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Show I Farmers Urged To Oct Ballots h 6n PFtIA Elections Farmers are urged to check the deadline date for mailing Production and Marketing Administration Ad-ministration farmer-community committee election ballots to tne county PMA office, located at Roosevelt, Utah. Reed Lyons, chairman of the co-umy PMA committee, advisea that ballots will be mailed to all Duchesne County farmers who are known to be eligible to vote in these elections. To be counted, ballots must bear a postmark not later than the deadline date on the ballots. 1 A farmer is generally elegiblo to vote if he is an owner, operator, oper-ator, tenant, or sharecropper of ; a farm and is participating in or carrying out practices in ac- cord with programs adminisler-' adminisler-' ed by the PMA committees. 1 Farmers who are eligible but I who "have not yet received a ballot should notify the countj PMA- committee or County office. of-fice. - s. . Ballots have been prepared I and ihe voting will be for three farmers to serve as members of a community PMA committee, a delegate from each community commun-ity to 'the county convention where the delegates will elect 1 the county committee, and alternates. al-ternates. Mr. Lyons urges every eligible eligi-ble voter to get his ballot in the mail before the deadline and to vote for the farmers he thinks are most able and wiping wip-ing to take on the responsibili ties of program administration in 1953. In the coming year, h points out, community committeemen commit-teemen will visit all farms in their areas to help farmers develop de-velop their conservation pro- gram. This procedure was followed in one county in each state this year. Increased participation, more acres protected by conservation, conser-vation, and greater concentration concentra-tion on practices of a more permanent nature have resulted in these counties. |