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Show Utah Farmers Urged to Defend Freedoms Utah farmers were called upon to defend their "farm freedoms" .through united action in cooperatives, cooper-atives, owned and controlled by the farmers, at the annual meeting meet-ing of the Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative. H. M. Blackhurst, general manager of the UPFC, pointed out that farmers must have the strength of unity to hold their own with today's "big business" and "big labor". He reported that there was an alarming trend for monied interests to take over farm controls by contract con-tract farming or "vertical integration" inte-gration" which is similar. C. K. Ferre, secretary and assistant as-sistant general, manager, said, "What cooperatives can do is to provide an alternative for farmers farm-ers who desire to remain small business men, free to work, out their own problems, free to decide de-cide what they will produce, free to use their own God given initiative and mental capacities to conduct the business them- . selves." D. O. Roberts, prominent poultry poul-try and dairyman from Henefer, was elected president of the Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative Co-operative at the meeting. Roberts, Rob-erts, first vice president last year, succeeds Carl F. Lundell of Spanish Fork. Other officers j elected were LeRoy R. Koyle of Spanish Fork, frist vice president; presi-dent; and Vernon Jensen of Preston, Idaho, third vice president. presi-dent. II. M. Blackhurst, general manager, is treasurer, and C. K. Ferre, assistant general manager, ' is secretary. Mr. Roberts, Mr. Campbell and Arza Adams of Pleasant Grove and E. Smith Peterson of Sa-lina Sa-lina were elected to new three year terms on the board of directors. di-rectors. Holdover directors include in-clude Alton S. Gadd of Nephi; Kendrick Harward of Richfield, William H. Schorr of West Jordan, Jor-dan, Jesse Spafford of American Fork, and Clyde C. Edmonds of Salt Lake City. |