FRIDAY. AUGUST 12. 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
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4-H Leaders Work Behind The Scene to Help Area Youth
The Jackson county 4-H
Program, like others in the
tate, is somewhat like a play
production. You see the
youngsters performing but
you don't see all the work
behind the scenes. '
The "stagehands" doing this
work are 118 adult 4-H lead
ers. "It's for the kids" seems
to be their motto.
Oregon State college once
made a survey of the time,
money and effort contributed
by these leaders. Average
donation per leader a year is
$365, according to the OSC
survey. Many leaders here
contribute much more than
that.
This money is not donated
like a donation to church or
to a charity. It's a dollar
here and a dollar there as
the need arises. A lot of
money is spent on gas and oil
in hauling the 4-H'ers from
their homes to a meeting
place, to a 4-H pre-fair, horse
show or camp out.
Busy Morning
During one of the recent
prefairs, for instance, some of
the 4-H leaders who are
farmers were up at 5 a.m.
They hustled through their
chores. Then they loaded their
trucks with their own young
sters' stock and drove to other
4-H komes picking up heifers,
steers, rabbits and chickens,
then drove into the pre-fair
site.
With some help from the
youngsters, the livestock was
either herded or carried from
the trucks or trailers. Another
leader may have volunteered
to bring the hay and feed. He
probably donated most of it.
Then there is always the
"hard core" of the leader
group which is always on
hand to coax a balky steer
from the trailer, repair a show
halter, to show a child how
to curry his pet, help put up
the food concession booths
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TRACTOR MAINTENANCE Several Phoe
nix boys get some practical experience in.
tractor maintenance with Jack Dube, Phoe
nix FFA advisor and vo-ag instructor super
vising. From left: Dube, Ricky Bolz, Phoe
nix FFA sophomore, Kenny Harris, Phoenix,
an interested onlooker, Butch Bowman,
Phoenix FFA sophomore, peering over the
tire and Curt Harris, Phoenix FFA junior,
kneeling beside Dube. Curt had accidentally
run a hardwood sliver through the tractor
tire. It was patched and was being put back
on the tractor when this picture was taken
in a grain field near Phoenix.
PARADES HEREFORD Laqueta Stephen
son, Reese Creek 4-H club member, parades
her Hereford during one of the recent pre
fairs held to determine who of the hundreds
of 4-H'ers would center the Jackson County
4-H and FFA fair next week, These youngs
ters buy their own feed and care for their
animals themselves. The annual auction held
at the end of the fair pays them for their
labors and puts some money in the bank
for their future college education or farm
projects.
Railroads Approve
Rate for Wheat
l Portland -(UPD- Seven trans
continental railroads have ap
proved a rate of 81 cents per
hundredweight on movement
of wheat for export from the
western Great Plains area to
Pacific Coast ports, the Ore
gon Department of Planning
and Deevlopment reported.
-Portland export firms who
had sought a reduction to 70
cents from the present rate of
98 Vi cents said the 81 cent
rate would enable them to
compete at least part of the
time for some 300,000 tons in
Japanese purchases of hard
red winter wheat.
Action of the railroad who
previously had turned down a
request for a 70 cent rate fol
lowed intervention by Gov.
Mark Hatfield who sent wires
urging the cut be made.
NU-LIFE
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Will not burn
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Easily applied
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BE SURE TO ATTEND AND
SUPPORT THE 4-H & F.F.A. FAIR &
SALE! STARTS TOMORROW!
217 Wert 6th Street
"We Sell Every
Bloomin' Thirty!"
Phone SP 3-5539
and generally keep the 4-H
program running smoothly.
Once the 4-H program was
run strictly for farm children.
Now it has spread to suburban
and even a large number of
city homes.
Some Occupations
Besides farmers leaders will
be lawyers, dentists, doctors,
investment brokers, retail
merchants and bankers, to
mention a few of the repre
sented occupations. Through
the program a number of
friendships have sprung up
between parents and families.
Without the leaders being
aware of it the 4-H program
has probably done more than
anything else to create a bet
t e r understanding between
city residents and farmers.
The program has even help
ed smooth over some com
munity differences. During
recent inter-community strife
over school.district reorgani
zation it wasn't unusual to
see people from both factions
sitting side by side on the
bleachers at the county fair
grounds watching their young
sters perform. "We found out
we got along fine as long as
we talked about nothing but
4-H," one of the mothers re
marked. And the mothers probably
contribute most of all to the
leadership program. They help
with the 4-H home economics
events. They assist with the
cooking and sewing projects,
cook and cake for the food
concessions at the prefairs,
prepare food for the various
4-H outings and even help
load and unload livestock,
feed them and water them.
When a child complains, "Aw,
I'm too tired to do that right
now!" You know who pitches
in and gets the job done.
Prevent Delinquency
The adult leaders feel they
are directly helping to pre
vent juvenile delinquency by
working in the 4-H program.
"I don't know of any 4-H club
member who has been in the
Jackson county juvenile de
tention home while active in
North African Bird
Appears in N.J.
Cape May, N.J.-A team of
naturalists wants to study a
new type of New Jersey com
muter -a bird from North
Africa that suddenly turned
up here.
'The bird is the cattle egret,
a type that forsakes water for
the company of cattle. It feeds
on insects stirred up by the
cattle. Birdwatchers says they
would like to find out how
the cattle egrets got this far
north.
4-H," one adult leader re
marked. These men and women learn
with their youngsters. Moth
ers learn new and quicker
ways to prepare food so they
can teach their 4-H youngsters
when they help with projects.
Even veteran stockmen
learn about new breads and
methods of raising and hand
ling livestock. "Why my kid
knows more about picking out
good animals than I do," one'
member of the livestock in
dustry commented.
"This 4-H business is a
family program. Parents live
with and work with their
kids. It's different than other
youth programs that way.
Sure, the kids suffer disap
pointments when they don't
win the ribbons they're after
and some parents are worse
than their kids that way. But
everybody learns while do
ing," one father and 4-H lead
er remarked. "Sure, I have a
kid in the program and I'm a
leader. But I would be any
way. It's a great program for
the kids," he added.
Many leaders and parents
feel the program gives the
youngsters the early business
training they need to develop
good businesslike habits.
Local banks have set up loans
for youngsters who borrow
money to buy livestock. Many
youngsters have taken out a
number of such loans, always
paying them back. The money
4-H and FFA fair auction
buys school clothes, provides
spending money and builds up
college funds.
"Best of all, the kids learn
to get along together. They
visit around and compare
notes on their different proj
ects. Even at the county fair
where you have a large num
ber of boys and girls together
very little supervision is need
ed. They learn how to behave
and know what is expected of
them," a leader said.
A Salute to All
4-H & FFA Members
OUR FARM YOUTH ARE CHAMPIONS ALL.
VISIT THEIR EXHIBITS AND SEE OUR FU
TURE CITIZENS IN ACTION. THAT THEY
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F.F A and 4-H
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7 AUGUST 13th to 20th
Complete Display of Livestock, Poultry,
Crops, Home Economices Achievements!
You'll ENJOY this fine showing of Jackson County's boys and girls members of
4-H Clubs and Future Farmers of America . . . you'll be PROUD of their achievements
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