Show Selective Service r Selective Boards Permitted To Grant Deferments Deferment Growing shortages 61 I farm wor work workers ers call for special attention by lo local lo- lo local local cal selective tive service boards when considering claims Tor for occupational deferments Major H H. A. A A Rich act act- acting acting acting ing state director of selective service service service ice for Utah announced today In this connection Major Rich Ric cited a recent warning Ly by b secretary of agriculture Claude R It who Ito said raid id I I The national defense dc ene program has drawn heavily upon the sup supply supply supply ply of farm labor and maintaining an adequate supply al oT farm work work- workers ers for Tor or production of oC essential foods foos required Tor for national defense is becoming a serious serio s problem Outlining conditions in various sections of oT the country Secretary stated that the problem o of I agricultural production already Ss fe very serious in some areas There has been a reduction In the supply of oC available farm labor he said in fhe major geographic divisions o oT of the United States between April 1 I 1940 and April I 1 1941 by the fol fol- following following lowing percentages New England per r cent Mid die Mantic Atlantic states ates 25 9 per cent East North Central states per percent percent percent cent South Atlantic states per cent East South central states per cent West test South Central Centra states per cent Mountain states per cent Pacific states per Cent The decrease for lor or the United States as a whole during durin this period was per cent Secretary al also alro said that While the declines have mot caused farm labor in some ome areas reas t owing to the surplus existing in inthe inthe the spring of 1940 they have ha pro pro- produced produced produced serious in other states and ana sections Shortages of oC regular farm labor labor- laborers ers he lle declared d are recorded from the following ng areas lre as 1 The ten tates between New Hampshire and 2nd Virginia along alone the Atlantic Sea Seabond bond boro Vermont and the theo two o states stales of Ohio o and Michigan in Michigan in these states stites general farm Carm labor shortages now exist 2 The state of North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia in Georgia in these states farm labor la labor la- la labor bor shortages exist around defense activities 3 Indiana Illinois Southern Wisconsin and 2nd Arizona Arizona in in these states farm la labor la- la labor labor bor shortages are ar confined to special special special cial areas or crops I The most acute shortages are arc in inthe inthe the New N w England and Middle At At- Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic lantic states Shortages in North Carolina South Carolina and ande e t. t Georgia center largely around de de- defense de- de ense activities i s. s while in Ohio In- In Riana liana iana Southern Wisconsin and Illinois and appear to be acute in inthe inthe inthe the dairy and truck crop areas ad ad- adjacent adjacent adjacent jacent to defense activities In view of oC these conditions Ma Ma- Major Major Major jor Rc h requested all local boards of Utah to give serious consider consider- consideration consideration it to the requests quests of o farm labor laborers ers foe for occupational deferments in inthe inthe inthe the interest of national defense I da day Mrs Irs H H. H J J. J Sessions who return return- returned returned returned ed home on Wednesday of last week was taken to the L D S hos hos- hospital hospital hospital pital Sunday for medical treatment She is improving Little Miss iss Torrie Ahern return return- returned ed r-d to her home in Pioche Nevada Thursday after having visited here herewith herewith herewith with her grandparents Mr and nd Mrs D D. G. G Huntsman Cement abutments are being put in Jn preparatory to rebuilding the thea viaduct a over the Bamberger cr tracks to Compton bench There is js a new road now leading to the same place but it is is much father around for people living Jiving on the bench wishing to attend church or wish to travel northward The Bourne home in North Farmington that tl t was destroyed by lire fire except the brick walls a year or r two ago is being bang rebuilt The Nyal Henry case was being heard in the district court during II tI the middle of the week He is one of the men who was accused of be beng ing ng implicated in the robbing o 0 Dwelly the Kentucky blacksmith of f on the night of March 30 on the road leading to the Val Verda V da gravel g pat pit Ph The jury con- con of seven men and a woman Clerk R. R R Bruce Major and md wife arc spending their vaca vaca- vacation vacation tion in California |