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Show THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1948 THE LEHI SUN, LEHI, UTAH THURSDAY, MARCH 13. Sugar Company Official Discusses Tendered Beet Contract For This Year Inability of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company to reach a contract con-tract agreement with its beet growers in Utah and Southern Idaho at the two-day conference held in Salt Lake City last week 4- was explained Friday in a statement state-ment issued by Douglas E. Seal-ley, Seal-ley, vice president and general manager of the sugar company. The contract offered to growers grow-ers by the company is the highest SPECIAL 21 k Acres, row crop land. Flowing well, modern home, barn, etc. Machinery. Good location. $15,000. Terms. Members of Multiple Listing Bureau. LIST WITH US Home Town Ileal Estate Co. 20 South Center Phone 162-J J American Fork, Utah and so's the Greyhound fare to LOS ANGELES $10.95 SAN FRANCISCO $10.95 DENVER $ 9.90 TOPEKA $19.60 Klamath Falls $17.35 (All buret en way, add bx) STATE STREET DRUG CO. Phone 145 ' . f.fff Y HOUND LEADS IN COURTESY . fr III i ft Hiittm ItiH-iKi OPERAIED BY INIERS1AIE TRANSIT LINES thus far offered in the United States this year, according to Mr. Scalley, and is exactly the same contract as the one recently approved ap-proved by the same beet grower associations for the Lewiston and Ogden districts, in Utah, and for the Twin Falls and Rupert districts, in Idaho, with another sugar company. Moreover, Mr. Scalley added, "the contract now offered is actually higher than the one which prevailed last year. It is definitely higher than contracts con-tracts already approved for most other areas of the country." Mr. Scalley conceded that certain cert-ain advantages which growers and processors have enjoyed in the past five years under the federal government's emergency sugar program can no longer be expected. For one thing, he explained, ex-plained, the guarantee of a minimum min-imum price for his beets which the grower has enjoyed since 1943 is no longer in effect. Moreover, More-over, he explained, the govern ment will no longer pay a portion por-tion of the cost of transporting field labor to the places where it will be needed, as it has done during the emergency years. However, the company will continue con-tinue to' co-operate with its growers grow-ers and with local farm labor organizations or-ganizations and other processors of agricultural commodities to supply needed field labor for handling this year's crops, and has already taken substantial steps to this end. Mr. Scalley's statement follows: "The prices which growers will receive for their sugar beets under the contract offered by this company will depend in part, as usual, upon the net returns which this years sugar crop will bring. The proposed scale will assure to the grower increased payments per ton for his beets over prices which he received for his 1947 beets at all levels of sugar net returns of $5.50 per hundred pounds and up. For example, ex-ample, if the sugar .we make from this year's beets bring a net return when sold of $7.50 per hundred pounds, the grower will receive an increase of 61 cents a ton for beets of 16 per cent average aver-age sugar content. The per ton increases for similar beets at other sugar market levels are as follows: 3c per ton at $5.50 net return for sugar; 17c at $6.00 net; 32c at $6.50 netj; 47c at $7.00 net. Proposed beet prices will remain the same as those on the 1947 scale, if net sugar returns reach $5.25 per hundred or less. In addition to these direct pay ments which our proposed con tract would assure to growers, they will receive government benefit payments of $2.48 per ton for beets of 16 per cent quality. In other words, they would re ceive under the proposed con tract a total of approximately $12.87 per ton for beets of 16 per cent sugar content, and ap proximately $13 for beets averag ing 16.2 per cent sugar, if the 1948 crop sugar is sold at present prices under normal marketing conditions. The average sugar content of all beets grown for this company in Utah and Idaho during the years 1940-46 inclusive inclu-sive was 16.21 per cent. For the same period, the average sugar content in Idaho was 16.718 per Church News Members of the Alpine stake are asked to take notice that because be-cause of the Annual April conference con-ference fast day observance will be held March 23 instead of April 4. Second Ward Sunday evening at 6 o'clock (take note of the change of time) Primary conference will be held in the Second ward. ' Happiness