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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1973
Page
4
The Silver Leaf 4-H group spread Christmas cheer on a Sunday caroling expedition through rough roads and old bridges. They delivered 17 boxes of fruit cookies and candy to elderly residents including two Crestview Nursing Home patients with no families and shared hot chocolate at Emory Morgan home.
At a Farm Bureau session in the meeting room, Extension engineer Mark Schrock cited Kansas Farm Management Association data showing member farms spent about 2400 dollars on fuel and oil in 1972. He urged fuel conservation during shortages, noting tune ups boost efficiency and a study of 50 spark ignition tractors found fuel use dropped over 14 percent and power rose over 11 percent after tuning. A dirty air cleaner also hurts power and economy.
Lake Region Resource Conservation and Development Project faces a favorable outlook with Max Jennings noting it is the sole Kansas application among 80 sent to Washington. He described meetings with Assistant Secretary Clayton Yuetter after a Farm City week banquet and cited Congress authorizing 25 new RC&D starts this year.
Larry Stewart of Ottawa RFD 3 joins the Holstein-Friesian Association of America as a junior member. Eligible under 21 with 4 H or FFA history, he must own at least one registered Holstein. The program now enrolls over 13,250 youths with 55,750 participants since 1923. At Farmland Industries’ annual Kansas City meeting, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Pearson represented the Farmers Co-Op Elevator of Richmond.
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