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Show J. Arza Adams Elected Head of Utah Poultry J. Arza Adams of Pleasant Grove was elected president of the Utah Poultrry and Farmers Cooperative at the 33rd annual meeting in Salt Lake City. He will lead the 10,000 member organization during the coming year. This is the second major honor for Mr. Adams in the last month. He was just recently re-cently named president of the National Turkey Federation. Other officers named at the convention were William A. Bar-locker Bar-locker of St. George, first vice president; Carl F. Lundell of Spanish Fork, third vice president. H. M. Blackhurst of Salt Lake was renamed general manager and treasurer and C. K. Ferre was renamed re-named secretary. President Peterson reported satisfying sat-isfying gains for the year just closed and Mr. -Blackhurst, general gener-al manager, voiced optimism over the prospects for the year ahead. He reported that cash repayments to members over the years had amounted to six and one half millions, representing additional income or profit to members over top market prices which members had already received. Theron M. Campbell o.f Providence Provi-dence was the only new director named to the board. He succeeds H. Ray Pond of Richmond who did not run for reelction. Mr. Adams, E. Smith Peterson of Salina, the retiring president and D. O. Roberts Rob-erts of Henefer, were renamed as directors. The convention was one of the biggest and most successful in the history of the cooperative with more than 800 members in attend- ance from every part of Utah and southern Idaho. Mr. Adams pointed out the Utah Turkey Federation this year has voted to send an additional $1500 which represents a 25 per cent increase, in-crease, to the national "Eat-More-Turkey" program for 1956 to help sell the contemplated heavy crop of turkeys and the new program which proves that turkeys have the highest protein content of any meat and the lowest fat content. "I sincerely hope that Utah will he the first to meet this extra assessment," assess-ment," he concluded, "and I'm sure they will be." |