A Watershed Application from Upper Musselshell 

 district requesting planning for Flood Control 

 primarily for town of Harlowton was approved. 

 An application for Watershed development in 

 Wvoming with waters originating in Carbon County 

 Montana was referred to the State Engineer for 

 clearance under the Montana-Wyoming compact. 



LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS 



Leadership Workshops for SWCD Supervisors, 

 ASC Committeemen, Agency People, and others 

 who may be interested are scheduled for half of 

 Montana's districts as follows: 



January 8 Granite, Deer Lodge Valley, 

 North Powell at Drummond 



January 10 Bitterroot, Missoula, Mineral 

 at Missoula 



January 30 Broadwater, Lewis & Clark at 

 Helena 



February 12 Toole & Liberty at Shelby 



February 13 Hill, Big Sandy, Chouteau at 

 Big Sandy 



February 14 Judith Basin & Fergus at 

 Lewistown 



February 19 McCone, Richland, Garfield at 

 Circle 



February 21 Dawson, Wibaux, Prairie County 

 Grazing District at Glendive 



February 28 Yellowstone, Big Horn at 

 Billings 



March 1 Stillwater & Carbon at Bridger 



March 5 Roosevelt & Valley at Glasgow 



The workshops will be conducted from 9:30 A.M. 

 to 4:00 P.M. The morning sessions will deal 

 with Leadership and the afternoon sessions will 

 be on District Planning & Administration. 

 County Agent Supervisors, County Agents, Area 

 and Work Unit Conservationists, and O. M. Ueland 

 of the State Soil Conservation Committee will 

 instruct. 



Supervisors in adjoining districts who couldn't 

 attend last year's sessions are urged to attend 

 these meetings. 



LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE REPORT 

 Lolo, 



John Schroeder has been appointed MSWCD Leg- 

 islative Committee Chairman by President Frank 

 Thompson. The two spent a busy day in Helena * 

 recently meeting various people in regard to ( 

 carrying out resolutions of the recent convention. 

 Arrangements were made with the Attorney Gen- 

 eral's office to draw up bills to present to the leg- 

 islature in regard to an appropriation of $24,000 

 for District Operations, and to amend the law 

 requiring seeding of disturbed right-of-ways to 

 include cable lines, gas and oil lines, etc. 



Harriet Miller expressed her desires of the im>- 

 portance of a Conservation Education Supervisor 

 in her department, and Miss Miller was assured 

 that the MSWCD would support all efforts to get 

 a Supervisor. Others visited were Mons Teigen, 

 State Land Commissioner, Water Board Engineer 

 George Sahinen, State Engineer Fred Buck, and 

 Budget Director Nelson. 



?he Indian appeared before 

 the justice, asking a divorce. 



Asked to give his reasons, 

 he said: 



"When I plant corn, I get 

 corn. When I plant spinach, I 

 get spinach. When I plant bar- 

 ley, I get barley. But when I 

 plant an Indian, and get a 

 Chinaman, I want a divorce." 



I 



"Female voice 9 What female voice, dear " 



We are sorry to learn of the passing of Edwin 

 Larson, Brockton, Montana supervisor of the 

 Culbertson-Bainville Soil and Water Conserva 

 lion I )i .strict. 



