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Show Woo! Growers Assn. Looks to Denver Meet Heavy guns of American agriculture agri-culture will be trained upon the 96th annual convention of the National Wool Growers Association Associa-tion when the nation's major lamb producing states send some 700 delegates to Denver for a long, hard look at the unhappy sheep industry. While membership in the national na-tional association is concentrated in the western and midwestern states, there is no limit to the list of world renowned experts who have been called on from most states of the union to explore ex-plore serious problems that have hit the woolgrowers with crippling crip-pling force. Executive secretary Edwin E. Marsh said the four day conven-toin conven-toin scheduled for, Jan. 22-25 at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel, will , headline such leading men Dr. Harrell DeGraff , professor of food economics at Cornell University; Uni-versity; President Don Clyde of the American Sheep Producers Council; Walter L. Pfluger of the Wool Advisory Committee; A. Z. Baker, president of the American Stock Yards Assn.; Dr. Morris Taylor, Utah Extension Exten-sion Service; H. J. Devereaux, Rapid City, S. D.; A. R. Reed. California; William A. McKer-row, McKer-row, Wisconsin; Dr. G. T. King, Texas A&M College; Dr. A. L. Pope, University of Wisconsin; William C. Purdy, director meat merchandising for Jewel Food Stores, Chicago; and dozens of others. Marsh quoted national association asso-ciation President Harold Josen-dal Josen-dal of Casper as urging all wool and lamp producers to attend the Denver convention which he said will see an "intensely determined" de-termined" drive towards actually actual-ly finding sensible and economic solutions to the grave situation sheep producers have encountered encount-ered this past year. Even the resolutions of the 96th convention are expected to express the militant attitude of the producers, he said, and the panel discussions will explore all fields of momentous concern to wool growers. , Panels will get under way on Jan. 24 with "Lamb Quality" and i "Marketing" setting the pace. The nubbin of the woolgrowers' difficulties, however, will be uncovered un-covered Wednesday, Jan. 25, when the delegates hear marketing market-ing experts discuss "What Can We Do to Make the Sheep Business Busi-ness Profitable?" Squeezed in between the busy sessions will be executive committee com-mittee sessions, resolutions and election of officers. Auxiliary members, too, have scheduled an ambitious program carrying through the full four days of the convention and climaxing cli-maxing with the national Make It Yourself With Wool contest and the , annual banquet and dance. The ladies will also elect officers for next year. ; Sixteen states, representing 70 per cent of the nation's lamb and wool production, will have delegates attending. They are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Ne-vada, Montana, New Mexico. Texas, Oregon, Utah, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. i |