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Show American Fork Well Represented At Poultry Meet H. W. Ballard Jr. of Smithfield, ' formerly first vice president of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative association, was elected president of the organization at the colcluding session of the annual convention, at Salt Lake City Thursday of last week. He succeeds Albert Tregaskis of American Fork. D. H. Whitenburg of Richfield was elected first vice president; William A. Shulberg of Preston, Idaho, second sec-ond vice president, and A. W. Cher-rington Cher-rington of Springville, third vice president. Mrs. Mary K. Mower of American Fork was chosen president of the women's auxiliary which was organized or-ganized at the convention. Mrs. H. R. Pond of Richmond was named vice president, and Mrs. A. W. Cherrington of Springville, secretary secre-tary and treasurer. Mrs. Mower announced here, following fol-lowing the convention, that the first objectives of the auxiliary would be be to organize local auxiliaries. The organization also will direct its energies en-ergies toward stimulating consumer buying of poultry products, with a "springtime egg-festival" as one of the- features of the campaign. The special care of eggs on the poultry farm, with a view to improving the quality and handling methods also will be taken up. Resolutions stating the policy of the association with respect to organized or-ganized labor, calling for free flow of commerce between states, and asking that college students be given increased opportunity for study of farm marketing problems were adopted at the convention. In his annual report, Clyde C. Edmonds, Ed-monds, general manager of the cooperative, said the policy of the army to provide at least one egg per day per soldier will tend to strengthen strength-en egg prices. He estimated that Utah egg producers have benefitted by about $500,000 by activities of the surplus market administration, which is believed to be responsible for holding the market at least three cents higher than it might otherwise other-wise have been. Mr. Tregaskis, the outgoing president, presi-dent, spoke briefly at the Friday morning session. American Fork was well represented represent-ed at the convention, with from 60 to 70 local people attending the meetings and nearly 90 from here attending the banquet Thursday night at the Hotel Utah. Contestants Contest-ants from American Fork walked away with a generous share of the prizes in the sponge cake baking contest. Over 300 cakes were entered, enter-ed, and 80 prizes were awarded. Among the prize winners w-ere Ernest Lloyd, Mrs. George F. Shelley, Mrs. Frank Shelley, Mrs. Albert Tregaskis Tregas-kis and Mrs. Leslie Parker, of American Ameri-can Fork. o |
