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Show LIBRARY vmcnsnr cr vus. dtarf n ul Udd Unlv an, Sen. Barry Goldwater Will Address $100-DinnGuests of &AH LAKE the Utah er Utah ro C President Dwight D. Eisenhower is the honored guest at ct more than 75 dinner parties tonight in states across the nation, P O including Utah. A capacity crowd of Utahns dine at the Salute To Eisenhower at the Rainbow Randevu in Salt Lake City. The dinner will be televised on a closed circuit hookup throughout the country. "A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to Good Government iO VoL 9; No, 52 , Sail Lab City, Utah Honorable Barry Goldwater, United States Senator from Arizona is the speaker of the evening, according to George M. Jaanaiy 20, I9S6 Putnam, Dinner Chairman. Oral J. Wilkinson, state chairman of the Republican Central affair. Mrs. Alex J. Jex, Committee, will open the national committeewoman liUI introduce the special dinner 5100-a-pla- Nine Points For Progress te guests. Fana plan atlme To Aid Fanner The fete is a kick-of- f for the Republican Campaign Fund drive in raising preparation for the 1956 presidential campaign. President Eisenhower has submitted to Congress a nine-poifarm program featuring a billion-dolla- r Soil Bank plan designed favor enriching rich foreigners to take 25 million acres of cropland out of production during the or rich Americans" under, the present plan. next three years. The president said that No problem before the Congress de'The government is too big mands more urgent attention than the present farm situation. today," the Governor said, making a plea to get the governHe urged the Congress to move swiftly to provide remedies, ment back to the people." particularly for the key problem of piled-u- p surpluses which are Governor J. Bracken Lee this week admitted that he didn't hanging over farm markets and holding down prices. People must awaken themthink he could win a federal court case on the matter of with- selves before they lose their THE NINE POINTS GIVEN IN HIS MESSAGE FOLLOW: holding his federal income tax as protest against the govern- right to control the government if they havent already lost it." 1 The Soil Bank ' ment s current foreign aid plan. 4. Dollar Limit on Price a. Acreage Reserve Program However, the Governor said, he does feel that his action They must not depend on elected Supports 5. Rural Development Program b. Conservative Reserve will awaken the American public to the fact that the present officials to do everything, he added, and the people themselves 6. The Great Plains Program aid program is unjustified. foreign must limit the amount of money 2. Surplus Disposal 7. Increased Research Programs that can be taken from them by 3. Strengthening Commodity 8. Expanded Credit If the court case fails the Gov- the University of Utah. the government." 9. Gasoline Tax Refund Programs ernor plans to take further steps his negative stand Explaining to bring his point to public at- on federal aid Governor Lee Questioned on the Hoover Of the many difficulties that These tention. he steps, Commission allotsaid, His not Reserve. are We to acreage Reports made by the said, giving aid aggravate the farm problem," the age are at this undisclosed time." Commission on Organization of He not ment eosn-trieaffected. will be of the poor people foreign President ' said mountainous - not to " haror will M graze think, the,ExecutivsJ?rauchpf. thGov;. Utah's "'Governor" answered surpluses overshadow everything vest agreeany crop from the 20 acres questions on taxes, federal aid rather .we are giving it to the eminent, Governor Lee predicts else. Todays surpluses consist that, for the most part, the voluof commodities produced in a put in the Reserve. to education, local and national governments to be used to per- minous return this for In report will be ignored cooperation government, and his own politi- petuate their stay in power." volume imperatively needed in ' reducHe added that he did favor by Congress during the present wartime . but unmarketable in in the temporary acreage receive will he tion program cal views in a press conference giving surplus food, equipment session." He served on the peacetime at the same prices and Water Resources committee of a cashable certificate, equal to with in the same quantity. journalism students from and technical aid to countries the Commission. of the a the of value percentage The fact is that wartime and Weber High School, it, but he does not nt (Sot. Lee Explains Stand n Foreign Aid Dissent - s. , -- -- . plain. production incentives were too long continued . . . Other consequences of past programs have been no less damaging. Both at home and abroad, markets have been lost. Foreign farm production has been increased. American exports have declined. Foreign products have been attracted to our shores. . . . Remedies are needed now, and it is up to the Administration and the Congress to provide them swiftly. As we seek to go forward, we must not go back to old programs that have failed utterly to protect farm families." Here are the highlights