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Show State's Canners Set Aside Pack For Defense Utah's farmers and canners are making a large contribution to the defense effort by earmarking earmark-ing an estimated 3,762,250 cans of state-grown vegetables in '51 for the exclusive use of the armed firces, it was reported Wednesday by Wesley Jense, supt. of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Canning Co., and president pres-ident of the Utah Canners Assn. The set-aside for defense ranges ran-ges from 10 to 20 per cent of Utah's principal vegetable packs. For each pack the set-aside is calculated on the basis of a formula form-ula issued by the U. S. Government Govern-ment of Agriculture, president Jense said. I The 1951 quota for "military use is substantially larger than when UN troops first became engaged en-gaged in Kbrea. "These food packs represent an important stratetigic asset to our armed forces. "They link the state of Utah directly with our fighting men in Korea and with our many other outposts in the world struggle," the canning head stated. As a result of a special tin-conservation tin-conservation process developed by American Can Co., scientists in cooperation with tin plate producers, the larger volume of containers required by Utah canneries can-neries can be manufactured with only two-thirds of the tin formerly form-erly required, Mr. Jense pointed out. Tomatoes will head up the list of vegetables to be set-aside with approximately 3 million cans of this popular food item slated for defense use. Other major vegetable items grown and packed pack-ed here which are scheduled for the military kitchens are green beans and carrots. Over 500,000 cans of beans and nearly 130,000 cans of carrots will go into- defense de-fense menus, Mr. Jense concluded. |