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Show 'Mapleton Man Seeks State Honor in ) Outstanding Farmer Competition Joe Carnesecca, Jr., was recently nominated the outstanding young farmer in Mapleton in a contest being co-sponsored throughout the nation by the SJunior Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute. At the J. C. meeting in March, several candidates were selected to compete for this honor. Among them were Niel Whiting, Paul Jensen, Jen-sen, Johnny Bleggi and Joe Carnesecca. Car-nesecca. On March 24 a final selection sel-ection was made and Joe Carnesecca Carnesec-ca was declared the winner. Judges who made the choice were Lorin Phillips, vocational agriculture instructor in-structor in the Springville high school, Lawrence Johnson of Benjamin, Ben-jamin, president of Utah County Farm Bureau and Ferrol Olson, vo-ctaional vo-ctaional agriculture teacher in the Spanish Fork high school. There are seven Jaycee clubs in Utah participating in the contest. One winner will be selected from each club to enter the state contest con-test which will be held in Maple-ton Maple-ton on April 20. The winner from the state will receive an all expense ex-pense paid trip to the national final in Minneapolis, Minn., June 1 to 3. A panel of national agricultural agricul-tural leaders will select from this group the nation's four outstanding outstand-ing young farmers of the year. The program is aimed at emphasizing em-phasizing in a convincing manner to Americans that agriculture is a profitable and satisfying occupation. occu-pation. The judges selected young Joe Carnesecca for his outstanding contribution to the horticultural farming industry, for his participation partici-pation in civic service and for be-. ing a successful young farmer. Mr. Carnesecca has spent many years and thousands of dollars developing de-veloping the first hydromatice pruner pru-ner which is being sold throughout the United States and Canada and has received inquiries from all parts of the world. His ingenious invention has saved sav-ed farmers thousands and thousands thous-ands of man hours in the horticultural horticul-tural pruning field. Joe holds the original patent on hydromatic pruners, his being the first and only one being manufactured manufac-tured throughout the entire world. With this outstanding contribution, contribu-tion, the judges expect that Joe has a chance of being one of the four outstanding young farmers in the nation. y Lt. Jay Colver is stationed at San Antonio, Texas and she plans to join him there soon. Mrs. Marvel Anderson of Las Vegas, Ve-gas, Nev., spent a few days of the past week visiting in Springville Spring-ville with her daughter Mrs. Edgel Liechty and husband and baby. She returned on Friday, accompanied accompan-ied by Mrs. Liechty who will visit two weeks in Las Vegas. Mrs. Anderson An-derson has been employed in a drug store in Las Vegas and next week is opening her own drug store at Paradise Valley just outside out-side Las Vegas. 9 Mrs. Olive Birmingham, profes-: sor of English at the BYU, and her children were entertained at dinner Saturday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Serge Nelson at Mapleton. The dinner also honored their eldest daughter, Mrs. Mayle Schurtz, who left on Sunday to Join her husband in France. Mrs. Sarah Tilfort, who has been visiting visit-ing at the Nelson home in Mapleton Maple-ton and with a son in Price, from her home in California, was also a guest. Mrs. Frank Clark spent the past week visiting her father, N. C. Madsen in Summitt. She also visited visit-ed a brother and family at Cedar City and with a number of other relatives in Parawon. |