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Show Beet Processors, Growers Agree On '41 Contract Pact Specifies Increased Returns Re-turns In Upper Producer Brackets; Leaders Urge Maximum Max-imum Plantings The annual controvery over sugar beet rates ended Sunday w.ui producers and processois a-rc-ed on contract terms for the i.rtl season. Text of the agreement agree-ment win not oe available until it is iormaiiy f.led by attorneys ior botn Sides, but it was understood under-stood to be substantially the -laii-.e a. .r. :040 except that the rowers will receive higher payments pay-ments ior tnej- Deets in the upper up-per brackets than last year. After tnree weeks of intermittent intermit-tent veroai sparring and legal maneuvering, DOth parties re-.cased re-.cased statements to tne effect i.iat a satisfactory compromise had been reached. The statements, state-ments, originally drawn Saturday Satur-day ijllowmg tne conclusion of lOrmai coherences, but withheld overnight due to "unexpected ueveiopmenis, were issued tun-I tun-I uay loiiowing a hastily called : meeting in the offices of Douglai E. bcaiiey, general manager of the Utah-idano Sugar company. J. R. Rawlins of Draper, president presi-dent of the Utah Beet Growers' association, and Preston Ellsworth, Ells-worth, who heads the Idaho producers' pro-ducers' organization, were re- ' sponsible ior the the statement released by the growers, who attended at-tended Sunday's final get-togeth-ei. It follows: "At a conference held among the directors of the various bett growers' organizations for Utah, Idaho and Oregon and the Utah-Idaho, Utah-Idaho, Amalgamated and Layton sugar companies, represented by their general managers, the terms of a contract for the 1941 crop were agreed upon. Complete discussion was held on prospective prospec-tive sugar prices and national legislation as they relate to the terms of the contract. "Tne 1941 beet contract is more favorable to growers in the higher brackeiis than last year's contract. "We urge farmers to plant their full acreage allotment. The price of sugar is now on the upgrade up-grade and every indication points to better returns to farmers than during the past year." 'Mr. Scahey spoke for James E. Ellison of the Layton Sugar company of Layton, and H. A. Benning of Che Amalgamated Sugar company of Ogden, as well as for his own firm. His statement state-ment follows: "The 1941 contract released at this time makes it possible for beet growers to plant their full allotment. Under this year's restricted re-stricted acreage program, which practically assures that the demand de-mand for acreage will exceed that available, it is imperative that every grower plant his full allotment or release it to a neigh--c.- who will do so. "Sugar prices are better today than for some time, and the improved im-proved moisture conditions in ail areas pomts to a successful crop. "The real job ahead of growers grow-ers and all parties interested in the domestic beet sugar industry is to see that legislation affecting ihe industry now pending in congress is equitably drawn. In this regard, it is vitally important import-ant that we all keep in close touch with developments in Washington. "The Utah-Idaho Sugar company comp-any is vitally interested and is exeiung every effort to increase acreage and sales quota allotments allot-ments in the area in which it now operates. Our company is hopeful that the restrictions now imposed upon growers will be eased in the new sugar act. We also are desirous that those farmers and areas which were primarily instrumental in developing devel-oping the domestic industry be given first consideration if and when the restrictions are removed. remov-ed. -It will be noted that the 1941 contract calls for increased payments pay-ments to growers in the higher oiackets. This is in line with the progressive policy of the processors affected. "We also wish to call attention .0 the fact that increased freig-.it rates from the areas shipping cane sugar into this country xrom abroad has upped the price of sugar generally, thus demon-itrat.ng demon-itrat.ng once more the value and .mporlance of the domestic industry in-dustry to the people of the United Uni-ted States. Mr. Scalley announced that the Utah-Idaho concern, together with the Gunnison Sugar company, comp-any, would make a subsequent payment io its growers in Utah and Idaho districts of 25 cents a ton on beets grown in 1940. Tne payment, which will be made on March 15, will amount to about $200,000. |