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Show !IN0 NON-CIRC- U After a long and hard fought campaign, the Greenbelt Amendment was approved by every county In the state. 260,917 voters approved the question on Proposition number 4, while 137,375 disapproved, giving the state a favorable percentage of 64. The campaign was directed by a committee of the Utah Landowners Association and piloted in each county by a Greenbelt Committee. These county committees raised the money for the advertising campaign and spoke to service clubs, groups; wrote letand directed and direct campaigns telephone mail programs. parent-teach- "Im really pleased at the way campaign is the result of the vigorous effort of hundreds of people people got behind this campaign. who contributed their time and It really proves how farm peple their money in personal contact can work if theyre properly mot with their friends throughout the ivated. 63 state. Meetings were held with Beaver 75 Box Elder church civic organizations, 72 business organizations, Cache groups, 66 Carbon and others in explaining the need 72 for the Greenbelt amendment. We Daggett 66 Davis also give a great deal of credit 79 Duchesne to Ken Rice, Lynn Adair and Sherm 79 Emery Harmer, who supervised the ad71 Garfield vertising and publicity campaign Grand 70 which went a long way toward 74 Juab bringing an understanding of the 78 Kane whole problem to the voters of 76 attending the final event was Greenbelt Day, October 19th. Urban residents were invited to visit a farm on that day. It is difficult to estimate how many people visited the " Greenbelt Host" farms, but KSL television showed a two minute film on the event during their ten oclock newscast that day. The proclamation by the Governor was also given A news treatment on Friday, good October 18th. er ters to -- the -- editor -- A Day by youngsters Talent Find. booth depicting the Green- belt situation was built by the Utah Farm Bureau and displayed at the Utah State Fair, where it was estimated, more than 85,000 people saw it. Also at the fair, a large number of Greenbelt brochure were distributed on Farm Bureau Ivaortc Farm leaders are generous in their praise of LeGrand Jarman who was executive director of the Greenbelt campaign and are grat- ified at the understanding of the farm problem manifestly held by non-far- m people who gave their consent to a change in the constitution which would enable the legislature to deal with the assessment of agricultural lands. Said Mr. Jarman, The success of this Utah." Iron Millard The advertising campaign, was paid for by donations from farm people and others who wanted to help get the amendment passed. Sherm Harmer, secretary of the Utah Landowners Association, acted as secretary to the campaign committee and banked the checks which flowed in from all Morgan parts of the state. He noted, Rich San Juan Salt Lake 60 Sanpete 72 74 Summit Tooele Unlntah 76 Piute Sevier Elmo Hamilton, president telephoning, the letters to friends asking their support - - all these things may have pushed us over the top. That personal contact is still the most effective means of persuasion. I'd have hated to try this campaign with money alone. The farm people of this state owe a debt of gratitude to the many people who worked so hard in this campaign." 60 72 Convention to Highlight Overton, McLain, Sommerville, l(jar, and Annual Elections W. of the Utah Farm Bureau noted, "The county workers are to be congratulated. They did an outThe standing job. big effort was our advertising campaign, but no one can discount the personal work that went into this program. The talks before groups of people from twnety to several hundred, the 70 81 68 85 74 4 UFB State or Utah orncE or the oovennoh The 51st annual convention of the Utah Farm Bureau will be held November 21, 22 and 23 at the Terrace Ballroom, 464 South Main in Salt Lake City. Featured on the program are addresses by Marvin McLain, Assistant Legislative Director of American Farm Bureau Federation, Hy Overton, president of the National Wool Growers Association, Lloyd Sommerville, president of the Colorado Farm Bureau, and Joseph A. Kjar, vice president KSL. Also on the agenda are elections of the president, vice president and board of directors; business meetings of the Farm Bureau Women and the SALT LAKE CITY la a f214.000.000 WHEREAS, farming and ranching WHEREAS, this important contributor to Utah's business In Utah; and economy being threatened by inequitable property tax levels; and WHEREAS, Proposition 4, the Greenbelt Amendment is essential to the existence of the farming and ranching industry in the State of Utah; is HOW, THEREFORE, I, Calvin L. Rampton, Governor of the State of Utah, do hereby declare Saturday, October 19, 1968, as Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers. The convention will open with registration at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 21st at the Terrace and conclude with a meeting of the newly elected board at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday November 23rd. All meetings will be held in the Terrace, excepting the Organization Breakfast, which will be held at the Rodeway Inn, 154 W. 6th GREENBELT DAY in Utah, and urge all citizens to take this opportunity to visit our farms and learn first hand the importance of this amendment to our state's economy. So. Presiding at the sessions of the convention will be the members of the present Executive Committee, members of the Womens Committee and the Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee. Following a change in the Farm Bureau structure at Fish Lake in July, the Executive Committee will be replaced by a smaller Board of Directors, while the House of Delegates, representing a broader group of members, will be given considerably greater powers. All counties are urged to have a full attendance of their voting delegates. Among responsibilities given to the House of Delegates will be election of the election of the president and vice president and board of directors, along with action on resolutions to set policy for the Utah Farm Bureau during the coming year. The annual banquet, which last year seated more than 700 people, will again be held in the Terrace Ballroom. Entertainment will be provided by Talent Find participants. Tickets for the beef dinner will be $4.00 per plate. Reservations must be in by the evening of November 21st. CV CX-- - Governor Governor Calvin L Rampton reviews the declaration he has just signed making Saturday, October 19th, Greenbelt Day. The document cited the great economic contribution agriculture makes to the state, City people were invited to visit farms on Greenbelt Day. Farm Bureaus Saina Auction Opens N O rH Y 00 z0 gS Si P 3 S3 JB Plans Being Made for AFBF Convention Trip group of Utah Farm Bureau members will be travelling to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Kansas City, which is slated for December The group will be flying together, although final departure and return times have not been set. The group will probably leave Saturday and return Thursday afterA 8-- 12. noon. Members wishing to join the group, should contact Allen Olsen, 629 East Fourth South, Salt Lake City, 521-369- 0. The Salina Marketing Service (a Farm Bureau affiliate) will open Salina livestock auction facilities for the first auction November 22nd with a grand opening scheduled on November 29th. Though no livestock have moved through the sales ring, operation is expected to be smooth. Ample loading and unloading facilities have been designed along with a combination that sales ring-scal- es should move animals quickly through the sales arena. The weight of animals placed on the scales by handlers will flash on a large electronic light board similar to the many time and temperature signs in the area. Bidding can be done by the weight infor mation on the board as well as from appearance. The auction will be operated by Producers Livestock Marketing Association under a lease from the Marketing Service. The owners will be the stockmen of Southern Utah who purchased stock in the venture. Leading livestock producers in the area are expecting the auction to fill an Important role in the marketing of livestock in the southern part of the state. "Its the first really modern livestock auction in Utah to be built in more than fifty years," says Olaf George, Kanosh, chairman of the Farm Bureau livestock committee and a prime mover in the auction development. PS P'S o s-- VI Z 2 g O A 0 PI o |