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Culpeper Conserv.
District Enters
Goodyear Contest
The Culpeper Soil (and Water) Conservation District has entered the 21st annual Goodyear competition to select the nation’s top 53 conservation districts, according to Joe McMurran, Barboursville, district chairman.
Activities of the district will be weighted against the performance of other districts in the state in determining the outstanding district in the annual event sponsored by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio. Key agricultural leaders will serve as judges and will select the state winner. Soil conser vation efforts from January'
1, 1967, through December 31, | 1967, will be'considered. Grand award for the 53 dis— | tricts selected nationally will | be an expense paid, work-i study trip to Arizona in De-! cember, 1968, for one member of the district governing body and the outstanding farmer- cooperator in each winning district. The 106 men selected will be guests at Good year Farms, a 14,000-acre general farm operation near Phoenix. The Culpeper district has aken part in the competition ;5 times in the past and was named the state's 1st place dis trict in 1956 & 61. District Supervisors in addition to Mr. UcMurran are T. G. Ragsdale L. W. Kipps, O. S. Weaver and W. H. Lyne. McMurran said the district’s outstanding cooperator will be selected from over the 2,500 farm operators enrolled in the district program. Nationally, iver 2,000,000 farmers in over 2,950 districts have signed cooperative agreeA'ith local Soil and Water Conservation Districts.
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