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Show "MaVe Safety Ocr No. 1 Cron" 4-H florjan For 1948 j 'Make Safetv Our No. 1 Crop" ! That's the 191S slogan of 4-H I Club boys and girls throughou' the nation to help reduce the annual toll of IS. 000 deaths and 1 3-4 million injured on farms due to acciden's. Manv m mhers are taking active ac-tive part in the National 4-H Farm Safety awards program, which is being continued in ; I'tah under the direction of the j Extension Service for the sixth correcutive year. ! Among the members' activiti-s 1 to safeguard their families 1 Train-' accidents are removing or correcting hazards on their farmsteads. Their safety measures meas-ures include nailing down loose boards in homes and barns; covering open wells and water i ke; BtntL?i jjl; -t.vv. jr yrg- -e. 'IT tanks; properly storing tools; exercising care in operating machinery on farms and automobiles auto-mobiles on highways, to mention only a few. As incentives for superior records rec-ords in farm safety work, awards are again offered this year by General Motors. They comprise sterling silver medals to five winners in each county, and a merit plaque to the state championship county. Each state's champion will receive a trip to the Chicago 4-H Club Congress next November. Eight state winners selected to receive national honors will each receive re-ceive a S200.00 college scholarship. scholar-ship. Last vear's state winner in Utah was Wanita Pinegar, Prove Pro-ve County medal winners in 1947 we're: Helen Keller, Cache; 1 Jenial Bryant, Iron; Janet San-ford. San-ford. Millard; Joy Brown. Ro-laine Ro-laine Anderson. Leola Bagley. Berta Bagley of Sevier; Charles Hall. Summit; Nancy Warnick, Caroline Snell. Carol Ann Davis, and Virginia Meldrum of. Utah; Reed Nielson, Rulon Wood Carl Memmott, Robert Orme, Karen Kav of Juab. Utah county was named to receive the 1947 merit placque. |
