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Show WASHINGTON N&ws rP- MA ' FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER REA Project Approved for Uiah The Rural Electrification Administration Ad-ministration has approved an allotment or. $213,000 to toe Gar-ikane Gar-ikane Power Association, Inc. to build and acquire 205 miles of line to serve 727 members m Garfield, Wayne, Sevier and Piute Pi-ute Counties; and $140,000 for the construction of a generating plant. Combatant Ship Progress The Navy Department issued a summary a? building progress of combatant ships during the i.'irst ten months of 1941, showing show-ing 25 combatant ships commissioned, commis-sioned, 34 launched, and keels for 115 laid. Labor Force Reduced WPA Comtmlissioner Hunter reported there were 3,900,000 unemployed in midj-October 600,000 less than during September. Sep-tember. Mr. Hunter also said for tihe September-October period per-iod employment declined 200,-000 200,-000 because of a total reduction of 800,000 in the nation's labor force during the same period. He said the labor force dropped dropp-ed from 54,300,000 in.' mid-September to 53,500,000 in mid-October, employed persons from 49,800,000 to 49,600,000 and unemployed un-employed frorn 4,500,000 to 3,-P00.000. 3,-P00.000. Decline in the size of the labor force from September Septem-ber to October was confined almost solely to tihe rural counties, coun-ties, Mr. Hunter said, and reflected re-flected seasonal contraction in agricultural conditions with adverse crop conditions in some areas. LeT'd-Lease Commodities Ube Agricultural Department announced tihe . Commodity Credit Cre-dit Corporation made available 'for Lend-Lease operations during dur-ing the week ended November 8, 5.000 tales of cotton and 1,-455,000 1,-455,000 bushels of corn. Macrnesium The Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture reported magnesium, one of the "secondary" elements vital vi-tal to plant growth, is now being be-ing recovered from sea water as a by-product in tihe manufacture manu-facture of salt and is being fused by farmers to replace imagnesrium fertilizers formerly former-ly imported from Germany. Manufacturers in the vicinity of San Fra1 .".cisco are using sea water to produce magnesium .oxide for ierliiizers, the Department De-partment said. Others at Free-t-ort, Texas, and at Lake Charles. Char-les. Louisiana, are using sea Ci- to manufacture magnesium magnes-ium meal for defense industries. Tl-. Priorities On Small Ferrr. Structures Ihe Department oi' Agriculture Agricul-ture announced farmers do not peed to secure priorities for -mall i.'arm structures which do not use critical materials. "There is jo priority control on lumber, concrete, stone, brick and glass and about 70 per cent as many nails as in 1940 are available. Farm structures us- i ing ti.vese materials alone are not affected by the recent hous-: jr.g order,' tihe Department said. Income Payments at Record High The Commerce Department announced income payments to individuals in the United States continued to grow diuring Sep- j tember to a total of $8,099,000,-' 0C0, despite relative stability of j idustrial 'production. The index in-dex of income payments ad-1 vanced 2.1 points iTrami 134.8 in August to 136.9 in September. The Department said income paid out to individuals in September Sep-tember represented an annual rate of $92 billiomi, highest on record, including the actual aggregates ag-gregates o: $75.7 billion and $82.4 ibillion for the pealk years ol 1940 and 1929, respectively. Income payments during the first nine ,months of 1941 aggregated aggre-gated $64,332 million, an increase in-crease of 17 per cent over the $54,998 million paid out during 'tihe same period of 1940. This increase was attriubtable mainly main-ly to a 21 per cent increase in ialaries and wages centered largely in the commodity-pro-diucing industries, -where output out-put has expanded rapidly in the defense effort, the Department said. CAA Funds Requested President Roosevelt asked I Congress to appropriate $58,160-725 $58,160-725 chiefly for development of airport facilities by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. "The expansion of tihe air forces forc-es of tihe Army and Navy . creates cre-ates a. need for additional' airports air-ports 'iOr tactical units, strategic strate-gic purposes, and training for grOiUinii troops," , the President said. Ac-ricultura1. Exports Up The Department of '.Agriculture '.Agricul-ture estimated the 1941 production produc-tion cl corn at 2,675,373,000 bushels", an increase of 50,000,-"00 50,000,-"00 over last month's estimate and the highest in nine years. Conditions on November 1 indicated in-dicated an average yield of 31.1 .bushels an acre, compared witJh PP.3 bushels last year and a 23.5 average for the past ten years, the Department said. Except for a 31.7 hushel an acre yield in 1906, the Department Depart-ment said, tihe prospective yield is the Ihighest in 75 years. |