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Show FACTORY CLOSED FOR LACK OF SUGAR BEETS The acreage planted this year to sugar beets does not allow the operation of both the West Jordan and the Spanish Fork plants, therefore the Spanish Fork plant will not operate, it was announced Wednesday by W. J. O'Bryant, district manager. The recent decision is regrettable regret-table but sufficient beets could not be furnished during the early part of the harvesting season to maintain operation, and it is vitally vit-ally necessary that the company operate on the most efficient basis, he said. The West Jordan factory will be kept in operation because, of the demand of the beet growers in Delta, Utah county and Salt Lake county for the dried beet pulp produced at this plant, officials offi-cials state- This factory has the only pulp dryer in the state. The management of the Utah-Idaho Utah-Idaho Sugar company is of the opinion that 1944 will see the reopening re-opening of the Spanish Fork factory fac-tory in view of the sugar shortage short-age existing today and with a hope that the sugar crop will be made fully competitive with other oth-er crops. Because of this, the Spanish Fork factory will be kept intact with no machinery to be moved or to be taken from the plant, so that it can be placed in operation when conditions will permit. In the meantime, part of the present force at the Spanish Fork factory is to be employed at West Jordan while others will assist with dismantling the old Elsinore plant, and still others will be employed em-ployed in beet seed operations at St. George, Mr. O'Bryant said. In a majority of cases, these men will still reside in Spanish Fork. |