| Show starts ar S buying za government potatoes price stabilization is aim will distribute through local relief agencies austin hunter a representative of the federal surplus commodities corporation is making his headquarters in richfield this week while purchasing potatoes in southern utah for the government as a a means of stabilizing izing prices for the product authorization was given recently for the purchase of 35 carloads of potatoes in utah 30 carloads of which were to be taken from southern utah growers at a meeting held friday evening at circleville Cir cleville quotas were listed at 14 carloads for piute diute county five for sevier one for sanpete and ten for garfield counties sevier county growers attending the meeting were charles coons of richfield harold parker of joseph and vernon hatch of koosharem Koo sharem mr hunter was accompanied by H W gore of richfield district agricultural inspector any farmers wishing to sell potatoes to the surplus commodities corporation should notify the county agents office the potatoes purchased by the government will be distributed through local welfare departments to persons in need and will not be unlaced on the market in competition with any local business mr gore reports purchase of apples in the northern part of the state recently had an exhilarating effect on the market and cash buyers hurried in to get a supply that reduced the surplus so the government found it unnecessary to purchase the amount originally planned potato growers of piute diute county are working to make connections with the market in phoenix arizona |
