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Show County Agent Is Key Man In Plan Responsibility for recruiting and supplying farm laborers has been given to the extension service ser-vice of the state agricultural college col-lege throughout the country, and in a recent issue of The News appeared ap-peared an ad telling of the great need for farm help this season. Utah has appointed G. Alvin Carpenter, extension economist, as supervisor of this program, with 0. O. Jorgensen, veteran of World Wars I and II, as his assistant. Much of the spade work for the 1944 farm labor demands has already al-ready been done by these labor experts. Negotiations have been entered into with the Mexican government to supply this state with 1300 Mexican nationals during dur-ing the next few months; with the War Relocation authority for several sev-eral hundred Japanese evacuees, with schools for 'teen-age volunteers, volun-teers, and they have sent out appeals ap-peals for help from non-farm groups. First of the Mexican contingent arrived in Utah the first of May and the second group a little later that month. They have been assigned as-signed to the counties where the need is greatest. Foreign workmen work-men will be housed in labor camps which are being operated by the office of labor with Lyman Roberts Ro-berts of Salt Lake City in charge. At the end of the season, the Mexicans will be returned to their native country and the Japanese will go back to the relocation centers. Farmers who need laborers during dur-ing the planting, growing or harvesting har-vesting seasons should make their applications early to the county extension agent's office. |