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Show 5S VVft S NON-CIRC'J- i At- Womens Workshop Mamed "Best Yet Governor Calvin L. Rampton, keynote speaker at the UFB Women's Committee Greenbelt Luncheon, urged those in attendance to support all five of the proposed constitutional amendments on the November ballot Governor Rampton put special emphasis on the land use amendment (Greenbelt), pointing to the fact that the future of agriculture depends on achieving a better property tax balance in the state of Utah. The Governor indicated that Utah's electorate has tended to approve or reject constitutional amendments as a group rather than looking at their individual merits. He urged farmers to join with retailers and others in providing a united front for passage of the proposals. The luncheon capped the two-d- ay conference of women from the state. Another attraction at the luncheon was the throughout loot bag" provided each guest. Stacked on the tables was a variety of Utah food products donated by the processors. Each guest was able to take heme a bag of groceries valued at more than $4.00. Guests for the luncheon in addition to the women attending the conference included presidents and representatives of a large number of womens organizations in the Salt Lake Valley. Other activities during the workshop included a book review by George Merldekian, a food presentation of Song of America on fashion and beauty. and a demonstration demonstration purchasing Also featured were a chairman's breakfast, a presentation on retirement income planning, a safety film and a discussion on the five proposed amendments in some greater detail than time allowed the gov- ernor. The theme of the workshop was Focus for Action and in Bar-na- ra Whltbeck's address three goals for 1968 work were announced. The UFB Women's Chairman pointed to better public relations, the D.LA.L. campaign and passage of the Greenbelt amendment. Do It At Leisure, Mrs. The D.LA.L. campaign means If every woman involved in the campaign makes three Whitbeck said. phone calls a day a tremendous number of people could be contacted without imposing too great a burden on anyone, she said. Doorprlzes for the workshop included gifts from the Wagner Corporation who provided the heavy paper bags for the luncheon and a garbage bag rack; the two FB insurance companies, Utah Farm Bureau and Country Mutual Life; Shure . Appllcance Co.; Insurance Co., and A.G. and Foodtown who provided five $10 food certificates. Food products for the luncheon were provided by Meadow Gold, the American Dairy Association, eggs from Chester Fasclo, Safeway, Country Sales, Ogden Eggs, Egg Products, Snow White Eggs, Ballard Eggs, Olson Bros. Eggs. The Utah Cowbelles provided Food Savers. napkins while Utah Power and Light gave Reddi-Fres- h Other donors were: Pet Milk Co., Cache Valley Dairy, Morton Salt Co., Sorority Foods Co. (turnovers), U & I Sugar, Utah Packing Co. (Pierce's Pork and Beans), Utah County Apple Growers, A & R Meats, Sweet Candy Co., Continental Bakers (Hostess Twinkles), Nelson Ricks Creamery (ARO Pickles) and Royal Bakers (Eddy's bread), Coca-Co- la bottlers and Seethalers bacon. bring sonify back into farm programs To ' r - f Ribicoff introduces wheat, feed grain act in Senate Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D.) of Connecticut on Thursday, March 14 introduced an updated version of the Wheat and Feed Grains Act of 1967 and said its passage would be the first step toward bringing sanity back into American farm programs. In introducing his bill (S. 3158), Senator Ribicoff commended the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senator Allen J. Ellender (D.) of Louisiana, whose Committee will hold hearings on the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 early in April. Noting that Mr. Ellender only recently voiced some dissatisfaction with our present policies, he commended him for his farsightedness and expressed the hope that the measure I have introduced today will be included in the Commit- im'i review THE BENEFITS of our existing farm program do not match its costs, Senator Ribicoff said. We must make greater efforts to get our moneys worth from our farm programs: We should revamp the whole e ridden mess. For more than three decades, weve allowed this farm subsidy and control program to become a empire almost with a mind and an ambition of its own. Its a costly, exercise in bureaucratic bungred-tap- self-perpetuat- money-consumi- ng ling. Fanners dont like it. Tax- payers stagger under its weight. Why should we, year in and year out, walk softly into this chamber and vote for a farm program we neither want nor can justify? The measure I am introducing today, I believe, can serve as the first step toward bringing sanity back into American farm programs. THE RIBICOFF legislation would repeal the authority of the federal government to institute allotments, marketing acreage quotas, marketing certificates, diversion payments, and price supports for wheat. Ended also would be price supports and diversion payments for feed grains as well as price supports for soybeans. His bill provides for recourse loans to farmers from commercial lending institutions which can be guaranteed by the federal government. The loan program allows a farmer to obtain badly needed cash yet be able to hold his crops for subsequent sale, he said. Thus, marketing times are evened out, preventing gluts at times of harvest which burden 'our transportation system and result in unnaturally low prices." Senator Ribicoff said that diversion payments for wheat and feed grains were $1.6 billion in fiscal year 1967. In fiscal year 1968, he said, they will be $2 billion. THE FAILURE of present programs," Senator Ribicoff said, is demonstrated by the fact that (1) farm prices have neither risen nor stabilized in recent years; (2) production has not been controlled by government regulation; and (3) the small farmer tends to suffer most and is given little incentive to remain on his land. Senator Ribicoff said: With the abolition of these support and subsidy programs the farmer can turn to the market place for his income. THE SMALL FARMER, with less investment in capital equipment, will be able to take advantage of price fluctuations by switching from crop to crop. We must take the government out of the market place and allow the farmer to earn his income in an unfettered market. The farmer will gain from the increasing demand for his products both here and abroad without the threat of government owned surpluses overhanging the market." THE CONNECTICUT Sen- ator, who served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President John F. Kennedy, is a member of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and serves on the Senate Finance and Government Operations Committees. State Gas Tax Refund Deadline for Mailing Applications April 15, 1968 Many Utah food processors donated samples for the Farm Bureau Women's Greenbelt Luncheon. The guests each took home a liberal quantity in large paper bags. 7 L No refund for tax paid on gasoline used off the road on farms during 1967 will be paid on applications filed after April 15, 1968. Applications are available from the Utah State Tax Commission offices. Farm Bureau offices and county extension agent's offices. To receive your full refund, be sure your application is in the mail before April 15. Senator Ribicoff He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1948 from Hartford County, Connecticut, one of the leading agricultural counties in the Northeast. Farmers in Hartford County have annual sales of over $46 million, and Ribicoff became interested in farm programs during his first term in Congress. Subsequently, he served as Governor of Connecticut. zO 1 Xli z Z C Ill uj 9 a. a. I". S! UJ O & |