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Show Road Takes Lead In Victory Garden Plan Along Lines With his objective of "Every Union Pacific family grow a victory vic-tory garden," W. M. Jeffers, president of the Union Pacific railroad, has announced the appointment ap-pointment of Walter Wilson and J. W. Jarvis as co-chairmen of the Union Pacific system victory garden activities', with instructions to them to move toward immediate im-mediate establishment of a victory garden committee in every town on the Union Pacific having a station agency. In his second letter in two weeHs. on this subject to all employes, President Jeffers announced he had instructed that employes be granted the use of the railroad's thousands of acres of right-of-way, station grounds and suitable industrial lands at points where gardening is feasible. "Our national government has fceen compelled to ration the distribution dis-tribution of available food, supplies," sup-plies," the letter read, "to insure, first, that our armed forces and those of our allies who have joined in this war against a common menace, are adequately supplied; second, to maintain our men and women at home who compose the vast forces of the service of supply. sup-ply. The need for increased production pro-duction of foods in vast quantities is extremely urgent. Every pound of home-grown foods is a unit of supply of vital importance. "I most earnestly urge every Union Pacific family to grow a victory garden during the 1943 season. Grow it on your own ground, near your home, if you can. If not, the railroad will supply sup-ply you the land without charge. "Here is a means at hand whereby all of us can participate effectively in the support of our men in the battle line and of our men and women engaged in defense de-fense industries." In another letter addressed to all employes, in which the railroad's rail-road's victory garden program was outlined, Wilson and Jarvis j announced the company will sup-i sup-i ply signs reading "Union Pacific I Employe Victory Garden" for era-' era-' ploye community tracts, j The co-chairmen said division superintendents have been in-! in-! structed to appoint a committee 'chairman for his division with authority for the division chairman chair-man to appoint assistants for assigned as-signed districts, if desired. In towns where organizations exist, officers of railroad unions, Booster Leagues, Old Timers, Junior Old Timers and their auxi. liaries have been requested to : comprise the victory garden committees. com-mittees. Pending election of officers of-ficers in each community, the local ' agent has been charged with the responsibility of enlisting em-: em-: ployes to plant victory gardens. ; Every community on the railroad rail-road has been asked by Co-chair-' men Wilson and Jarvis to hold at least one mass meeting for all em. ployes and families with the county agricultural agent by April 1. Employes in each state served by the railroad will be , supplied with a state college of agriculture garden publication, reproduced re-produced by the Union Pacific. Wilson and Jarvis announced the following Union Pacific agricultural agri-cultural ageitjs will assist with the program in their respective districts: E. E. Davies of Salt Lake, in California, Nevada and Utah; I. W. Slater of Boise, in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana; and T. H. Alexander of Omaha, in Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. At all stations, agents are being supplied with victory garden lease blanks and have been directed to assign employes garden .sites under their general supervision. At points where there are no stations, section foremen will act under direction of the roadmaster. In the interest of safety, garden allotments are to be restricted to the side of the track on which the gardener resides as far as practicable, prac-ticable, the co-chairmen said. |
