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Show Sanpete Chosen As Testing Ground For All-out Fly Control Program Eleven cc-mmuiiu.e., o. a.. pule- County were lepicc-.i.cd at I a mc-jung called by coui.tv u:n I missioncis for th- purpose u j discussing tiie idea u. ojiiy-j ojiiy-j wide Uy coniroi pio.ain io 1D-18, at Manti last Friday eve ning. Forty-three people were ii. alteiioance, .c-pic-se.iii.ij i councils, Lions clu.S, Jeyc" organizations, Odd i-' . 1 1 o .. . todies, Cou.ay Farm Su.eau, Ex i tension Service, and tne Commissioner k ham .as in charge of the meeting. meet-ing. He introduced tne uvc, aiic-r which K. c WrigiO- , sistant Diieetor of Ex .nsion I Service, discussed the liitny habits of the fly and the nec for some coo;)erative command, action on control. After the group voted uua.ii mously for a county-wide fb control program with the ci ic. and communities actively carry ! ing out the work, Russell R Keetch, county agent, expia'ned the proposed organization as oni : central county committee anc j then each city in the coun:y j would perfect a similar com-j com-j mittee. ! The group present moved tha I the suggested committee t , I elected and the organization wa. voted in as Russell Keetc-b. Sa.. pete County Agent, chairman I Thomas Judd, ed'tor of lV Pleasant Pyramid and Wesle; .Cherry, editor of Gunnison Va' I ley News, co-chairmen of t'- publicity work; Hartley Keyse of the Gunnison Jaycee organization, orga-nization, county committeeman to be in charge of finance; Ralph S. Blackham, county commes sioner and manager of Moron' Feed Co-op, to be in. cha-g? n materials, to locate and rf's tribute materials such as tt" spray equipment, etc.; NVlr Hermansen, representing Lie Club of Gunnison, appointed r act as chairman of the comm: tee for directing work of c- nizing cities into a workabp organization such as blo"k d's-trict d's-trict and block foremen to mnk' proper contacts to see that the control work is going over with the least amount of effort. A. K. Barton, prc-sidc-ni of the Sanpete County Farm Bureau will head the committee o:i measuring results and making recommendations for follow-up work for this year and years to come. John Stewart, extension editor, edi-tor, gave a talk to the group on the values of a good publicity program. He indicated that the success of this type of program would largely be determined by the amount of information and the sales idea to individual property owners. |