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Show County 4-H Clubbers To Vie For Project Awards Comfortable homes, modern conveniences, safe opportunities and recreation for all, are the goals of 4-H Club members throughout the country participating partici-pating In the National 4-H Home Improvement, Electric, Safety and Recreational programs. Boys and girjs carry out "do-it-yourself" Ideas by Improving their homes, learning new and improved uses for electricity, practicing safety at all times, and taking the lead In recreation activities. Incentives valued at $100,000 are provided through the National Nation-al 4-H Award Program In the four areas to encourage members' to do more and better work. Home Improvement awards are given by the Sears-Roebuck Foundation; Electric honors by the Westinghouse Educational Foundation; Safety Incentive by General Motors; and Recreation awards by the United States Rubber Company. In each of the programs, four gold-filled medals are offered for county winners. State honors consist of expense-paid trips to the National 4-H Club Congress In Chicago. At the Congress, national na-tional awards of $300 college scholarships will be presented to six winners each In Electric and Recreation, and eight champions cham-pions in Home Improvement and Safety. Local clubs in each county reporting re-porting outstanding Recreation and Safety programs will be presented pre-sented certificates of honor. Certificates Cer-tificates are also provided for the ten clubs reporting the best Safety programs in the state, and $20,000 cash awards are given to State blue award winner clubs In Recreation. Leader training funds are made available in the Recreation Program. Pro-gram. Each year, over 20,000 adult and Junior leaders receive training made possible with these funds. All of the programs are conducted con-ducted by the Cooperative Exten-slon Exten-slon Service, and the award programs pro-grams arranged by the National Committee on Boys . and Girls , Club work. Complete information is available at county Extension offices. |