Show Students and Adults Toil in Sugar Beets to Save Crops During Shortage of Agricultural Labor Hundreds CITY Hundreds of BRIGHAM CITY business men and officials officials dais of the city members of civic and church organizations and school children are bending their theft farmers farmers' farmers farmers' farm farm- backs in Box Elder county ers ers' fields thinning beets C Chit Carl Backing up Acting Mayor Wolds Wold's proclamation that an emergency emergency emergency emer emer- gency exists necessitating a halfday halfday half half- day holiday for business houses practically the entire Box Elder I county population has out en masse to thin beets in the count county's county's coun coun- t tys ty's s acre crop i Lame backs are being Ing laughed off by citizens who are doing their I which otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- I bit to save sa the crop wise might have been plowed plo un un- der Business Business' houses will remain I closed during forenoons until the tenth of June TAYLORSVILLE The The beet thinning problem in n Salt Lake county co is getting in hand in spite of the Increased acre acreage ge shorter thinning season and lack of normal farm labor members of the county county county coun coun- ty labor committee reported Thursday Thurs Thurs- day However the situation 1 Is still serious C. C C. C Lemmon Gr Granite nite school representative on the committee committee committee com com- said Besides the hundreds of students employed on n their parents' parents f farms or employed separately by farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers eight crews of students have been organized from Salt Lake City Granite and Jordan school districts There are 25 to 30 in a crew Attempts are being made to organize organize or or- insure additional crews to c completion of the thinning and to save all aU the crops in the county Mr Lemmon advised 1 Students are paid 9 an acre for thinning and make from l to 6 their abil abil- per Der daY dav depending upon ity School buses are used to transport them them to the fields i Among the boys in the fields fieldson on the eight crews crew's are five girls all students of Granite school district district dis dis- dis and an attempt made to organize a comp complete compete ete girl crew The girls are equally as efficient efficient effi effi- dent as the boys said V. V L. L Martineau Martineau Mar- Mar county founty agricultural agent |