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Show S'-igar Cc-T.pary Official Explains Stand On Contract Inability of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company to reach a contract con-tract agreement with its beet growers in Utah and Southern Idaho at the two day conference held in Salt Lake City last week was explained Friday in a statement state-ment issued by Douglas E. Seal-' ley, vie.- president and general manager of the sugar company. The contract offered to growers grow-ers by the company is the highest high-est thus far offered in the United Uni-ted States this year, according to Mr. Scalley, and is exactly the sam.' contract as the one recently approved by the same beet grower associations for the Lewiston and Ogden districts, in Utah, and for the Twin Falls and Rupert districts, in Idaho, with another sugar company. Moreover, Mr. Scalley added, "the contract now offered is actually higher than the one which prevailed last year. It is definitely higher than contracts already approved for most other areas of the country." Mr. Scalley conceded that certain advantages which growers grow-ers and processors have enjoyed in the past five years under the federal government's emergency sugar program can no longer be ' expected. For one thing, he explained, the guarantee of a minimum price for his beets which the grower has enjoyed since 1943 is no longer in effect. Moreover, he explained, thc government will no longer pay a portion of the cost of transporting trans-porting field labor to the places where it will be needed, as it has done during the emergency years. However, the company will continue to co-operate with its growers and with local farm labor organizations and other processors of agricultural commodities com-modities to supply needed field labor for handling this year's crops, and has already taken substantial steps to this lend. |