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Show COUNTY OFFICIALS MAKE TALKS HERE Price and Carlisle Give Infor-j mation along lines of their Specialties at Gathering of Lions. Dairying and Schools Locals Add Snappy Reports on Air Race and on the Employment Employ-ment Situation. County arid civic affairs of prime importance were dealt with by speakers speak-ers at the Lions club meeting at the U. P. dining room this week. The main talk of the hour was that by Professor Emil Hansen, which is mentioned in more detail elsewhere in this issue. Other guests present were LewMar Price. County Agent; John C. Carlisle, County Superintendent of Schools, and Waldo F. Murdock. All are members of the Lions club of Beaver. Problems in Dairying Mr. Murdock and Mr. Price spoke on dairying, and Mr. Carlisle's remarks re-marks were bearing upon our schools. Mr. Murdock, a brother of Jos. R. Murdock. of this city, stated what the Beaver valley was doing along dairy lines. A monthly payroll of $23,000 is now the reward of Beaver farmers for their interest in. dairying. Mr. Price said that the Dairy Association met last week and has secured 400 cows for follow-up testing. This work will begin October 1st. It was planned plan-ned to include cows from the herds of Milford valley in this group but the expense incurred by the tester precludes pre-cludes this for awhile. A veterinarian veterinari-an now resides in Beaver and the farmers in that district want to hold him by keeping him busy. A goal for . .. the Dairy Association, Mr. Price said, was the elimination of the use of butter but-ter substitutes in Beaver county, . which have little or no food value. Butter is one of the cheapest foods on the market, he declared. Mr. Price wants to stop pasturing in this county : as pasturage does not have the milk- giving strength of hay, regardless of the known good qualities of the Beaver Beav-er pastures. Mr. Price said that mor pounds of butter f at can be produced produc-ed down here in the flats than up in the higher altitudes. Digest of School Tests Mr- Carlisle spoke briefly of ''the results of intelligence tests made in the Milford schools twice last year. The purpose of the tests were to enable en-able our school authorities to work out comparisons of our standards with those of other schools. Milford students stu-dents passed the tests with scores up to the standard set by averages, or even better, Mr. Calrisle said. He thanked the club for its manifested zeal along educational lines and invited invit-ed the continued co-operation of its committee. He said that he could promise pro-mise fairly certain that the county board would make provision for the planting of tree wind-breaks about our school lawn, as recommended by Prof- Hansen. j Air Race I Sam Cline checked in with an account ac-count of the air race activties here, of which he was chairman. The cost of the event to the club was small, approximating ap-proximating only about $25, he said. He continued his remarks to invite the Beaver county officials to plan their Milford visits on Wednesdays so as to be able to attend- the Lions S. C. Ruschmeier reported on the employment situation. The committee com-mittee is functioning in good shape, with the paving contractors showing show-ing preference for local labor. The committee has assisted to place two men in employment with the railroad. Will Go To Fair On motion of Murdock, seconded by Parrish, the club voted to attend the County Fair at Beaver next Tuesday in a body. |