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Show Poge 8 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS The 1966 Farm Bureau FB Award for Agricultural Leadership Mutual Fund Declares Dividend Charles B. Shuman, presi- dent of the American Farm Bureau Federation and president of the Farm Bureau Mutual Fund, Inc., which the Federation sponsors, announced on April 8 that the board of directors of the Fund has declared a total dividend for the first fiscal period of operations amounting to approximately $48,500. The dividend is payable May 3, 1966, to shareholders of record April 7. It is expected that the dividend will amount to 14 cents per share. First shares were offered in July, 1965, at $10 each. On March 31, 1966, the net asset value per share was $11.10, Mr. Shuman reported. Allen M. Cook Farm Bureau's 1966 scholarship for agricultural leadership goes to Allan M. Cooke, 23f of Rlrle, Idaho, a student at Utah Ackley Calls For Lower Food Prices The chairman of President Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers has called for a decline in food prices while supporting higher wages for labor. In a speech prepared for the annual convention of the Super Market Institute in Chicago last week. Gardner Ackley said labor's willingness to hccept wage in- creases within the government's guidelines voluntary wage-pric- e in depends large part on what to food prices. happens A DECLINE in retail food prices in the year ahead," he told the Institute, "can make a vital contribution to avoiding our getting entangled again in that dreary wage-pric- e spiral which we know too well from the past." May, 1966 higher." Other Congressmen In commodities higher and of farm Bennett, Burton Join Protest Resolutions were submitted in the Senate and the House by a number of congressmen calling on the Administration to immediately stop its discriminatory activities against American farmers and ranchers. Sen. Bennett said his resolution is aimed at the Johnson Administration "whose policies have resulted in steadily declining farms and farm workers." Representative Burton said, "I have asked that the Adminstratlon instead employ every facility within its power to advance the best economic interests of Senator Bennett pointed out that, "Under the present Secretary of Agriculture and the Democratic Administration, prices received by farmers for their products have consistently averaged below 80 per cent of parity. In addition costs of farm production have steadily increased and the resulting cost-pri- ce squeeze has been accompanied by a loss of more than 560,000 farms and a decline of more than three (m) million in farm -- agriculture." "The farmer has been HATI0MAI the whipping boy for Administration infaltianary policy all too long," he continued. "While the Secretary of Agriculture has dumped government-owne- d commodities on the market and depressed grain and livestock prices, fiscal policy has been making production costs UMtlliyiYBI OBITS Utah State University. The $200 scholarship was presented by President A.V. Smoot, at ceremonies in Logan. Allan has an Impressive list of qualifications for the award. He has maintained a grade point average of 3.6584 (which is a little better than B plus). He has been president of the Agriculture Club Council, Advertising and Ticket Sales Manager for the 1965 Junior Prom, Publicity Manager of the 1965 Varsity Show and a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, of which he was Political Man- Jffli ager. The award winner is majoring in Agricultural Economics with a minor in business. He was named a member of Phi Eta Sigma (an honorary scholastic fraternity for freshman and sophomores). He was also named to the Phi Kappa Phi Achievement Awards list in his Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years. Mr. Cook was nominated "Scholar of the Year" for the 1966 Robins Awards and was valedictorian of the College of Agriculture, 1966. his school activities Though would have kept anyone busy, Allan also found time to serve a two-ye- ar LDS mission in Britain and another LDS mission for the USU Stake. Congratulations to a very capable and deserving young man. Scientists Studying Beet Leafhoppers the surveying rs where beet a noted have multiply greater increase of these pests than expected from results of the first survey conducted in FebEntomologists desert areas leaf-hoppe- ruary. Consequently, they have changed the outlook report. Their previous forecast' had indicated that light to moderate movement to Utah cultivated districts could be expected from the winter breeding grounds of southeastern California, Central Arizona, southern Utah, and southern Nevada. They now expect moderate to heavy movement to eastern Utah and western Colorado. Tomato, sugar beet, bean, cucumber and cantaloupe growers of those areas will need to make preparations toward off this pest that spreads the disease. destructive curly-to- p Precipitation occurring in the southwestern desert areas during February and March was suf- ficient to germinate additional weed host in addition to sustaining plants already present. 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