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Show l i-SANPETE COUNTY WANTS FARM AGENT AT HOME In the column "County Agents Who Have Made Good" should be placed the name of Theron W. Ben-nion, Ben-nion, County Agent for Sanpete county, to judge from a petition that has been formulated by the Farm Bureau of that county and presented . to President Wilson, Governor Bamberger, Bam-berger, President E. G. Peterson of the Utah Agricultural college and the State Council of Defense asking that Mr. Bennion be released from military mili-tary duty in the aviation corps of the United States army, a branch of the service in which Mr. Bennion enlisted enlist-ed some time ago. The petition declares that Mr. Bennion Ben-nion has made himself indispensable to the agricultural needs of Sanpete county and that a new county agent could not be trained to the needs of the county in time to be of great service, ser-vice, during the present season. Inasmuch In-asmuch as increased production is s.uch a crying need of the country today, to-day, and inasmuch as Mr. Bennion is in a position to increase the agricultural agricul-tural production of Sanpete 'county this fall, states the petition, he should be released from military duty. |