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A stranger driving through Rappahannock county would get the impression that we are a class of people that never dyink water, if the number of beer cans and bottles that can be found along our highways could be used as a sign. Can anyone come forward with a suggestion on how to help keep our highways free from such unsightly conditions. , ,.. o O 0 04
Miss Julia Atkips of Washing* ton phoned in the correct answer last Thursday morning, to the question for the , week — John,.Shackelford Oreen. Miss Atkins found the answer in Miss Dollie Hite’s "Rtppahsnnoek Story —Book’V My source of information was from Maj. Daniel Amen * Grimsley’s book on “Battles of The Civil War” ' *
Question for this week:
Who was the first president to speak over the radio; and in what year. . -1 ___-f——-
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Future Farmers
Observe F.F.A. Week
Future Farmers of America ment, bers throughout the nation are scheduling special activities to focus public attention on the work of their organization during National F.F.A. Week, February 20-27. Members of the Rappahannock F. F. A. chapter plan to make posters to be placed in store windows of the county and have one radio program during the week. Other activities have been planned to be carried out in observance of National F.F.A. Week.
Membership in the F. F. A. is made ' up of farm boys who are students of vocational agriculture in high school. The organization’s activities are designed primarily to help develop rural leadership and good citizenship, and 4o stimulate the boys tp better achievement in their study and work ' toward successful establishment in farming. The Rappahannock County F.F.A. chapter has 46 members. Officers are: Kelly Updike, President; J. T. Dwyer, Vice-President; Dickie Atkins, Secretary; Robert Thornhill, •Reporter; Strother Brown, Treasurer and Bill Leake, Sentinal. Future Farmers choose the week of George Washington's birthday each year for the observance of National F.F.A. Week. Although generally recognized as a Revolutionary War general and out first President, Washington’s first love was the farm he called Mount Vernon. There, he was one of the first in the nation to practice contour planting, crop rotations, fertilization, and other soid conservation and improvement methods. It was more than a century after Washington’s death , before general use was made of many of the sound agricultural practices that he advocated.
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