Show T J sinthe synthetic 1 ti c fibers rl r foreign imports A 94 1 seen maggr threats i to Sheep She enmen ajr men necessary for the survival of the domestic sheep industry was stressed saturday evening at the hotel utah in salt lake city at the concluding session of utah Wool growers annual convention don clyde of cleber a former president of the national wool growers asan is president of the american sheep producers council coonc U an organization devoted t to 0 promoting the industry HE CALLED for congressional action and industry promotion ile he averred that congress should establish a quota tor for finished wool products that are imported the industry should I 1 continue efforts to push use of wool still the best fiber ever made the specter of a livelihood I 1 destroyed by the invasion of sports and development of synthetic fibers was drawn mr clyde told the wool men that england italy and japan are swamping the U S with cloth and ready made suits of wool bought in australian auctions HE DISCUSSED the explosion in imports of ready made wool goods and said that during the first eight months of 1960 some 60 00 mil lion pounds of wool found its way into the U S in this fashion this compared to 14 to 16 million pounds for all of 1956 1950 mr clyde said aid that the invasion is continuing despite increased tariffs as the japanese textile worker makes an hour compared with 2 22 an hour for his american amerl counterpart two more years like 1960 wilt will mean the end of the domestic sheep industry mr clyde warned REF REFERRING to the synthetics industry he commented this is an american industry and if ff we cant hold our own against it then we ought to to go out the convention reelected elected re welby aagard salt lake city as its 1961 president wallace mantl was reelected elected re vice president and james 7 hoover hooper salt lake continued on page 8 wool continued from page 1 I 1 city was waa renamed secretary treasurer sen wallace F bennett R utah injected a bright note by pointing out that imports po r ts of animate animal s will show a decline in 1960 1000 and no ship ments are underway this year further the department of agriculture has strengthened its require ments for obtaining permits to import HE SAID THAT the industry has a far greater threat from domestic synthetics than from imports dr wynne thorne thome director of the agricultural experiment peri ment station at utah state university warned that control of public lands in the west will be largely in hands of eastern appointees lie ile said that it will be most important that these people leonle have information and understanding on the multi ale use concept of land management J H R broadbent salt lake alt city chairman of the lamb marketing committee of the warned that wen a few loads of lambs introduced into the market at the wrong time severely knock the props from fron under the national market the utah of the year award went to farrell T bankler Wan kler sr 51 levan juab county THE UTAH SHEEP coun coul ells sheep breeder of the year award went to angel caras 64 spanish fork who owns registered suffolk ewes mr clyde and mr broadbent were elected reelected re as district representatives of the american sheep producers council also ele elected acted district representatives were delbert chipman american fork lee barton monti mantl and L 13 johnson randolph rich county governor george D clydeb friday told the sheep men that no change in ownership owner snip of grazing leases will result from recent transfers of federal lands to state owner ship i A HE GOVERNOR asserted that not mot only la is the state maintaining a bealby and rane fane big game population but there appears to be room for both game and livestock M n our ranges range f it was reported that there are sheep men in utah with a capital investment in Jw business of |