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Show 4-H'ers Look Ahead During National Achievement Week National 4-H Club Achievement Achieve-ment week will be observed Nov. 1-7, with the theme, "Creating "Creat-ing Better Homes Today for a More Responsible Citizenship Tomorrow," according to David Sharp Jr. and Fern Shipley, supervisors su-pervisors of youth programs, Utah State Agricultural College Extension Service. Utah 4-H Clubbers have achieved new heights in several fields this year. Club membership member-ship is the highest in history, with more than S500 members plus 1600 leaders in Utah. This is an increase of 1,000 over the previous high of last year. Four-H'ers of the state have produced and conserved more than S400.000 worth of food this year; have made or remodeled thousands of items of clothing; conducted health and safety campaigns, and in many other ways helped themselves, clubs, communities, and country. Club projects have included: clothing, foods, home improvement, improve-ment, beef, dairying, swine, sheep, crops, poultry, forestry, soil conservation, gardening, home ground beautification tractor maintainance, and junior leadership, with health and i safety as overall projects. In addition to these individual club projects, 4-H activities during dur-ing the year have included such events as: Annual 4-H leaders' training school, held last March at USAC, with 220 volunteer leaders attending; at-tending; national 4-H week, last March; national 4-H club encampment en-campment in Washington, D. C, last June, at which Utah was represented; state and county fairs and junior livestock shows, with 4-H participation; two state club encampmen's for older members, at USAC and Branch Agricultural College, plus 17 county and district encampments, encamp-ments, with an attendance of 7300; out of state livestock shows, with Utah 4-H representation. |