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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1933
Page
4
The Times urges careful selection of Christmas trees in canyons to preserve beauty. It cautions against widespread cutting, suggests organized collection for distribution, and proposes moving trees away from traveled highways and limiting numbers to avoid denuding accessible canyon areas.
The radio news lauds an upward market trend with new high marks for the year. Government bonds for December financing were fully subscribed, while several large corporations announce 10 percent wage increases. Henry Ford predicts a strong 1934 and urges dealers to support Roosevelt. Livestock show results bring better prices, baby beef at 1.31 a pound. California beekeeping expands with 14 thousand Californians earning bee work and 20 million pounds produced last year. Parowan contemplates local honey industry growth and notes 43 Civil Works workers in the city.
Parowan City Council adopts Section 197 amendments setting monthly electric current charges for residential, commercial lighting, and commercial power and heating. The ordinance fixes tiered rates per kilowatt hour, a minimum charge, a 50 cent reconnection fee, and repeals conflicting ordinances. Effective January 1, 1934.
The article lists projected U S Navy purchase costs for future ships including a ten thousand ton heavy cruiser and a seventy five hundred ton light cruiser plus a carrier and destroyers. It notes navigation corrections for sextant readings, the Boston Navy Yard dry dock as the largest, and the North Atlantic Ice Patrol funding by nations. It describes lead lines, fathoms, naval watch designations, a long aviation flight record, and the Crane Ship mounted on Kearsarge with a 250 ton crane. It ends with the Dewey dry dock's 7080 mile tow to the Philippine Islands in 250 days.
Gate of Utuk in Iron County holds five head of grade Bucks branded with a reversed E and 9 combined to secure $77.50 in damages from Lawrence Miller. On December 20, 1933 at 10 a.m. at Edward Bentley’s corral in Parowan a public auction will sell the animals to satisfy the claim.
The piece surveys the heated monetary policy battle during Roosevelt’s presidency, naming key figures like George Frederick Warren Cornell and Oliver Sprague, and notes the shift in public focus from farm and foreign issues to inflation, deflation, and the gold standard. It sketches reforms, critiques, and partisan tensions shaping the recovery effort.
Newspaper brief notes report turkey prices on the Los Angeles market and forecast Christmas market prospects. It also covers the Snappy Snippers 4 11 club in Cedar City receiving pins and honors, a meat cutting demonstration by Prof. H L Smith in Kanarra Parowan and Paragonah, and a leadership course at Utah State Agricultural College with county representatives invited to participate in a state extension conference.
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The speaker laments not securing the job, accusing others and criticizing almost everything and everyone involved. The tone suggests frustration with missed opportunity and broad disapproval.
Reader advertisements offer wood saving by Randall Wilcock promising to saw wood for $1.00 a ton or $1.25 per produce with a prompt service.
Mr Pratt of the San Diego Fruit and Vegetable Produce Company visits Parowan and Cedar Valley farmers to promote a 200 acre pea project in Iron County next year. He seeks 50 acres in Parowan valley and 150 in Cedar valley in the smallest unit for efficient production and marketing. A farmers group and county agent met Pratt at the Parowan westward church Saturday night to discuss the plan.
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