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Show MawcDescribes Utah's PostWar Program Speaks at Annual Dairy Association Meet The Utah government has turned turn-ed its major attention to the problem of providing jobs for returning re-turning service men and workers now employed in Utah war industries, indus-tries, Governor Herbert B. Maw declared Thursday at the annual meeting of the Cache Valley Dairy association in Logan. Declaring that Utah's congressional congres-sional delegation is ''looking out for state interests in a wideawake wide-awake manner," Governor Maw said a major concern of officials in the state and in Washington is to provide . opportunities for servicemen in the demobilization period. The state administration seeks to help establish adapted industries indus-tries in various Utah areas which will provide an adequate payroll for residents of the areas, he said. Temporary work projects may be instituted to supplement the local industries. A state committee has been set up to help develop occupational opportunities for veterans, he announced, an-nounced, and other committees are being considered to deal with small and large business concerns, highway construction, public building build-ing construction, reclamation and labor. He praised the Amalga cheese plant of the association as being typical of the type of decentralized industry needed to provide local payrolls in the postwar period. Reporting on a recent conference confer-ence with President Roosevelt and other high government officials while in Washington, Governor Maw said no hope is held by officials offi-cials for the retention of the army air force training detachment at Utah Srat. Anicuitural college after pre:-nt bjJdeuts complete their training in June. The order closing the detachment was issued "because the air force has all the trained pilots needed, and replacements re-placements will be taken care of through regular army training," he said, predicting that all such college col-lege units will be closed soon. He expressed conviction that the gigantic Geneva steel plant near Provo, will continue to operate. op-erate. The Governor's address featured the meeting at which directors reelected John H. Schenk of College, Col-lege, president; Aaron Leishman of Wellsville, vice president; A. W., Chambers of Smithfield, secretary-treasurer, secretary-treasurer, and Hazen Spackman of Lewiston and Moses Chrlstof-fersen, Chrlstof-fersen, of Cornish, executive board members. Mr. Chambers, In his annual reports, said that the Amalga factory had processed 13,264,295 pounds of milk in manufacture of cheese during 1943,, for which the association paid more than $300,-000. $300,-000. The average butterfat price was 69 cents per pound. The association employs seven milk haulers, 10 plant workers and three office workers, he said. There are 800 members in the cooperative. coopera-tive. He praised the work of Edwin Ed-win Gossner, plant manager, and said "he makes an ideal quality of cheese." |