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Show Poge 8 UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS DO WE NEED HIGHER DAIRY SUPPORT PRICES? 60 59 62 61 63 64 65 America's last frontier will be the destination of two Farm Bureau tours thisSpring. The adventures will begin on June 1 and 8. to Newcomers the largest state are called Cheechakos. During ay their stay they can become official members of the Order of the Walrus 4.50. and return home as bonified Sourdoughs. Alaska is still the land of virgin wilderness and spectacular scenery that is pictured in the travel brochures. Mt. McKinley National Park with its teeming wildlife, the massive Portage Glacier a short distance from Anchorage, and the serene beauty of Kotzebue Sound are Just a few of Alaska's many natural wonders tour participants will see. For an opportunity to meet with the people of the 49th state, the tour will visit the fertile Matanuska Valley. In 1935, 200 Midwestern farm families settled here and today produce most of Alaska's crops including huge cabbages some weighing in excess of 45 pounds. In Kotzebue, 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the tour will see what life is like in an Eskimo Village. Here the natives farm the sea, fishing during the short summer months for sheeflsh and beluga whale. Farm Bureau members who wish to taste some of the local delicacies like reindeer stew, whale blubber (muktuk) or raw fish, may do so during their visit. For those not so adventurous, more conventional items like sourdough pancakes are available. One of the highlights of the Alaska tours will be a cruise through the famed Inside Passage aboard the SS PRINCESS PATRICIA. Tour members will enjoy four days of relaxation aboard ship with ports of call included at the historic cities of Prince Rupert, Skagway, Juneau, and Ketchikan. For complete information on the Alaska tours, along'with a detailed ay itinerary, return the coupon on page 3. Midnight at Kotzebue, 30 miles north of the Arctic Cirde, one of the highlights of Farm Bureau lour. - 4.25, All Milk - 00- war" Alaska Welcomes Cheechakos 16-d- 4 March, 1966 o 3.75. wj s Mil n Sfe K:WJ 44 : h h V(i44 3.50. W X;XW 3.25 Mfg. Milk ' SJSV day-by-d- X-- 3.00 SS SW $$S 2.75, - Hx-:- -: 60 59 m m v.v.v.v.;. P 61 62 63 64 65 Milk Price Higher Price Support Period Traction and action go hand in hand, Whether plowing up sod or shoveling sand. When your spinning a wheel that's hub deep in mire Your going and you'll burn up a tire. Hop off your tractor, let's work out a plan, Then you can get back to plowing your land. Let's shovel away some of that goo, Then we can tell the next thing to do. Get me a shovel of good dry dirt To throw under that tire, a couple won't hurt. Now get back on and start out slow, Give her the gas, and out you go. Any job's easy, when worked by plan. When traction and action join hand in hand. no-whe- ISwrhcldurliAKNrai :. ihie ihUk, - moving from , $4.00 yeavlyai percwt to $4.00 per cwt, with a significant A 4rcqi following! the: year support prices were increased. Manufa- cturing milk moved from $2.99 tof $3.20 with an even sharper drop v during the same period. Somif ex. I perts contend that axurther supports A price Increase would bring about the same eype trf decline in the price of milk. $1? : 1 , i , y .y H&Y'1 Guest Editorial (Continued from Page 2) ganizations in Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakot, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois and Iowa. Unofficial reports at the beginning of this year put total membership at 10,000. At the USDA there is no disposition to interfere with the organizational efforts of the committeemen and former committeemen. Administrators in USDA say the department has no right or authority to tell committeemen what organizations they should or should not belong to. And, as we said earlier in his column, we agree wholeheartedly with Shuman and Patton--- a social group of government employees is one thing, a business group of such employees for lobbying is something else. Especially when such a group is involved with a government agency which administers the USDAs crop control, price support and farm subsidy programs. The merry-go-rougoes faster every day and things look fuzzier with each passing moment. Wonder where we'll land and what our condition will be when we all off the whirly-gi- g? centrifuge mult-billion-do- re Now friend, your Farm Bureau's appealing to you, The more traction we have, the more we can do. who are members take active part, Come out to your meetings, we have a good start; And you who are still not one of the fold. Think of the moral this limerick has told. If you'd give us the traction, by all joining in, We can ward off those blows you take on the chin. Now act on this letter, there's savings for you; There's service, friendship, and progress, too. Get on that phone, please call right away, Here are the numbers do it today. You Provo Office 373-530- - 4 Spanish Fork Office Price Office 637-358- Richfield Office 896-550- Cedar City Office 586-807- 3 Salt Lake Office 364-650- 9 Ogden Office 399-586- 8 Logan Office 7524444 798-680- 6 4 -- ? j AT " 8 llar nd y Ed Note: It would be nice to see FARM; BUREAU IN8UHAN0E Country Mutual Life 629 East 4th South, Salt Lake City, Uta;h all farmers close ranks on this i Issue and swing over to the Farm fc? . ey, Bureau side; i I M IN 1 I |