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Show Utah Names Heads For Farm Labor Recruiting Job I Responsibility for recruiting j and supplying farm laboroersj has been given to the Extension j Service of the state agricultural colleges throughout the country, j Utah has appointed G. Alvin Carpenter, extension economist, supervisor of this program, with O, O. Jorgensen, veteran of World 1 1 - . I " OSMOND 0.JOfZGEMSM " Wars I and II, as his assistant. Much of the spade work for the 1944 farm labor demands has already been done by these labor experts. Negotiations have been entered into with the Mexican government to supply this state with 1300 Mexican nationals during dur-ing the next six months; with the War Relocation Authority for several hundred Japanese evacuees, evac-uees, with schools for 'teen-age volunteers, and they have sent oat appeals for help from non-iarm non-iarm groups. First of the Mexican contingent will arrive here about May 1 and the second group between May 10 and May 15. They will be as- -v ka signed to the counties where tlic need is greatest. Foreign workmen work-men will be housed in labor camps which are being operated by the Office of Labor with Ly lan Uooerts of Salt Lake City in charge. At the end of the sea on, the Mexicans will be re urned to their native countr. and the Japanese will go back i le relocation cente-s. Farmers who need laborers dur ng the planting, growing c larvesting seasons should mai. .heir applications earlv to tl: ounty Extension agent's office. |