Vernal Express | 1958-08-14 | Page 9 | Lion's Share of Wool Incentive Comes to West Section

lions share of wool incentive comes to west well over a third of the na lions sheep men who have received federal wool incentive payments in excess of 10 are from the Inter moun tain states of utah idaho wyoming and nevada this was disclosed by sen john williams adel R del during the senates debate on legis lation to extend the wool pro gram the upper house approved the measure as an amendment to the form farm bill by a one sided 07 67 8 9 vote despite the easterners cast erners strong opposition sen sell williams referred to the list as a socialistic gray gravy train on it were 17 utah wool growers 44 Idaho idahoans ans 14 nevadans Nev adans and BO 50 wyoming lie itei it covered tour four years of payments under the wool sup rort port program with tile the cur rent year merely estimated heading the list was the lie warren livestock co cheyenne wyo wye with 01 00 biggest bigge tit recipient und er the program was the deseret livestock co of salt lake city listed as receiving 41 fifth largest payment in utah went to N J meagher of vernal with doth both of senators strongly defended tile the wool ait aca made part of tile the official record were letters from gov george D clyde and the utah state department of agriculture urging the acts prompt e ision the file act expires march 31 1159 1950 sen arthur V watkins H R utah warned h his 1 s cot col leagues that failure to extend it tills this year will produce uncertainty uncertainly on oil tile part of tile the wool growers as to their alit lr pro plans at tile the very time wo we are trying to encourage the annual dome domestic atle prodie lian of million pounds of wool