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Show Page 8 June 1968 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS USDA COWPUNCHERS WANTED: Presents Proposal For New Marketing Facility plan to Improve food distribution facilities for Salt Lake City was presented May 7th by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to city and and Utah State officials and local food distributors. The proposal for a new marketing center was developed by marketing specialists Patrick P. Boles and W. Edward Blackmore of USDAs Agricultural Research Service in response to a request A from members of the city's food industry for an evaluation of existing marketing facilities. The researchers surveyed the present facilities of some 66 independent food firms of which 29 distribute fresh fruit and vegetables, 21 meat and related pro10 ducts, groceries, and 6 dairy products and eggs. The survey revealed many inin proadequacies, especially duce facilities, most of which economically impossible to correct in their present location. For example, interior celling heights are too low to accomodate modern handling equipment and methods platforms are narrow and crowded, limited exterior space hampers vehicle movement and parking, and the facilities lack adequate rail connections. The USDA plan calls for the construction of new facilites of the design, type, andarrangement needed to meet present demands and future requirements as well. Estimated cost of the new market is $2.8 million. Under the plan, firms would be located together at a single site containing at least 45 acres. All facilities necessary for the different types of food marketing firms would be provided and arranged in a mannner to be compatible with each other. Also, the plan provides for future expansion, additional room adjacent to the market for allied industries, and provisions for railroad connections, utilities, and other associated facilities. sites for the center. Each meets the basic requirements such as access to present and good streets and roads, proposed desirable shape, and access to railroads. Firms could reduce handling and interdealer transfer costs by locating together in one market and area. Additional savings be would advantages gained through lower initial construction costs, better land utilization, and improved rail and truck service. Also, more attractive financing could be arranged and lower insurance rates would be possible. Many of the benefits of the recommended marketing center cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Better working conditions would lead to improved worker and and morale, efficiency modern handling methods would mean better products at lower cost to the consumer, the researchers told officials. holes in Punching needle-size- d cattle may be a way to make better meat. That's the somewhat accidential finding of an Arizona livestock specialist. He found that animals had better marbling on the sides where they had received any kind of injections. In a test, he injected alcohol and glycerin between the 12th and 13th ribs of steers. Government graders, not knowing about the tests, graded injected halves one-thiof a grade higher. The next question: What causes the improvement? rd CONSUMER TRENDS: Per capita consumption of beef has risen almost 50 percent in the U.S. since 1900, according to USDA. But when the housewife feels the price is too high, she doesnt hesitate to switch to pork or poultry. Since 1900, beef consumption has risen from 72.3 pounds per person annually to 106.3 pounds last year. Pork has declined from 72 pounds to 64 pounds. Michigan FB president says Food production controls should belong to farmers The public interest will best be served if the nation's farmers retain control of food production, rather than letting it fall into the hands of a few giant corporations or submitting it to total federal production controls. This statement keynoted an address by Elton R. Smith, president of the Michigan Farm Bu and selling, we would not need reau and a member of the American Farm Bureau Federation to go begging Congress for any Board of Directors, before the new major bargaining authority, he said. 1968 Great Lakes Member Relations conference in Detroit. Any promise of prosperity g farmers through for in the conference Participants is illusion. an alone included representatives of major power Only skillful farmer cooperatives of 13 Midthrough marketing and our control of western states, USDA, the Michiproduct can we farmers improve our income and gan Department of Agriculture, retain our power of decisionand Michigan. State University. Group action as practiced making." Farmer-owne- d cooperatives, he through our cooperatives offers to n a point where have the best long-ruchoice for said, grown farmers, Smith said. they are now capable of having a real economic impact, yet the and resolved once If fanners for all to make real use of our potential for broader marketing cooperatives for both supplies power remains largely untapped. price-settin- In the effort to get car insurance companies under government control, a lot of has been circulated. Below are some of the facts to set the record straight FBCTIIQM from The USDA proposal lists five different locations as suitable You usually have to sue to get an insurance company to pay its claims. John Sanborn dies in Idaho John Sanborn, 82, who represented Idaho in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms and served as a member of the Idaho Farm Bureau board of directors for many years, died on May 16 in a Boise hospital. Sanborn served in Congress from 1946 to 1950. Earlier he had served in the Idaho House and Senate and was floor leader in his Anal two terms in the Idaho House and his second term in the Senate. He represented Farm Bureau at hearings in Washington and Boise on many occasions. 'ZIP CODE DIRECTORY" Now 50,000 Zipcodes-- 1 08 pages! Zipcodes for EVERY Post Office, Branch and Station. ONLY 2.00 EACH. (WHOLESALE: 100 up Each: S .00) How many? Auto insurance companies are slow to pay insurance claims Auto insurance suits are clogging the courts. Less than half of every premium dollar is used for benefits. 94 of auto liability claims are settled without a court suit filed. The overwhelming percentage of claims are paid within one year of the accident h Less than of the civil cases Bled and tried in the state courts are one-fourt- automobile liability suits. The present negligence system pays back in benefits to policyholders and claimants more than 75 cents out of every premium dollar it collects. . . . MAIL MART Carrollton 95, Kentucky 41008 For the detailed report of an investigation by Robert G. Wegenke and Charles J. Lorenz of the National Association of Independent Insurers, write to: Fact vs. Fiction, Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Co., 629 E. 4th So., Salt Lake City, Utah 84102. Overseas Jobs Australia, Europe, South America, Far East, Etc. Openings in all trades and Professions. $400. to free $2,500 monthly, information write National Employment Service (Foreign Division) Box 2235 A.M. 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