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Show Utah Gains Increase In Beet Acreage Announcement by the U. S. Department of Agriculture of a 2242-acre increase in the Utah sugar beet acreage allotment is promising another huge crop in 1960, industry officials said. Utah's allotment was boosted from 33,963 acres allowed in 1959 to 36,206 for 1960. Total U. S. acreage for 1960 will be 985,000 an increase of 60,000 acres over 1959 plantings.. Executives of Amalgamated Sugar Co. of Ogden and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. of Salt Lake City said they were pleased with the increase and that every effort would be made to plant the entire allotment. Officials of the government once again has recognized the beet sugar industry's indus-try's importance to the national welfare," Shields said. He pointed out that in the past three years the beet sugar industry in-dustry has been called on to fill sugar deficits resulting from crop failures in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The U. S. is expected to process a record 2,400,000 tons of beet sugar from the 1959 harvest, and if growing conditions are comparable com-parable next year's production will reach a new record high. grower organizations said they were happy with the increase. Continuation of the drouth could curb plantings in the spring. The increase in beet acreage, following an all time U. S. record rec-ord harvest this fall of 17,036,-000 17,036,-000 tons of beets, apparently was prompted by the possibility of crop failure in Cuba from political politi-cal and economic troubles, Robert Rob-ert H. Shields, president of the U.S. Beet Sugar Association said in Washington, D. C. Cuba supplies sup-plies one-third of America's sugar. "By increasing next year's beet acreage and thus opening the way for the beet sugar industry indus-try to continue to make up off shore shortages that may occur, |