Entries in 4-H, FFA
Fair Show Increase
Over Previous Year
Marge Hatten and Glen Klein
say -bigger and better than
ever" in referring to the annual
4-H and FFA fair here Aug. 20
24, and mean it. Their section
of the annual event particularly
shows a tremendous growth.
In the steer division alone
there will be 94 animals
entered compared to the pre
vious year's 66.
Other entries include 250
cooking, 230 clothing, 260 sheep,
150 hogs, 94 steers, 85 female
beef. 190 dairy, 70 pens of rab
bits, 45 poultry, 30 tractor, 60
forestry, and 50 miscellaneous
exhibits such as hobby, fishing,
gun club, and electricity.
Increase in Interest
Both leaders say the reason
for the growth is the increase in
Interest.
Tihi years schedule includes:
Fair opens to public 1 p.m.
Tuesday with rabbit judging and
contest, 1 'p.m. poultry judging
and contest, 4 p.m. showman
ship contest for rabbits and
poultry.
Wednesday, the day's events
start with crops and forestry
judging contests at 9 a.m., live
stock judging contests at 10:30
a.m., beef fitting contest at
1 p.m., beef showmanship con
test at 1:45 p.m., beef showman
ship championship at 7 p.m.
Thursday Event
Thursday starts at 6 a.m. with
the market livestock weighed in,
swine judging and sheep show
manship at 9 a.m., dairy judging
contest at 10:30 a.m., beef judg
ing and sheep judging at 1 p.m.,
swine showmanship at 7 p.m.
Friday, Aug. 23 leads off with
the dairy judging in two rings
at 9 a.m. and livestock auction
a 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, dairy showmanship
starts off tfee day's events at 9
a.m.; agriculture demonstrations
at 10:30 a.m., tractor driving
contests at 2:30 p.m., with sheep
shearing contests at 2:30 p.m.,
style revue plus special awards
program at 7:30 p.m. winds up
the wee k-long schedule of
events.
Activities Scheduled
Not to Conflict in
4-H, FFA Fair Show
Officials of the 4H-FFA fair
and spokesmen for the Kiwanis
Town and Country Holiday as
sured visitors that activities of
" the two events have been plan
ned so as not to conflict.
; Those planning to attend eith
er event will have ample oppor-
, tunity to expand their visit to
include both, representatives
. said. '
: Highlight events of the 4H-
FFA fair are scheduled for the
- final two days and include the
- livestock auction, starting at
7:30 p.m. Friday, the argiculture
IThird Year Starts
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I For Eagle Point
! Future Farmers
I The Eagle Point FFA chapter
; will be starting their third year
when school opens this fall. It
;will be the second year for the
: building with another year of
activity being planned.
5 Two summer meetings have
"been held by officers to plan
;next year's program and budget.
Officers attending the meets
;were President Jim Bruhner,
jVice President Howard Wilde,
Secretary Dewey Johnson, Treas
urer Art Gardner, Reporter Carl
jWeisbrad and Sentinel Bill Hub
bard. Z The chapter has two milk dis
pensers In operation this sum
; mer. One is at Ter Plywood and
J the other is at ftedford Plywood
;t White ty. The Milk Pro
ducers league helped to secure
tthe dispensers. For the past two
"months the dispensers have aver
aged about 1,200 half pints of
milk.
Promote Fire Safety
The chapter has sold more
"than 50 fire extinguishers to local
: people since last May to promote
Tfire safety.
" The purpose of the fund rais
ing projects is for the chapter
;banquet, sending of a delegate to
state and national contests,
liquidating the loan of the milk
:dispensers and other expenses
Jnecessary to run the chapter.
Christmas cards, first aid kits
-and oak and laurel are on plans
to be sold to local residents. The
group plans to gather mistletoe
:during the Christmas season and
:ship it to Portland. Vegetable
plants will again be raised in the
chapter hot house. More than 200
dozen were sold last year.
Rfrhmenl Stand
The chapter will again manage
the refreshment stand at all
home football games. New equip
ment has been purchased and
better service is planned.
Eagle Point will play host to
the leadership training school for
officers of the 10 chapters in the
Rogue - Umpqua district. The
training meeting, planned by
state officers, is scheduled Satur
day, Sept. 28.
A livestock judging team of
Eagle Point will be at the county
fair and at the Oregon State Fair.
The livestock judging tea is
composed of Jack Esp, David
-Hughes and BUI Hubbard, all
junior FFA.
. The classroom Instrfiction for
"the coming year will be divided
between farm shop work and
classroom agricultural studies.
The Eagle Point chapter expects
enrollment of about 45 students
.for the coming year.
I Nepal charges mountain
-climbers an admission fee of
;:S630 to assault 29.028-foot
Mount Everest, the National
"-Geographic Magazine said. Any
one attempting to scale 26,811
jfoot Dhaulagiri, the earth's high
est known unconquered peak,
jnust pay the same; but lower
eaks may be tackled for bar
gain prices.
demonstrations Saturday morn
ing, & tractor driving contest
and sheep shearing contest Sat
urday afternoon, with the style
revue and special awards pro
gram scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Saturday as the final event.
