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Show F" i twm, ii, , i , .,. . BAND CONCERT . . . Everybody Every-body loves a band and I am no exception. Not long ago I had the pleasure of hearing the Army Field band play back here in Washington and I was so impressed im-pressed .by the skill of the musicians mu-sicians that I asked Major Chester Ches-ter E. Whiting, the conductor, if there was any chance of the band playing in Utah. GOOD NEWS . . . This week I received an answer. The 100 piece band is going on tour and four separate concerts have been scheduled in Utah during July. The band will play in Logan, Ogden, Salt Lake City and Provo. The concert will be free to everyone. So keep an eye on your newspapers news-papers for the time and date. It's a band that can't be beat. WEBER APPROPRIATION . . . The Senate Appropriations Committee Com-mittee this week added an additional addi-tional $1,900,000 on to the $6,-000,000 $6,-000,000 previously approved by the House for the continued construction construc-tion of the Weber Basin Project. The Senate Committee agreed to a sizeable increase in the appropriation appro-priation for conducting land surveys sur-veys already approved by the House. These surveys are needed in order that Utah schools can obtain ob-tain land given them by Congress years ago. Lack of accurate surveys sur-veys also is causing confusion and dissention among prospectors filing fil-ing claims in Utah's uranium areas. SELLING SURPLUS . . . Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is hard at work back here tryin gto cut down the size of the surpluses the Government now has in storage as a direct result of high rigid supports written into the law by previous Congresses. His department de-partment has worked" out a cooperative co-operative agreement with Spain. Surplus wheat, now owned by United States taxpayers, will be offered to Spanish importers. The importers will pay for the wheat in Spanish pesetas which the Government Gov-ernment will use to help pay for the cost of defense bases now being built by us there. This not only helps build Spain's economy, but it means that the United States taxpayer gets his money back on the wheat purchased in addition to saving storage charges. OTHER SALES . . . Other avenues ave-nues are being used to dispose of surpluses. During the first quarter quar-ter of the current year, $110,400,-000 $110,400,-000 worth of surplus holdings were sold to commercial buyers. Another Anoth-er $13,900,000 were disposed of through international barter exchanges, ex-changes, $13,100,000 was sold to foreign governments relief societies socie-ties and other-non-commercial outlets out-lets and $62,000,000 was used by the school lunch program and federal fed-eral donations for state relief programs. pro-grams. RIGHT ATTITUDE . . . Secretary Secre-tary of Treasury George Humph- rey deserves the support of all taxpayers. tax-payers. In testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee he did not ask the Senators to replace re-place funds trimmed by the House fro mthe Treasury's budget. He said: "We prefer to accept the challenge of finding better ways of doing things which the budget cuts impose." |