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Show ! Board approves construction of mm A AMERICANA contract has been awarded to Cannon Construction Company of Salt Lake City to construct the new Farm Bureau Agricultural and Financial Center, according to Elmo W. Hamilton, president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation and affiliated companies. The contract for the new Farm Bureau building was unanimously approved by the board of directors on March 7 following competitive bidding among contractors. The low bid submitted by Cannon Construction Company was $945,500 with an estimated completion time of about one year. Construction will begin within a few days. Groundbreaking ceremonies are scheduled for Wednesday, March 20, 1974, at 2:00 p.m. at the building site on the northwest comer of Interstate ' ? hen FB building and 53rd South in Murray. All members and others interested are invited to attend these ceremonies. In approving the new building, the board, of directors provided that the building would be constructed as an investment of Farm Bureaus af- The location of this new building will be convenient for all our members because it is located on Utahs main Interstate highway, he said. The annual meetings of the Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company companies, Country Mutual Life and Utah Farm scheduled for March 15 filiated insurance Bureau Insurance Company. Funds which must legally be held and invested by our insurance companies can be used to serve our entire Farm Bureau membership and Country Mutual Life are also, at the Goldfield Convention Center, Tri-Ar- c Travelodge, 6th South and 2nd West in Salt Lake City. CML meets at 10:00 a.m.; UFBIC at 3:30 p.m. 20 through the construction of this building, Hamilton said. He explained that the new building will provide a home office for the Federation as well as the insurance companies and other service organizations affiliated with the Utah Farm Bureau. DBRARy UNIVERSITY OF UTAH FEB 25 1975 SERIALS ORDER Hamilton urges end to controls Elmo Hamilton, president of the Utah Farm Bureau, has urged the states U.S. Congressmen to oppose extending wage and price controls beyond the April 30 deadline. In a letter to each of the senators and representatives, he said: The uncertainty created by economic controls has rendered our agricultural industry, and virtually every other industry controlled, much less efficient. Talking about the effect on the poor of lifting the politically-impose- d price out he that limits, pointed price controls hurt poor people most. They drive low markup items from the shelves. Wage limits also increase unemployment for marginal workers, he added. In reference to the request to farmers and ranchers by the nation for more food output in 1974, he stated: The single most important deterrent to expanded supplies of food and fiber is the atmosphere of uncertainty created by authority for government economic controls. The Economic Stabilization Act to which Hamilton referred is the law that created chaos in meat, poultry and other segments of the food industries last summer with price freezes which later caused increased food prices and shortages. Unless extended, as some lawmakers want, it will expire at the end of April 1974 DIV. MMEWi Volume XX. Salt Lake City, Utah No. 2 Elmo Hamilton, president of Utah Farm Bureau, signs a contract for construction of the new Farm Bureau March 1974 building as board members Pamela Turner and Robert Johnson look on. Utahns (attend Western ftinaiinDng) session vir 1Q0' More than 100 Utah Farm Bureau members returned from a late February Western States FB workshop in California agreeing that it was one of the best leadership training sessions in years. The group travelled to the Monterey Peninsula on two buses and in several private cars. One bus left from Salt Lake City and one from Provo. Inspiring general sessions, instructive classes, and good food, scenery and climate were the reasons for the enthusiasm generated by the workshop. One of the highlights of the session was an address by George Mardikian, a San Francisco restaurant owner and immigrant to this country. The native Armenian told of his hard life as a young man and of his love for the freedoms of this nation. The top three officers in the American Farm Bureau Federation all spoke at general sessions and served as class instructors. They were William Kuhfuss, president; Allen Grant, vice president; and Roger Fleming, secretary-treasure- r. Other members of the AFBF staff and several state staff workers also taught various subjects in class sessions scattered around the lovely setting of Asilomar conference on the conference grounds or in motels nearby. Side trips by the group took advantage of the beautiful California scenery. Besides frequent visits to the Pacific ocean, a few hundred yards from the meeting halls, the buses took many Utahns on the famous Drive of Monterey peninsula, past mansions and famous golf courses. En route home, people on the two buses stopped to tour the William Randolph Hearst castle at San Simeon, Calif., overlooking the sea. 17-Mi- le grounds just outside Pacific Grove, Calif. Utahs large delegation was part of a total attendance of about 800 people from the Western States. Most of them stayed either in modern rooms MEMO TO BUREAUS STATE FARM FROM: C. II . DeVaney Assistant Director, Congressional Relations American Farm Bureau Making quite a crowd are the more than 100 Utah Farm Bureau county leaders and staff members who gathered on the Monterey peninsula in California with FB members from other Western states for a four-da- y leader training session late in February. For more Asilomar pictures and details, see page 4. Congratulations to you!! The House Rules Committee voted down the National Land Use Planning Act by a vote of 9 to 4, yesterday afternoon. The effective action of the State Farm Bureaus, along with help from our friends, culminated in this victory. Our best judgment is that this action kills the proposal for this session of Congress. This favorable action by Congress shows what we can do if we all work together. Now let's get busy and let the Economic Stabilization Act expire and pass the Trade Bill. |