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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1948
Page
6
The piece discusses how price levels for meat and labor drive affordability, noting low meat prices during shortages and the impact on housing costs. It compares past and present supply and demand, highlights record employment, strong demand for meat, and reduced livestock numbers from last year’s short feed crops, stressing that meat production cannot quickly adjust to market needs.
The author argues that no production line can quickly meet demand, leading to high prices. Reimposing price controls could curb production and worsen shortages, driving meat to the black market and harming low income consumers. Increased production is needed, and in the meantime prices are set by supply and demand in a free market.
A satirical note recalls Jonathan Swift proposing a tax on female beauty to fund public needs. The exchange skewers taxation schemes with a wily Dean suggesting women self-assess their beauty tax, implying generosity would fill the coffers.
The Uintah community notes the state road project from Half Way Hollow to Twelve Mile Bridge completed aside from a few hundred feet. A B C Taylor and John Johnson air rides attract many. Mrs. Lee Caldwell travels to McGill for her son Howard’s November 3 wedding to Wanda Peterson. Lions Club dinner, ladies’ aid feast, and local campaigning fill the week. A marriage license was issued to Fred Atwood and Mary Kendall of Vernal on October 29. The Express confirms wartime articled dispatches and political shifts, detailing Republican gains in Uintah County with Colton, Richardson, Calder, McConkie, and Hacking. Vogue manager AS Gilbert aids Walter Barnes Service station amid flu disruptions. Roosevelt authorities inspect car liquor risks. Mail from Helper now arrives late in Vernal.
A Duchesne mill introduces two flour grades with a new process from the Black Brothers. High patent flour is for light bread, while second grade suits hot cakes and biscuits. Funding came from the Farmers' National Union and Farmers' Exchange Co op. Additional Basin-wide improvements are planned.
The Utah State Liquor Control Commission reports lower per capita consumption and spending for wine and liquor in the 1947 48 fiscal year. Hard liquor use fell to 0.75 gallons per capita, wine sales declined from 613 374 to 595 771 gallons, and per capita expenditure eased from 18.24 to 17.96 dollars. Total expenditures across two years reached 241 441 076 dollars, with 8 048 dollars spent on liquor purchases in 1947 48.
Engineers at the U S forest products laboratory in Madison Wisconsin built the first all plywood prefabricated house in 1935. The project spurred architects engineers and builders toward shop built houses using fir plywood wood. The article notes a large condor measuring four feet long and nine feet between wing tips as one of the largest flying birds.
Fire losses for the 12 months ending June 30 totaled 709,839,000 with June alone at 54,706,000. The figure shows a 7.0 percent rise from June 1947 and marks a continuing upward trend after April. Nearly all losses were preventable by caution.
A U S department bulletin issued in Denver reports Utah population up 19 percent since April 1940, surpassing the 11 percent national average. Growth reflects state industrial expansion with figures: Utah 655000. Colorado 1185000. New Mexico 571000. Wyoming 275000.
European travelers to Europe are estimated to reach almost 300000 this year amid transportation issues. U.S. fire losses for the first half of 1948 total about 966.48 million dollars, surpassing the full 1943 fire loss by several million.
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