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Show SCS Reorganization Plans Announced In accordance with the recent national reorganization of the Soil Conservation Service, all Service activities formerly tiministered from the Area offices in Salt Lake City. Price, and Cedar City will be placed under a single state office, and the three Area offices converted con-verted into Unit offices, Hugh O. Calkins, Regional Conservator, announced an-nounced today. During tlie past two weeks, Regional Re-gional SCS officials have been working on a reorganization chart, which has been submitted to Washington. Wash-ington. The locntlon of the Utah State office and the selection of the State Conservationist, the official offi-cial who will administer State activities, ac-tivities, have not as yet received Washington confirmation. The Regional office will continue contin-ue to operate from Alberquerque, as usual, and Calkins does not expect ex-pect any significant changes l.i personnel or operations of SCS field offices now working with Soil Conservation Districts and otlwr projects. A newly organized group of 14 skilled technicians will, in the future, fu-ture, operate throughout the Region Re-gion from their Regional office headquarters in Alberquerque, Mr. Calkins explained. Under the new plan, three Regional Re-gional offices and 79 Area offices have been discontinued in the nation. na-tion. The Regional offices at Ama-rillo, Ama-rillo, Texas, Dayton, O., and Spokane, Spo-kane, Washington, were abolished. The Southwest Region, formerly known as Region 8, will now become be-come Region 6 and will Include all of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. Formerly, the eastern tier of "counties In New Mexico and the eastern half of Colorado were administered ad-ministered by the Regional office in Amarillo. The reorganization order, issued by Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard, is expected to place experienced field workers In more Immediate contact with the wartime war-time problems of Soil Conservation Districts and Individual farmers and ranchers, according to Mr. Calkins. |