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Show IronCountyFarmBureauMeetHeld I The annual Iron County Farm Bureau meeUng and banquet was held Thursday, Feb. 28. The meeting and election of new officers was conducted by Earl Bunn, county president Kendall Gurr of Parowan was elected as president to succeed Mf. Bunn. Richard Nelson of Cedar Ce-dar Valley replaced Lyle Halter-man Halter-man as vice president. Board members elected were A. C. Chrlstensen representing the Es-calante Es-calante Vallev. Rov Benson reD- resenting Parowan, and Forrest Bryant representing Cedar Valley. Val-ley. The Iron County Farm Bureau Women elected Mrs. Lyle (Con-nle) (Con-nle) Halterman of Parowan as president, Mrs. Arvllla Day of Cedar Ce-dar City as vice president, and Mrs. Ralph (Carma) Hulet of Parowan, as secretary. Cut-guiiiK officers were Mrs. Richard (Elaine) Nelson, president; Mrs. Forrest (Barbara) Bryant, vice president, and Mrs. H?.l (Donna Jean) Mitchell as secretary. The main speaker for the evening eve-ning was A. V. Smtxts, president presi-dent of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, who stressed the need of a good, informed, active group to express their needs to the state and national organizations. organiza-tions. The purpose s to "create a better prosperity and a better standard of living in our rural areas." He Indicated that one of our biggest pfoglems on a national na-tional level concern the Berrett Bill concerning water adjudlca. tlon. Some propose to have the water adjudicated by the federal government rather than by the state government Under this plan "our rights to water are in Jeopardy." He also said "Farm Bureau stands between the farrier farri-er and soci, llzatlon." ' Mrs. David Foremaster, secre-tary secre-tary of the State Farm Bureau Women, talked about what Farm Bureau is and the services supplied sup-plied by the organization. She said "Our organization exists for building better way of life. This is your organization, let your voice be heard." A. C Chrlstensen of Newcastle Newcas-tle reported on his trip to the National Farm Bureau Federation Federa-tion convention at Miami, Fla. |