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Show a MIMA Newest sketch shows beauty of FB building This new architect's rendering of the Utah Farm Bureau agricultural and finan ant in Murray shows theean cento at the 5300 South exit from 1-- 15 office building. Farm Bureau will occupy the structural beauty of the three-stor- y farm er two floors, with other groups on the top floor. urn yne is Dairy Month! (See page 11 for story and recipes) FB veteran Jarman retires; Bingham moves to policy job Vol. XX, No. 5 June 1974 Salt Lake City, Utah . NEWS FIRST This months Utah Farm Bureau News sets a mark in UFBF issue. history as its first Effective with the July 1974 News, an earlier deadline for ad12-PA- GE Leaders point to meet 12-pa- ge Mid-Ye- ar Farm Bureau policy issues and special training for various county leaders are some of the highlights of the ConUtah Farm Bureaus Mid-Yeference schedule. The event will take vertisements and news items goes into effect All material must be at the UFBF offices, at 629 E. 400 S Salt Lake Gty 84102, by the 17th of the month previous to the date of the issue. Mailing of future issues will be made on or before the fifth of the month of issue. ar place from 1:15 p.m. July 18 through noon July 19, 1974, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Several committees will meet at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 18, including the state Womens committee, the and Ranchers committee, and the Policy Research committee. Neil Sumsion, UFBF director of field services and program chairman for the conference, points out that the two-da- y event will include material of interest to every county Farm Bureau worker. He urges all members to attend the sessions to receive training for the 1974-7- 5 years activities as well as to hear current reports on the top issues in agriculture. Water projects will come in for a concentrated discussion during the opening day of the annual event, followed by a report on other policies. In several small-grou- p sessions, all members attending the conference will help identify the key issues in Utah agriculture to help guide the policy, development process this fall. On the lighter side, a Thursday evening barbecue in Hobble Creek weather permitting will feature Young-Farmer- canyon-- COO 1 s professional entertainment and a recognition program for LeGrand Jarman, who retired recently as public policy director of UFBF after 28 years of service. Friday mornings program includes a membership report and special award, a challenge to members to gear up for action, and workshop sessions for county secretaries, membership chairmen, natural resources and local affairs committee members, and other Farm Bureau workers. A registration fee of $6 will include one nights housing in an air conditioned room,barbecue, and meeting room fees and supplies. Some 250 FB members are expected to attend; county delegations are urged to turn in their reservations soon. Sumsion points out that county Farm Bureau presidents have more details on family housing and other facets of the conference. LeGrand Jarman, long-tim- e legislative and public policy director for the Utah Farm Bureau, has retired after e 28 years as a staff member. Thomas Bingham, UFBF director of natural resources for the past year, has been named to succeed him in the full-tim- position. LeGrands work with the Utah legislature has met with amazing success, Booth Wallentine, executive vice president of the Utah Farm Bureau, said in announcing Jarmans retirement as of May 31, 1974. The veteran Farm Bureau worker e emjoined the UFBF as a ployee in 1946. Before that, he worked for several years as a part-tim- e legislative director as well as a Utah county volunteer leader. As a native of Lindon now part of Orem Jarman attended Lindon Elementary School and Pleasant Grove High School, then majored in animal husbandry at Brigham Young University in Provo. He served as a high school teacher, coach and principal for e several years before farming in the 1930s and '40s. full-tim- full-tim- During his lifetime of service to agriculture, Jarman has held many po- sitions, including his present member- ship on the national committee of the Federal Land Bank association. He is also vice chairman of that group. He has served many years as a bishop and Saint high councillor in the Latter-da- y Church, on agricultural committees, in the Utah House of Representatives, and on many community groups in Orem. He was mayor of that city for 5 years and is vice president of the Orem State Bank board of directors. He and his wife, the former Iona Mae Hales, have five married children two sons and three daughters. Tom Bingham the new director of public policy for the Utah Farm Bureau, served as director of consumer affairs with the Iowa Farm Bureau before returning to his native state of Utah. Bingham has worked closely with the legislature and many regulatory agencies during his work in Utah natural resources. He has testified on behalf of Utah agriculture at various public hearings on policy issuea. 34 SERIALS OKDEH UNIV UTAH LiartAKY j I. OF C UTAH DliPT b4112 LeGrand Jarman Thomas Bingham |