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Show HURRICANE FPA BOYS ATTEND CONVENTION LOGAN Elmer Graff, adviser ' to. the Hurricane chapter of the ' Future Farmers of America, ac-' ac-' companied by Eldrow Reeve, Hal 1 Bradshaw, Lawrence H i nt 0 n , ! Marlow Wood, Sylvan Wittwer, 1 members of the chapter, attend-1 attend-1 ed the state convention of the I Utah association of the F. F. A. ' which was held at the Utah 1 State Agricultural college Sun-' Sun-' day, Monday and Tuesday, Aug-! Aug-! ust 25, 26 and 27 under the 'direction of Professor L. R. Hum-'. Hum-'. pherys, state adviser of the F. 1 F. A. ' Convention delegates were housed on the College campus, 1 in army tents which were erected erect-ed for the occasion, and agricul- I tural teachers and advisers wc housed in the College dormitories. dormitor-ies. I Governor Henry H. Blood, Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Henry A. ! Wallace, and former Secretary of j Agriculture William Jardine, addressed ad-dressed the boys in the closing session of the convention Tuesday Tues-day evening. "The Future Farmers Far-mers will have a greater vision of the problems of agriculture than I had when I was a boy." said Secretary Wallace, "and we must look to these -boys for a major contribution in solving our problems." He advised the boys to "continualy lift your vision not only to the physical hills of home but to the hills which rise in series around the entire world. With the proverb, "A little leavens the whole lump." Governor Gov-ernor Blood pointed out what the results of the F. F. A. convention con-vention may mean to the future of agriculture in the state of Utah. , . , I Secretary Jardine emphasized the need of character education and the elimination of selfishness i our dealings with men approximately 400 delegates from practically every county in be state, and from chapters in southern Idaho wen represen.cd at the convention, which opened Sunday night in the "'' a'" " itoriam. with an address b Dr. A.d;-m S. Benmon. During the sersi . cor-we.-e held in livestock :-';-"-crop judsing.- :nd poultry JuB-ing. |