Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-28 | Page 1 | Beet Growers Open Conclave

BEET GROWERS OPEN CONCLAVE Groups Renew Efforts To Reach Settlement Representatives' of sugar beet growers from Utah and Idaho met at a conference table Thursday afternoon in a new attempt to reach an agreement on a 1940 crop contract. The two groups got together In the offices of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation in the Dooly building, 109 West Second South street, at 2 p. m., after officers of the Utah and Idaho Sugar Beet Growers' associations had met during dur-ing the morning. Governor Henry H. Blood attended at-tended the afternoon session. J. R. Rawlins of Draper, president presi-dent of the Utah association, said contract offers made earlier by the two groups and a proposed price schedule for beets, drafted by the sugar division. United States department de-partment of agriculture, were discussed dis-cussed during the morning by the growers. He said the "whole contract situation" sit-uation" would be discussed with the processors, and also that new terms for a contract would likely be offered by the growers at the meeting. Efforts of the two groups to agree on terms of a contract failed when they met at Pocatello, Idaho, Monday. Officers of the growers' groups discussed the situation at an all-day meeting in Salt Lake City Wednesday. Mr. Rawlins, after disclosing the new meeting of the two groups, said there was no further statement state-ment to be msde on the situation. . Three companies, the Utah-Idaho, Utah-Idaho, Amalgamated and Layton Sugar companies, are engaged in the negotiations with the growers, which have been going on for nearly near-ly three weeks.