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Show Clyde Edmonds Named To New Advisory Position Clyde C. Edmonds, general manager of the Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative, has been named oh the Egg Industry Indus-try Advisory Committee which is being' formed to consult and advise with the Department of Agriculture on egg and poultry problems of the nation. Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture, asked Mr. Edmonds Ed-monds to serve on the committee commit-tee in a personal letter. Edmonds Ed-monds announced that he will accept the assignment. Edmonds attended a special egg conference in Washington last month called by the Department Depart-ment of Agriculture, and this permanent Egg Industry Advisory Advis-ory Committee has been established estab-lished as a result of that meeting. meet-ing. In referring to the last meeting meet-ing which included poultry leaders from all parts of the nation, Secretary Benson said: "The recommendations that came out of your meeting gave me a great deal of pleasure. I was happy to see that your group believes that the egg industry in-dustry wishes government assistance as-sistance in the form of better statistics and more research work, rather than in the form of price assistance. "This last conference was so successful that we want to make it a permanent advisory committee. com-mittee. I know much good will result from it." Mr. Edmonds, who has served on many national poultry committees com-mittees and boards, will represent repre-sent the Intermountain area on the new advisory committee. |