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Show Noted Agricultural Leader to Visit In Salt Lake City James G. Patton, president, National Farmers Union, and eminent agricultural leader who will be in Salt Lake for the State Farmers Union convention Friday Fri-day and Saturday, has been fighting for family farmers for the last 25 years. He started in Coolrado, where he was reared, before being elected president of National Farmers Union in 1940. Every year since that time he has been re-elected to the office by the general farm organization representing rep-resenting 750,000 farm people. In 1958 Mr. Patton was elected president of IFAP (International Federation of Agricultural Producers) Pro-ducers) the organization of farmers farm-ers from 30 countries of the free world. Mr. Patton has served on numerous nu-merous Presidential commissions in the U. S. and has attended many international food conferences. confer-ences. He was active in the formation for-mation of the Food and Agriculture Agricul-ture Organization of the U. N. and continues to be a U. S advisor ad-visor at its meetings. Always a vigorous advocate of strong programs to help family farmers achieve a parity of income in-come and living standards, Mr. Patton has appeared many times before Congress and often has expressed his opinions in print. His book, "The Case for Farmers," Farm-ers," has recently been published by Public Affairs Press, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. Along with his duties as president presi-dent of National Farmers Union, Mr. Patton serves as president of the organization's two insurance subsidiaries and devotes much of his time to building farmer cooperatives. His wide experience in agriculture agri-culture has made him the "dean" of farm organizations in the U.S. and throughout the world. |