New Mexico extension news, Volume 22, Number 8

              New Mexico Extension News
PUBLISHED BY THE EXTENSION SERVICE, NEW MEXICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS
H STATE COLLEGE, N. M., AUGUST, 1942	
4-H Camps Held in
Only Ten Counties
Camps   Held   in   Those   Counties
Where Mountain Camp Sites
Are Easily AvaUable
County 4-H Club camps were
held in ten New Mexico counties
during fee month of July, covering a period starting July 5th and
ending July 29th. The counties
that held these camps were close
enough to mountain camp sites
that transportation was not a
limiting factor. In past years,
several other counties have been
holding these 4-H Club encampments, but due to transportation
shortages, many of the camps had
to be cancetied to counties where
fee distance to a camping ground
was too great for fee agents to arrange sufficient transportation.
The first day of each camp was
devoted to estebUshing quarters
and setting up an organization for
managing fee camp. The chief
officer, Captain, was elected by
the entire group. The Captain
then divided fee assemblage into
platoons, consisting of approximately 25 club members. After
fee members were divided, a
meeting was called of each platoon,
and a First Lieutenant, Second
Lieutenant, and four Foreign Correspondents were elected.
The duties of fee First lieutenant were to direct fee activities of
their respective platoons. They
were responsible to the Captain
for fee conduct of their platoon.
The Second Lieutenants were
the law enforcing officers and it
was their responsibility to see
feat fee camp grounds and dormitories were kept clean, and fee
beds made. The Second Lieutenants were also to charge of appointing buck privates to their
platoons to serve on KP duty.
This, in many cases, involved a
great deal of arguing, but the
Second Lieutenants used their
authority and were able to furnish
plenty of KP's to assist in fee
kitchen.
The    Foreign    Correspondents'
regarding their platoons. Each
day the Foreign Correspondents
made notes of things of interest
that happened in their respective
platoons, and on fee last day of
camp each Foreign Correspondent
read his newspaper.
AU of fee officers from each
platoon assisted fee Captain in
running fee camp. In every case
where the organization was placed
to fee hands of fee various officers, fee camps were run in a
vwrv orderly manner. Suggestions for certain procedures were
given to fee Captain who to turn
gave the orders to fee First Lieutenants. The First Lieutenants
passed fee information on to fee
Second Lieutenants, and fee Second   Lieutenants   instructed   fee
FOOD FOR FREEDOM
buck privates, who performed fee
Each platoon issued challenges
to other platoons for competitive
games.    These games consisted of
ROLL OF HONOR
Candidate this month for the
Roll of Honor is Mrs. Frank
Bigbee, Victory Councilman of
Torrance county, who lets nothing discourage her nor interfere with her duties.
Mrs. Bigbee is just newly appointed and was not acquainted
with the people whom she was
supposed to contact in spreading information on how to control inflation. However, in
order to become acquainted and
perform the task assigned her,
she traveled ten miles to the
North Lucy community where
a church meeting- was being
held. Upon arriving, she made
inruiries as to whether there
were any Victory Councilmen
in the crowd. Upon learning
there were none present, she
enlisted the aid of the pastor
and, wife his assistance, explained the President's seven-
point program. There were
about 60 people contacted at
feis meeting'.
volley ball, baseball, horseshoes
and others. In addition to fee
many competitive games that were
played, there were ten home made
equipment games set up for the
campers to play wife during designated hours. In many cases fee
campers were interested in getting
specifications on some of these
home made games in order to
make one for their home play
(Continued on page four)
CHAVES COUNTY GOES TO
BAT
The butcher, the baker and fee
candle stick maker wtil all be
using enriched flour and bread in
Chaves county before many weeks
have passed. The Chaves county
Nutrition CouncU is attacking fee
enriched flour and bread program
wife enthusiasm and has drawn
up plans to reach all groups and
famines wife information on how
to buy increased health by buying
the right loaf of bread or sack of
flour.
Mr. Rodman Cookson, county
school superintendent, is chairman
of fee Nutrition Council and Mrs.
PauUne Sparkman, county Exten-
anee of other council members,
they have outlined a campaign
that wtil leave no one in fee dark
about enriched cereals and their
contribution to better health and
better Uving.
The campaign was started at fee
July meeting of fee councti. Mr.
R. B. Harlan of Purity Baking Co.
was there to tell just how their
bread was enriched. The president of the Grocers Association,
Mr. L. W. Show, and one of fee
local grocers, Mr. Wesley Foster,
of fee Gross-Miller Grocery Co.,
were there too. They told of fee
enriched products for sale at stores
in fee vicinity and also related fee
type of questions customers ask
and fee information they desire in
regard to enriched cereals.
Armed wife tins new information, the councti went to work on
definite campaign plans. Chairman Cookson appointed a few
committees that wiU carry fee
program throughout Chaves county. One committee wtil contact
(Continued on page five)
Plans Made for the
Coming Scrap Drive
Representatives    of    War    Board
and Different Agencies Map
Campaign for State
The continuous operation of
war   production   factories   on   a
dependent on a continuous and
adequate supply of scrap metal
feat a National Scrap Harvest
drive is being planned for fee immediate future.
The furnaces of fee country are
dependent on scrap for about 50
percent of their metal, making fee
success of feis drive and fee continued collection and shipment of
scrap of greatest importance as
the stock pUes are getting dangerously low.
It is betieved that one of the
bottlenecks to scrap metal coUection has been the insufficient
number of scrap dealers and in
some instances fee low price offered for scrap.
In an effort to meet this situation, fee New Mexico War Production Board called a meeting
at Santa Fe on August 4 and invited representatives of fee farm
equipment dealers to attend wife
the thought of urging them to
agree to become members of the
local conservation boards and also
serve as buyers of scrap metals
of all kinds.
The meeting was attended by
A. B. Fite, vice-chairman of fee
State U. S. D. A. War Board; E.
G. MiUer, of fee State War Board;
O. E. Leonard, BAE; and F. E.
Chapman, Standard Oil, in addition to ten representatives of farm
equipment companies.
The foUowing agreements were
made by those present:
1. That farm equipment dealers throughout the State of New
Mexico would act as buying agents
for scrap metal and metals of all
kinds.
2. A uniform price of $8.00 per
ton f.o.b. dealers' yard, and $4.00
per ton f.o.b. farms would be paid
by all dealers located on fee standard gauge railroad. Dealers whose
places of business are located on
narrow gauge railroads, or away
from railroad faculties shall fix
prices in accordance wife shipping
difficulties, using fee above stated
prices as a guide.
3. The National Scrap Harvest
Campaign in New Mexico will
commence on September 1 and
continue through to January 1,
1943.
4. AU farm implement dealers
to fee state wtil be added to fee
respective local boards, and representatives present at the meeting,
as stated above, wtil be added to
the State Conservation Board.
5. Representatives of fee Farm
Equipment Industry present wtil
submit to fee executive secretary
for New Mexico of fee War Pro-
continued on page four)