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Show Elmer Yergensen Gets High Farmer Group Post At one of the concluding sessions ses-sions of the second annual Utah Farmers Union convention held in Salt Lake City last weekend, Elmer El-mer Yergensen, Myton farmer, was re-elected vice-president of the state group. His election followed fol-lowed on the selection of Jesse S. Tuttle, Castle Dale, as the president. pres-ident. He also was re-elected. Other officers and directors elected included: Mrs. Doris G. Smith, Salt Lake City, secretary-treasurer, secretary-treasurer, and Douglas Bergeson, Cornish; Douglas Simpson, Kamas; John R. Sayer, Springville; William Wil-liam J. Ostler, Roosevelt; J. A. Phillips, Nephi; Harry Zabriskie, Fairview, directors. The delegates also named Verl R. Tucker, Elmo; Burton Adams, Pleasant Grove, and Mrs. John R. Sayer, Mapleton, representatives representa-tives to attend the NFU annual insurance division meeting next month in Denver. Back River Project Resolutions adopted at the final business session included one attacking at-tacking the National Tax Equality Assn. for indulging in a "smear campaign of half-truths and in-neundo in-neundo to vilify and discredit cooperatives co-operatives and all forms of nonprofit, non-profit, self-help enterprises." The Colorado River Development Develop-ment Project was endorsed unanimously unan-imously as the delegates "urged immediate construction of Echo Dam and all other segments of the water storage program." Referring to taxation, the Farmers Farm-ers Union proposed raising state income taxes on net incomes above $5,000 from the present 5 per cent to 6 per cent on net incomes of $6,000. |