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Show Farm Bureau Holds S. L. Conference Plan Member Drive More than 175 volunteer Farm Bureau membership workers work-ers attended a state 'captains" meeting in Salt Lake City last week, and heard Utah Farm Bureau President John H. Schenk says, "Our constant challenge chal-lenge in Farm Bureau work is membership." "Our Farm Bureau in Utah has grown steadily, year by year, in the past decade. We have proved to ourselves the capacity we have for getting the job done. Our local state, and national programs have, historically, his-torically, proved to be in the public interest. The challenge of increasing our membership should therefore in no way deter de-ter our efforts, but rather, spur all of us on to even greater accomplishments in 1954," Pres. Schenk said. During the meeting, plans were laid for an "all-out" membership mem-bership drive which will begin early in February. The objective is to give every farmer and rancher in Utah an opportunity to become a member of Farm Bureau. At present, Utah Farm Bureau Bur-eau membership totals more than 7,600 Utah farm families, and the 1954 membership quota for the state is 9,185. This is in line with the American Farm Bureau's goal of 2,000,000 farm families by 1955. Currently, the American Farm Bureau, with its membership of more than one and one-half million farm families, ranks as the nation's largest farm organization. Attending from Roosevelt was Van D. Winterton, co-owner of the Winterton Bros. Hereford farm and Implement dealership which distributes M & M equipment. |