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Show If Growing Conditions Normal There Should Be Ample Canned Goods Says Wesley Jense With weather and growing conditions con-ditions normal for the coming season there should be an ample supply of canned goods both for military and civilian needs, Wesley Wes-ley Jense, general manager of the Pleasant Grove Canning Company, and presiednt of the Utah Canners association, said Thursday. Mr. Jense, who returned last Friday from Chicago, after spending spend-ing a week attending the National Nat-ional Canners Association convention, conven-tion, stated that government of- ficlals who taked at the conclave had not yet outlined plans for the coming year. However, the state canning official said, the government govern-ment is working on ceilings, pricing pric-ing formals, and that there is a new order coming out on tin plate, but its uses and restrictions have not yet been decided. Upon his return, Mr. Jense said that a Utah canners convention would be held March 7 and 8 at the Hotel Utah. Speakers will include in-clude the officer in charge of the porcurement depot, quartermaster corps, Oakland, Calif.; Dr. Walth-er Walth-er Mathesius, president of Geneva Steel Company; George M. Gads-by, Gads-by, president of Utah Power & Light Company; Richard L. Evans, LDS Church official; and Dr. J. Russell Esty, director of the Western Wes-tern Research laboratory, San Francisco. At an emergecy meeting of canners can-ners Feb. 20, at Chicago, the Quartermaster General set forth the number of cases the military still needs from the 1950 pack, which will be prorated among the packers to produce. In some cases, Mr. Jense said, packers will have to take back orders from buyers to meet their government quotas. Canned vegetables produced by the Pleasant Grove Canning Company, Com-pany, which were in short supply from the 1950 crop are (these figures to be prorated among canners throughout the country) : Green Beans, 244,736 cases; carrots, car-rots, 16,656 cases; catsup, 252,045; corn, 779,634; peas, 817,199; tomatoes, to-matoes, 1,122,719; tomato juice, 581,400; and tomato puree, 160,000 cases. Mr. Jense said that if all of the cases of canned goods required by the government from the 1950 pack cannot be obtained from that year, the remainder would have to come out of this year's crop in order that the military may build up its required volume. The local canning official stated that he bad met with officials of Campbell's Soup Company and was told that the famous creators of soups would take all of the tomato to-mato paste that the Pleasant Grove Canning Company can pro-i pro-i duce this year. In talking to canning officials from the Middlewest, South and from Colorado, , Mr. Jense said that in many of those districts frost had badly damaged the peach crop outlook. Mr. Jense said that Utah was honored at the convention with the election of Herbert Barnes, president of the Kaysville Canning Company, as president of the national association. Mr. Barnes is the second man from Utah to i be elected to that important position, pos-ition, he said. After the election of Mr. Barnes, Barn-es, Utah canners at the convention conven-tion held a dinner party in his i honor at the Blackstone Hotel. Also present were close friends and officials of the American Can Company. Sixty persons were at the banquet which was attended by retiring president of the association, assoc-iation, Henry Taylor, of Virginia, Mr. Jense said. Mrs. Wesley Jense accompanied her husband to Chicago, and reports re-ports having a very enjoyable trip. Mr. and Mrs. Jense were present at the Morrison Hotel, in Chicago, to see Miss Mary Anna Moyle, win third place in the Cherry pie contest. |