of the Program: presidents Nine-Point 1. THE SOIL BANK. First, future production of crops in greatest surplus must be adjusted both to the accumulated stocks and to the potential markets. Second, producers of other crops and of livestock must be relieved of excessive production from acreage diverted from surplus crops. Third, lands poorly suited to tillage, now producing unneeded crops and subject to excessive wind and water erosion, must be retired from cultivation. The President recommended a Soil Bank of two parts: A. The Acreage Reserve Program. A voluntary additional reduction in the acreage of certain crops which today are in serious surplus wheat, cotton, corn and rice. The program will operate this way: A farmer, with an allotment of 100 acres of wheat, may choose to plant only 80 acres and put the remaining 20 in the Acre- - he normally would have harvested from the 20 acres. B. The Conservation Reserve. Under this program, farmers would be asked to contract voluntarily with the government to shift into forage, trees and water storage" croplands which ax now in need of conservation measures. The President said: I would hope that some 25 million crop needing Ogden, acres would be brought into the conservation reserve." SURPLUS DISPOSAL. The bulk of commodities held by the government cannot now by law be sold into the domestic market except 2. price-support- ed at prices equal to at least 105 per cent of the support price See PLAN Page 3 Utah Man To Lead Turkey Group One of Utahs times to confer with Secretary CHICAGO prominent turkey growers, J. Benson on problems concerning Arza Adams, Pleasant Grove, has the turkey business. been elected president of the National Turkey Federation. Adams took oyer reigns of Americas turkey industry during the annual national cenvention in Chicago on Jan. 5. He succeeds Chester Housh of Elkton, Va. The new president will be required to travel extensively, visiting with turkey growers and processors, and attending business meetings and conventions across the land. Adams has been active in the Utah Turkey Federation over the past several years. He served as at, which president in 1949-50- , ime experimental work in mar-- ' - ceting turkey-by-the-piec- e was maurgurated in the state. This experiment was the basis for a national marketing successful cut-u- p on turkey. program Adams also is a member of the ;urkey advisory board recently set up by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson to advise he USDA on matters pertaining In connection jo the industry. with this activity, he has been called to Washington several UTAH MAN HEADS 350 LION DOLLAR NATIONAL DUSTRY J. Arza Adams, MILIN- past president of Utah Turkey Federation, is now president of the National Turkey Federation. Bennett Endorses Farm Program To Rid Surplus On the continuing hot issue of federal aid to education the Governor repeated his view that federal aid is a misnomer." What actually happens," he said, is that the federal govern- ment simply takes money from people of the states, runs it Sen. hrough the WASHINGTON, D. C. counting house and Wallace F. Bennett said this sends it back with carrying week that he will work for charges." speedy adoption of the PresiGreat advances have been dent's farm program. 9 made in overcoming the school This program is in striking contrast to measures advocated room shortage of nation," he by the Presidents critics," Sena- said. tor Bennett said, since it is Utah schools have not sufaimed at eliminating surpluses, instead of just getting rid of fered," he continued, saying there has been .more building surpluses we now have to make in the past seven years than in room for more." 30 any year period in the states Bensoil bank plan. Sen. The history." nett said, is the most practical He attributed the way yet suggested for effective school teacher shortage due to control of surplus production. loss of newly trained teachers He particularly praised the re- to other states, to the fact that strictions on grazing the soil bank Utahs teaching standards were acres. Any. soil bank program being pushed so high that teachmust contain such safeguards to ers are forced to leave the state." protect livestock producers," he Asked for his views on the reasserted. cent White House Conference on He pointed out that the beef Education, Governor Lee said, and pork purchase programs are I have lost confidence in conbeing stepped up to bolster ferences." prices. Those who have a direct inUtah sugar beet farmers also terest, or an opportunity to gain, were happy to note the emphasis attend. The laymen do not atthe President placed on speedy tend." He added that the work enactment of sugar legislation," of experts on special questions such as education are for the Sen. Bennett said. most part, ignored." Referring to' The senator, who is leading the a recent report on education subfight for this legislation, said the mitted to the Utah State Legislabill is slated for floor action as ture, he said one of several res- soon as. debate on the natural gas See GOVERNOR Page 2 bill is completed. so-calle- |