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Show Uet Farm Training Program Almost Ends In County Veterans' on-the-farm training train-ing program is slowing down in Duchesne County. Only one group is now active, and that is at Altamont in the heart of Duchesne County's 'upper country," coun-try," some 20 miles north of Duchesne. E. Max Hartman is instructor for this group of 20 World War II veterans and the 2 Korean War veterans. Inasmuch Inas-much as benefits for Korean War veterans are of a different nature, few of these young men eligible to participate in the program are enrolled, states Supt. Dean C. Christensen, of the Duchesne County School District. Due to insufficient enrollment two other groups have been discontinued dis-continued under the program in this county. The training at Roosevelt was discontinued in August, 1952, and the Duchesne unit closed July 1, 1953. j This program in Duchesne i County hit its peak in 1950. I Then six instructors were ser-I ser-I ving some 180 veterans at the I three training headquarters at I Duchesne, Altamont and Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Instructors serving at Duchesne Du-chesne were E. Max Hartman and Allen T. Bond; at Altamont, George Mendenhall and Willard Bovee Mecham; at Roosevelt, Tal Wardle and James Lewis. Mr. Hartman was transferred to the Altamont shop from Duchesne. Du-chesne. Mr. Bond continued as instructor at Duchesne until the unit was closed in July. Courses of instruction under the veterans' on-the-farm train-! train-! ing program in this county in- eluded farm bookkeeping, car-I car-I pentry, new methods of irrigation, irriga-tion, soil conservation, crop rotation, ro-tation, seeding, up-keep of farms, animal judging, and shop instruction. |