Show Six Hers 4 Win Scholarships For a Course in Electricity Top fop Club Members In Nationwide Contest i AMERICAS AMERICA'S farm youth is ism m meeting eting the challenge of an electrical age and in many cases is ahead of its elders in preparing for electrical living inthe in m the postwar period the work of H 4 Club boys and girls in Rural Electrification clearly reveals The 1944 contest in H 4 Rural Electrification Electrification Electrification Elec Elec- which ended early in February February February Feb Feb- with five farm boys and one girl being declared national champions champions champions cham cham- at the National H 4 Club Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress in Chicago gave convincing proof of these facts The six na national nation nation- tion- tion al winners were awarded scholarships scholarships scholarships schol schol- by the Westinghouse Electric Electric Electric Elec Elec- and Manufacturing company which sponsors the contest in conjunction conjunction conjunction con con- junction with the National Committee Commit Commit- tee on Boys' Boys and Girls' Girls Club Work Thirty seven state winners chosen from among the throughout the nation who took up the project in their H 4 Club work attended the congress here as guests of house The voluminous reports all carefully carefully carefully care care- fully checked by county and state H 4 Club leaders which showed how these youths had made electricity work in the Food for Freedom program were the real revelations of at the tremendous amount of energy and ability of the farm teen-agers teen of their desires to make the farm farma better a a place to live and of their ambition to produce food more Take the case of Frances McMillen Jen len comely year old Enid Okla girl who was the only one of her sex sexto sexto sexto to win one of the Westinghouse scholarships She Knows What War Means 1 I Frances knows farming from a womans woman's angle angle and and she knows it from a mans man's angle too She also knows about the sacrifices of war ri i I I k Ia I a 0 a s. s t i Walter WaIter MacEvoy l Lockport N. N Y became in things electrical when he joined a radio club at school From scraps he built an insect insect in- in sect killer a telephone system between between be- be tween the house and barn an elec elec- and many other pieces of equipment I The young man she had promised to marry was killed in action over- over seas 1 She has always liked the farm and helped a lot with the work around the acre 75 food factory on which she lives Then a year ago her father died With her older brother in the armed forces Frances her mother and her year old sister were left to operate the place and with the wartime manpower shortage shortage shortage short short- age it was impossible for them to obtain adequate help It was then that Frances conceived the idea that electricity could be bethe bethe bethe the hired man on the farm She learned to keep the electrical equipment equipment equip- equip I ment on the farm in good running order studied adaptations of electricity electricity electricity elec elec- to new jobs She added new electrical equipment to the farm and made it do more jobs Soon the farm was operating smoothly and J efficiently i. i Hes He's Wired Vired for Electricity I In another section of the United States Lockport States Lockport N. N Y lives Y-lives lives Walter Walter Walter Wal- Wal ter MacEvoy and hes he's another top champion in Rural Electrification U this s year Walter is virtually wired for elec elec- He first became inter interested interest interest- stad st- st ed ad in it as a member of the r ra radio dio club at school His instructor recognizing recognizing recognizing rec rec- the boys boy's ability soon asked him to help out in hi his private radio shop and here Walter obtained more good training In fact the training was so good that Walter started his own r radio dio repair shop and became the owner of a profitable business when he was only 17 years old He made an insect killer from an anold anold anold old motor a n generator and coil from froman an nn old tractor He built an electric eye which rings a bell when anyone enters his radio workshop He made madean an electroplating device which works successfully constructed a way two-way telephone system between the house and the barn which operates operates operates op op- op- op through a radio tube amplifier he also built He constructed his own radio transmitter set and a stroboscopic light which makes moving moving moving ing parts of machinery appear to be beThe beThe bex x g a 4 s f S t G 7 The only girl winner was Miss Frances McMillen McMullen Enid Okla She is now studying electricity at Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa A. A and M. M college When her father died and her brother entered the army she took over the management management management man man- of the farm standing still The list of his his' elec elec- electrical electrical electrical accomplishments go on and andon on all on-all all of them a tribute to his ingenuity ingenuity ingenuity in in- his ambition and his imagination na nation tion Other National Winners Four other national winners youths from Michigan Minnesota Nebraska and South Dakota also have done outstanding work Jesse Jr of Humboldt Neb built an electric pig brooder bought an electric arc welder and saved many a dollar by repairing machinery himself electrified much of the machinery in the farm work work- shop Rodney Hall 16 of Turner S S. S D. D lives on a farm that is not yet on a power line but he has built builta a wind charger which provides the home with electric lights and made madea a time switch connected to an alarm clock that turns the lights on in a chicken house automatically Harlan Dietzel Bay Port Mich has done the wiring around the farm made an electric motor portable portable port- port able so it could do a variety of jobs constructed electrical heaters to keep water fountains from freezing and repaired much electrical equip equip- ment Raymond Schafer of Red Lake Falls Minn constructed an electrical welder mounted it on a trailer and now does welding jobs for or most of the neighborhood And the he money he makes will be used to tomy buy my new electrical gadgets for the farm arm when the war waris is over Each of the 37 state H 4 Rural Electrification winners did an outstanding outstanding outstanding out out- standing job They had to in order to win the honors because the thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of other youths engaged in the project gave them brisk competition |