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Show Cache Turkey Growers Elect Directors Election of directors of the Cache Valley Turkey Growers' cooperative association, was reported by President Presi-dent J. B. White of Paradise along with a report of succsesful operations opera-tions for the first year. Keith Meikle of Smithfield was the only new director elected and Elmer R. Wood of Trenton, was reelected, Mr. White said. Holdover Hold-over directors are Mr. White, J. C. Parsons of Benson, LaVon Fuh-riman Fuh-riman and Fred Alder of Providence, Provi-dence, and Thomas J. Buttars Jr. of Clarkston. Officers reported that the asso- ciation's plant at Trenton, built in j 1942 with the assistance of the I Farm Security Administration, pro-I pro-I cessed more than $400,000 worth j of birds. A total of 69,450 birds were processed during the fall and I winter run at an average cost of 47 cents per bird. An average of 65 persons were employed at the plant each day and the plant returned a profit of $1150 during its first season's operation. |