Show Lower Freight Rates A Boon To Poultry A new reduction in freight I. I rates promises to be a boon to I the turkey processing industry I in the southern part of Utah I R. R L L. McDonough traffic manager manager manager man man- ager for the Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative announced Saturday that effective about April 1 the cost of shipping dressed poultry and turkey to eastern markets will be reduced an average of 21 cents per hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred weight Notification of the reduction marks the successful culmination of a year three-year campaign to get the costs o of processed turkey shipments east cast on the same level for Cedar City and southern Utah as for most other points of the state slate Cedar City and most of southern southern southern south south- ern Utah are located in Transcontinental Transcontinental Trans continental Rate Territory and have been tied to the Pacific Coast rates on dressed poultry shipments to the east As a result Cedar City and southern Utah have become an important turkey producing area but the excessive freight r rat rates a t e s shave have strangled the turkey processing Mr Ir McDonough started the fight to help Cedar City a and n d the turkey producers in that area three years ago As recent as January 15 1954 the Standing Standing Standing Stand Stand- ing Rate Committee of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau Bureau Bureau Bur Bur- eau issued a report and recommended recommended recommended rec rec- that the request for fora a freight reduction be declined McDonough immediately objected ob objected objected ob- ob to the committee report produced new facts and figures and made a personal plea to toV W. W T. T Burns vice president of traffic for the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha Saturday Mr 11 McDonough 1 was notified that his original application application application cation for a reduction of rates had been approved effective on statutory notice which will mean about 30 days hence or about April 1 Thus the Utah Poultry and md F Farmers n a r rm m e r rs s Cooperative traffic chief has again won a m most o 0 s t important victory for the poultry poultry poultry poul poul- try industry This change in rates rales will benefit all poultry and turkey producers in southern south south- ern Utah In commenting on the favorable favorable favorable favor favor- able action Clyde C. C Edmonds general manager of Utah Poultry Poultry Poultry Poul Poul- try said It HIt appears to me that this is a very important step in the economy of Cedar City and could very well be the forerunner of the adjustments which in due time lime could and j should be made here in Utah I In II I n 0 I Iother Joyce Ander Anderson on went with other Snow College student body officers to witness the inauguration inauguration inauguration of President Dixon at the theU U U. US U.S. S A. A AC C I |