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Show Utah Trio Returns Home From Chicago 4-H Meet A "pop" concert by the Chicago Chi-cago Symphony Orchestra . . . sightseeing trips ... a speech by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. These are among the memories memo-ries three Utah young people have of the recent National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago. They received expense-paid trips as sectional and state winners in their club projects. They are Terry Atwood, 18, of Elmo; Nancy Kay Olpin, 18, Mix Olpin Atwood Miss Olpin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Olpin, won the state award in the food-nutrition food-nutrition program and was the guest in Chicago of the General Foods Corporation. She can bake some of the tastiest bread and cookies in the West. Her mother's longtime long-time illness put Miss Olpin in charge of the kitchen and her 4-H skill came in very handv. cm of Roosevelt, and Rodney Wangsgard, 17, of Huntsville. They were among 1,650 delegates from every state and Puerto Rico at the exciting She is a home economics student stu-dent at Snow College. Wangsgard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Wangsgard, won the state agricultural award and had his Windy City trip sponsored spon-sored by International Harvester Harves-ter Company. His agricultural projects include in-clude swine, tractor, poultry and dairy in his eight years of 4-H work. For his swine, he won 36 blue ribbons and a wrist watch from the Producers Livestock Live-stock Corporation. He helped members clip and wash their animals for 4-H exhibits ex-hibits and helped them with training calves, fitting and showmanship. show-manship. At school, he urged junior high boys interested in agricultural projects to enroll in H. The winners were chosen hy the Cooperative Extension Service, Ser-vice, which supervises 4H Club work. . W.ng,g.rd fnJC"day mCet- The theme of congress was "Pursuit of Excellence." Issues of concern to today's youth were discussed by a panel that included in-cluded astronaut James Love 11. Atwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Udell Atwood, was a sectional award winner in the forestry program and had his trip donated do-nated by American Forest Products Prod-ucts Industries. He replanted trees in his town park after clearing it of undergrowth. under-growth. A freshman at the Col-lege Col-lege of Eastern Utah, he worked last summer in Bryce Canyon National Park and picked up additional knowledge on forestry. for-estry. Atwood pkns a career as a naturalist with the National Park Service. His collection of forest plants won two first place awards at the state fair. |