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Show UTAH TO PROFIT BY FARM BILL Indirect Aid Seen by Bureau Chief Although ka benefit will be mostly most-ly Indirect, th farm control bill paaaed by th United States sonata Friday will prove advantageous to Utah. Ward C Holbrook, president of th Utah Stat Farm Bureau federation and chairman of tha pub-Uc pub-Uc service commission, said Saturday. Satur-day. . Mr. Holbrook returned during th morning from th annual convention conven-tion of tha American Farm Bureau federation at Chicago. "Had this measure been paaaed last spring It " would have prevented tha (lump in farm prices and th general decline de-cline In business the country I experiencing," Mr. Holbrook ba-llevea. ba-llevea. The bill provide for a referendum among termers, with a two-third vote permitting the curtailment of crops, when the market Is threatened threat-ened by overproduction. Wheat is th only crop raised In Utah corn- ing under provisions of the measure, Mr. Holbrook said. Tha Utah delegation managed to secure assurance from the national organisation that it will take a neutral stand on the Pettengili long and short haul railroad bill The board of the organisation previously indorsed tha measure, but la th future that action will be left to stste organisations, Mr. Holbrook said. |