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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1960
CLAYTON COUNTY
4-H CLUB SECTION
GROWTH AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
How 4-H Club Work
Has Moved to Fore
BY CHARLES S. TUCKER,
County Agent
The rapid growth of Clayton
County has brought about a tre
mendous increase in the 4-H
Club enrollment in the county.
This year we have 1066 4-H boys
and girls meeting in 21 organized
clubs. Four-H club work is no
different from any other field
of endeavor—those who work
the hardest are the ones that
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We're proud of you — and proud of your parents
who have encouraged your 4-H Club work. To
all "4-H families" in the community . . . our
sincere congratulations.
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Phone GR 8-8888 Jonesboro, Ga.
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Learning in Nature's School . . .
4-H boys and girls who care for a brood of chicks or
watch a tiny seed sprout and grow are learning the ways
of nature while building a store of knowledge that
will last a lifetime. One of the axioms of 4-H work is
that the boy or girl is far more important than the
project -a tribute to the wisdom of those who direct
the program. For as 4-H members help their proj
ects grow, they grow with them and become active,
responsible citizens at an early age.
We're proud to have these fine young people as
friends and fellow citizens and to tell them during
their special observance, National 4-H Club Week,
March 5-12, how much we admire their many ac
complishments.
succeed. Our main objective is
no different from any other
youth organization—we are al
ways striving to make men and
women out of boys and girls. We
feel that projects from which
the 4-H members have the op
portunity to choose gives them
the opportunity to accept re
sponsibility in and around their
homes. When a 4-H Club mem
ber accepts the responsibility of
raising a calf or beautifying his i
home, we feel that this respon
sibility will help him to develop '
leadership ability and to become
a better citizen in his commu
nity, county and state. i
Each year in 4-H Club work
we have our District Meet for ।
club members who have excelled '
in home projects. Through our
District Meet, 4-H Club members ‘
who have excelled in home proj
ects. Through our District Meet,
4-H Club members have the op- ■
portunity to compete at the dis- ■
trict level, with the possibility of '
going on to state and iational
competition. In 1959 twenty- ।
nine of our 4-H Club members ,
competed at the district level.
Clayton County has had several ।
4-H Club members to reach state
and national levels in project ।
work that was started at home.
Master 4-H Club membership is (
the highest honor that can be
bestowed upon a Georgia 4-H
Club member and, today, Clay
ton County has four club mem
bers who have reached this goal.
Clayton County has furnished
leadership in our Georgia 4-H
Club program. Miss Georgianne
Brown, of Jonesboro, served as
President of the Georgia 4-H
Club Council in 1958-59, an hon
or attained by very few. Two of
our 4-H Club members served as
counselors during the 1959 4-H
camping season at Rock Eagle.
We now have three of our club
members attending college on
scholarships that they received
through our 4-H Club scholar
ship program.
Four-H Club members in Clay
ton County have exhibited at the
Southeastern Fair for the last
eight years and Jimmy Pace, of
Rex, exhibited the Junior Cham
pion Female in the Guernsey
Show last year. Two of our 4-H
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Compliments of
Lewis Dept.
Store and
Beauty Shop
Jonesboro, Ga.
THE FOREST PARK FREE PRESS—NEWS AND FARMER
Beginning
And Growth
Os 4-H Clubs
BY MRS. MARY K. SINGLETON,
Home Demonstration Agent
Often the question is asked,
“How did 4-H get started?”
“Who headed the movement?”
To give credit to a few individ
uals or to find the roots of the
movement in a few simple
causes must be resisted. Many
forces—social, cultural and edu
cational—focused attention on
the farm boys and girls. Some
of the reasons were:
1. A feeling on the part of
educators that rural schools
were inadequate and not re
lated to farm living.
2. A growing sentiment for
practical education in agricul- 1
ture and homemaking.
3. The urge of Colleges of Ag
riculture to pass on new tech
niques to farm communities.
4. A growing desire of farm
families for the better things of
life.
5. A drive to lift rural cultural
standards.
6. And last, but by no means
least, was the concern and wor
ry over the drift of the rural
farm boys and girls to the
cities.
Early in 1900 it was evident
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for a
BETTER WORLD
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HERBERT'S
VARIETY
STORE
Jonesboro, Ga.
Compliments Os
"dickson
FUNERAL
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JONESBORO, GA.
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BRENDA BROWN
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that a youth phase of the Ex
tension program was certain to
come along. Public-spirited
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WESTERN AUTO
ASSOCIATE STORE
JONESBORO, GA.
A salute
to Georgia's
young farmers
Today’s agricultural spotlight is on Geor
gia’s youth. Individually and under guid
ance of such outstanding organizations
as 4-H and Future Fanners of America
groups, these young people today are
building a better Georgia through their
knowledge and use of modern-day farm
ing methods.
The Georgia Power Company is proud
of these young people—proud, too, that
it can give a helping hand through spon
sorship of such activities as annual 4-H
GEORGIA
POWER A CITIZEN WHEREVER WE SERVE
COMPANY
MASTER 4-H CLUB MEMBERS
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DONALD JOHNSON
(Story on Page 9)
people in many places began
home project programs for rural
youths. Thus many commu-
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HERBERT POWELL
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nities believe they are the au
thentic birthplace of the 4-H
Clubs. Working out their ideas !
LEARN • LIVE • SERVE
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Dickson Appliance Co.
Jonesboro, Ga. GR 8-6734
Hybrid Corn and FFA Farm Electrifi
cation and Winter Grazing programs.
In these and in similar activities, Geor
gia Power Company’s rural engineers
stand ready to encourage, advise, and aid.
These men can serve you, too. Their free
services are available to all who need
help in selecting and installing electrical
equipment on the farm or in planning
farm wiring and lighting. If you need
the services of one of these rural engi
neers, simply call at your nearest Georgia
Power Company store.
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JIMMY PACE
(Story on Page 10)
independently,, they were un
aware that their program was
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