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Show Beef Prices Will Continue To Go Up nir Qhristmas cDo Shoppers at the meat counter will soon be seeing the effects of President Carter's veto of a beef import stabilization bill, cPeefi,n(j cEariy DECEMBER 1 throught the head of Utah's largest farm organization predicted today. "Beef cattle are down in numbers, and retail beef prices are likely to go up soon because Carter has killed the incentive of cattlemen to build up their herds, with his unfortunate said Frank 0. veto, Nishiguchi, president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation. Nishiguchi explained that passage of the bill would have DECEMBER 9 IF YOU MISSED THE LAST ONE DONT MISS THIS ONE!! All List $7.98 ($6.98 our regular price!) ALBUMS & TAPES NOW A SUPER LOW LOW Names Like These from ANNE MURRAY AL STEWART BILLY A JOEL BARBARA STREISAND COMMODORES CHICAGO DEEP PURPLE 88 EXILE $488 and up GERRY RAFFERTY HEART JOHN PAUL YOUNG KANSAS LINDA RONSTADT NICK GILDER OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN PLAYER N STYX EMMYLOU HARRIS ELTON JOHN ERIC CLAPTON TED NUGENT we also have the story tellers made by superscope for the kids! GREAT SELECTION $ooo given producers confidence in future profits. The bill called for a countercyclical import formula, raising import levels when beef production was down in the United States and vice versa. Not only would this move have helped prevent rapid fluctuations in retail beef prices, it would have assured American cattlemen of a market when their herd numbers built up, the farm leader said. "President Carter objected to a portion of the bill that would have limited his authority to tamper with import quotas, as he did recently, so he let the bill die," Nishiguchi claimed. He would still have had the power to suspend or increase import quotas in case of a national emergency or if beef prices rose quickly for a sustained period. But he couldnt do what he did this summer, force cattle prices down when producers were just starting to make a little money after four disastrous years in the market. Because Carter let the bill die after Congress adjourned last month, legislators didnt have a chance to override the veto, despite the bill's overwhelming margin of passage in the House of Representatives, 289-6Nishiguchi predicted that the bill will come up again before the new Congress in early 1979. Meanwhile, cattle prices on the farm have fallen off because of Carter's veto. Consumers arent getting much, if any, of the price drop, the Farm Bureau president said, because TIIKNFWS Annual Cattlemens Confab The 60lh annual convention of the Utah Cattlemens Assn, will be held in the Little America Convention Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Nov. 30, and Friday, Dec. 1. Thursday will be devoted to committee meetings which will include committees concerning predatory animal control, brand & theft, landowners, rccreatiomsts and big game. A Public Lands meeting will be held that afternoon with all stockmen, cattle or sheep, h the State of Utah welcome to attend, whether or not they belong to the association. A panel discussion will be held regarding public land mat Nov. '.to. PtiH- - ters especially T-- THE SUN Page 7 Nov.30, wilderness areas, chairmanned by D L. Taylor, Moab, with panel members Vern Hamre, U.S. Forest Service; Paul Howard, Bureau of Land Management; Roger Banner, Utah State University Range Specialist; Mark Crystal, Utah State Land Board; and Dean Rhoads, Tuscarora, Nev., chairman of the Public Lands Council. The Friday 1978-Pag- e 7 general session qq. will have a morning program with addresses by Gov. Scott Matheson, Dean1 Rhoads, Congressman Gunn McKay, and Richard A. Lovelock, Nev';,' president of the National Cat' tlemens Assn. Sen. Jake Gam will address the group at the annual banquet u on Friday evening. 1 REFRIGERATORS From 13.2 cu. ft. to 20 yrjiixt ,Rs 7 "1 cu. ft. 13.2 cu. ft. Reg. 399.95 15.2 cu. ft. Reg. 489 17.2 cu. ft. Reg. 5 1 995 $34999 $48995 20.1 cu. ft. Reg. 629 19.1 cu. ft. Reg. 659 $57995! $417 $61995 FREEZERS i'iL. only 16.2 cu. ft. Reg. 409 20.2 cu. ft. 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