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Show A recent development by Williams Is a new variety of long grain rice called Ko Ko Belle. It seems to meet California Cali-fornia growing conditions and has done well In this year's trials on a 46-acre field at the Weems Ranch here. The long grain rice, a favorite fa-vorite with many persons, has grown best In the past In such areas as Louisiana, Texas and parts of the southeastern U.S. Williams claims the Ko-Ku Ko-Ku Ho Rose variety Is the best rice he has developed so far and the most pleasing pleas-ing to a majority of growers and consumers alike. He and Kendall, a recent graduate of Brlgham Young University, plan to continue with trials and selections for years to come In their search for the most perfect rice. Hughes Williamv and his son Kefland check mature rice in FORMER MILFORD RESIDENT GAINS NATIONAL PROMINENCE WITH RICF selections of rice were seeded last May in the three -acre patch of ground and the fall harvest was a matter of selecting and discarding. Williams Is looking for such desirable qualities as taste and looks, strength of stems, quick growing periods, peri-ods, shape of kernels, broad leaves and ability to stand up to California's growing conditions. t Different varieties of rice are .grown to -.suit par tic - ular purposes There is Saki rice for the well-known well-known Japanese drink. There is a sweet rice for making flour for baking purposes. There is even a scented rice that pleases the palates of the Arabic, Pakistani and Armenian nationalities. While huge harvesting ma-" chines were winding up the record making California rice harvest, Hughes Williams Wil-liams and his son, Kendall, were hand picking rice heads from a special three -acre field near Ord Bend. The effort the two are expending ex-pending could affect future rice crops and the food supply sup-ply of mlllions'of persons. Hughes Williams is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Art Williams of Milford. He is a 1940 . graduate of Milford High School. He received his Masters degree in Plant Breeding at Utah State University and first became interested in rice breeding while working ""at the California Experimen-' tal Station where he spent five years after World War II ended. He entered the service ser-vice Immediately after graduating grad-uating from Utah State. He is one of the foremost authorities on rice breeding in the U.S. and the world. Their project, which the elder Williams has made his life's work, -' involves - the r search for " the perfect rice" for both consumers and growers alike. A very successful strain of rice called KoKuHo Rose was developed by Williams in the early 1960s and is used in the present strains being developed in his Ord Bend nursery. About 7,500 |