Spring Tours Keep 4-H Clubs Busy Across Events
The Go Getters held a daylong spring tour with a basket dinner at the Paul Yee John farm. Members and families viewed projects from foods to market pigs, home beautification, clothing, and insects. A Breach Ranch stop showcased a Hereford heifer, and several other member projects were highlighted before ice cream and drinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Yee- John
Lloyd “Bolt
Katharyn Sughrue
Timmy
Holt
Pierceville Church
Linda
Connie
Heeves
Karen
Karen Jones
Saundra McGehee
Saundra
Norla Stephens
Breach
Gary
Susie
Steve Parr
Douglas
Doyle McGraw
Doyle
Bill Cronin
Lews and
Jon
Loren Lee
Marsha
Mada
Jack Cronin
Marvin
Gale Rundell
Linda VenJohn
Thelma Cronin
Dlemiapa
Linda Venla
4-H Judging School Highlights And Scores
A report on last week’s 4-H judging school notes about decision making and standards. It lists judged classes such as cupcakes curtains and shoes and profiles 25 high scoring members led by Theresa DeRemus and Coleen Whitehurst with scores from 425 to 470.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theresa DeRemus
Coleen Whitehurst
Shirley Cranston
June Warner
Mary Pfeifer
Merlené Wilson
Patty Sughrue
Patricia Bergkamp
Wanda Jean Hayes
Patricia Staley
Marcille Brown
Margaret Sughrue
Beverly Clutter
Janice Baker
Verla Spillman
Shéry Taylor
Jamet Ballinger
Anna Mae Largent
Judy
4-H Club Votes Leaders and Camp Delegates
The minutes note Xenbisé as the conservation camp delegate and Alice Raynesford to Junior Leadership camp. The club approved paying Mrs. Kuffman’s expenses to the leaders convention in Hutchinson and awarded $2.50 to the Entomology club for glass cases. Reporter Joan Stucker details June meeting actions and Tour Day planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Raynesford
Agricultural Extension Calendar Event Notes
An entry lists an upholstery class on June 22 at 1 38 p m at Pierceville school and a district meeting of Agricultural Agency Workers at 9 30 a m in the American Legion building. The calendar records district activities and locations for extension programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierceville
American Legion
Contact sports not for kids in early policy
The American Academy of Pediatrics issued a policy stating contact sports and highly competitive activities are not beneficial for children 12 or under. It urges all children have opportunities to develop skills in age appropriate activities with medical supervision in and out of school programs.
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Chicago
American Academy of Pediatrics
Touring Club Travels Many Southern Miles
Up and Atom 4 H club junior leaders toured the South visiting Franklin Louisiana and other cities. They stayed with 4 H members, visited Dallas Galveston New Orleans Baton Rouge Natchez Vicksburg and more, seeing rice cane fields Old French Quarter and battlefield parks, with tours of ante bellum homes and river sights.
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Up and Atom
Franklin
Garden City
Franklin Recreation Center
Recreation Center
South
Dallas
Houston
Galveston
Tex
Lake Charles
Crowley
Houma
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Natchez
Vicksburg
Miss
Pine Bluff
Little
Jackson Square
Saint Louis Cathedral
Audubon Park
Zoo
Mississippi River
Senate
Vicksburg National Park
Fost Committee Reports Progress and Funds Raised
The Fost committee members Bob Kurz Roberta Willinger and Bill Lind ter presented a progress report from the Project Enrollment committee. They noted a $9.74 intake from pep bottle sales and Emma Ploeger spoke on Round-Up while Bob Kurz reported on music camp. Wayne McClellan served as reporter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peppy Workers
4-H Club
Kearny County
Foods
Roberts Willinger
Boninie. Gingérich
Hélén Summers
Fost
Bob Kurz
Roberta Willinger
Bill Lindter
Emma Ploeger
Wayne McClellan
Civil War era trip ends with Kansas welcome sign
The group finished the day's route after crossing the Mississippi and staying overnight in Tallulah Louisiana. They traveled through Arkansas past cotton fields and sawmills, crossed the Ozark Mountains near Springfield Missouri, visited Germantown Missouri to see Father George Spaeth, and noted 2448 miles traveled. The journey concluded on Highway 18 with a welcome Kansas sign.
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Mississippi
Tallulah
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ozark Mountains
Springfield
Germantown
George Spaeth
St. Mary’s Chuch
Garden City
George
St. Mary’s Parish
Kansas
Lilly Dreiling
IBM Board Chairman Dies of Heart Attack
New York, Thomas J. Watson, 82, chairman of IBM, died of a heart attack at Roosevelt Hospital. He remained active in IBM affairs, attending the annual meeting on April 24, and had recently suffered a digestive upset prompting hospitalization from his summer home in New Canaan, Connecticut.
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IBM Board
New York
Thomas J. Watson
International Business Machines Corp
Roosevelt Hospital
Watson
New Canaan
Conn
Quotas debated as Wheat Referendum set for July
A 1957 wheat quota plan announced by Secretary Ezra Taft Benson calls for a July 20 referendum among affected growers, requiring a two thirds majority to enact quotas. Eligible voters are farmers harvesting over 15 acres of wheat in 1957. Also announced are new beef grades, effective June 1, with Standard replacing former Commercial for younger cattle, and additional tax management guidance for farmers to smooth income tax across years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra Taft Benson
USDA
Bulletin
the Bulletin
Kansas wheat allotment tops 1956 by 27982 acres
Kansas holds the largest 1957 national wheat allotment at 10,615,188 acres, an increase of 27,982 acres over 1956. The 1957 national total stays at 55 million acres. County and farm allocations were sent to offices and farmers notified before the July 20 referendum on quotas. Penalties apply to harvests over farm allotments if two thirds vote for quota enforcement. Allocation bases include past ten years’ wheat acreage, weather, soil, and farm practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Ben C. Kiefer
Kansas State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Kiefer
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