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Show I Growers Pledge to Meet Goals; Protest Prices Suflicii.nt vegetable canning crop.s to ij:a':i(U- cannfr.s for full .SL-uxm uj iu!.,fjii.s Vv'-rc t;l(l0ed by (jtlii.'Uil, of tin; Ul-ili-I,la)io canning can-ning crojxs aso(;i:ial-ion at tiieir (iiuiiial Monday hue tiioy dnnv up I'c.olLiUoni tjroU-.am the lvw-rrd war fotni adn"iui.stration prO;(t,c(l prices on tin ..j co:n-jnoduics. co:n-jnoduics. Tin.' rcsulutiom, protesting the iccn-u.se of $3.50 j.-r ton for peas from 1U44 price; S 10 for beans, and thy .same price for tomatoei, will be forwarded to WFA and Agricultural Adjustment Administration Adminis-tration ugencies in Washington, D. C, according to A. W. Chambers, Cham-bers, SmiUificld, president of '-he group. Mr. Chambers, who recently returned re-turned from Walla Wa.Ua, Wash., where lie represented Utah, canning can-ning crop growers at a western division mc ting, suid similar resolutions were passed at that meeting. He pointed out that in-cieu.scd in-cieu.scd labor and production cotts vould make it excecdinij'y unprofitable un-profitable for growers to raise these crops. For the twenty-third consecutive year, Mr. Chambers was reelected president ind J. W. Matkin, Hyde Pnrk, secretary-treasurer. Other officers are LaVor Doney, Franklin, Frank-lin, Ida., vice president replacing Thomas O. Stokes, Preston, Idaho, Byron Snow, Nibley, and LaVere Balls, Dayton, Idaho, executive members. Summarizing activities of the organization or-ganization since its founding, Mr. Chambers said it was one of the first of its type in the Unied States. Starting with 250 members, it now has approximately 1,000 of the 5,000 members in the state oiganization, of which Mr. Chambers Cham-bers is secretary. At the Walla Walla meeting, he said members reviewed pro'o .- is of canning crop growers in the western area in regarding to grading grad-ing methods and pnees for peas, beans and corn. A report of the Utah organization was given by Mr. Chambers and J. L. Weidman, Tremonton, who urged formation of a national organization along similar lines. The delegates voted to develop a national canning crops program which would include a reduction of acreage in the postwar period in line with expected national consumption con-sumption and the suggestion that the accumulated wartime stockpile stock-pile of these commodities be marketed mar-keted orderly so ar. not to compete, com-pete, with current production. |