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Leslie Criswell 

 YOUR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT SEZ: 



The dates for the seven Area Meetings in 

 Montana have been set for early in October. 

 These are important meetings for District 

 Supervisors because here is layed the ground- 

 work for the State Association, both in prin- 

 ciple and action. 



This years State Convention will set up our 

 policies, and will to a great extent determine 

 the future course of our State Association. 

 Are we, as District Supervisors, willing to 

 accept additional responsibilities and duties 

 so as to keep abreast of current happenings 

 and keep up with other Districts ? Our action 

 at the Area meetings and the State Convention 

 will give the answer. 



) will accelerate action at the convention if we 

 can have the resolutions come from the Area 

 meetings. They afford a golden opportunity 

 for your deliberations, fiend your resolutions 

 to me for screening soon after the Area meetings. 

 I would like to have them by November 1. 



STATE SOIL CONSERVATION COMMITTEE 

 MEETING to be SEPTEMBER 13 & 14 



The next meeting of the State Soil Conservation 

 Committee will be September 13 & 14 at the 

 State Water Conservation Board office in Helena. 



Some items on the Agenda are: Conservation on 

 State Lands with Mons Teigen, Commissioner of 

 State Lands, reporting; Conservation Education 

 in Montana's schools with Harriet Miller, State 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction, reporting; 

 a discussion and review of the use of Underground 

 Water to flush oil wells as a concern of the Little 

 Beaver Soil & Water Conservation District; a 

 review of P.L. 566 Watershed Projects; and a 

 report of Soil & Water Conservation District 

 Activities. 



The Executive Secretary has noticed a lessoning 

 of activity by district supervisors during the 

 summer months, some districts having missed 

 a meeting or two, and many supervisors being 

 absent from meetings that were held. This calls 

 for better planning of our TIME. 



A woman's work is never done, especially if she 

 depends upon her husband or daughter to do it. 



Probably the most important thing you can do in 

 your Area meetings is to 1 ominate your State 

 Association Directors. Think about it and discuss 

 the prospects with other Supervisors. We need 

 men who will act, and not be a Director in name 

 only. The Board of Directors, only 14 men in 

 all, elects the State Association President ttfld 

 Vice-President. Talk it up and then make your 

 Director selection wisely. There are many good 

 prospects among the Supervisors in your Area 

 — choose them and then support them while they 

 represent you in office. 



— Leslie Criswell 



