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Show 1 97,000 Turkeys Pass Processing Line i In Cedar City Plant I More than 97,000 turkeys have i been processed at the new $53,-000 $53,-000 processing plant in Cedar City, Truman Rollins, southern Utah manager, Utah Poultry and Cooperative Assn., reported at the local Rotary meeting at 6:15 p. m. Tuesday at El Escalante hotel. Equipment for the plant cost $23,000, and before the year ends the plant payroll will exceed SGG.OOO, Mr. Rollins said. Boyd Smith, Cedar City businessman, busi-nessman, discussed lumbering a,nd lumber manufacturing, stating stat-ing that the pine found in southern south-ern Utah is similar to the commercial com-mercial pine of Idaho and Montana, Mon-tana, though not of as good a quality. He said that this area can sustain the cutting of about 10,000,000 board feet each year, although only about half that amount is now being harvested. Business of the meeting included in-cluded a discussion of the Rotary Ro-tary International convention scheduled for Mexico City, May 25 to 29, 1952. A district convention conven-tion of Rotarians will be held at Jackson Hole. Wyo., during the first week in May, 1952. |