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Show UJJW WESTERN AMERiCANA LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF UTAH OEC191974 . SERl order div. largest number of voting delegates ever, the biggest banquet for attendance, keen enthusiasm Farm Bureau work, and packed meetthose were landing rooms marks of the recent 1974 Utah Farm Bureau convention. Nearly 700 Farm Bureau members and guests heard a keynote address by Senator Wallace F. Bennett at the Thursday night banquet during the two-da- y Trave-Lodg- e session at the Tri-Ain Salt Lake City November The rc 20-2- 1. In one of his last speeches before his retirement from the U.S. Senate, Bennett acknowledged his dependence on Farm Bureau for agricultu- ral information and policy guidance during his years in Washington, D.C. Other speakers during the convention included Seeley Lodwick, director of government relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation; foreign ambassador Hans Odegaard (T.C. Petersen of AFBF, speaking in disguise and with a Danish accent); UFBF president Elmo Hamilton; and Booth Wallentine and Eugene Carroll of UFBF. Jake Garn, Salt Lake City mayor and senator-elec- t, made brief comments at the banquet. Lodwick discussed several major national issues: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational SaAdministration fety and Health (OSHA), federal land use planning, inflation and agricultural This crowd of nearly 700 people made up the largest UFBF convention banquet attendance in the organiza jjnDin ' Voting delegates at the November Farm Bureau annual vention elected Jerold Johnson of Aurora, Utah, to succeed S. Jay Child as vice president of UFBF. Johnson, formerly a state board member representing District 6, was replaced on the board by Stuart Johnson, also of Aurora. Jerold Johnson's election as state Farm Bureau vice president follows ,' many years of Farm Bureau including service as a state board member, county president, county membership chairman, and chairman of the state fish and game advisory committee. He directs a large-scacattle and diversified farming operation and attended the College of Southern Utah and Brigham Young University. He and his wife, the former Billie Lou Johnson, have two sons and two daughters. A former state board member representing the Young Farmers and Ranchers committee, Stuart Johnson is a partner in a diversified farming operation including sheep, a cow-ca- lf operation and feedlot. He supervises the raising of feed crops and does custom work. con- lead-ship- le -- A Utah State University graduate in agricultural economics, the new board member also represented District 6 on the state YF&R committee for several years. The district includes Garfield, Piute, Sanpete, Sevier and Wayne counties. He has served as chairman of the Sevier county YF&R committee and a member of the county policy development committee for five years. His wife is the former Carma Duke of Heber City. They have four daughters and one son. The couple are active members of the L.D.S. church, Johnson having held offices as stake mission president,, stake M.I.A. president and Scoutmaster. In district caucuses early in the convention, voting delegates elected state board members from dis-- . tricts 1, 3, 5 and 7, and members of the state women's and YF&R committees from districts 2, 4 and 6. State board members from the four districts were reelected as follows: district 1, Frank Nishiguchi; 3, Jack Brown; 5, John Lewis; and 7, Kenneth Ashby. YF&R committee members for the next two ' years are: district 2, Robert and Vicki Ure; 4, William and Kathy Wright; and 6, Tim and Carolyn Christensen (reelected). Brent and Carolyn Jones were elected from district 7 to replace Brent Hunter, new Iron county Farin' Bureau president, and his wife Farol, for the remaining year of their term on the YF&R committee. Womens committee members are: district 2, Mrs. William (Dorothy) Holmes (reelected); 4, Mrs. Eldon (Charlene) Money; and 6, Mrs. Hugh (Fern) King (reelected). ' Jerold Johnson Stuart Johnson - UFBF President Elmo addresses delegates. December 1974 Salt Lake City, Utah Additional federal land use planning regulations are not needed, the AFBF speaker said. Locally controlled planning means the consequences 'v"' y OMBW Vol. XX, No. 11 ct D Delegates name new state UFBF officials 1974 Utah Wallace Bennett and senator-eleJake Gam were among distinguished guests Senator tion's history. Hamilton of outsiders than from one of their of land use decisions are made by own group. In a careful review of the economic situation in America, UFBF president Elmo Hamilton listed two major changes he feels are necessary to cure in- people who will be the first to feel the consequences. Bureaucrats officed two thousand miles away from the site of their decisions hardly feel the effects of possible poor judgment. T. C. Petersen of AFBF explained in removing his disguise after speaking as an ambassador from Denmark, that people often benefit more from seeing themselves through the eyes flation: First, every citizen must come to realize that the federal government is not responsible or capable of supplying every want and need of its citizens, and second, realization that the U.S. government has assumed economic responsibilities toward the world that far exceed its capacity to pay out of current revenues and production. There is only one rate of inflation that should be tolerated, he emphasized in a quotation picked up by public media, and that is a rate of zero. He listed a number of actions that should be taken to reestablish a sound fiscal situation. Both Eugene Carroll and Booth Wallentine reviewed successful years for the Farm Bureau insurance companies and the Federation. In his treasurers report, Wallentine disclosed a balanced budget with funds added to the UFBF surplus as a hedge against growing inflation. NEXT MONTH: RESOLUTIONS All state resolutions adopted by voting delegates at the 1974 UFBF convention November 20-2- 1 will appear in the January 1975 issue of Utah Farm Bureau News in section. a special pull-out pointed out that the United States government is the first in the history of the world to be founded on Christian principles. Mixing humor with a keen analysis of why this nation is so great, he warned his listeners not to let their already slipping freedoms erode May this be a joyous -- Christmas for you and your loved ones Best wishes from your Utah Farm Bureau Federation officers and board members President . 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