Franklin County Conservation District Meeting Thursday
The annual meeting of the Franklin County Conservation District is set for 7 p.m. Thursday February 7 at Celebration Hall Franklin County Fairgrounds Ottawa. A dinner is hosted by the Franklin County Bankers Association followed by a business meeting progress report and election of two supervisors. Harold C Stevens of Ottawa will speak in celebration of 50 years of Soil and Water Conservation. Reservations by noon February 6 at district office 242 1109.
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Franklin County Conservation District
Celebration Hall
Franklin County Fairgrounds
Ottawa
Franklin County Bankers Association
Harold C. Stevens
Soil Conservation Office
Friends of Conservation
Civilian Conservation Corps
Soil Conservation Service
Forest Park
Ottawa Fairgrounds
Franklin Countian Specially Honored at Conservation Meeting
Mrs. Earl Schmanke will accept a special merit award for conservation on behalf of her late husband at the Franklin County Conservation District annual meeting. Goodyear Tire sponsored the Outstanding Farmer contest. the Schmankes previously won the 1983 Kansas Bankers Association Conservation award in Franklin County. The Schmanke farm covers 407 acres: 117 cropland, 75 pasture, 55 rangeland, and 147 woodland wildlife habitat. Before his 1984 death, he planted 5,600 walnut and 400 pecan trees and improved 125 acres by thinning and pruning undesirable trees.
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Earl Schmanke
Franklin County Conservation District
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Schmanke
Schmankes
Kansas Bankers Association
Franklin County
Special Thanks To CD's Supervisors On 50th Conservation Anniversary
Franklin County district supervisors are lauded for their long hours of voluntary service to the local soil and water conservation program. The note lists many past leaders and honors the current board Albert Dunbar Darrell Macy J Harry Peckham Clayton Watts and Roland Bromert for their ongoing support.
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Soil and Water Conservation
Franklin County
Leslie Hunter
Harry Funk
C. B. Cougenour
Harry Scott
Cecil Vining
Dean Martin
Donald Steward
Lawrence Murphy
H. H. van Horn
Joe McAuliffe
Bernard Fischer
Arthur Rockhold
Victor Warren
Albert Dunbar
Kurt Weigand
Bill Ransom
Dale van Horn
David Nelson
Darrell Macy
Edwin Horstick
Arion Jones
Gale Shelton
Ed Altic
J. Harry Peckham
Jim Witham
Lloyd Nelson
Clayton Watts
Roland Bromert
Technician Retiring Ah and Proud Farewell
Leland C Whaley reflects on a career as a Soil Conservation Service technician. He praises the soil conservation movement, laments erosion and sediment loss, and urges farmers and contractors to continue terracing contouring and conservation tillage to protect topsoil for future generations.
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Leland C
Whaley
Soil Conservation Service
Former SCS Conservationist Is Speaker At Meeting
A former district conservationist will be the featured speaker at the Harold C. Stevens annual meeting. The Franklin County Conservation District sponsors a poster, limerick and essay contest for local and area schools with Sacred Heart winning the most prizes. Trophies will be presented February 7, with winners named in multiple age groups and categories.
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Franklin County Conservation District
Sacred Heart
Wellsville
Central Heights
Ottawa
Winter Farm Scene in Franklin County Faces Snow Melt
This wintery rural scene shows snow cover protecting pastures in Franklin County near the LeLoup exit on I-35. Terraces and ponds are described to save stockwater as Spring Creek will run high with snow melt and spring rains, risking bank erosion.
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Franklin County
LeLoup
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Pomona
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Poplar
Parsons
CCC
Topeka
Stevens
National Association of Retired Federal Employees
Sertoma and
Oasis Clubs
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Jean Floersch
Ben Thompson
Jack Thompson
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Dee Fitzgerald
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David Miller
Edgerton
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Galen Ouellette
Princeton
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Jim Ellsworth
Rantoul
Marvin Duvall
Andes Ly
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Bill Foote
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Raymond Cox
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Terry Lewis
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Sheldon Equipment
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