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Show Lee Kay Talks To School Children On Conservation Problems Teaching conservation to the children of the elementary grades is a project which Lee Kay, educational edu-cational director of the State Fish and Game commission found interesting in Washington county over Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Wed-nesday of this week. His illustrated illus-trated lecture on "Conservation of Natural Resources of the State', is very timely and went over in great style with the school children child-ren of Hurricane, Leeds Washing ton and St. George, some of the parents also taking advantage of the opportunity to attend the program. Mr. Kay's visit at this time was scheduled in connection with the preparation of units of work from elementary schools for the National Na-tional Year Book, and Washing ton county has been honored with the privilege of preparing the Utah State contribution, with the Hurricane, Leeds, Washington and St. George elementary grades furnishing the material on vari-ous vari-ous phases of conservation. The units are being assembled under the direction of Miss Tillie Win-sor Win-sor supervisor of elementary school work, in Washington county. coun-ty. In the St. George school the grades taught by Miss Florence Foremaster, Miss Linda Larson, (Continued on page eight) Lee Kay Talk (Continued from first page) and Miss Emmaline Lemmon are making a study of the milk supply sup-ply as it is recognized to have a definite place in the program of conservation. Victor Iverson is covering a different field of study with his students at the Washington Wash-ington school. In Leeds, A. B. Sullivan and lone Olsen, with their classes are making a study of insects and the part they play in conservation; and in Hurricane, Hurri-cane, LaFell Iverson and Miss Kate Isom are directing their pupils in a study of plant life in relation to their lunch program. The possibility of bringing the program of conservation before the elementary school children has been a hobby on the part of Miss Winsor and various teachers of Washington county, and their initial in-itial efforts gained the attention of Julia Tappan and Anne Raymond, Ray-mond, of Albuquerque, who have supervision of the southwestern states and are the only two women consultants on soil conservaton and related projects in the United Uni-ted States. |