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Show BaSiry Prodocte IFSm CoBntSmiues With Pfan To BiiyCalder Bros. Local Opposition To Mountain Valley Dairy Products Lessens; Calder Deal Set For December 15 THE date for taking over the Calder Bros, plants in the Uintah Basin by the Mountain Valley Dairy Products Company has been advanced to December 15, Bruce Fitzgerald, president of the Hi-Land Dairy, affiliate announced an-nounced this week. Completion of the transaction between the Mountain Valley Dairy and Cal-der's Cal-der's was set for Monday, Dec. 1, but difficulties arising from opposition by local producers resulted re-sulted in the 15 day postponement. postpone-ment. Local milk producers voiced opposition to the Mountain Valley Val-ley Dairy Products Company on the grounds that the firm's oper-1 ations within the Basin would) bring about a removal of consumers' con-sumers' dollars from the area. In the face of this opposition, Mountain Valley Dairy Products officially cancelled arrangements with Calders for taking over of their . properties on Monday, December 1. Under date of November 28, Warwick C. Lamoreaux, attorney attor-ney for the Mountain Dairy Products Pro-ducts Company, dispatched the withdrawal order to L. R. Curtis, Manager of the Mountain Valley Dairy Products Company. The termination order carried the following information: y "IT is reported to us that a local group of milk producers in the Basin are ready and prepared pre-pared financially, to make a cash offer to Calder for all of the properties. pro-perties. We have been further advised that these interests are very much opposed to our organization organ-ization going through with the contract with Calder as planned. "Obviously, our plans for taking tak-ing the Calder plants over next Monday cannot be met without the sincere cooperation and good will of all of the milk producers in the territory. Since receiving the above information, the executive execu-tive committee of the Board of Directors has conferred and met Hamilton Calder, President of Calder Brothers Corporation, and have jointly agreed with him that all arrangements for taking over the plants next Monday are terminated. "You are therefore instructed to terminate your arrangements for taking over the plants. Naturally Nat-urally we regret to advise you of this action: but, in view of the position taken by the local interests in-terests there, we have no alternative alter-native than to defer in their favor. 'In order that the local groups may know of our sincere desire to give consideration to their-interests, we are sending a copy of this letter to the following: Bishop Lionel Jensen, Neola; Mr. Alden White at .Roosevelt; Mr. Chester Hartman at Mt. Emmons; Em-mons; President Ray Dillman at Roosevelt; President Delmar Mecham at Mt. Emmons; Commissioner Com-missioner Leandrew Gilbert at Arcadia; and the Roosevelt Standard." Subsequent meetings between representatives of the Mountain Valley Dairy Products Company and local milk producers result ed in an understanding and brought about Mountain Valley Dairy's reconsideration of its withdrawal from the Uintah Basin. Ba-sin. Accordingly, negotiations with Calder Bros, were resumed and the Mountain Valley Dairy Products Company has announced announ-ced definitely that it will take over the Calder plants in Roosevelt, Roose-velt, Vernal, Neola and Altonah on December 15. Following the announcement of Mountain Valley's renewed intentions, Bruce Fitzgerald, president of the firm, issued the following statement: "We are not here to take producer nor consumer dollars out of the Uintah Uin-tah Basin. The operations of the Mountain Valley Dairy Products Company means that there will be increased revenue in the Basin. The officers of our firm have established their homes here, and we earnestly seek the cooperation of local milk producers. pro-ducers. Our acquisition of the Calder properties is by no means a small undertaking, but we are certain that the Uintah Basin will realize full benefit from our operations as time goes by." |