| Show TURKEY GROWERS PROFIT by NEW FREIGHT WES northwestern producers win lon long 9 sought court decision the new schedule of low rates ordered recently by the interstate inter state commerce commission on dressed poultry including turkeys took effect late yesterday just in time to bring a substantial saving to producers in the marketing of thanksgiving turkey pools the rate reductions on turkeys shipped from utah and the other states mentioned to atlantic coast consuming centers average about 35 cents per pounds explains herbert beyers general manager of the northwestern association this will bring an average annual saving in transportation charges of 75 to per carload it is being passed to the cooperative producers so that the members of the northwestern association in this region will be richer by a year the annual saving to all commercial turkey men in the four states affected will be about mr air beyers estimates the dressed poultry rate case was waa decided in favor of the turkey growers after years of controversy for months the turkey men of this section through the northwestern cooperative had petitioned titio ned the transcontinental carriers for voluntary reductions in rates on dressed poultry moving east cast claiming that the existing rates were unreasonable in march 1933 the northwestern turkey growers association tired of repeated rejections on the carriers camera part and filed a complaint with the 1 I C C A decision favoring the cooperative was rendered on june 21 1935 and the rate reduction now in defect was ordered |
