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Grassroots participation has been the key to the amazing successes credited to the 

 Montana Soil Conservation Districts and the state leaders and the individual farmers 

 would credit this success to the efforts of the elected farmer supervisors. At the 

 Montana convention in November, special awards were presented to four 20-year 

 supervisors, 21 who served 15 years and 42 ten-year members. 



Pictured above are Elmer Eklund, left, and Henry Hoye, Froid, (fifth from left, and to 

 the left of Gov. T. Babcock), 20-year supervisors. (Ken Edwards, second from left, 

 accepted the award for Henry R . Reinemer, McCone, and Charles Smith, third from 

 left for Stanley Wilson of Wibaux, the other 20-year supervisors who were not present). 

 The three at the right of the picture are, 1. to r. , State Committee Secretary O. M. 

 Ueland, Butte; Supervisor Clarence Walton, Wilsall, and A. G. Slattery, Big Horn. 



The 21 recipients receiving the 15-year awards were Leo J. Carmody, Jefferson 

 Valley; Irvin Cox, Little Beaver, Leslie Criswell, Treasure; Jacob Bieber, McCone; 

 Paul Brenner and John G. Buttelman, Three Rivers; Joe Debrowski, Wibaux; Herman 

 Friede, Blaine; Carl Hunter, Richland; Oscar Hippe, Froid; John Meccage, Little 

 Beaver; Gordon McGowan, Chouteau; Clarence Popham, Bitterroot; Clyde Rader, 

 Big Horn; Walter L. Sales, Three Rivers; John Schroeder, Missoula; J. M. Sholtus, 

 Valley; Charles Stahl, and Ernest Wills, Missoula; Ralph Tower, Lake; Edgar 

 Wetzeteon, Bitterroot and Lister Williams, Box Elder. 



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