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Show U PUBLIC HEARING FOR BEET INDUSTRY Evidence on Tair and veasonable' wage rates to laborers in producing, produc-ing, cultivating the harvesting the 1942 sugar beet crop, and fair prices pri-ces to be paid for sugar beets by processors who are producers wish to qualify for sugar benefit payments, pay-ments, wiH be received in a public pub-lic hearing held by the Department of Agriculture at Pocatello Monday, Mon-day, January 19. Franklin county sugar beet growers grow-ers or workers, or processors' representatives rep-resentatives may attend the meeting, meet-ing, which will open at 9:30 a. rn. at the Bannock hotel. Similar hearings, called under authority of the Sugar Act of 1937 which Congress last month extended extend-ed to December 31, 1944, are held each year to provide the basis for determining labor wage rates and grower-processor price contracts in i cases in which processing companies compan-ies also grow beets. The hearings in this area have been held alternately in Pocatello and Salt Lake City in recent years, and are attended by representatives representa-tives of all three groups from Idaho, Ida-ho, Utah, Oreg-on and Washington. Similar hearings are being hela this month in Denver, Billings, ana other central points In the nation' |