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Show 4-H Frozen Foods Winners I 1 x i v vtv , National winners of the 1954 4-H Frozen Foods Awards Program, of which International Harvester Company is the donor of awards, join hands with Mae Houston, Harvester's director of home economics, eco-nomics, center, in cutting a piece of their 10th anniversary birthday birth-day cake. This is the 10th year that the company has sponsored the 4-H frozen foods program. Pictured above, the winners, left to right, are: Sara Johnson, 17, Culverton, Ga.; Barbara Jean Wenger, 16, Powhattan, Kan.; Janice Abey, 17, Evansville, Wis. ; Miss Houston; Evadene Sample, 18, Spring Valley, Minn.; Eleanor Sabey, 18, Spanish Fork, Utah; and DoUy M. Lawson, 20, Frederick, Fred-erick, Md. These six girls each won an all-expense trip to the 33rd annual an-nual 4-H Club Congress in Chicago Chi-cago and a $300 International Harvester scholarship, acceptable at any accredited agricultural college. The purpose of the 4-H Frozen Foods Awards Program, conducted conduct-ed under the direction of the Cooperative Co-operative Extension Service, is to encourage 4-H Club members to attain top efficiency in freezing freez-ing foods for the home. Adhering to the convention theme of "Working Together for World Understanding," Miss Johnson, a seven-year 4-H member, mem-ber, has frozen 2,348 pounds of meat, 1,676 pounds of vegetables and fruit, and 860 prepared dishes. In this project Sara has made 35 exhibits, given 35 demonstrations, dem-onstrations, won many honors including in-cluding this year's state championship. cham-pionship. Miss Wenger, also a seven-year member, has frozen 2,428 pints of fruit and vegetables, meat, and poultry and many types of baked goods, including pies and muffins, as well as "quickie meals." She has made 160 exhibits and 30 demonstrations demonstra-tions before some 105,400 persons. Miss Abey, an eight-year member, mem-ber, has frozen 1,530 quarts of fruits and vegetables and 5,147 pounds of meat. She has made 488 exhibits and seven demonstrations demonstra-tions in food preservation and won many awards. Miss Sample, through seven of her nine club years, has frozen 231 quarts, 124 pints of fruits and vegetables and 3,051 pounds of home-grown beef and pork. Miss Sabey, another seven-year-member, has frozen 3,799 pounds of meats, 792 quarts of fruits and vegetables, and some 1,100 bakery items. Miss Lawson, in eight years of 4-H work, has frozen 1,687 pounds of meat, over 700 quarts of fruits and vegetables, vege-tables, and 139 baked items. Recalling the 35 years International Inter-national Harvester has been associated as-sociated with the national 4-H movement and relating the tremendous tre-mendous progress mechanization has brought to the farm, Christian E. Jarchow, executive vice president, presi-dent, speaking at International Harvester's luncheon for the 1,200 delegates attending the 33rd congress, con-gress, said: "Now, all this is only a way of saying that things are a lot different dif-ferent and a lot better on the farm now than they were in your parents' time, or your grandparents' grandpar-ents' time. "They not only are better but they are steadily improving, and there is no sign of any slowing down in the rate of that improvement. improve-ment. Whether we talk about machinery ma-chinery or seed or fertilizer or irrigation or livestock strains or pest control, it is still true that there is a steady forward march of progress. "You are part of that march. Your presence here proves it, for you would not be here if you were not leaders in your own communities. commu-nities. You have plans, of course, for your educations and futures. I hope those plans call for living and working on farms. For the promise of American agriculture is great. Only one thing is needed for the certain realization of that promise and that is the vigor, the progressiveness, and the leadership lead-ership which you boys and girls are equipped to supply. You can, if you will, keep American farming farm-ing far out in front." |