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Show UTAH NAMES HEADS FOR FARM LABOR SERVICE Responsibility for recruiting and supplying farm laborers has been given to the Extension Service Ser-vice of the state agricultural colleges col-leges throughout the country. Utah has appointed G. Alyin Carpenter, extension economist, supervisor of this program, with O. O. Jorgensen, veteran of World War I an II, as his assistant. Much of the spade work for the 1944 farm labor demands has already al-ready been done by these labor experts. ex-perts. Negotiations have been entered en-tered into with the Mexican nat- ionals during the next six months, with the Relocation Authority for several hundred Japanese evacuees, ev-acuees, with school for 'tean-age volunteers," and they have sent out appeals for help from non-farm non-farm groups. First of the Mexican contigent will arrive here about the first of this month and the second group about the middle of - May. They will assigned to the counties coun-ties where the need is greatest. Foreign workmen wi'.l be housed in labor camps which which are being operated by the office of Labor with Lyman Roberts of Salt Lake City in charge, at the end of the season, the Mexicans will be returned to their native country, and the Japanese will go V .'4 ; i '- '' i -- - 1 back to the relocation centers. Farmers who need laborers during dur-ing the planting, growing or harvesting har-vesting seasons should make their applications early to the county Extension agent's office. |