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Show ALL WOOL GROWERS URGED TO VOTE Chairman Beauprie Nowers of the Beaver Agricultural Stabilization Sta-bilization and Conservation County Committee has today urged all eligible wool growers grow-ers in the county to vote in the wool and lamb marketing-development marketing-development program. It is very desirable, Mr. Nowers pointed out, to have as large a vote as possible in order that the results may be completely ' representative. All growers who have owned sheep or lambs lor any one period of 30 days or longer since Jan. 1, 1962, are eligible to vote in the referendum. The sheep or lambs so owned must have been at least six months of age. Chairman Nowers said that ballots have been mailed to all known wool growers in the county and that they must be returned to the County ASCS Office, 95 East Center Street, Beaver, between Sept. 10 and Sept. 21. The ballots may be returned by mail or in person. The vote will determine whether or not deductions will continue to be made from producer pro-ducer payments under the wool producer program. These deductions de-ductions finance a program of advertising, promotion, and related re-lated activities to enlarge or improve the market for wool and lambs. The promotion program is carried out under an agreement between the Sec- retary of Agriculture and the American Sheep Producers ..Council, a producer organization, organiza-tion, as authorized by the National Na-tional Wool Act. Similar agreements were put into effect following the approval ap-proval by growers voting in the referendum in 1955 and again in 1959. If the agreement is to be extended another four years the referendum must show approval by producers having not less than two-thirds two-thirds of the volume of production pro-duction represented by the total vote. Deductions under the agreement agree-ment would not exceed lc per pound from shorn wool payments pay-ments or 5c per hundredweight from unshorn lamb payments. |
