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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1971
Page
3
Advice on building a versatile wardrobe through planning, sewing, and color coordination. Emphasizes choosing cohesive pieces, repairing what you own, and buying multi purpose garments to stretch dollars. Encourages learning basic sewing to customize ready made clothing and stretch fashion dollars.
Diana Jo Elnicki of Girard, one of 11 national 4-H reporters, recalls a busy year ending 1970 with assignments in New York and Washington D C. The issue highlights how 4-H has expanded beyond farming into urban projects and youth programs, emphasizing public outreach and national impact.
Former Williamsburg resident Doris Milliken Rogers, an Extension Home Economist in Springfield, Massachusetts, received a $3,500 Celanese Fibers Marketing Company research grant to pilot a women’s clothing construction program. The project trains middle income homemakers to teach low income women, aiming to boost self-help motivation and community involvement, with data to expand outreach across Massachusetts. Mrs. Rogers, Kansas State University graduate, lives in Longmeadow with her husband Robert and three sons.
Hampshire breeders will demonstrate a national performance testing program at the National Hampshire Meat Hog Conference on October 13 at the Armory in Arkansas City. Technicians use electronic sound data and photos to predict breeding potential by measuring backfat and loin eye on pigs at 220 pounds. The program issues certificates covering the pig, its littermates, and the litter average, the first of its kind in U S swine.
The Franklin County ASC committee sets Jan 15 as the filing deadline for producers to prove wheat yields for establishing 1971 program yields. Base years are 1967 1968 and 1969 with proof of harvest in all three years. Acceptable records include scale tickets warehouse receipts and similar farm data. contact the Ottawa county office at 209 W 2nd Ottawa for details.
January guidance for 4 H livestock projects covers beef calf training with leading practice and daily exercise plus winter housing care. It outlines weight, birth, and yearling measurements, record keeping, and participation in Beef Cattle Improvement Programs through breed associations or the Kansas program.
Lee T Morgan Idaho state conservationist will replace Morrie A Bolline as state and regional SCS leader based in Lincoln Neb. Bolline will assume field representative and regional technical service center director roles for 11 midwest states. Morgan, born 1910 in Stevens County, began as junior soil conservationist in 1935. married with Bernice and three children.
Kansas 4-H Foundation trustees approved final plans for the Citizenship Center at Rock Springs Ranch near Junction City. The two level native stone building is a $600000 addition designed by Wolfenbarger and McCulley of Manhattan with contractor Martin Eby of Wichita. Foundation officers thanked the RFB women and reported progress.
The 100th annual State Board of Agriculture meeting will run Jan 13 to 15 at the Topeka Municipal Auditorium. Registration begins Jan 13 with Everett E. Erhart presiding. Gov Docking will speak at the convention dinner and an entertainment program titled A Century of Kansas Agriculture will be staged.
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