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Show Four Dixie F.F.A. Boys Leave Today For Kansas City Convention Four officers of the Dixie chapter, chap-ter, F.F.A., left St. George Thursday Thurs-day morning for Salt Lake City enroute to Kansas City for the tenth annual convention of the national association of Future Farmers Far-mers of America. Earl Hafen, president, and Grant McMullin, secretary, will represent the Dixie chapter, while Clayton Sullivan will play in the one hundred ten piece Utah State F.F.A. band. Rex Bleak will represent the state association as-sociation as an official delegate to the national convention which (Continued on page ten) Four Dixie F.F.A. Boys Leave Today For Kansas City Convention (Continued from page one) opens in Kansas City October 18. Rex is state secretary of the Utah association. Forty-five high schools of the state will have representatives in the band and in addition will have chapter officers and members of livestock, poultry and dairy judging judg-ing teams in attendance. The trip will be under the supervision of Mark Nichols, state director of agricultural education. The Utah delegation of approximately approxi-mately one hundred fifty boys will board a special Union Pacific tram carrying F.F.A. boys from the states of California, Nevada, Oregon, Ore-gon, Washington and Idaho, at Salt Lake for the trip east. Three years ago when an F.F.A. band was sent to the convention, the Dixie chapter was represented by Stanley, Carlos, and Howard B. Schmutz. John H. Schmutz accompanied accom-panied the boys and made many friends among the boys and state officials. According to P. D. Spilsbury, , Dixie chapter advisor the itinerary 1 of the trip will include a three 1 hour stop at Denver for a band concert, a trip and concert to Independence, Missouri, concerts at the American Royal livestock show arena, a tour of Kansas City and vicinity with a parade and concert in the vast municipal auditorium and the Edison Light building. The band will return to Salt Lake City October 23, for a concert in the Tabernacle before the Utah Educational association which is made up of all the teachers of the state. The Dixie chapter will combine with the Hurricane and Cedar chapters in the trip to Salt Lake. |