Busy Schedule
The busy schedule of the Ki
wanis Town and Country Holi
day, starting Thursday, Aug. 22,
and cqncluing Sunday, Aug. 25,
will include continuous activi
ties both inside and outside- of
the Medford Memorial armory.
The event will officially open
at 5:30 p.m., with special ribbon
cutting ceremonies planned at
the new armory building.
Exhibits, demonstrations, dis
plays and facet of community
ing every facet of community
life will be represented at the
showing, Kiwanis club members
said. ,
Booth Displays
Retail merchants, rural" and
urban organizations and civic
groups will have a variety of in
teresting and informative booth
displays.
An estimated 20,000 visitors
are expected to attend the four
day event.
Concessions and rides will
help to impart the feeling of a
county fair and will be spon
sored by participating valley
service and fraternal organiza
tions, representatives said.
Leadership Helped
By Speech Matches
To further develop leadership
in FFA .each year chapter, dis
trict, sectional and state contests
are held in public speaking and
parliamentary procedure.
Such competition starts on the
chapter level with members
competing for chapter public
speaker. The chapter goes on to
compete in the district contest
which includes 10 chapters
known as the Rogue-Umpqua
district.
The district winner competes
in the sectional contest which is
a combination of the first and
second place winners of the dis
trict. The sectional winner con
tinues to the state convention to
compete with four other youths.
Eagle Pointer Ron Hanson
placed fourth in the state con
vention contest in La Grande
last year. The title of his speech
was "We raise it let's sell it."
Parliamentary procedure is
considered to be the key to prop
per control of chapter meetings.
This, too, is set up on & competi-.
tive basis. Winners are selected
the same way as in the public
speaking contests.
The Crater parliamentary
team placed third in the state
contest after winning the district
and sectional contests.
Local FFA members are al
ready planning for the state
convention to be held in Bend,
Oregon the second week in
March.
Most Farm Accidents
Stem From Bad Attitude
Urbana, 111. nn a safety
expert at the Universitv of Illi
nois says most accidents on the
farm result from wrong at
titudes toward safety.
O. L. Hogsett of the college of
agriculture said ''farmers must
convince themselves that farm
ing the right way is farming the
safe, efficient way."
He listed seven types of farm
ers who endaneer thpmselws
and others. They included "Hur
ry Harry, who never takes time
to be careful," a type who thinks
rules apply to the other fellow
ana aioppy bam, who never
gets around to eliminatini? haz
ards."
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MEASURING UP Carolee Brantlee, Griffin events. Hours of careful feeding and care are
Creek, carefully holds high the head of her represented in this as in other 4-H animal
prize animal during one of the dairy class projects.
Control for Speed 0( Hearing Sought
Chicago (IP) Researchers are
seeking a method of controlling
the speed which people hear in
an effort to help the hard of
hearing, according to Dr. Wil
liam G. Hardy, director of the
Johns Hopkins Hearing and
Speech Center.
The Baltimore, Md., speech
expert told a sales group here
that hearing aids that merely
augment volume of sound do not
solve completely the problem of
people who find it difficult to
distinguish words if they are
spoken too rapidly.
Hardy said this difficulty be
comes more common among the
hard of hearing with advancing
age, particularly in distinguish
ing between words spoken by
women.
Hardy said regulation of the
rate at which sound reaches the
ear already is possible under
laboratory conditions. He said a
hearing aid to slow down the
rate perhaps a tiny electronic
sound-spacer may be the next
major improvement in the hear
ing field.
Tuesday, August 20. 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Local Talent Show
Slated at Holiday
Headlining the shows at the
Kiwanis Town and County Holi
day will be Eddie Peabody,
world famous "King of the Ban
jo." In addition, the variety
shows will include the profes
sional acts plus a local talent
search to find a representative
to appear later at the Oregon
State fair.
Each day, starting Thursday,
several talented local acts will
compete to appear on the final
elimination programs set for
Sunday afternoon and evening.
The winner selected will receive
a trip to the Oregon State fair
and compete with talent from
throughout Oregon. The state
fair talent winner will be of
fered an audition - opportunity
for the Lawrence Welk televi
sion show.
More than 15 local acts have
been selected to appear during
the four days of the talent search
shows.
Show times have been set for
6:30 and 9 p.m. daily, with mati
nee performances scheduled for
Saturday and Sunday at 3 p.m.
The armory doors will open
at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and
Friday and at noon on Saturday
and Sunday. '
Teddy Roosevelt Tree, Dedicated Recently
Worcester, Mass (W-r- Forty
years after it was planted by
former President Theodore
Roosevelt, an oak tree was
"dedicated" here. The tree was
planted Sept. 1; 1916 while
Roosevelt was here to dedicate
Norton Village, erected by the
Norton Co. to house its em
ployes. Recently a marker was
set in a stone wall to identify
the "Roosevelt Oak."
Roses should be sprayed regu
larly. If a general-purpose spray
or dust is applied weekly, roses
can be grown free of insect dam
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A Grand Parade
of 4-H and FFA
Achievements
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County 4-H Clubs and Future Farmers of
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