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Show Utah Farm Bureau News February 1975 Two recent meetings set stage for Womens Workshop By Pamela Turner State Women's Committee Chairman The annual Utah Farm Bureau Women's workshop will be held March 7 at the Tri-ATraveLodge on 6th South in Salt Lake City, commencing at 1:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon and concluding with a luncheon Friday 6-- rc noon. The state women's committee has just attended the American Farm Bureau convention and a multi-stat- e womens committee workshop. With this background, the state committee will present a suggested calendar of work for the year to come, following the AFBF theme, Spirit of 76 - Heri- - i ! i tage, Horizons, Hope. We invite and urge every woman to come and participate in this workshop. Farm Bureau is a grass-roofamily be effective as a can and organization voice of farm and ranch families only if we work together. Do circle March 7 on your calendar and plan to join us. The Bureau American Farm Womens Committee is composed of a chairman, Mrs. Chester (Mary Jane) Smith of Oklahoma; Mrs. Guy (Lois) Grose of Indiana; and four committee members representing the Northeast, Midwest, Southern and Western regions. Mrs. Albert (Anita) Wilson of Idaho t i has been representing the Western Region. She chose not to run for this year, and at the AFBF convention Mrs. Martin (Jean) Siebe from California was elected by the womens voting delegates from the Western reterm on the gion to fill a two-yeAFBF Womens Committee. She narrowly defeated Mrs. Willis (Barbara) WhitbcCk from Utah. At the same meeting a proposal was made to change the national womens committee to a committee (four from each region) to be appointed by the AFBF president. This proposal was put to a vote before the AFBF women delegates and defeated. The women did express an interest, re-elect- ion ar 16-memb- er 6-- 1 vice-chairma- i n, Pamela Turner (right) and Eileen were Utahs voting delegates in the womens session during AFBF meet Ste-fano- ff Midwestern FB leader analyzes world demands on U.S. food Underdeveloped countries at the World Food Conference in Rome demanded that the. United States provide food for them because it Is socially acceptable, without regard to the economic considerations, according to Harold B. Steele, Illinois Farm Bureau president, who attended the first week of the conference, We cannot help the worlds starving by joining them in their starvation, Steele commented. We cant help anyone if we destroy the American agricultural economy. The United States is the world's only hope to conquer We cant feed the starvation long-terworld, but we can share our good old i ! m. and help the rest American know-hoof the world feed itself. The world food crisis faces short-- t term and long-terproblems. First, we must find a way to produce food and distribute it to the starving people. We must do this task short-terin such a way that we maintain the American agricultural economy. we must help nations Long-terhelp themselves. We must look at worldwide population planning objectively. We must seek political systems which provide incentives for underdeveloped nations to produce their own food, and we must share our technology so that they can do it. But they must w i however, in enlarging the number on the committee. At the voting delegates dinner, each state gave a report on their most successful activity of the past year. Of special interest to us was Maryone-minu- te lands and Californias completion of the safety survey we are currently undertaking. Both women stated that their biggest goal in doing the survey was to save lives. They were satisfied that because of their endeavors steps were being taken to improve safety. They were enthusiastic in their en- dorsement of the activity. Following the AFBF convention, 72 of us went to Mexico and Guatamala, where we saw different modes of life and agriculture. Often we have said we were thankful to live in this land, and yet weve been generous with gripes and complaints'about it. . After seeing corn growing on halfacre lots on jungle mountain slopes which we probably wouldnt even climb, where everything from preparation of land to harvest is done by hand, and realizing that that field may be a familys only means of support, we have gained a new appreciation for life itself. From the depths of our hearts and with a new feeling of humility, we thank God for the land and circumstances in which we live. Dairy Council names new director ts I Page 7 be willing to use that technology. Finally, we must build a world marketing system which is based on sound economics and not just social acceptability, Steele said. Sharon Crapo has been named the new executive director of the Dairy Council of Utah. According to Oakley dairyman Lynn Sorenson, President, her activities will include educational and nutritional programs throughout the state on the expanded use of dairy foods in the diet. The Dairy Council of Utah is supported by the dairy producers in Utah and is affiliated with the National Dairy Council organization. Ms. Crapo wras born and raised in Salt Lake- County and graduated from Granger High School. She worked for a short time for the Utah Travel Council and then continued her studies at the University of Utah. She later transferred to BYU where she graduated in Home Economics Education. After she graduated she joined the May Company in Los Angeles and was employed as an assistant buyer. Sharon returned to Utah and taught in Granite School District at Olympia - Great news for car owners The High School. While there she taught Foods and Nutrition, Bachelor Arts, lnteriordesign, family Life Management ment and Child Care Services. Sharon Crapo . . . 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Be sure to ask for the Farm Bureau discount of $5.00 per tire off list price. duction. The fact is that the price of wheat has dropped while bread prices have continued to go up. -- William J. Kuhfuss President, American Farm Bureau Federation i UTAH FARM BUREAU SERVICE COMPANY Salt Lake City, Utah 84102 629 East 400 South Phone (801) 521-36- 90 |