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Show if Soil conservation I Contests Start I; m Basin Schools 0 The Uintah Basin Soil Con- cervation district announced this T5( week the opening of an essay, 1 ii (tory, and poster contest. All itudents from schools in the 7 iintah Basin are eligible to par-Ot par-Ot Kipate, according to Alden D. ' VThite. chairman of the board of supervisors. iy in Duchesne county the first Jour grades will work on soil conservation posters or models. The 5th and 6th ' grades will . write conservation stories or poems; the 7th ond 8th. a junior Sy essay on soil and water consr-i consr-i ,-ation, and the last four grades a senior essay on the same sub- 1 iff! J A $10 first prize and $5 seeps see-ps ond prize will be awarded the ,!, first four grades. Three prizes be awarded to the onej p'acing first. second and third 1 on thp storv pnd noem po"" consisting of S10, $5 and $2.50. The 7th and 8th grades oartici-pating oartici-pating in the junior essav con-f con-f test will receive $10, S5. anr1 52 50 prizes, and the senior es- ssv division will receive $20. S!0. and $5. fc. Prizes will be awarded to the 1. frades submitting the winning . poster, story or essay. I In the Uintah County School district the same activities will t carried out; but, instead of ' oash prizes, the school district 1 jrd Soil Conservation district ? w;!l jointly reward those doing extending work on any of the p-.ases of soil and water conser-J conser-J i vation with a field trip to see I ; some of the conservation prob- ! lens and how they are treated. 1 i The contest begins January " 15 and will close in Duchesne t: -v February 24. and in -county, April- 30. During January, County . Aeeat Louis A. Jensen and 13J Howard M. Ivory, of the Soil Conservation Service, will visit esh Duchesne county school to HDlain the contest and leave lie '''"rence material. Beginning January 20, Mr. Ivory and frmtv A sent Clair R. Acord - wi'l visit Uintah county schools. 3 ''Prizes for the contest are be-f be-f '? fumisid by th Uintah ""Hn KCP" M-. White said w' hone this will be a means "f 'mpressine the importance of traieing soil conservation upon up-on the minds of the narents as well as th boys and girls in whools." Hormat'nn rpar'ne th" DrKt ran be nM-'iod by mn. tjrtij th local SCS or county Kent's offices. |