Rainbow", a series of tableaus in-tersperced in-tersperced with music, written by Wilma Boyle Bunker, will form the program with all the association children taking part, Mrs. Bernard Storrs, president, said. Mrs. Norman B. Wing, counselor, is chairman of the affair, af-fair, and Is being assisted by Mrs. Ray Monson, chorister, Joan Chadwick, organist, and all the officers and teachers. that so powerfully affects our present lives. Bible Study and Prayer Thursday 8:00 p.m. Listen to "Momenis wim Master". Station kusu, xtau kc. Sunday 7:00 to 7:30 a. m. Thursday 8:00 to 8:15 a. m. Alpine Troop 16 TrooD 16. Scouts of the Alpine ward, entertained their parents at a demonstration meeting Tuesdav eveninc of last week. District Chairman and Mrs. Henry S. Chipman, Raymond T. Bailey and Alvin Teuscher, mem bers of the YMMIA stake presi dency were also present. The boys went through tneir ceremonies cere-monies and gave demonstrations nf ot-ivitip"! 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Mrs. Hilda Waestaff will give the Teachers Topic and all visiting teachers are asked to attend to hear a special announcement. Highway Gospel Tabernacle Assembly of God Church American Legion Hall, 51 North Center, American Fork. Sunday School 1:45 p. m Lesson, "Christ Before the Coun cil (Mark 14). Worship Service 3:00 p. m. Sermon, "Palm Sunday . Vesper Hour 3:30 p. m. Utah State Training School. Chil dren's gospel choruses and Bible stories. Evening Evangelistic 7:45 p m. "World Conditions as the Bible Prophesies Portray It." Be sure to hear this timely message Boy Scout News For use on any electrical circuit coming in contact with oil. an oil-Slant oil-Slant compound made of neo-rubber neo-rubber with spec, synthetics synthet-ics has been developed It Is als-trlbuted als-trlbuted in the form of tape. Another Circle r t.... Enough Douglas fir ri manufactured last year t!"i ""i board walk eight feet ww."" Inch thick, which woulTl 15,1 V encircle the entire ewhH equator. earth One hundred fortv-two Scouts and their leaders from the Alpine district went to the Scera theatre Friday night to see the picture, Captain Castile. cent, and in Utah 15,782 per cent. The guarantee which the grow er has enjoyed under the govern ment emergency sugar program for the last five years is now ended. In offering this contract for 1948, with a higher company payment than last year's contract, con-tract, we hope to encourage growers to maintain the highest possible acreage quotas for fu ture years. It is the general feel ing throughout the industry that area and individual farm acre age quotas will become effective in 1949, and if this is right, the acreage plan of 1948 is of utmost importance. It is the policy of the company to pay the highest possible prices for sugar beets and to market the by-products at fair market prices and give them widest possible distribution throughout sugar beet areas, for the benefit of all its growers. While it is impossible at this time to forecast the prices at which 1948 crop sugar will sell, the recent action of the Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture in lowering the consumptive quota from 7,-800,000 7,-800,000 tons, raw value, to 7,500,-000 7,500,-000 tons, raw value, should indicate indi-cate a 'real trend -in the policy which he will pursue under the terms of the Sugar act. In this announcement, he stated that one of the objectives was "prices which will not be excessive to consumers and which will fairly and equitably maintain and protect pro-tect the welfare of the domestic sugar industry." The company has successfully completed its contract negotio-tions negotio-tions with beet growers' organizations organi-zations in Washington, Montana, and South Dakota, and acreage is now being signed up in those areas. During the last two years the company has carried on an intensive in-tensive improvement program at its Utah and Idaho plants to increase in-crease the cutting capacity and to improve over-all efficiency. In 1948 the company is directing expenditures toward a modernization moderni-zation and increase in slicing capacity of its Blackfoot and West Jordan plants. DON'T WORRY, PAL JUST GIVE TH' L'lL WOMAN THIS k GIFT k' I BOUGHT FROM W Strang Jewelry & Gift Shop Jess Bromley Awarded USAC Scholarship DRY . i SPRING RING Jess Bromley, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Bromley, has been informed in-formed that he has been awarded the Carl Raymond Gray FFA scholarship to the Utah State Agricultural college for his work as a Future Farmer. 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