7:00 A.M. 



8:30 A.M. 

 9:10 A.M. 



10:20 A.M. - 

 10:30 A.M. - 

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12:30 P.M. - 



Entertainment - By the 'Choraliers" 

 Address - Harold Pitts, Montana 

 Bankers Association, Nfiners Bank 

 of Butte, Montana 



FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 



Directors Breakfast - Courtesy 



First National Bank of Havre 



Movie "Land of the Pink Snows" 



Business Session 



Wm. Kessler, president 



Ladies Auxiliary Report - Mrs . 



Harold Jensen 



Old Business 



Committee Reports 



New Business 



Introduction of New Officers 



Coffee Break - Courtesy Hill 



County SWCD 



Local Conservation Slides - 



Van K. Haderlie, SCS 



Business Session - Continued 



1966 State Convention Site & Date 



Summation of other business 



LUNCHEON - Elks Lodge 



Master of Ceremonies - Raymond 



Patrick, Local Supervisor 



Invocation - Rev. John J. O'Hara, 



S. J., St. Jude's Catholic Church 



Talk by Charles Lane on District 



News Letters 



Goodyear Award 



Newsletter Awards 



Supervisor Awards 



Other Awards and Door Prize Drawing 



"Now what have we done wrong?" 



Then there was the lease 

 broker we know who recently 

 had a disturing experience. 

 About four o'clock in the 

 morning, a drunken dame star- 

 ted ha'-mering on his door. So 

 he had to get up and let her 

 out. 



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CONSERVANCY DISTRICT LEGISLATION TALKED 

 AT AREA MEETINGS 



Conservancy District Legislation has been dis- 

 cussed at all the Area Meetings of Soil & Water 

 Conservation Districts. Supervisors in each of 

 the areas have generally gone on record as 

 favoring amending and broadening of the State's 

 Soil & Water Conservation District's Law to 

 accomplish the purposes and objectives being 

 sought for Conservancy Districts. 



It has been determined by the Legislative 

 Council that there is a place for multiple pur- 

 pose Conservancy-type district legislation, 

 which has been prompted by the need to step up 

 water developments in Montana, to put Montana's 

 water to beneficial use to acquire prior rights 

 to downstream states. 



Irrigation, Recreation and fishing, flood con- 

 trol and stream stabilization. Industrial and 

 municipal water, and economic development are 

 all uses and benefits that may accrue in various 

 combinations from water developments. Super- 

 visors prefer legislation which would allow the 

 State Soil Conservation Committee and Soil & 

 Water Conservation Districts, through normal 

 procedures and limitations, to set up related, 

 but not subordinate. Conservancy- type districts 

 to build and maintain a project and to assess 

 themselves to pay for any combination of the 

 above, and to accept assistance from state and 

 federal sources. 



Supervisors also recognized that the organiza- 

 tional machinery of districts to accomplish 

 1) fact-finding and interpretation, 2) planning, 

 3) coordination. A) action, 5) status at the 

 local level>need beefing up. 



An adequate staff will be needed to assist 

 supervisors in these functions. Non-agricultural 

 interests, which have a stake in conservation, 

 will need representation on district boards. 

 Clear and effective working agreements with 

 local, state, and federal conservation agencies 

 need to be further provided for. 



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