| National award £ to Bill GutshallI at ths didateswill bs » of thsi Brook-Wr. and \rs. Hoi »theme ion this *ory on to fiold • 1976 ♦hoinBill Gutshall. agri business instructor for high school students at the vocational-technical school, is one of regional winners who will be honored at the 28th annual convention of the National Vocational Teachers Association.Gutshall and his wife, who reside on RFD 5. Chillicothe. will receive an all-expense paid trip to the national convention in Houston. Texas on Dec. 3-7.An engraved plaque will be presented to Gutshall at the national convention as one of the 1976 Regional agri-business career exploration award winnersHonored Three Timet In recognizing Gutshall for the national award, information from the Missouri Vocational Agriculture Teachers Association, noted • that the Chillicothe instructor also had been previously honored on the state and regional level Regional IV includes Missouri. Michigan. Indiana. Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio Gutshall has been notified by James Wall. NVATA executive secretary, that has been named one of the six regional winners The awards are sponsored annually by Sperry New Holland, New Holland, Penn., in cooperation with the National Vocational Agriculture Teachers' (NVATA) in Lincoln, Neb.The NVATA is the national organization for over 10,000 vocational educators in agriculture-agr I-business throughout the United States Students need the counseling and guidance of mature, experienced, and interested adults Vocational agriculture teachers have the opportunity and information to help students make vocational decisions.Recognises Teachers The award recognized teachers who have designed and implemented a course of study emphasizing occupation orientation and stressing career opportunities in production agriculture and agn business occupation The winners of the award are vocational agriculture teachers whose interests in their students and American agriculture motivated them to devise and conduct strong local innovation career orientationthecontinuing or revising program.Gutshall Here Slace 1961 Gutshall came to the R-2 school system as a vocational agriculture instructor in 1961. He taught vo-ag classes for 10 years before switching to an adult education farm management class at the vocational-technical school.He is now an instructor in the agri-business program for high school students.Gutshall already has been recognized on the state level at Columbia and on the regional level at the convention held at the Lake of the Ozarks.Gutshall has received the highest honor for an ag teacher through an Honorary American Farmer Degree received at the National FFA convention a few years ago.BILL GUTSHALLFire alarmFire Chief Merle Hatfield reported the fire department was called about 1:30 p.m. Monday to Farmers Electric Cooperative, old Highway 36 east, when insulation in the new construction was ignited by a welding torch A new addition is being constructed at the Farmers Electric CooperativeWhere to Find It INSIDESportsPaget 2 and 3Today In lliatory People In Uie News Dear Abby 2t and 30 Years Ago l-egal Notices Deaths A Funerals Financial News45 S56 16 16^Gutshall's agribusiness Reed to head career exploration program of the Chillicothe R-2 school wasuie « mincmnr iv* ncnooithe year for 1974-75 and SllC grOUplity within n, and the kg are for»ple who art condi and the ihots may to theirte Diseaseincluded a description of the groups and programs involved in eighth grade, agri business I, agri business II, and agri business III, and agri-business IV (AOE).It also pointed out that agn business courses are available to secondary students from seven area schools, the need for the program, planning development and status of the current program, instructional materials used, an appraisal of the program and plans forK L. Reed of Chillicothe is the new president of the Missouri Seedmen's Association following his election at the annual meeting of the group held last week in Jefferson City.Heed and his father, Charles Reed of Reed's Seed's, Inc., in Chillicothe attended the annual meeting and business session of the seedmen’s group at the Ham a da Inn.Reed replaces Ralph Bolzenius of the MFA SeedfUuiiinn in Marshall ■■ lh#