The Independent-News, Volume 92, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 August 1966 — Page 15

4-H Youths Prepare For Biggest Industry Would you believe that ruling employs six million >rkers more than the combined iployment in transportation, olic utitlili< s, the auto industry I the steel industry? That one rm worker produces food, fiber :vl other farm commodities for msclf and 35 others? The U. S. Department of Aguiture says you had better beve it! Farming is the hi' <>est lustry in the U. S. What's ire, American agriculture has Ivanced more in the last fifty • ars than in all the prior years : our history. In these last fifty years, the Aion's l-H Club members have ■pt up with the new agriculiral practices and have prokiced their share of food and iber. Scores of the nation’s sucessful farmers today got their 4 art in 4-H, according to the 'imperative Extension Service which supervises 4-H Club work. High about now some 106.000 >ung 4-H farmers are getting , adv to harvest crops including mn. oats, soybeans, sugar beets, otton. sorghum, milo, alfalfa. ।nd truck garden produce of weet potatoes, tomatoes, caboge and squash. In the process, several thousand compete for county, state

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and national awards provided by the 4-H Field Crops program sponsor, Arcadian Products Depuitment, Allied Chemical Corp< ’ration. These junior farmers don't just plant the seeds and reap the hurvest. They make soil tests, practic' conservation bj* rotating and l* • racing, r< store arid and eroded land, learn to judge crops, ma ntain farm machinery, and also study marketing. Many ot the older 4-H’ers have outpac t more experienced farm••rs wi h higher yields. Some are already in partnership with, their ’ dads or are renting acreage on 1 their own. With the aid of < H scholarships provided by Allied Chemical. six young people each year are helped with college expenses, agi icultura 1 short courses or other educational endeavors. The 1966 scholarship winners 1 will he chosen from among all state award winners. They wiX be announced next fall during the National 4-H Club Congress ' which they will attend. About 5.000 members are expected to i receive the field crops county medal <»f honor this year. Anv boy or girl interested in starting a field crops project < an contact the county extension office. Chances have danger signs written all over them, but .still ■ find millions of takers.

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% ' ' M h f jWwI illiil WML & rr J FORT RILEY, Kan. Army Cadet David F. Niendorf, son of Mrs. Deloris Niendorf, Route 2. Box 253, Walkerton, participates in field fortifications training at Fort Riley, Kan. He is undergoing six weeks Reserve Officer Training Corps summer training. He is receiving instruction in military skills which will qualify him for acceptance as a commissioned officer in the Army Re•erves upon graduation from school. His training includes weapons handling, leadership, small unit tactics and counterguerrilla warfare. Instruction in logistics, exercise of command and Army administrative procedures an* also part of the program. ■ The summer encampment is scheduled to end August 6. Cadet Niendorf is a student at Indiana University. Eloomington. Bands To Perform At State Fair Three minutes of State FairBand Day, Wednesanx. August 31. will belong entirely to many Indiana high schools as the attention of thousands of fair-go-ers in the grandstand focus on its marching band. Betty Gipe, of the Fair's Special Events Department, recently announced the entry of the high school in the annual musical • <- travaganza which will foatun !5 marching units this year. Each band will give a threeminute routine. Beginning at s:00 a.m., the contest will continue 'er more than four hours. Five jidges, all from outside* the *t it will be totaling up points on the basis of marching, playing, and general effect. In the past 14 years, the' show has grown from 39 bands j i ading in 1952 to this year's 85. It is recognized among band Laders throughout the* nation as one of the largest and most colorful contests in the country. Fast winners have been inxdted to appear in the* Orange Bowl, Rose Bowl. Cotton Bowl and Inaugural Parades. The State Fair Band Contest is unique in that both small and large bands compete against each other. Bands competing in the 1965 contest traveled a]{ oximately 11,544 miles round trio with an average transportation cost of $250.00. The estimated value of the instruments and uniforms is well over $1,500.00, ind over 50,000 man hours have Deen spent ih practicing. Trophies and plaqu<*s for the first 25 places air* donated annually by Hook's Drug Store* while the State Fair pres* nts <1,375.00 in cash awards to 'he* winners. The six-foot tall First Place Trophy was won la..t year by Crown Point High School. The 1966 Contest will be* pre'sented on TV' in special half hour slmw also ponsoi'ed by Hooks on WFBM-TV the following Saturday, Sept. 3, from 8:30 to 9:00 pm. As in the past, a color sound movie will also be* made which will be available* to the Indiana high schools.

