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Show 40th Annual Farm Bureau Convention Set for Nov. 20-21 Farm Bureau leaders and members mem-bers from throughout the state will gather in Salt Lake City on Nov. 20, 21 and 22 for the 40th annual convention of the Utah State Farm Bureau Federation, according to Frank G. Shelley, Executive Ex-ecutive Secretary. Distinguished educational, religious, reli-gious, and farm leaders are scheduled sche-duled to address the convention sessions in the Newhouse Hotel, giving emphasis to good citizenship, citizen-ship, as well as imprtant agricul-al agricul-al issues facing the nation's farmers, far-mers, Mr. Shelley said. Adam S. Bennion, member of the Council of Twelve, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will deliver one of the key addresses addres-ses at the donvention on Nov. 21. Farm Bureau leaders from other parts of the nation who will be guest speakers at the convention include Roger Fleming, Evecutdve Secretary and head of the Legislative Legis-lative Department of the Washington, Wash-ington, D.C. office, American Farm Bureau Federation, Herman Au-berg Au-berg of the Chicago office Commodities Com-modities Department assigned to the Special Livestock Committee, and Mrs. Harold Robison of Ashtabula, Ash-tabula, Ohio, head of Farm Bureau Women in the mid-western region. Also heading up the speakers roster will be Ervin L. Peterson, assistant to Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Ezra Taft Benson, and Henry Hen-ry Aldous Dixlon, Utah Congressional Congres-sional representative. The Utah Farm Bureau Is a part of the American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation's largest farm group. On the local level, the organization numbers some 9,000 farm families. |