Show Canneries May ay Not o Operate This s Year ea r FAILURE OF FARMERS TO SIGN UP FOR P PEAS E A S AND CORN CAUSES ANXIETY Again there appears to be a n strong possibility that the two Sanpete pl plants of Hunt Foods Inc may not operate this year But this time it is not by company company company com com- pany action as the firm has offered offered offered of of- the best pea contract inthe in inthe the history of canning crops in Sanpete The trouble this year is that farmers are just not sig signing ng up to grow either peas or corn They are fearful they say of the weather outlook and of the labor situation Up to Wednesday night only acres of peas had been contracted con con- contracted and 50 of these were in the Nephi area and another 50 in the Mt 1 Pleasant area That left just 60 acres which had been signed up in Manti ManU Ephraim M May a y f fie i e I 1 Id d Sterling Gunnison Centerfield etc com com- The acreage goal for each peas and corn is 1350 Plant Superintendent Frank Garbe said he has never seen seena a like situation Usually he said the first two-thirds two of the anticipated anticipated anticipated anti anti- acreage goes in a hurry but it usually is a struggle to get the final one This year it has been a struggle right from the first to get any favorable favorable favorable favor favor- able to the response pea grow ing Mr Garbe said It was believed that with the water outlook such as it is many farmers would want to plant peas which mature in a much shorter season for which there usually is ample water But somehow the contracts are not being signed Mr l Garbe does not know what I action will be taken but is quite sure that unless acreage is contracted contracted contracted con con- much more rapidly and andin andin andin in larger amounts the company will probably have to give up any further attempt to raise canning crops in this area this year and perhaps in future years BOY CHOPS HAND Lloyd Alder son of Bishop and Mrs Gerald Alder met with an nn accident while chopping kindling kindling kindling kind kind- ling wood at the family home Sunday evening He made a abad abad ahad bad had stroke with the axe hitting his hand and severing the cord between the index finger and the thumb The injury has to be quite painful for him |