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Show Prizes, Award Programs, Trips In Store for 4-H Club Members The 4-H Clubs throughout the state are setting up project schedules for 1958, according to the Cooperative Extension Service which directs the 4-H programs. Club members carry on a wide variety of projects including farming, homemaking and community service. Among the specific 4-H activities acti-vities in which boys or girls may enroll this year are three national 4-H award programs: beautification of home grounds, boys' agricultural and clothing. County, state and national awards are offered in each for superior performance. Objectives of the 4-H home grounds beautification project are just about what the name implies, plus the development of character and good citizenship citizen-ship which is the most significant signifi-cant goal in all 4-H Club work. This marks the 21st year that Mrs. Charles Walgreen of Chicago, Chi-cago, is providing awards. Club members who complete the projcet will be eligible for one of eight national awards, all-expense trips as delegates to the national 4-H Club Congress Con-gress in Chicago Nov. 30-Dec. 4. The state champion will receive re-ceive an inscribed 19-jewel wrist watch and gold-filled medals will go to as many as four winners in each county. The 4-H Boys' Agricultural program embraces all phases of farming. International Harvester Har-vester Co., Chicago, a long-time supporter of 4-H, is donor of awards. A $400 college scholarship schol-arship and Chicago Congress trip expenses will be awarded to six national champions. The state winner also will get a trip to the Congress, and four winners in each county will receive re-ceive the Boys' Agricultural medal. Award Programs A "natural" for the girls is the 4-H Clothing program which has been sponsored for 18 years by Coats and Clark Inc., of New York City. Not only do- the girls "learn by doing" do-ing" in this project, but they get to wear the products of their efforts. Also, their clothes budget goes twice as far when they make their own. An even dozen of these teenage teen-age couturieres will have a chance at $400 college scholarships scholar-ships awarded on the national level. One girl from the state will be named winner of an all-expense trip to the Club Congress in Chicago. As many as four girls in each county may match their skills for the attractive gold-filled clothing medal. To be eligible for state and national honors, members must be at least 14 years old, and have satisfactorily completed three years of 4-H Club work, according to the state extension exten-sion office. Complete information informa-tion may be obtained from local 4-H leaders or the county extension ex-tension agent. |