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Show Cache Man Named to Ag. Commission Vernal Bergeson. prominent farmer far-mer of Cornish and an active Cache county Democrat was appointed ap-pointed Friday by Governor Herbert Her-bert B. Maw as a member of the state agricultural commission. He succeeds Dr. Seth T. Shaw, who resigned to become director of Agricultural Ag-ricultural Trade Relations, Inc. Mr. Bergeson assumed his new position Monday and will serve until un-til the expiration of Dr. Shaw's term in March 1, 1943. Dr. W. W. Merrill, Cache county Democratic chairman announced that state officials were well pleased pleas-ed with the selection. The other candidate was reported as Grant Ivins, a teacher in the Utah county school system. Well qualified to hold the new position, Mr. Bergeson is president of the Cache County Sugar Beet Growers' association, a director of C?.,m... nin tyrmaV C ' Q C ilC li DCVXX UUgOl J"--w .vn.u , sociation and a . director- of the Cache county Farm Bureau. He owns and operates a 100-acre farm at Cornish and is president of the Utida Pumping Irrigation company. Besides these activities he has been engaged in the feeding feed-ing and marketing of cattle and lambs for the past fifteen years. He has also been active in the Democratic party ind was a member mem-ber of the Maw-for-Governor club prior to the last general election. He was formerly chairman of the Cornish Democratic committee. Mr. Bergeson was born in Cache county on July 18, 1898 and received re-ceived his education in the primary pri-mary schools and later at the Brigham Young college in Logan. He is a son of the late Ephraim Bergeson, former president of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation. federa-tion. In religious circles he is a member mem-ber of the Benson stake high council and prior to that time was in the Cornish bishopric. He is also a World War I veteran. |