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Show Week Scheduled To Emphasize 4-H Club Work This is National 4-H Club Week a time of recognition for more than two million, a hundred and sixty-five thousand thous-and 4-H boys and girls throughout through-out the nation. 4H'ers in all 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, are carrying on interesting and worthwhile projects pro-jects in farming, homemaking, community service, and other activities. Utah County has 1,200 members who belong to 164 clubs, and 233 volunteer leaders, according to Jenniev J. Poulson and John J. Barnard, Bar-nard, supervisors of the 4-H program. Helping 4-H youth everywhere are state and county coun-ty agricultural extension workers, work-ers, local volunteer leaders, and parents. This year 4-H Week features a "Salute to Parents" who, with about 358,000 volunteer vol-unteer leaders help make 4-H work possible. Boys and girls between 10 and 21 years old, can become 4-H members by agreeing to follow 4-H ideals and standards. If you are older you; may qualify as a leader. In the 4-H program the main requirement is a willingness to "leam by doing," which is the club slogan, and "to make the best better," which, is the club motto. Character development and good citizenship are the long range goals. Some of the project accomplishments accomp-lishments of Utah County 4-H members in 1957 were:, sewed 1,626 garments and other articles; art-icles; served 5,571 meals; prepared pre-pared 11,336 separate dishes; canned 11,600 quarts;1 made 356 articles to make their homes more convenient and attractive raised 68 beef and 169 sheep. In poultry they raised 1,475 birds; raised 180 swine, and in electricity they made 142 articles. arti-cles. For more information about becoming a 4-H club member or leader, write, telephone, or visit the county extension office at Provo in the City and County building. |