-. on the topic "Land, Water and Cities. " A huge 

 ) crowd was at the banquet to hear assistant Sec- 

 retary of Interior John A. Carver, Jr. Mr. Car- 

 ver said it is gratifying to know that considerable 

 progress is being made in Montana towards integ- 

 rating land use programs, and that procedures have 

 been worked out whereby districts and Department 

 of Interior can negotiate Memorandums of Agree- 

 ments. 



Gordon Holte, Sheridan County Supervisor, did an 

 outstanding job of giving a slide talk on Watershed 

 Development and illustrating all the Conservation 

 treatments that go on the watershed. 



Other outstanding talks were given by Dr. Arnold 

 Bolle, Dean of School of Forestry, Everett Darlin- 

 ton. State Engineer, Reverend Russell Hallaas, 

 Pastor, St. Paul Lutheran Church, Cut Bank, Bob 

 McClelland, Western Program Advisor, NACD, 

 Denver, and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hippe of the 

 NACD. 



The proceedings of the convention and a resume of 

 all talks have been printed and mailed to all super- 

 visors. 



All officers were re-elected. New directors are 

 ' Clinton McFarland, Molt, Bill Kesler, Kalispell, 

 Art Osburnsen, Winifred, Robert Anderson, Fort 

 Benton, John Bartlett, Winnett. 



Did you hear what happened to the girl who wore the 

 long red underwear ? 



Well, nothing, nothing at all happened. 



Let's take the red underwear off our committees 

 and go to work early. 



I'll start the ball rolling by asking for ideas for a 

 display for the Great Falls and Billings fairs and 

 possibly for some county fairs. 



The theme of this years annual meeting was water 

 so let's emphasize water conservation in this years 

 exhibit. I'll throw out a couple ideas to start the 

 brainstorming. 



Idea #1 - A quiz type of display asking pertinent 

 questions about water conservation in Montana with 

 push buttons and lights on animated figures to in- 

 dicate whether or not the answer is correct. 



Idea #2 - A two scene display with running water. 

 One scene showing clean water running in a beauti- 

 ful creek through a beautiful landscape. The other 

 scene showing dirty water flowing through badly 

 eroded country. 



"Noiv, that's strange . . . I laid it right here on a rock! 



There are hundreds of ways to approach the subject. 



It is said that only 5 to 10 percent of the people 

 THINK. I believe that supervisors and others work- 

 ing in the field of soil and water conservation are 

 thinkers. You must be, because with food surpluses 

 in our country it is necessary to think about the 

 future to keep enthused about the importance of our 

 conservation efforts. 



Someone among the readers of Treasure Acres must 

 have an ingenious idea that we can use for our dis- 

 play. So please do some thinking and send your idea 

 in to me. Please don't let me discover that only 5 

 to 10 percent of the readers of Treasure Acres 

 think. Remember, I am not asking for full plans 

 for a display. I am only asking for ideas. 



Recently I purchased a new electrical device with 

 the patent pending. I made such a device more than 

 25 years ago and have used it all of these years. I 

 had the idea but didn't do anything with it. Your 

 ideas are no good in your head so please jot down 

 your idea for a fair display and mail it to me - - 

 Dick Setterstrom, Basin Creek Road, Butte, Mont. 



