Show UTAH JUNIOR R V VEGETABLE C G E TA B G GROWERS R 0 W E R S WIM VI THREE AWARDS IN NATIONAL CONTEST utah junior vegetable growers were caned winners of three thice state awards in the 1849 1949 production i marketing contest of the Nat national lonal junior vegetable growers association today as the organization concluded its fifteenth annual four day convention at Ws washington is hington D C L statewide state wide honors went to richard beckman Heck marin b 18 year old son of 0 william C ne ckmann of providence 14 year old eugene R gittins son of rob ert E gitt 4 re feld an a 19 year old robert H wendel son eon of george 44 F wendel brigham ham city each of the three teenaged teen aged grow ers ra elved vw cash S aw awards from the eugene ron r dittem ahtens i in schol provided each year by bt A P food stores to encourage otter better production and marketing of vege tab mablea tablea es by fa farm mi yi youth uth other results announced by prot prof grant B snyder of the university of massachusetts adult advisor to the association included the awarding indof of the national championship along with the top scholarship to russell L sears jr 20 year old grower rower of Cumming toll mass young beckmann ckmann Hc a high se hool chool senior who ranks scholastically in the upper third of his class utilized an half acre of ills his fathers father a 60 acre farm in cache county to raise ii a variety of garden vegetables valued at almost most of which was waa clear profit four times president of his 4 H club richard lids has also been active in school athletics ea civic affairs and durilin durt aff the past oas t year r three blue ribbons two cecone howardi and ono one third prize for fair exhibit his garden pro pr 1 duce theorize winning pro project act of ofed IR u gene gittins covered only on y a 60 by foot foo tolt plot chis fathers 60 acro cache county farm on which jie he grew 16 different vegetables log pounds of pole beans yoi pounds ridi of potatoes and earsom corn although Althou gb only 14 years of a agat eugene has been a fri member ember of hia it a ah club for five years serving as 41 an a officer n every year also alio inter esi dairy projects as well as bori won for Is bestock ye stock work at both tl th io 0 county and sta state t ef fairs aIrs largest of thesta tea prize win ning projects was the two and three quarter acre garden of robert IL wendel utah state agricultural college freshman who grossed on his crop of tomatoes and cantaloupes all of his produce was sold most of icat it at roadside stands andt and the be remainder to a cannery bobs boba garden displays also won two first prizes prize and one second at the state fair |