Show roy showalter reelected re elected to head local Sheep men roy showalter was elected reelected re president of the Illin tah wool growers rowers at their annual meeting in an fn vernal last saturday along with mr mir showalter howaad williams was elected reelected re vice president and kenneth was elected reelected re secretary the vote for all three was unanimous reelected re elected as two year directors were ralph and carl seeley richard dejournette and john bennion were elected as three year directors replacing edgar jones and rulon lind holdover directors are george C davis lorin hatch rulon hacking W A banks ray and B H don clyde president of the utah Wool growers association was unable to attend the me meeting et as he had planned but instead was wai in washington D C along with jim hooper executive secretary of the state organization working on the 1954 wool program commissioner of agriculture alden K barton represented resented mr clyde at the meeting in g and arid larry Memi nets secretary to mr hooper represented the executive secretary during the morning session speakers were william D hunt hurst supervisor of ashley national forest forest ranger glen lam larn bert manager dale naylor his assistant garth colton and ana county agricultural agent clair lair acord mr acord discussed last la st years ram sale held in ve vernal and told the wool men 0 of f P plans ris for this ye years ars sale I 1 he le also continued on page 8 BOY SHOWALTER ELECTED continued from page 1 sp spoke on the decrease in value of livestock and property and aind pointed on d out different agricultural problems of the pant past year mr hurst spoke on the deer situation on the forest mr naylor disarmed range supervision problems during the afternoon mr barton varton spoke of the predatory animal program and reviewed the 1 woof program for the coming year mr memmeth also the wool program geo goo Q davis state vice president spoke of the meetings he had haa attended as alco president and f v pointed out the values of the f state and I 1 federal wool 0 organizations to the at local group ft W banks gave a report 1 v on ou predatory animals in which J he be said 47 coyotes coy otea 87 bobcats i and slid ia cougars 1 had hail been lieen killed 4 i f during 1053 Valter nelson dur chesne Che and supervisor of federal 0 43 rappers in thir tw district also anade al report oli anly 41 11 finals ami boned on stray fr HA ila said 2 1400 heed hied oj stray sheep had f w td lout of the herd jat at cv I 1 ibe sorra lanthe on abc loreet i last bear year during the mooting meeting the wool men drafted tho the following letter to be sent to utah congressional leaders in washington vintah Wool growers held hold their annual convention january 16 the question of drought in uintah and duchesne counties was discussed and the following resolution was unan unanimously I 1 up approved roved now ge be it resolved that a serious drought condition now ext exists to in the winter range in these thee two coun counties tiei and we urgently request that a t the above mentioned counties bo be declared as disaster araas and be made available for drought assistance because the two counties are 46 40 percent of being normal the letter waa was signed by president showalter and secretary I 1 |