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STATE DOCUIVIEIVTS 



JAN 5 1971 



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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER- 



.BOB ANDERSON - PRESIDENT SEZ 



The wheel of time continues to turn 

 and we have gone through another State 

 Convention. Dale Marxer and his crew 

 from Cascade County are to be congratu- 

 lated on their fine program and excellent 

 facilities. Planning a convention of this 

 size and duration is no small job. Our 

 thanks again for a job well done. 



We begin a new year looking at a flur- 

 ry of new problems along with a backlog 

 of old, unresolved ones. We progress 

 a little each year, however the scope of 

 activity seems to be widening at least as 

 fast as our program pace, possibly fast- 

 er. 



Districts are to be commended for their 

 increased interests in the affairs of 

 people. You are providing leadership at 

 the local and state level in solving some 

 important problems. We will hear a lot 

 about pollution, ecology, reorganization 

 of State Government, etc. in the next 

 year. I challenge each of you super- 

 I visors to get into the act. You are grass- 

 roots people with an organization that is 

 heard . Keep in touch with (cont'd on pg.2) 



Wm. F. D'Ewart SSCC 

 Vice-chairman Dies 



Montana's Conserva- 

 tion District leaders 

 were saddened to learn 

 of the untimely death 

 of Wm D'Ewart at hi s 

 ranch home west of 

 Wilsall Nov. 21, of an apparent heart at- 

 tack. 



Bill was currently serving his 4th 

 term as a member of the State Soil Con- 

 servation Committee having been first ap- 

 pointed by Governor Aronson in 1957. He 

 had served as chairman of the committee 

 and championed many successful soil & 

 water conservation measures during his 

 terms of office. 



Sympathy is extended to his wife Pearl, 

 daughter Elenor Mitzi, a student at Con- 

 cordia College, Moorehead, Minn., and his 

 father, Wesley, former Eastern District 

 Congressman . 



Carl Johnson, Living- 

 ston has been appointed 

 by Governor Forrest H. 

 Anderson to fill the 

 unexpired term of Wm. 

 D'Ewart which runs un- 

 til Jan 1973. Carl and 

 his wife operate a sheep 

 and cattle ranch on the 

 Shields River in Park 

 County. 

 Governor Anderson Expressed his "be- 

 lief that in Carl Johnson, Montana has a 

 man of high competence to whom we can en- 

 trust a part of our renewable natural re- 

 sources with great confidence. Carl is 

 immediate past president of the Mont- 

 ana Association of Conservation Districts. 



