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Show Future, Farmers of America Buy War Stamps and Bonds Helping to assure themselves and their country of lasting security, se-curity, 245,000 Future Farmers of America in 7,500 chapters throughout the country have in the past year invested more than $1,500,000 in var bonds and stamps. This was announced by W. A. Ross, executive secretary of FFA, U. S. Office of Education, Washington, D. C, on the eve of the annual FFA National Convention Con-vention scheduled in Kansas City Missouri, October 25 to 28. An FFA member is a farm boy who is studying vocational agriculture in his high school and who is developing his own complete farm program for the future. This entitles him to membership in this national organization or-ganization of farm boys. Sometimes Some-times getting a start in his farm pTan with his father's help, or often largely on his 'own initiative, initi-ative, he eventually becomes self-sufficient and keeps his own farm business records to prove it. Hundreds of FFA chapters are buying bonds regularly, as are hundreds of individual members, from the profits in their livestock or crop projects. In some cases, FFA members are converting their entire profits into war savings. sav-ings. Seventeen Utah chapters purchased pur-chased more than $1,000 worth of War bonds, and it is estimated that purchases by members exceed ex-ceed this six or eight times. Thirty-three Wyoming chapters chap-ters have invested about $7,000. FFA activities in the war savings sav-ings program, as well as in other phases of the war effort, will be stressed at the national convention. conven-tion. Besides their war savings activities, ac-tivities, nearly 50,000 members are in the armed forces. Members Mem-bers have collected over 77 million mil-lion pounds of scrap metal, over 30 million pounds of paper, over 2 700,000 pounds of rubber and over 600,000 pounds of rags. |