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Show vo, Pleasant Grove, Santaquin, Spanish Fork, Lehi and Payson. These were supplemented by 43 meetings held by specialists and the home demonstration agent at which 1,211 citizens of the county were in attendance. Six radio programs pro-grams over station KOVO in Provo were included in the season's sea-son's activities. In Lehi, a com- Utah County Points Way for Landscaping Landscape improvement projects took another step forward recently, re-cently, when S. R. Boswell, Utah county agent made announcement j in his annual report to Director ; William Peterson . of the Utah State Agricultural college extension exten-sion service of the results obtained ob-tained in his county during the past season. Organized in 1939 to be continued con-tinued through 1940, the Utah county progra mincluded: Lehi, Pleasant Grove, Springville and Provo districts, with community organizations completed in Spanish Span-ish Fork and Payson. In addition to this the central committee contacted leaders of American Fork, Orem, Salem and Santiquin and supervised activities in these communities. A survey of the year shows that Professor Laval Morris of the Utah State Agricultural college gave public Illustrated lectures in Pro- mittee was organized to conduct I activities and as a result the town became active in a contest for "Lehi, Beautiful City." When a residence or business house met the standards set up by the committee com-mittee it was made eligible for an award plaque. This program resulted in a clean-up campaign which included one-third of the homes and business houses in the community. November 12, the date for presentation pre-sentation of awards saw a total of 268 plaques given for work done during the 1940 season. Similar campaigns, on smaller scales wer inaugurated in other towns of the county and as a result re-sult the goal set by Utah county for the centennial year of 1947, was one step nearer completion. |