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Show Ask Increase For Beet Crop Resolution Asks $14 Per Ton For Crop A resolution calling for the payment of 514 per ton on 1944 sugar beets and the assurance , of adequate labor supplies featured J the annual meeting Monday of I the Cache County Sugar Beet I Growers' Association at which all ' officers were reelected. 1 Frank Wood of Amalga, was reelected re-elected to serve his tenth year as president of the organization. Other officials are Geddes XIaughan of Wellsville, vice president pres-ident for his fourth consecutive term; A. L. Harris of Richmond, secretary-treasurer since the or. ganlzation was founded 20 years ago, and Ervin Read of Trenton, with 16 years of service: Cyril K. Munk of Benson and Wesley Nelson Nel-son of College, for fourth terms on the executive board. The association declared that a sugar beet price increase ot $14 per ton is necessary to make beets a competitive crops with other war crops. If assurance is provided next spring that the increased price will be granted and that adequate labor will be available, the resolution declared, the association associa-tion will support wholeheartedly government sugar beet goals which will call for a 43 per cent increase in production over 1942 next year. |