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Show F. F. A. BOYS REPORT LOGAN ENCAMPMENT AND TRIPSIDELIGHTS Editor The News; 'St. George, Utah. Dear Mr. Simpson: The bus' left St. George at 6:10 a.m. Friday morning everybody every-body in high spirits. First stop was at Old Cove Fort where the boys inspected the histotric old monument cf Southern Utah's early days. The walls are five feet thick and loopholes are pierced through at intervals for rifle outlets. The bus balked once on a hill, evidently protesting against the hot weather north of Dixie, but all the boys piled out and pushed it over the top. Don Schmutz did a good job of seeing see-ing that everybody pushed, except ex-cept Don. Romain Sturzenegger and Frank Anderson have developed de-veloped into free road map collectors col-lectors and do they have. a collection! col-lection! A fifteen minute stop at Fillmore sufficed for lunch, and then on to Provo. The boys insisted on calling on former President Nicholes, one of Dixie's most popular citizens. Mr. Nich-oles Nich-oles was in California, but his son Hank, did an excellent job of representing him. A visit was made to "Provo East side high," (the istate mental hospital) where the boys were lucky enough to escape detention. Every foot of the B. Y. U. campus was checked over, and while the boys were waiting for the bus, a gentleman passing by inquired if the group represented the gathering of the nuts. One of, the Dixie boys replied re-plied that it was and all that was lacking was a nut cracker and the questioner could serve in that function if he cared to. He declined to do so. At the state capltol building, Wendell DeMille remarked that the building was larger and finer than any lie naa ever seen, even in his own home town. A block of coal weighing ten tons attracted attract-ed considerable attention, as did a large relief map of Utah. Darwin Dar-win Gubler was dissatisfied with the map, however; as it failed to show Santa Clara, the little town which made St. George famous. During the visit to the state capi-tol capi-tol a serious disease broke out among the F. F. A. boys from Dixie. It proved to be antis-( antis-( Continued on last page) F. F. A. TRIP (Continued from nrst page) tuiritis, a disease which can be cured only by riding elevators. Suffice it to say that the boys took p'.pr.ty of cure, and in cv?ry building that had an elevator. ele-vator. At the zoo, A'.va Snow -aw his first eleplumt, and otht-rs thtir first g-.-nuine baboon. At the vipringviHe fi.sh hatchery, it took three men and a small boy, (BiU Thompson) to hold Irvin .McAithur from diving in after the large trout that were swimming swim-ming about. There was plenty to see at the circus, although Klmo En-glestead En-glestead and Vivian Prince got iust. After leaving the circus and driving through the campus of the University of Utah the boys spent the evening at Logan, where the main thrill seemed to be the Giant Racer or roller coaster. Carlos Schmutz, Dixie Chapter's social start, found a girl friend from Dixie and wore himself out dancing. At Ogden the livestock yards were visited by the boys, and it was necessary to team George Cannon away from the horse section. sec-tion. George is a lover of horses and he had an opportunity to see some fine ones on the trip. Bob Kenworthy proved to be the most popular performer at the convention program, playing both Sunday night and Monday night by special request. He presented a harmonica and guitar gui-tar duet and piano solos. Stan Schmutz will play Tuesday night at the final banquet, a free barbecue bar-becue for the 700 boys that are on the campus. The state F. F. A. band with Stanley and Carlos Schmutz and Bob Ken-worthy Ken-worthy .playing in it; is going to give an excellent account of itself at Kansas City in October, judging judg-ing from the way the marches and selections sound. Julian Hall and Bob Cox are playing horseshoes for the Dixie chapter. Darwin Gubler and Clayton Prince are in the shop contest, while George Cannon, Irvin McArthur and Darwin Gubler Gub-ler made up the crops judging team. Andy Holt, Viv Prince and Wendell DeMille judged livestock. live-stock. Darwin Gubler will speak before be-fore the convention this morning. morn-ing. He is a candidate for the State Farmer degree, the highest high-est degree given by the Utah State Association. His income from his tomato project for this year has reached the total of $176.00 and the prospects for both the tomato project and swine project are good that lie will pass the $250.00 mark. A near scandal developed concerning con-cerning Darwin, Afton Knight and Merl Tobler of Santa Clara. They spent the night in the girls' dormitory, and the other fellows did not know where they were all night. It turned out to be all right, however, when it developed that there are no girls in the dormitory this summer sum-mer and further that the agricultural agri-cultural instructors have rooms there. They were guests of Mr. 'Spilsbury that night. The rest of the boys all slept in the gymnasium and the total number in the hall was over four hundred. hun-dred. The boys will leave for home early Wednesday morning with stops at the Ogden packing plant, Salt Lake City, (let us hope no more elevators) Bryce Canyon, Panguitch Lake, and Zion National Park. Everyone is finding the contests con-tests and convention meetings very instructive regarding the improvement of chapter and agricultural agri-cultural department work for the coming school year. Dixie will look welcome after completing the long trip, but it is proving to be the most interesting and educational edu-cational any of the boys have taken. Sincerely your, The Dixie Chapter Officers Darwin Gubler, Irvin McArthur, Vivian Prince Don Schmutz P. D. Spilsbury. |