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Show 2 Utah County Award Winners Go to Phoenix Grand award winners in the 31st annual Goodyear Conservation Awards Program will arrive in Litchfield Lit-chfield Park, Arizona on Friday, Dec. 15 to begin a four-day vacation-study vacation-study program. Program participants include outstanding cooperators and board membeis representing the first place conservation districts in the competition com-petition sponsored by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in cooperation with the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD). Boyd Anderson of Pleasant Grove and Boyd C. Sunderland of Lehi will represent the award winning win-ning Alpine Soil Conservation District in Arizona. In addition, NACD officers and representatives of the Association of State Soil Conservation Con-servation Administrative Officers, National Association of Farm Broadcasters and Newspaper Farm Editors of America will be attending the program. Among the scheduled events are tours of the 12,360 acre Goodyear Farms, a proving ground for agricultural machinery and methods since 1917, and visits to some of the Salt River Project's facilities for water management and power generation. The group also will tour scenic and historic locations in the Phoenix area. The awards program provides recognition to conservation districts and individual conservationists in the 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Nearly 3,000 grand award winners have made the previous trips to Arizona and Florida since the program began in 1947. |