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Show BEET GROWERS OF UTAH WILL il ACCEPT AC-CEPT $8.50 A TON Following Conference Sentiments Are Wired Food Administrator Herbert Her-bert C. Hoover. At the conclusion of a mass meeting meet-ing called by the Intermountain Asso-j Asso-j elation of Sugar-beet Growers at Jordan Jor-dan high school Wednesday afternoon, and attended by sugar-beet growers of Salt Lake county, a telegram representing repre-senting the views of 130 present was sent Herbert C. Hoover, national food administrator, according to President N. P. Peterson, chairman of the meeting. meet-ing. The telegram protested against the price of $8.50 per ton for sugar beets in 1918 on the ground that such price is Insufficient to pay the cost of production. pro-duction. Objection is also made to alleged al-leged appeals by the sugar companies ' to patriotic motives. In conclusion, the telegram states that "Unless our ; sugar companies manifest sufficient i patriotism to bear their share of the burden of producing the sugar tieces- Isary to meet the national require-1 require-1 ments or our government finds means 'to compel them to serve their country, we shall feel absolved from all responsibility re-sponsibility for failure to produce sugar su-gar beets In 1918." President Petersen recently visited Food Administrator Hoover at Washington. Wash-ington. It was agreed that the m." iters complained of by the Intermonn tain association might be satisfactorily satisfactor-ily adjusted by an investigation and agreement of a committee composed of one representative of the growers, i one representative of the factories land three from the food admlnistra-j admlnistra-j tion. If the factories fail to come, in on such an arrangement, it is then proposed pro-posed that the growers themselves make an investigation and repot t wsta of production as found to the food ad- ' ministration. i |