Show washington NS N 5 IT I 1 FROM OUR congressman W K GRANGER first dehydration plant the dehydration committee composed of war and agriculture department officials recently approved an application to build a dehydration plant st at alt utah mr C J String hain has been in washington to assist in th proper presentation of the application was acted upon with such speed as tOj tol indicate the urgent need for immediate action on such plants as biell 11 ll as expressing complete confidence in n the ultimate success of such an unde undertaking the first es estimate of the cost of plant has been se ai bijou ni XU exclusive of dehydration equipment which is to be supplied by a los angeles concern and the entire project is being privately financed which is one of the prini primary afy requirements for approval of theme the iff plants it is necessary that the sponsors jf such plants obtain the approval of the dehydration committee inasmuch LS is strategic materials are essential in this the cons construction ruction and contracts for the tha arn ducts are made with the war department since al that this plant can produce vall be used tor for the present ny the war department for shipment co the bos overseas and for lend lea lease ac to our allies the first crop to be dehydrated in new naw plant will be potatoes but i 1 is contemplated that if cabbage beets beet s and carrots can be produced in sufficient quantities in the area they too toj might be included at a later date this is the firt fiert commercial project to enter the uintah basin in the nations all out war var effort rationing an employer who temporarily hires workmen for work periods of less than 30 days may obtain rationed foods need 1 ed to feed them by applying to his war price and ration board the procedure outlined in an amendment to general ration order 5 is of special im in P urta irio farmers daib n 0 hire labor du dur ing the planter plan tir and harvesting season to empl employers boyers loyers of construction workers on temporary jobs lumber cams cama operators and other seasonal employers shipping nine french passenger liners with a total gross tonnage thousands of tons greater than the normandie and 22 arc french nah freighters whose gross tonnage exceeds that of 17 liecty ships have recently been added to the inter allied shipping pool this fleet of 32 french vessels has been in operation in allied convoys for several weeks army serice sen ice of supply the U S has shipped overseas six times the volume of supplies liel we shipped in the first year of the first world war and two and a half times as many men and this was accomplished in sp te tc of the tha much longer distances involved we are prepared to do nearly three times as much this year and next year we will increase the volume even more in 12 short months we havi have created within the war department one of the larget organizations for service ever conceived by man we have staffed it completely we have set up objectives jec tives that most men insisted could not be reached in twice 12 months said L general genera brehon Som ervall services of supply commander war agriculture one out of every 10 or more than farmer borrowers from the 12 federal land bangs and land dank bank commissioner repaid his loan in full in 1912 others made substantial sub s payments on the principal of their loans farmers are paying off their debts from high farm income said the governor of the farm credit administration the demand for new nev farm mortgage loans was about 22 percent less in the last six months of 1912 than in the same period of 1941 with fewer farm mortgages recorded by all lenders in the united states in the last half of 1942 new roads lead to raw materials to satisfy the need of americas war industries indus tres for raw materials more than 2850 miles of access roads fo mines quarries and forests have been scheduled tor for construction by march 1 of this year roads of this type had been approved for construction to cost about A hundred miles of such roads were completed in IOU 1942 at a cost of these access roads to sources of raw materials are exclusive of the tha access roads to military establishments and industrial du plants of the roads to mines quarries and forests are shaped with a belldo bulldozer and surfaced with gravel at relatively small expense deposits of 28 continued on last page |