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Show UTAH JUNIOR VEGETABLE GROWERS WIN THREE AWARDS III NATIONAL CONTEST Tltsh junior vegetable growers were named winners of three state awards in the 1949 Production-Marketing Production-Marketing contest of the National Junior Vegetable Growers Association Associa-tion today as the organization concluded con-cluded its fifteenth annual four-da; convention at Washington, D. C. State-wide honors went to Richard Rich-ard Heckmann. 18-year-old son of William C. Heckmann, of Providence; Provi-dence; 14-year-old Eugene R. Git-tins, Git-tins, son of Rob-t Rob-t ert E. GitUns, , Smithfield, and 1 - ,"V 19-year-old Rob- I : p ert H. Wendel, son of George , F. Wendel, Brig-V-ZTTV-7 ham City. Each of the three A- yT teen-aged grow-V grow-V r ' era received cash Eunr,ittni rds from the Eugene Cineos m ,n Ko, arships provided each year by A 4 P Food Stores to encourage better production and marketing of vegetables vege-tables by farm youth. Other results announced by Prof. Grant B. Snyder of the Un'versity of Massachusetts, adult advisor to the association, included the awarding award-ing of the national championship along with the top $500 scholarship to Russell L. Sears, Jr., 20-year-old grower of Cummington, Mass. Young Heckmann, a high school senior who ranks scholastically in the upper third of his class, utilized an half acre of his father's 60-acr farm tn Cache County to raise a variety of garden vegetables valued valu-ed at almost $200, most of which was clear profit Four times president presi-dent of his 4-H Club. Richard has also been active in school athletics, civic affairs and during the past year won three blue ribbons, two second awards and one third prize for fair exhibits of his garden produce. pro-duce. The prize-winning project of Eugene Eu-gene Gittins covered only a 60 by 100 foot plot of his father's 60-acre Cache Coanty farm, on which he grew 16 different vegetables including includ-ing 350 pounds of pole beans, 700 pounds of potatoes and 600 ears of corn. Although only 14 years of age, Eugene has been a member of his 4-H Club for Ave years, serving as an officer every year. Also interested inter-ested in dairy projects as well as gardening, he won blue ribbons for his livestock work at both the county and state fairs. Largest of the state's prize-winning projects was the two and three-quarter acre garden of Robert Rob-ert H. Wendel, Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural College freshman, who grossed gross-ed $778 on his crop of tomatoes and cantaloupes. All of his produce was sold, most of it at roadside stands and the remainder to a cannery. Rob's garden displays also won two first prizes and one second at the state fair. |