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Show Uut. V. V. ALLEN OISEN ELMO HAMILTON and A. V. SMOOT W V. Allen Olsen Appointed QDIFIB New Executive Secretary ?ir MIE CemmoMaes The Board of Directors of the Utah State Farm Bureau Federation ' announced appointment of a new Executive Secretary to fill the unexpired term of Frank G. Shelley, who recently passed away. Mr. V. Allen Olsen, of South Salt Lake, will serve as the new Executive Secretary, according to A. V. Smoot, president of the Utah Farm Bureau. Mr. Olsen has a long background of service in Farm Bureau, beginning with his work in the Cache County Farm Bureau in the early 19408," Mr. Smoot said. The new Executive Secretary has been Assistant Executive Secretary since 1959 and was appointed Information Director in 1962. He came to the Utah Farm Bureau as Organisation Director in 1953. Mr. Olsen was born on a farm in a part of Cache Valley now known as Young Ward, but still referred to by many as "Olsen-vllle- ". When Mr. Olsen returned from Czechoslovakia and an LDS mission in the early 1930s, he and his new bride, the former Bernice Bailey of Logan, settled on the family farm and began a dairy business. Though the cows have now been sold, Mr. Olsen still retains an active interest in the farm, now leased by a nephew. Farm Bureaus new Executive Secretary has long been active in civic and church affairs. He managed the Cache County Fair, served as the Cache County Farm Bureau president. Bishop of the LDS Young Ward and first counselor to President Henry R. Cooper of the Logan Stake. Since moving to Salt Lake he term on the served one four-ye- ar South Salt Lake City Council and is at present the second counselor in the South Salt Lake Stake Presidency. The Olsens have one daughter, Peggy who is married to Grant M. Mathews of Sacramento, California. The Mathews have four' children. Gene Carroll Appointed Manager Mr. M. E. (Gene) Carroll has been appointed General Manager of the Utah State Farm Bureau Federations insurance service companies. Management of the Country Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company was formerly under the direction of Frank G. Shelley, Executive Secretary of the Utah Farm Bureau who passed away in January. Mr. Carroll graduated from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting in 1949. He worked as accountant-office manager for Citce Exizens Auto InsurInland change and Empire ance Company prior to Joining Farm Bureau's staff in 1957. The new General Manager has Inter-Insuran- held positions as tabulating supervisor, accountant, office manager, sales director, and assistant man- ager. Mr. Carroll is a native of Salt Lake City. He graduated fromEast High School in 1942 and enlisted in the Air Force. While in the service he flew as a fighter pilot in the European theatre during World War H. He married the former Colleen Cahoon of Delta while in college. The Carrolls have three sons, ages 17, 14, and 11. Mr. Carroll is president of and coach in the Holladay Boy's Base- ball league, a little league baseball program. The Carrolls are members of the LDS Church. In addition to baseball, Mr. Cart roll's recreational interests lean toward Ashing, hunting and IPEresndleDoO, A. V. Smoot, UFB president and Elmo W. Hamilton UFB vice president have been appointed to two of the AFBFs advisory commodity committees. President Charles B. Shuman of the American Farm Bureau Fedhas announced the membership of Farm Bureaus Na- - eration a. tional Dairy Advisory Committee for 1966. Mr. Smoot, of Corrinne, and three other AFBF Board members will serve on the committee with seventeen other dairymen from twenty states in the four AFBF regions. Appointments for the Livestock Kleimed Committee were also announced. The Livestock Committee is the oldest national commodity advisory committee of the AFBF. Elmo W. Hamilton of Riverton, and four other men from the Western Region will serve with twenty other outstanding livestock men from across the country. Work Expands Parkingsons law that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" is now buttressed by Freemans law which sets forth this rule: "The number of employees in the department of agriculture increases in direct ratio to the decline in farm population." Precision of Freeman's Law is demonstrated by the fact that during the past five years the number of USDA employees has Increased 20, while the nations farm population has dropped by exactly the same percentage, charges Representative Leslie C. Arends. (R.-I11.) Farm Bureau to Recognize Golden Anniversary in Utah Farm Bureau was organized in Utah, in December 1916 and there are probably a few among us who can remember back that far. 1966 will mark the fiftieth year of Farm Bureau activity in Utah and a special Anniversary Issue of the Farm Bureau News is planned. If you have any old pictures you could loan us, recalling early days in Farm Bureau, we'd like to borrow them. If you have any interesting anecdotes that are worthy of Interest, why not jot them down and send them along? Between now and November, we'd like to be able to put together a nice scrapbook of memories of Utah Farm Whats Inside? Top Agents Noted Water & Sewer Seminar Federal Crop Insurance Bennett Urges Market Study in Utah. Meat Clinic Slated. Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 8 |