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Show Referendum Vote To Determine Wheat Price Support If growers disapprove wheat marketing quotas in the August 14 referendum, price support loans for the 1953 crops will be greatly reduced. According to J. Leonard Top-ham, Top-ham, chairman of the Iron County Coun-ty crop production and marketing market-ing administration committee, if quotas are turned down, the price support loan will be cut almost in two, and the loan will be available only for those who do not exceed their wheat acreage acre-age allotments. Those who ex-wed ex-wed their allotments have no assurance of any price support. This, according to Chairman Topham is the decision which Iron county wheat growers will be up against when they vote in the referendum. If quotas are approved, ap-proved, (it takes a two-thirds majority ma-jority to approve), wheat loans to cooperators will be at 90 per cent of parity. Parity as of June 15 was $2.42 a bushel. The chairman explains that the program applies to all farms where the seeded wheat acreage is more than 15 acres and where the normal production on the acreage seeded is 200 bushels or more. Farmers having an interest inter-est in the wheat grown on such farms are eligible to vote in the referendum. Voting places in Iron County are as follows: For Parowan, Paragonah and Summit, voting place, Iron County Coun-ty courthouse. All other communities commu-nities will vote at the Iron County Coun-ty PMA office, Federal Building, Room 9, Cedar City. Time 9 a. m. to 7 p. m., Friday, Aug. 14. 1953. |