aIsQ inted Qut tQ mik Smd Com. vitally interested in the prices they receive for their if ke of miJk b -n stors fixed milk. The 757 000 consumers of Utah are just as vitally oQe ceQt tQQ h; h . cQst interested in the price of milk for there is no substitute k of Utah almost $450 000 a almost half - particularly in a child s diet. a mimon doUars For the past eight weeks (during the first "milk pricing truce" requested by Governor Lee) a committee AND WHAT IF MILK IS SOLD TOO appointed by the Utah Legislative Council has been CHEAPLY BELOW COST? studying milk costs and prices. On June 17 the Milk Study Committee presented its conclusions to the coun- xhis too can cost Utahn's money, cil. One of the major conclusions was that the sale of For this reason it is Safewas policy never to use milk in paper cartons for less than 20-cents a quart ml,k OJ Q ,oss ,eader Safeway will meet its competi- should be prohibited. Safeway cannot, in good con- tors prices but has neyer and never win sell science, allow this conclusion to go unchallenged. milk below cost tQ attract customers. i Safeway sells milk as a business to make money j SAFEWAY BELIEVES MILK SHOULD BE on it. As proof, Safeway presented its profit figures to l AVAILABLE TO YOU AT THE LOWEST the Milk Study Committee. In 1954 Lucerne Milk Com- POSSIBLE PRICE. THAT'S WHY SAFE- P?? 5 Uts? :f if S to. Saewa made a et ffit o way ccnc Mil if ONI I v COD 'TACU $137,326 26.11 on its investment while Safeway, WAY SELLS MILK ONLY FOR CASH- selling to its customers, made a gross profit of $124,223. , AND-CARRY." (for fjrst 20 weeks in 1955 Lucerne made a profit v of $52,575.08, and Safeway continued to make its As Safeway testified before the committee; you pay normal profit in milk.) cash for milk at Safeway and carry it home yourself , you save the cost of credit accounts and expensive AND SAFEWAY BELIEVES THAT TO home-deliveries. INSURE A GOOD, STEADY SUPPLY OF MILK, DAIRY FARMERS MUST HAVE ; Safeway believes you are entitled to get this saving fMR p AND THOSE FAIR PRICES you earn it. ' MUST BE CONSTANT. That's why, Safeway presented all its cost figures 1 to Utah's Milk Study Committee to show the com- That's why, it is Safewas policy (a policy Safeway mittee that Safeway could sell 3.8 butterfat milk for has never violated) to pay top market prices for milk j less than the going price and would be able to sell it plus a bonus for quality. for still less in the future ... and can sell a not-so-rich Safeway believes that this is in the public interest J milk (one that just meets state butterfat content require- because when the price farmers get for milk is protected, ments) for an even lower price. bottlers and retailers cannot pass the costs of competi- Despite these facts, the Milk Study Committee has, tiye PricinS back to the fmer. in effect, attempted to force a "price fixing" agreement Safeway presented witnesses to the Milk Study ' among milk bottlers and retailers. One council member Committee witnesses who testified from exper- stated the committee was "just more or less pegging" ience that where the price paid farmers for milk is the price of milk out of stores at 20 cents. Such a pegged protected, price wars do not occur. 1 or fixed price if continued would prevent Safeway However the Milk Study Committee made no ' and other efficient organizations from passing their recommendation to protect the price dairy farmers get savings on to you. for milk. Safeway Works Daily With and For Thousands of Utahns 885 Safeway Utah employees received $3,541,876.37 in wages and salaries in 1954. 171 Utahns own 16,863 shares of stock in Safeway Stores. Safeway purchased the following Utah products in 1954. Purchases , Total Purchases for Resale or Purchase for Resale or Use Outside of Utah Use in Utah of Utah Products Livestock and Meat Products $ 4,854,630.02 $ 1,929,904.66 $ 6,784,534.68 Poultry 422,564.00 68,042.80 490,606.80 Fruit (fresh, canned, frozen) 509,262.00 376,855.80 880,117.80 Vegetables (fresh and canned) 1,333,817.00 1,398,813.00 2,732,630.00 Fruit and Vegetable Juices 73,637.00 42,698.00 116,335.00 Dairy Products 1,652,945.09 1,050,907.46 2,703,852.55 - Eggs 620,198.00 245,709.00 865,907.00 Sugar(beet) 712,302.40 474,151.20 1,186,453.60 Bread and Sweet Goods '. 721,389.00 312,954.00 1,034,343.00 Flour 522,943,00 1,482,043.00 2,004,986.00 Other Products 1,714,718.8 482,081.11 2,196,799.19 TOTALS $13,138,405.59 $ 7,858,160.03 $20,996,565.62 WHY SAFEWAY IS PUBLISHING THIS STATEMENT Safeway was born in neighboring Idaho. We have a big stake in Utah and a citizen's concern for Utah's well-being. We believe we have a responsibility to the public, our employees, suppliers, and stockholders to publish the record of our testimony to the Milk Study Committee. Watch for these reports in this newspaper. LOANS AUTO FURNITURE 0 SIGNATURE Geneva Finance American Fork miz: -,-T'-:::7 DRY CLEANING and LAUNDRY Save With CASH and CARRY DELUXE CLEANERS 59 South Main Pleasant Grove Phone 6911 1 ENJOY fr fee! Serve cheese for snacks, ,. ..--W i sandwiches, main ST" -v dishes, desserts, f ' - "'j A &' J and appetizersA , . ' " -W , ' IP j JTAH MILK FOUNDATION L, . .. -.t,- ,wJ |