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Show MEAT PLANTS WILL PROTEST FILTH CHARGE Firms Prepare Denial ' to Present Before City Commission Replies to reports of "filthy" and "unsanitary" conditions at several Salt Lake City and county slaughter houses and meat handling firms likely will be made before the city commission com-mission Tuesday, it was indicated indi-cated Friday. I City officials received telephone' calls from maaag-emnta, denying truth of a report at Or. J. D. Win-ward, Win-ward, deputy state veterinarian, which Mayor E. B. F.rwin filed with tha cammlealoa Thursday. The protastanta were Invited to mske their assertions at open commission com-mission meeting, the next one being be-ing scheduled for 10 a. m. Tuesday. Tues-day. Meanwhile, A. C. Merrill, chief of the dairy, neat and food division of tha city board of health, said stricter inspections had been ordered or-dered at all plants under eity Jurisdiction. Juris-diction. Inspection Tightens "We have found Instances of city inspectors doing work for tha slaughterhouses," Mr. Merrill said. "We have directed them to spend all their working time an Inspection duties." Mr. Merrill said many recommended recom-mended Improvements have been carried out at plants mentioned In the Wlnward report, but that conditions con-ditions are not yet considered adequate. ade-quate. "We Intend to have them brought up to standard," he said. Federally Inspected plants were not included In the report. Mr. Merrill said the public should not be alarmed by Or. Winward's disclosures. "Cooking frees meat of disease," he said. Dr. Winward's report told of finding find-ing unclean killing rooms, loading docks and cutting blocks; lack of (Coallnuad on Paea Flva (Column Four) MEAT PLANTS WILL PROTEST (Cmtlnua Irwa Para OmI protection from flies, dirty cutting tools. Incompletely dehalred hog carcasses, unsanitary racks and other fact ore making a "nauseating picture." Tha firms Dr. Wlnward described ware tha Jensen Packing company. 200 South Second Wast at real; Block Cuss, North Salt Lake; Archie Ar-chie McFarland Son company, 223 South Main street; Salt Lake Sausage factory, 121 South 8tate street; R. at R. Wholesale Dressed Meat company, Midvsle, and Joe Doctorman it Son Packing company. com-pany. 1400 South Ninth West street. J. L, Jensen of tha Jensen firm said Friday that "wi will answer the report." Rrplire Reported "We are turning the matter over to our attorney," ha aald. No comment was forthcoming at tha Blork at Guss company. Ray McFarland, manager of the McFarland company, waa out of tho city. 7 J. G. Plnney, manager of the Salt J Lake Sausage company, said the re- JT port mistakenly referred to hla firm I' as a slaughtsr house. "We buy 90 to to per cant of our meat from federally Inspected plants," hs said. "We merely manufacture manu-facture sausage and sell fresh meats" Mr. Plnney said his firm helped draft the present city ordinance governing meat plants. Inspection Invited ! "When Dr. Wlnward appeared here August 20 It waa at our rush time, when It is difficult to ksep things strictly sanitary," hs said. "Tha place la cleaned up aa soon as possible after the rush and wa feel our plant la as clean and sanitary as any federally Inspscted plant "We have invited Mr. Merrill and anyone he wishes to bring with him to. visit our plant at any time and make recommendations. We will follow them to the letter. Mr. Merrill Mer-rill has informed us he will be here next Monday or Tuesday." Officials at the R. A R. company said they likely would be represented repre-sented at Tuesday's commission meeting. At tha Doctorman plant It was announced an Improvement program pro-gram now la under way and that numeroua improvementa already have been made. State la Accord David F. Smith, stats agricultural commlssionsr, said hs waa In "full accord" with Immediate remedial measures on ths basis of Dr. Win-ward's Win-ward's report. "I have made Dr. Wlnward available avail-able to the city for a relnapection of plants," Mr. Smith said. "I understand un-derstand he la visiting plants today." to-day." . |