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Show M ' . ' V r , a y - . i . ,- . I rffx I;-:.: i ' l l: , 'T ' ' ' I FARM FAMILY OF THE YEAR: Ron Jensen of the County FHA Office presents a certificate to Mr. and Mrs. Haruichi Naruse for the County Farm Family of the Year. Mr. Naruse received re-ceived the award fcr outstanding work and management of resources on his 260 acre farm on the Milford Flat. SNOW SURVEY TAKEN JANUARY 27, 1971 Douglas Robins and Bob YVhaley of SCS This Yr. Last Yr. Ave. Snow Water Snow Water Water Ave. Big Flat 39 12.6 45 12.5 9.6 131 Otter Lake 34 11.1 40 10.4 7.5 148 Merchant Val. 18 6.5 23 5.1 4.9 133 Rain Gauges from Dec. 29 70 to Jan. 27, 71 Big Flat 0.60 Merchant Valley 0.35 HARUICHI NARUSE NAMED COUNTY FARM FAMILY Haruichi Naruse and his wife Betty were honored this past week when they were presented with a certificate by Ron Jensen Jen-sen of the Beaver County FHA office, as Outstanding Beaver County Farm Family of the year "for demonstrating outstanding out-standing ability in management of resources, making wise use of technical and financial assistance assist-ance and for working as a team in providing food and fiber that strengthen family farm agriculture." The award is presented by the U.S. Dept of Agriculture. Mr. Naruse has 260 acres of land on the Milford flat on which he raises grain, hay, and commercial seed potatoes, aand also feeds out 180 head of cattle. cat-tle. Mr. Naruse is a member of the High Valley Seed Potato Assn. and the Utah State Seed Potato Assn. Mr. Naruse, 52, was born in California and then moved to Japan when he was very young. In 1937 they returned to the U.S. from Japan and. for a while lived in Calif. They came to Milford in 1944 and bought their present farm in 1950. Mr. and Mrs. Naruse have three children. Don, 25, returned return-ed from Vietnam a couple of years ago and is studying computer com-puter science at Utah State. He is married and his wife's name is Linda. Dick. 24, is studying art in Culver City, Calif. Judy, 23, who is married to Alan Mifashiro, and is working on her masters in Business Administration at Utah State. |