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Show 4-H Youths Find Recipe For Success The nation's 3.5 million 4-H youths have discovered a formula for-mula that works. It is: Learn-earn-serve-save. Diligent application ap-plication guarantees success. During recent county and state fairs, scores of youngsters young-sters from virtually every county received recognition from the state Cooperative Extension Service and the many business enterprises that support 4-H. Numerous awards are offered of-fered annually. Among them are trips to the National 4-H Congress which will convene in Chicago Nov. 30 through Dec. 4 at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Some 1,650 boys and girls representing many different project areas have won 1969 state trip awards. They will comprise the state delegations delega-tions to the congress, and will be accompanied by state 4-H leaders. Teenagers from all 50 states are expected to attend the Chicago event. Of this group, nearly 270 will be selected for national scholarships valued at $155,-300, $155,-300, according to the National Nation-al 4-H Service Committee. Winners will be announced during the congress. In addition to these valued awards, 4-H sponsors provide to another group of state champions, $50 U.S. savings bonds, wrist watches, radios and plaques. Award donors include: Am-chem Am-chem Products, Inc.; American Ameri-can Oil Foundation; Chevron Chemical Company-Ortho Division, The Chicago Board of Trade; Burlington Railroad; Rail-road; Chicago & North Western West-ern Railway Company; Cities Service Company; E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company; Com-pany; Ford Motor Company Fund. Others include: Hercules Incorporated; International Minerals & Chemical Corporation; Corpo-ration; Eli Lilly and Company; Com-pany; Oliver Corporation; Simplicity Pattern Co. Inc.; Standard Brands Incorporated; Incorpo-rated; Union 76 Division, Union Oil Company of California; Cali-fornia; The Upjohn Company; Com-pany; The Campbell Soup Company, and The Wrather Corporation. The congress is the highlight high-light of the 4-H year, and to be a delegate is the dream of every 4-H'er. New experiences experi-ences such as jet travel, living liv-ing for a week in the nation's largest hotel, taking in the sounds and sights of Chicago, eating banquet-type meals every day, and being royally j entertained by stars of stage ; and TV are but a few of the "firsts" awaiting the 1969 delegates. |