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Show Hew Supervisors Selected By S.C.S. District Uintah Basin farmers have elected three new supervisors for the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Con-servation District. When the vote was counted, Ray Brown, Monarch; Forrest Hancock, of Pleasant Valley, and Harold Dudley, Randlett, received the largest number of votes, so reported re-ported Alden White, chairman of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Con-servation District board of supervisors. su-pervisors. Other farmers receiving re-ceiving votes in the election were Bert Stoddard, Randlett; Alden, White, Ballard; Charles Wise, Jensen; Leon Dump, Al-tonah; Al-tonah; Joe Wilcken, Hanna, and R. C. Thorne. Ray, Forrest and Harold will replace Alden White, Ballard; Leslie Goodrich, Bluebell, and Joe Wilcken, Hanna. Mr. White has completed his second three-year three-year term as supervisor, and has been chairman of the board for three years. More than 400 ballots were cast from the 2,200 ballots mailed to farmers in the Uintah Basin on March 3, according to ihe election judges, Joseph Wilcken, Wil-cken, Tom Shisler and Lee Angus. An-gus. The Uintah Basin Soil Conservation Con-servation District was organized in 1942 under the laws of the State of Utah. The affairs of the District are managed by five farmers serving without pay. Two of these farmers are appointed ap-pointed by the State Soil Conservation Con-servation Committee and the other three are elected at a regularly reg-ularly scheduled election. Soil Conservation Districts are organized by farmers as a way of working together in the conservation of soil and water resources. The activities of the various State and Federal agencies agen-cies working in the field of soil and water conservation are based bas-ed on the program managed by the District. |