Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-04 | Page 2 | Bennion Advocates Fruit Fly-Funds

Bennion Advocates Fruit Pruit Fly Py Funds Communications sent to Utah's delegation in congress Saturday Satur da day b by Harden Bennion commissioner commis commis- Ioner of or agriculture urging them to support tho time appropriation bill providing funds for tile tho control an and eradication of or the Mediterranean te fruit fly Tho Time communications were sent at the request of or W W. C. C Okane secretary of or the national plant board Loard who informed Mr sIr Bennion that oPposItIon op opposition opposition oP- oP position was forming to strike th time appropriation from the tho bill Mr 11 Okane al also o raid aid that ho believed the pest could bo be eradicated It if proper methods were used In time The Time quarantine against citrus cHIUs fruits from Florida was as aM lifted Inmany Inmany in inmany many wc western states somo weeks ago upon uon recommendation that there thereas was as little litHe likelihood of or spread of or the disease but officials are arc anxious to tobe tobe tobe be r ready ady to act if tho the pest shows hows up again Jain in the tho spring and summer S