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Show UTAH FARM BUREAU Page 6 $ L Dairymen's MONEY ERASE NEWS MARCH 1968 MANY TRUTHS ...oldsaylnj Rep. ssociafion Jvleefs by Dale Batemen are dairy producers aware of many problems facing the dairy industry. Some of these problems are great enough that they threaten the very existance of the dairy industry. Some of these problems are (1) the threat of milk substitutes (2) the effective local advertising (linking milk consumption with cholesterol) (3) no effective local advertising for our local product be(4) poor public relations tween dlarymen and the public (5) land being taxed for land value instead of land use. Most dairy producers recognize that the burden of solving these problems rests squarely on them. For example, milk processers and milk dlstriburors can process and distribute milk substitutes Just as well as dairy products. With the above problems as a a group of dairybackground , men representing ten dairy producer groups in Salt Lake County Many met on Nov. 10, 1967 to (R-Ut- five men, the following committees were established: (1) Marketing committee (2) Education committee (3) Legislative committee (4) Organization committee. It is assumed that any dairy producer is a member of this Association. Most dairymen are their repre- sentative from a dairy producer organization, however, all meetings of the Association are public meetings and all dairy producers are invited. serious and one which warrants action. discuss ways of organizing to solve these problems. It was decided to organize an association that would serve as a coordinating organization between dairy producer groups. This association would be called the Salt Lake Dairyman's Association and should be thought of as a part of every existing dairy producer group. This Associ- ilUMW nereis pDHEEDSM (olttH ation would: 1. Identify problems 2. Establish problems. 3. ward priorities on Coordinate activities tothe solution of problems. 4. Improve marketing and purchasing power. Work on legislative prob- 5. lems. 6. Create and develop public opinion. FB song books are still available Farm Bureau Sings," a 64-pa- ge songbook with a hundred familiar songs nearly with words and music, is still available to State and County Farm Bureaus who like group singing at their meetings. The song book was first introduced at the 1965 annual pocket-siz- e meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Several thousand copies have now been distributed to State and County Farm Bureaus. Singing has long been an important activity at Farm Bureau conventons and all meetings. The organization's official song, The American Farm Bureau Spirit, is in the center of the book. The price of the book is 25 cents per copy plus postage. 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Cell your Utah Farm Bureau Insurance agent now about this unique "package protection". You'!! find him i'?td in the veiiow iho company that yots coots right down ic trass tacks ! ij T A nU ah) the earliest possible date. I am one of a large number of Congressmen who is greatly con cerned with the difficulties that foreign competition has occasioned our domestic producers in a number of fields," Rep. Burtonwrote. For this reason I have introduced bills to establish quotas on foreign Imports of mink, textiles, steel, dairy and livestock products. None of these bills is radical in nature. None seeks to build high protective tariff walls that completely shut out foreign goods. Rather, all are reasonable measures, badly needed to assist industries that have been adversely affected by unwise trade policies." Congressman Burton said that he realizes there is a tremendous workload confronting the Ways and Means Committee but that he believes the Import situation to be Directors and Edmund McDougal, Member Board of Directors. Under the direction of the above by Laurence J. Burton in a letter today to Chairman Wilbur D. Mills urged that the Ways and Means Committee hold hearings on import legislation at On January 25, 1968 a group of dairymen representing ten dairy groups formally orproducer ganized the Salt Lake Dairymans Association. Officers of the Association were elected as follows: Dale Bateman, President; Arion Vice President; MarErekson, cel Beckstead, Secretary; Frank Member Board of Fitzgerald, represented Burton Urges Help A I CADU i h O sj i uH WC L d U lIkKi r sFt BliPpAH 1 J sE$8S8 |