AUG. 4,196 C — THE INDEPENDENT NEWS —

State Fair Horse Show Free For First Time Flow i n g burnooses from Arabia, boleros from Spain, and studded chaps from the West will enhance each evening performance of the All-Breed Horse Show. A spectacle' in horse pageantry spans live- nights of the Indiana State* Fair, August 29 thru S' ptomne*r 2. An array of costume divisions in the aristocratic to western classes will give* their add'd beauty to the* Horse Show. Harrison "Bud” Gates, Director of the* Indiana State* Fair Horse Department, expects the audience count of the* All-Bree*d Horse Show to be* markedly increase'd this year since all shows are* free. The* purse* will exceed $35,000. All awards wall be distributed on Stake Night, Friday, September 2. This will be the first year for the Indiana Owned Sweepstake* Class. Just junior horses in seven breeds Appaloosa, Three Gaited, Morgan, Palomino, Quarter Horse*. Shetland Roadster, Shetland Harness can show in this class. Entries were made* for this event prior to the general entry for xvhich the* deadline* is August 1. Three payments (nominee, sustaining and entry i of $25 each have been made by contestants. Thursday and Friday nights will feature heavy harness hitches using draft horses. Each night features a different type* of horse. Halter classes will be* shown at 9:00 a.m. each morning in the Make-Up Arena in the Saddle Horse* Barn. Matinees begin at 3:00 p.m. in the* Coliseum. The*

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The men and women of retirement age who refuse to make a complete list of what they own — and where it is — may well wind up paying for a rest home for cats. Even if they hate cats. A banker says this. He is Virgil W. Brown and is retired. "Many people, but particularly men, hoard and hide things,” he says. "Some of it is instinct. Some of it is a desire or a need to get money out of sight of relatives and friends. "This probably would be all right if people didn't die, or lose memory, or develop mental illness. But after age 60 or so they do, unfortunately. And in 30 years of banking I saw strange

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evening Coliseum shows begin nt 7:00 p.m. Big Increase In Family (amping One of the phenomena of the 1966 vacation sias' ii has be» n the rapid increase in lamilx <■tmpmv in Indiana Stat’ Parks and Stab* I Forests. Although 1.000 n<*w tamping sites Were added this veai to the I previous 5.400 sites, the Indiana . Department of Natural Resources reports that man\- more m. needed. The additional camping facil- • ities art* part of the continuous I upgrading of Indiana state recreational facilities of all types. AI- ; though the Department has just announced plans for the addition of live more State Parks near I the most populous areas of Hoosierland. and a 1,100-acre facility is to be developed around soon-to-be-acquired Wyandotte Cave. • there will be no letup in the improvement and modernization of * existing parks and forests. State Forests noxx' include almost 600 camping sites, as follows: Clark, 30 primitive; Ferdinand, 35 marked and 15 primitive: Greene-Sullivan. 40 primitive; Harrison-Crawford, 40 prim- ; itive; Jackson-Washington, 40 primitive; Martin, 17 marked; Morgan-Monroe, 15 marked and 30 primitive; Pike. 15 primitive; ; Salamonie River, 45 primitive; ; Starve Hollow, 190 marked and l 15 primitive; Yellowwood t 60 ■ primitive. State Parks now include 5,451 camping sites and many more * are being planned and built. Driving in fog is dangerous • - especially if it is mental.

things happen to cash and securities that the owners never intended should happen ...” He mentioned bank accounts that gathered dust for years, until all immediate heirs were dead and some remote relative came in to claim the loot . . . sec urities and cash that lay unused and forgotten until some local unit of government impounded them for public use ther wealth that courts, unable to find proper hiers, turned over to public projects. 'l’o avoid all these pro! lems, Mr. Brown has drawn up a "Where It's Hidden” chart. He recommends that everybody past age 60 use it;