Show F 1 l WAR MR NEWS NEW this war were in from africa comes a letter from L jt donald S gibson lt gibson is from weber county and before going anio in 0 the army was a farmer fieldman ro lo the AAA A paragraph from his letter reads its now dark so eo im finishing this letter by flashlight all of us will really appreciate the comforts of horns when we get back I 1 dont believe vey ve y many back home have any idea of ahat a so soldier adier goes through the sacrifices th t aey ey make in extra hours of work more taxes and more bonds cant compare to what a soldier goes through I 1 wish everyone realized that as a little more effort on the part of everyone would see us back to our homes sooner lt L t gibson vividly describes the lawling landing in africa and tells of having machine chine gun open fire on his men of bombs dropping all around and ana of being strafed by airplanes airplane i but his words a little more effort on the part of oe everyone would see us back to air homes sooner is the call that will he ie made to farmers of utah when the state joins in the national farm mobilization program to be launched january farm mobilization day the mobilization of all agriculture in the 1943 food for freedom program will mill begin with a farm mobilization day proclaimed by the president of f the united states for tuesday january 12 11 1 1943 1941 on that day the farm sign up will begin goals have been set up for each county and the farm sign up will take them to each individual farm As a prelude to farm mobilization day some of americas greatest lite ary figures will appear on victory Victo 31 front a CDS radio serie to begin n december 28 among those to appear will be lien vincent denet benet monday maxwell anderson tuesday no man corwin wednesday carl carmer thursday and sinclair lewis friday 1013 1043 goals approved food production goals which were ee ce healed at the five regional meetings s held at salt lake city ogden price cedar city and richfield richfield have been approved essentially as they were announced noun ced says leo mckinnon cha chaiem irmi n of the rich county USDA war doard board the goal for tame hay was boosted from the same as in 1912 to 9 a 10 1 percent increase over 1942 the goal coal calling for beans which was considered high for the state remains acres A for an adjustment brought this reply from fred S Wal wallace lae special war board assistant to the secretary of agriculture you suggested a reduction of the iry ry edible bean goal however it has I 1 en aen necessary for this goal to remain at it acres because of the extreme need for meeting our 1943 national bean goal and the general difficulty expected in meeting the goal in most states A goal of 14 acres 1 in 1913 for utah appears to be generally no more difficult to meet than the 1943 bean goals for other states the goals tor for the production of pork and pork products have been boosted from a 20 percent increase to a 25 percent increase meat bleat deliveries moved vp up uth stockmen stoc kmen were told this week that the office of price administration has bas authorized slaughterers slaughter ers to begin deliveries of new first quarter quotas december 20 12 days ahead if f time advance deliveries are limited continued on last page FOOD U P fa rm WAR NEWS L J continued from page one to 10 percent of next quarter quota however at the same time percentage quotas were announced ced for th first three months UL 01 i deliveries to civilians will be limited to the following percentages of 0 the first quarter of IM 1911 beef pork and veal 70 percent lamb and mutton 75 percent machinery and repairs repair the war production board has assigned a preference rating of AA 1 to materials to be used in the manufacture of repair parts and new farm faxon machinery this new rating was designed to speed work on tillage tools repair parts and new machinery for spring planting more milk for civilians the U S department of agriculture will release 2 million cases of government owned milk for civilian consumption to alleviate temporary temp orar milk shortage save containers fruit and vegetable growers of rich county were urged this week to accumulate immediately a stockpile of secondhand second hand containers the extreme scarcity of materials to make new nev containers makes it necessary that an old container which can be used be kept in service the latest food heading the list f dehydrated foods for troops overseas Is rice pudding the commodity credit corporation flour millers and distillers are working on a program to increase tile tae p arua tion of industrial alcohol for war uses t is expected that between 8 and 2 million bushels of government owned wheat will be used during the first quarter of 1343 1943 new ceilings on wholesale prices of all domestic fowl have been set at levels slightly higher than thoss those generally prevailing at this time last year this reflects a producer return of between and 1 10 percent of parity this is intended to stimulate the production of chicken and turkey for meat |