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Show Wool Growers hold Annual Convention The Utah Wool Marketing Association members will hold their annual meeting beginning with a roast lamb luncheon at 12 o'clock on March 2, at the Ramada Inn in Salt Lake City. Practically all the wool growers in Iron, Kane, Beaver, Garfield and Washington counties are shipper members of the Utah Wool Marketing Assn. The guest speaker will be Raymond A. Haering, General Manager of the National Wool Marketing C orporation, which is headquartered in Boston, Mass. Mr. Haering will give a digest on conditions presently surrounding the wool industry. In general wool is enjoying a resurgence of interest by the consuming public. Consumers are willing to pay for what they find to be a better product. A blending of wool with other natural or man-made fibers gives them the most versatile and high utility value product that consumers are most interested in-terested in. In spite of rather strong prices for raw wool, when sales can be made the volume of wool in demand is limited. A strong deterrant to greater wool movement is the extremely high interest rates to the manufacutirng element. The interest rates are 13 to 14 percent on the operating capital they have to borrow. Koss Woolsey, a lifelong resident of Cedar City, recently retired from the Utah Highway Patrol, has been appointed the new Field Representative of the Utah Wool Marketing Assn. Mr. Woolsey has had previous experience soliciting and buying wool. The Association feels fortunate to hve a man of Mr. Woolseys caliber and age available to cover Southwestern Utah for them. His son-in-law Roger Murie hauls most of the wool fr,om this area to Salt Lake. Ross will replace Rulon Wood, who is a very well known and respected citizen of southern Utah. Mr. Wood announced his retirement last fall. He has been a most faithful and capable field-man field-man for the Association for the past 15 years. He will be honored at the forthcoming annual meeting. |