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Show Washington,-The opposition of Utah lamb producers to the present Federal lamb grading program was voiced on the floor of the U. S. Senate recently by Senator Frank E. "Ted" Moss. The Utah Democrat called the attention of the Senate to a conference on lamb grading cal'ijfcd for April 17 by the A-gricultural A-gricultural Marketing Service. The conference will consider grower complaints at grading practices. "It is the contention of many of the sheep growers of my state and the nation, that Federal Fed-eral grading practices have not been, sufficiently improved to keep up with marketing practices prac-tices and are resulting in unreasonable un-reasonable profits for the middleman mid-dleman at the expense of the producer," said Senator Moss. "It is the belief of producers produ-cers that they are actually prevented pre-vented from producing the type of lamb which would appeal most to the housewife consumer consu-mer by arbitrary grade standards stan-dards of the government grading grad-ing service," he said. Included in Senator Moss's remarks were excerpts from a speech given by Don Clyde of Utah and a resolution of the National Wool Growers Association. Asso-ciation. Mr. Clyde, retiring President of the Association, spoke against the lamb grading program before the last National Na-tional Wool Growers Convention Conven-tion at Portland, Oregon. The resolution, which requests the Secretary of Agriculture to terminate ter-minate immediately Federal Grading of lamb, was passed t at the same meeting. I GRANITE DIST. TO VOTE ON APRIL 28 Granite District residents will be asked to vote Tuesday, April 28th in an important import-ant school election. Purpose of the election is to raise money for school buildings, sites and equipment to serve the rapidly rapid-ly expanding school population. 3,496 additional students, the Granite School District anticipates, antic-ipates, will attend Granite schools in 1959-60. Within the next five years 18,663 new students stu-dents will be added to the enrollment. en-rollment. The election, made mec-essary mec-essary by soaring enrollment, will offer two proposals for voters vot-ers to consider, bonding for $3.5 million and levying a 10 mill increase in property tax. The bonding ' proposal continues contin-ues the bonding of previous years and will not increase taxes. Granite District must be bonded to its legal limit to qualify for state aid. The 10 mill increase in local property pro-perty taxes is a new proposal putting the issue squarely up to the voters as to whether they are willing to pay an additional addition-al property tax to obtain new sfthool buildings or whether they perfer double sessions and overcrowding. The Granite District lists ten new schools as urgently needed: two high schools, three junior highs, and five elementary element-ary schools. Six additions to existing buildings and the purchase pur-chase of thirty sites are also contemplated. The 10 mill tax increase would be levied for two years only. Over the two year period it would raise $2.8 million, which would be added to the revenues from bonding and state aid to build new schools and additions and to purchase sites. By law it could not be used for other expenses, such as operation, op-eration, maintenance and teachers tea-chers salaries. Polls will be open from 7 -a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 28 at schools in the Granite Gran-ite District. Residents desiring desir-ing to vote on the bonding proposal pro-posal must be registered voters and property owners. The only requirement for voting on the 10 mill increase is to be a registered voter. |
