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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1977
Page
3
A trio of Franklin County 4-H clubs chartered school buses to the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, taking over 60 4-H parents and youths. The report describes the bus rides, sleepy children, bags of cotton candy, fair food, and playful mischief among riders as they traveled and returned.
The Farmers Home Administration adopts a liberal grant and loan formula for drought affected rural water systems in Franklin and Osage Counties. Eligible communities can seek emergency loans and grants with funds obligated by Sept. 26, using a formula that considers all existing indebtedness and could raise grant shares to 50 percent for some projects. Retroactive to May 6, except where funds already delivered, financing for previously approved projects will be adjusted.
The club chose Donna Schamle as president and Marie Chambers as vice president with Ramona Lintner secret ary and Jay Schendel treasurer. Rob Dunlap serves as reporter while Steve Shelton Sheri Vulgamore and Ranita Evans hold roles. New advisory leaders are Beth Chambers Pete Vulgamore and Pat Vulgamore.
Sumner County 4-H’er Carl Tanner won first in the wheat variety booth at the Kansas State Fair. John Tucker Morton County Jerry DeChant Finney Lori Shoemaker Republic and Ed Schwab Decatur placed second through fifth. Tanner earns a trip to Texas Gulf Coast export centers sponsored by the Kansas Wheat Commission.
The Kansas Soybean Commission has elected Charles E. Hamnon of Valley Falls as chairman and W. Stanley Compton of Larned as vice chairman. The seven member body governs the 4c per bushel soybean checkoff, active since Sept. 1, under the Kansas Grain Commodity Act signed by Gov. Bennett.
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