Vi Swank. 



Hello from your State Auxiliary 

 President. To be more effective 

 as a state organization, we need 

 to organize more local auxiliaries. 

 Membership may be any interested 

 lady (usually supervisors and SCS 

 personnel wives but not necessarily 

 limited to these ladies) . There 

 is only one organized group in the 

 state. I would like to ask you 

 supervisors to encourage any in- 

 terested wives to get busy and 

 organize an auxiliary for your 

 district. It can be an interesting 

 and rewarding experience to belong 

 to conservation district auxiliary. 

 There are many things the ladies 

 can do to help the supervisors. 



Being a member of the Roosevelt 

 County CD Auxiliary, I enjoy meet- 

 ing with the group once every 3 

 months - special meetings can be 

 called when there is some special 

 project to be worked on. 



We have fun serving a noon 

 lunch to the 8th graders of the 

 county schools when they go on 

 the CD sponsored tour of the 

 different conservation practices 



in the area. This is an annual 

 tour each spring, usually on 3 

 different days to accommodate 

 the large area of our district 

 and the number of students in- 

 volved. The supervisors furnish 

 the materials and the ladies pre- 

 pare and serve the lunch. Our 

 menu is simple — hot dogs, potato 

 chips, pop and coffee for the 

 students, teachers and super- 

 visors attending. 



Our main purpose is to help get 

 the educational materials into the 

 proper places. Soil Stewardship 

 Week provides a good time to get 

 some educational material to the 

 people. Films can be rented and 

 shown to different classes in the 

 schools. Funny book type leaflets 

 are available to pass out to the 

 students to make different phases 

 of conservation more meaningful 

 to children and adults too. It's 

 kind of fun to sit down and read 

 one of these leaflets. There is 

 any amount of educational material 

 that can be put into school and 

 public libraries. And who better 

 to see that this is done than we, 

 as an Auxiliary, who want to see 

 that our country is preserved for 

 future generations through good 

 conservation practices. 



The Speech Contest is another 

 interesting project that the Aux- 

 iliary could help promote and it 

 would be a challenge to see how 

 many participants we could inter- 

 est in this project. 



If you are interested in organi- 

 zing an Auxiliary in your district 

 and if I can be of any help to you, 

 please feel free to contact me by 

 phone - 448-3137 or write to me - 

 just Poplar, Mt. 59255. 



NOTE TO SUPERVISORS: Please call 

 this article to your wife's 

 attention. Thanks. 



