Four of niinoU notional winner* in tha 

 4-H Club Congress, left to right, are: Don- 

 ald Stoxen. 20, Hampshire, Kane county, 

 doirr; Irene Lofitus. 20, Roseville, Warren; 



clothing; Norma Ruth Gahm, 17, Streator, 

 LaSalle, foods, and Wayne Botes, Corlin- 

 ville, Macoupin, moot onimal contest 

 Prizes were scholarships. 



ILLINOIS 4-H SCORES AT NATIONAL 



ILLINOIS was well represented in the 

 23rd National 4-H Club Congress 

 held in Chicago with six scholarship 

 winners, according to official reports 

 from the national committee. 



The scholarship winners were: 



Irene Lofftus, 20, Roseville, Warren 

 county, who in nine years made and 

 remodeled 129 garments for herself and 

 family. She was awarded one of the 

 12 $200 scholarships in the nationwide 

 4-H club clothing achievement contest 

 in which 43 state champions were en- 

 tered. She has served her club as pres- 

 ident two years, and as leader two 

 years. 



Donald Stoxen, 20, Hampshire, Kane 

 county, who during six years of club 

 work has raised the butterfat average 

 of his herd up to 349 pounds, with a 

 $197 return on every $100 worth of 

 feed. He is a member of the Holstein- 

 Fresian national association. He was 

 one of the six national winners in the 

 national 4-H dairy production contest 

 in which 10 sectional winners com- 

 peted. 



Norma Ruth Gahm, 17, Streator, La- 

 Salle county, won one of the six $200 

 scholarships awarded in the national 

 4-H food preparation contest. In win- 

 ning a national award she competed 

 with 42 state champions. In 8 years 

 she planned and served 297 meals for 

 her family, baked 437 cakes, bread 

 loaves and many batches of cookies 

 and rolls. She specialized in whole 

 grain products, and milk soups, drinks 

 and desserts and cottage cheese. 



Wayne Bates, 20, Cariinville, Ma- 

 coupin county, winner in the national 

 meat animal contest, received a $200 



scholarship. In 10 years he handled 

 126 cattle and 370 swine, and raised 

 455 fowls. With $2,267.82 won in 

 cash prizes, his livestock income is 

 given as $25,063-68, while his total 

 from all projects was $36,655.18. 



Two winners of $200 scholarships 

 each in the junior livestock feeding con- 

 test were Robert Guehler, 19, Som- 

 onauk, DeKalb county, and Keith F. 

 Schertz, 17, Benson, Woodford coun- 

 ty- 



Guehler has been in 4-H club work 

 8 years, completing 30 projects, six 

 of them this year in swine, sheep, corn, 

 beef, dairy and electricity. His 1944 

 inventory is $15,831. He is president 

 of the county 4-H federation and of 

 the county's Rural Youth group. 



Schertz has eight years experience in 

 4-H club work and has made nearly 

 $3900 from all his 4-H projects. His 

 1944 inventory is certified as $1981. 

 Although this was his first experience 



exhibiting at Chicago, he owns 55 pure- 

 bred Durocs, 10 Shropshire sheep, and 

 two purebred Guernsey cows. He has 

 completed 15 projects during his 4-H 

 career. He took two thirds in the Chi- 

 cago light and heavy barrow class, and 

 a fourth in the medium weights. 



State winners as announced by U. 

 of I. 4-H club officials were: 



Merrill Upp, Yates City, Knox coun- 

 ty; Rex Emory, Prairie City, Mc- 

 Donough; and Raymond Thompson, 

 Minooka, Kendall, were winners of 

 three 4-H Farm Underwriters scholar- 

 ships. 



Glen Thomas, 19, Dwight, Living- 

 ston county, state winner in the na- 

 tional rural electrification contest, wired 

 all the buildings on the farm with the 

 help of his father, Harold Thomas. Al- 

 so made and wired eight pig brooders, 

 a pig shed, three sow farrowing houses 

 and an emery wheel, and put electricity 

 to use on many farm jobs. 



Robert F. Croegaert, Annawan, Hen- 

 ry county, was selected as Illinois' 

 candidate in the national 4-H leader- 

 ship contest. He began his 4-H career 

 10 years ago in Whiteside county. He 

 assumed leadership of a local club in 

 Henry county in 1941, and is president 

 of the county 4-H federation. 



Eugene Poynter, Paris, Edgar county, 

 was named state winner in the national 

 4-H food for victory contest. He has 

 a flock of 62 sheep and raised hogs and 

 baby beef in the past seven years. He 

 has been president of his 4-H club for 

 three consecutive years, and has been 

 assistant leader since 1941. 



Imogene Inez Clark, Mt. Vernon, 

 Jefferson county, was selected as state 

 winner in the national 4-H canning 

 contest. She was chosen by U. of I. 

 4-H club officials from nearly 3000 con- 

 testants for her outstanding work in 

 food preservation, both freezing and 

 canning. 



Virginia E. Hagen, Morris, Grundy 

 county, was chosen from more than 



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niinois' delegation to the Notional 4-H 

 Club Congress in Chicogo and the U. 



oi L 4-H club officials represented the 

 state to a good advantage in the notionoL 



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