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Show V Union Pacific Winner For the Second Time For the second year, the National Nation-al Victory 'Garden institute has given its highest award to employes em-ployes of the Union Pacific railroad, rail-road, according to an announcement announce-ment received by W. M. Jeffers, president of the railroad, from Lester J. Norris, chairman of the institute and of the committee on awards. The award, presented to organizations organi-zations which have made outstanding outstand-ing records in their Victory Garden Gar-den programs, is in the form of a bronze plaque. Second-time win-'iiers, win-'iiers, such as the Union Pacific, will receive an attachment, bearing bear-ing the organization name and 1944 date. Mr. Jeffers, who served as industrial in-dustrial advisory chairman to the institute during 1944, reported that Union Pacific participation in the Victory Garden program in; creased seven percent this year over 1943, with 27,380 gardeners, representing 74 percent of family heads employed by the railroad. Gardens were not only more plentiful but 15.5 percent more productive than in 1943. Their produce, valued at more than two and a quarter million dollars, would fill 157S of the railroad's boxcars, it was estimated by Walter Wilson and J. W. Jarvis, co-chairmen of the Union Pacific Victory Garden project. |