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Show Lions Hear Talk From Turkish Agriculturist The delegation sent from Turkey Tur-key to study agricultural methods in the United States favored the Pleasant Grove Lions Club with their attendance Wednesday night. The delegation is headed by Kem-al Kem-al Gokcara, assistant general director dir-ector of agriculture ministry of agriculture of turkey, and Kodri Angen, section chief. Three agricultural agri-cultural school directors, Hamdi Icencer, Hasan Yetener, and Ismail Is-mail Ergene completed the party. Of the ten days allotted to Utah, they are spending one day in the vicinity of Pleasant Grove, visiting the school and farms. They are escorted by assistant director of agricultural education, Elvin Downs. Willis Banks, of the high school, joined them here. Mr. Kemal Gokcara discussed his home country with the club. It has various climates and rainfall, compared com-pared to the wide range of the United States, although it is only the size of Texas. Likewise the range of agricultural production runs from citrus fruits and cotton to field crops, fruits and vegetables. vege-tables. They practice both dry and irrigation farming. Cattle and sheep and certain metal mining farm the balance of their industry. While tVitsv arft hurnmiriiy mpfh. anized, most of the machinery is imported, largely from the United States. Transportation in Turkey is by railroad, truck, airplane and ship. Roads are becoming better all the time. The government owns the railroad in Turkey. While the people are historically Moslems, Catholicism and Protestantism Protest-antism is obaining a foothold. The government is a Republic since 1929. They consider the United Un-ited States their best friend and ally and take rigid action against Communism and its followers. They maintain a large standing army, ar-my, one million of their 25,000,000 population are under arms. |