| Show Doug Simpson Is Elected Re-Elected Head I I Utah Farm Union e Locals fictive Active I I Summit County County entertainers I were wore in the spotlight Saturday Feb Peb 13 when they furnished the music musio for the tho Farmers Union i Ladies Ladles Millinery diodes luncheon land and banquet at the Newhouse e Hotel I Karen Knight gave three beautiful beautiful beau beau- vocal numbers number accompanied by Morrisey at the Millinery Millinery Mil Mil- Modes luncheon Dinner music was furnished a athe atthe at the banquet by iDee Dee Winterton Tean roan Simpson violinist accompanied panted by laid Inid Reese and accordion accordion accor accor- dion duets by Lynn Winterton and Dixie Marchant I D Douglas uglas T T. T Simpson of Kansas Amal was wu reelected Utah Farmers UnIon Union Union Un Un- ion president during the two day Seventh Annual Utah State Farmers Farm arm ers ems Union convention Friday and Saturday at the Newhouse Hotel in Salt Lake City Jesse S S. S Tuttle of was wall elected vice resident succeeding Douglas A. A Bergeaon of ot Cornish Mrs Rose Roso Johnson of Salt Lake City was waa elected to the office of secretary secretary- treasurer New Officers OffIcer i The following were elected to toI the Farmers Union hoard Board of Dir Directors Directors Di Di- I r rectors Elmer N N. N Jensen Jonsen Midvale Midvale Mid Mid- vale James Jame A. A Phillips I and Dean Deall Coombs Coombe They replace Raleigh F. F Williams I Spanish Fork W Wallace Hoi Hoi- m man n Delta and Douglas A. A Bergeson Bergeson Berg Berg- eson of Cornish comish respectively Climaxing two days of business meetings delegates and members gathered for a banquet banque Saturday evening to h hear ar guest speaker Tony Dechant Dechan of Denver Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- I rado National Farmers Union executive executive ex ex- executive secretary Bill Passed Paned The visiting official told the group that tha Congress has provided I some direction In writing a strong string agricultural program bu but it has not been able to get anything passed over a presidential veto that tha would lift agriculture out 0 of its year seven-year depression Air Mr Dechant continued by pointing point point- ing out that a pattern for legislation legislation legis legis- legislation lation had been laid out in congressional congressional congressional con con- gressional bills bUls that would give gave farmers a real bargaining tower rower ower Similar while not Identical bills have been introduced by Sen Senators tors Hubert Huber Humphrey CD- CD D D- D Minn and Stuart Symington D D- Mo No and three representatives The Farmers Union executive 1 Charged t that a th the un ua- unhappy happy facts are uv 1 1 Ii in n 1 ures urea released by th the 1 Unhappy Figures Farm net income has dropped in 1952 to in 1959 the farm parity ratio has declined to 80 per cent in 1959 from 10 per cent In 1952 Farmers prices paces have e dropped cost coat of ot things they must buy has increased Farm real estate ane and nn estate have increased sharply since state 1952 the farmers farmer's cut of the food tood dollar is getting smaller yet |
