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Show Contest planned for farmers in conservation Timpanogos Soil Conservation Conserva-tion District has entered the 17th annual Goodyear competition compe-tition to select the nation's top 52 conservation districts, according- to Niel Whiting, Mapleton, Ma-pleton, district chairman. Activities of the district will be weighed against the performance per-formance of other districts in the state in determining the outstanding district in the annual an-nual event sponsored by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. of Akron, Ohio. Key agricultural leaders will serve as judges and will select the state winner. Soil conservation conser-vation efforts from January 1, 1964, through December 31, 1964, will be considered. Grand award for the 52 districts dis-tricts selected nationally will be an expense paid, work-study work-study trip to Arizona in December, De-cember, 1965, for one .member of the district governing body and the outstanding farmer-co-operator in each winning district. dis-trict. The 104 men selected will be guests at Goodyear Farms, a 14,000-acre general farm operation op-eration near Phoenix. The Timpanogos District has taken part in the competition 10 times in the past 10 years. District supervisors are Niel Whiting, Mapleton; LaMar Bo-yer Bo-yer and LaMar Crandall, Springville; Herschel dinger, Lakeview; and John W. Gill-man, Gill-man, Orem. Whiting said the district's outstanding cooperator will be selected from among the 350 farm operators enrolled in the district program. Nationally, about 1,800,000 farmers in 2, 900 districts will be eligible for the grand award trip. |