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Show Tomato Drive Is Aid to Growers Intermountain residents today are among the most "tomato conscious" con-scious" people in the country, according ac-cording to George E. Holt, chairman chair-man of the Utah Canning Tomato To-mato Growers' Stabilization Com-j Com-j mittee. This is evidenced, Mr. Holt declared, de-clared, by preliminary reports from the recent drive to reduce last year's carry-over of canned tomatoes in order that the market for this year's crop might not be disrupted. "Figures so far received," Mr. Holt said, "indicate that the splendid co-operation of retail food merchants throughout the West went far toward selling the consuming con-suming public more tomatoes for the daily diet, and as a result of this the new crop is not expected to present the serious problem that might have prevailed otherwise." Large retailers, both chain and independent, responded to the plea of the growers' committee for an extra push on the carry-over stocks, which amounted to 322,583 cases as of June 1. This is six times the carry-over at the same time last year. Thousands of dollars in the advertising appropriations of food stores were devoted to the promotion promo-tion of tomatoes, and the participating partici-pating stores went far toward taking tak-ing the heavy warehouse stocks, Mr .Holt said. It is expected that definite figures fig-ures on the drive will be assembled assembl-ed and made public in about a ' week. I I |