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Show Thinners Needed to Save Cache Beet Crop The Cache County farm labor committee has opened a campaign to recruit immediatly 2000 workers work-ers to avert serious losses of sugar sug-ar beets in the county, it was announced an-nounced by Lloyd R. Hunsaker, agricultural agent. "County beet fieaas are in a critical condition," he declared. "Beets are growing rapidly and fields are becoming weedy which will rii', thinning operations exceedingly ex-ceedingly . difficult. We must have the workers or lose the crop." Following a conference Wednesday Wednes-day evening with officials of the Amalgamated Sugar Company, Mt. Hunsaker announced that free transportation will be furnished to the workers. BBSS1IM I MHI I1 I1 - Busses will leave roe Logan Jr. high school at 7:30 a. m. and re-turn re-turn at 5 : 00 p. m. Workers will need to furnish their own hoes and lunches. Supervisors will be provided for the various crews." Boy Scouts of America, church welfare directors, the Logan chamber cham-ber of commerce and school officials of-ficials all are cooperating in the intensive drive to recruit the workers, work-ers, he said. "A fair wage scale for thinning has been set up and a quick system sys-tem of payment has been established," estab-lished," he continued. "Boys and girls from 10 to 18 years of age who are on school vacations, axe espacially urged to volunteer for the work.." He urged all industries and bus. iness firms in the county to "release "re-lease some labor to help in the beet fields for a week or 10 days. "It will take the combined efforts of all age groups, both men and women, to save this crop," he emphasized. em-phasized. Mqanwhile, the county labor committee filed an immediate request re-quest to the office of labor, to r-j'-ruit 1Q0 Japanese from . relocation relo-cation centers for work at the Amalga mobile arm labor camp. Bennie J. Ravsten, labor supeo-visor, supeo-visor, said that camp facilities have been expanded to take care of additional workers, who will be utilized throughout the remainder of the season. l |