Show Uintah Wool Growers Near Hear Farm Exodus Speech at State Meeting Local wool growers par par- participated in the two day Utah Wool Growers convention held Thursday an and Friday last week listening to speeches by State President Newell A Johnson and others who painted a grim picture of economic strangulation tion for the industry one of the states state's oldest Those of us left in farming in Utah are getting to be old men Mr Johnson of Provo said In opening convention reo re- remarks marks lie He explained that increasing taxes lowering profit margins and higher operating costs are causing an average of per per- persons persons sons to leave the farm scene every day The average age of persons in Utah agri agri- agri agriculture culture is 59 Other problems cited as af- af affecting af- af affecting the Utah sheep industry include imports of wool and lamb and predator control GETS SECOND TERM Mr Johnson was elected re-elected to a second year one term as Utah president with Lee R Barton of Manti as vice president and Marcellus Palmer of Salt Lake City renamed executive secre secre- secretary tary Action by the state group jn in eluded a resolution asking the state legislature for a strong trespass law requiring revocation tion of licenses of hunters and fishermen if convicted and passage of all five Utah con con- constitutional constitutional amendments which Ppe appear r on n the lI eN V i er ballot That would include the theone theone one asking that land used for farming be valued according to its farm value rather than what it might bring in speculation Uintah Wool Growers attend attend- attending attending ing the Utah meet were local president Art Boren and wife the Woodey Searles the B H Mr and Mrs Barr Har- Harold old Banks Mr and Mrs Edgar Jones the Steve String String- hams the Vic the Ken Mr and Mrs Ned Katherine Hatch and the Roy Showalters W A Banks of Vern Vernal l was honored during the convention banquet Friday as the oldest in hi the business Woodey Searle auctioned away four donated the banquet as he has for several years raising for the wool growers float entry in in the Salt Lake Pioneer Day parade I BASIN GIRLS ATTEND Bonnie Anderson Anderson io-Anderson of Vel cr Bonnie I-Bonnie nal on 10 In Make It With Wool competition With her were Lorrie also of Ver nal and Joyce Leavitt of Neola The girls and their parents the Wallace Andersons D ale a 1 e rod Jack Leavitts were guests of the convention The Uintah Wool Growers convention will be held held Satur Satur- Saturday day February 10 at the the Hotel Vernal with meetings at 10 am and 2 pm A banquet and dancing will start at 8 pm that evening |