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Show 4-H Girls Make 20 Million Meals In Food Program Will 20 million meals placed end-to-end reach1 around the world? Nobody seems to know. But it is a fact that some 400,-000 400,-000 4-H Club girls last year planned, prepared and served 20 million meals as part of their training1 in the National . 4-H Food Preparation program. In Utah. 2,266 were enrolled in the project, according to David Sharp, state club leader, and the 1949 program is off to a good start. Designed to help 4-H'ers understand under-stand food values from both health and economy standpoints, the program also develops desirable de-sirable personal food habits. ( The youthful cooks range in age .from 10 to 21 years, and as in all 4-H Club activities they "learn by doing." Use of home produced food is stressed. Merit awards will again be provided by Servel Home Eco-nomica Eco-nomica departement. They are educational trips to the National 4-H Club Congress for state winners, win-ners, gold-filled medals for county coun-ty winners, and six $300 scholarships scholar-ships for members of a special Jblue award group. The Cooperative Cooper-ative Extension Service directs the program. Maxine Bowler, St. George, won the 1948 state and Washington Wash-ington county awards. Other county medal winners were Donna Quayle, Cache: Marie Nelson, Carbon; Pauline Miller, Garfield: Coleen Miller. Grand; Alice Robinson. Rich; Alene Gibson, Gib-son, Iron; Patricia Hatt. Salt Lake; Joyce Albrecht, Wayne, |
