Show TURKEY processing STARTS IN NEW PLANT the cooperative turkey growers growers association opened up its new poultry processing plant on monday at the present time the plant is employing 80 men and women as dinners and approximately 30 other men as killers boughers rou ghers packers etc four trucks are em cm played in hauling turkeys from the farm to the processing plant the birds are fully insured from the time they are loaded onto the truck until they leave the plant J S thompson Thomps who is chairman of the board of directors of ohp th association is acting as general nia manager nager of the plant wayne wilson ls is acting as bookkeeper and and E J Gr ossenberg is acting as plant foreman the processing began rather slowly with will only a partial crew but it intended that the plant will be running at full capacity within a day or two one hundred arid add fifty additional men and women will bo be employed at the plant to assist in processing the birds that are booked for killing and dressing lor for the thanksgiving market the beginning of the poultry processing campaign has attracted many buyers to cedar city and the prices being offered are 19 cents for prime toms and 22 cents for prime hens in order to process all the birds that have been booked both a night and a day shift will be run at the plant for the next week or ten days it is estimated that the plant will process approximately birds for the thanksgiving and christmas markets |