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Show Cedas1 Youth Project gains national publicity Perm.; Washington, D.C.; Gjor-gue, Gjor-gue, Kansas; and a number within Utah. One letter from John Glenn Jr. High School in St. Paul. Minn, included a check for $525 collected from students to help with the project. They said, "They wanted to have a small part in helping your trash-mailing trash-mailing fund." They were re- ferrin to the project to mail back litter to people who would discard it in Cedar City. The topic of the KSL editorial editor-ial on December 16 was or the Cedar City litter project. Mrs. Chamberlain was also interviewed inter-viewed personally by Tom Brown on KIX radio in Los Angeles An-geles and by a Los Angeles TV program called "Hot Line". Call for information have been received re-ceived from most major news papers in the West including the Los Angeles Examiner, the National Observer, and papers in Idaho and Utah. The national publicity came about when Dustin Harvey of UPI picked up the story at the State 4-H Community Pride Conference in Salt Lake City last October. Antinette Hunter of Cedar City, a 4-H member and chairman chair-man of the youth Committee in charge of the project gave a report re-port on their activities at the conference. Activities of the Cedar Ce-dar City project were also reported re-ported at the National 4-H Congress Con-gress in Chicago last November by Dr. Gerald Olson, superintendent superin-tendent of 4-H youth program in Utah and a report was taken to the Western 4-H Round-up in Denver, by the Utah delegation. delega-tion. Lynn Esplin, USU Extension Agent for Iron County commented com-mented that through the effort of many people, especially Mrs. Chamberlain, Antinette Hunter, Cindy Chamberlain, and Suzanne Suz-anne Knight and their youth committee, and the excellent support of Mayor Lorcn Whet-ten Whet-ten and city officials and local businessmen; the program has been a success. As a result the youth have gained a better understanding of the problems of City government govern-ment and how to work with them. City offidals and businessmen busi-nessmen have gained confidence confi-dence in the ability of youth to carry through when they are properly guided. Also Cedar City and the 4-H and other youth programs have received valuable position publicly. pub-licly. He also noted that on February 23 a County Community Commun-ity Pride Conference will be held in Cedar City involving youth, youth leaders, and community com-munity leaders from each community com-munity in Iron County. It all started last sprint when Mrs. Royce (Alene) Chamberlain Chamber-lain began working part time for Utah State University Extension Ex-tension in Iron County. Her assignment as-signment was to involve 4-H clubs and other youth groups In a Community Development or Community Pride project Through the efforts of over 400 youth representing scouts, cub scouts, 4-H clubs, girl scouts, church groups, FHA club, NIKE club, candy stripers, and the support of Cedar City officials, Cedar City Chamber of Commerce, Beautificatioi) Committee, Coordinating Council, Coun-cil, and the Retail Merchants Committee, a successful main street beautification project was conducted last summer. This included purchasing, planting and caring for fifty redwood planters with flowers placed on Cedar City main street Other citizenship activities activi-ties associated with the project included meeting with the City Council, Chamber of Commerce, Beautification Committee, Superintendent Sup-erintendent of schools, and a tour of the city businesses. Another phase of the project was a litter control program. This program has been reported in news papers, radio and TV all over the United States. Letters of inquiry and support sup-port have been received from St. Paul, Minnesota; Hollister, Calif.; Weatherford, Texas; Miami, Florida; West Chester, |