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Show Midvalley Resident Wins Local SCD Contest Prize Norman Grlmshaw, Midvalley resident, has been selected as one of five contestants in the Utah State Soil Conservation Districts speaking contest. He won the right to enter the state competition compe-tition after he had won a local contest sponsored by the Iron County Soil Conservation District. As winner of the local contest, Grimshaw was the recipient of a $25 prize. The subject for the 1954 contest was "Water Problems in my Soil Conservation District and on my Farm (or Ranch)". As a participant in the state contest, which is sponsored by the Utah Concrete Pipe Co. and W. R. White Co., he will vie for prizes of $100, $50 and $25 as first, second and third prizes, respectively. re-spectively. Also the state winner win-ner will be eligible to participate partici-pate on a national scale which is offering $2100 in prizes plus an all-expense trip to San Diego convention for the winner. The national competition is sponsored by the Spencer Chemical Chem-ical Co. and the National Association As-sociation of Soil Conservation Districts. State judging will take place Dec. 6, it is understood. As pointed out by the diretive on the contest "Water has become one of America's national issues. is-sues. Too much, or too little water, wa-ter, is already limiting the future fu-ture development of vast areas of our country. It is being discussed dis-cussed on the street corners in the cities and in the halls of State and National legislatures. This vital issue and the fa"t that our particular problem is being carried on by Grimshaw will do much to point our out situation, a spokesman from the ICSCD stated here today. Basic facts included in the speaking contest were: (1) What the major water problems are in your SCD; (2) What your SCD If doing about them; (3) How your district makes it possible for many people to work together in solving recurring flood, drainage, drain-age, irrigation, or drought problems; prob-lems; (4) How the work on your land in your SCD affects people in cities many miles away and (5t How you are solving the problem prob-lem of water on your own farm, or ranch, and what it means to you. |