The Nome Nugget

YOUTHS TO OBSERVE
NATIONAL 4-H WEEK

National 4-H Club Week, March 4 to 11, will be observed by about 250 youths on Seward Peninsula. The young people, 10 to 21 years old, are among the 2,302,000 4-H'ers of America who belong to some 94,200 clubs in rural, urban, and suburban communities.

Alaska had an enrollment last year of 1,738. Remote area districts had 1,048 members. in 1960 or 200 more than in 1959. This year's continuing theme for the Head, Heart, Hands, and Health group is "Learn - Live - Serve Through 4-H."

The week will be highlighted nationally in Washington, D. C. by a team of six 4-H members, representing 4-H'ers everywhere, who will give the annual "4-H Report to the Nation." The report will review in story and pictures outstanding 4-H achievements and current projects. While in the nation's capital, the three girls and three boys will visit the White House, meet several members of Congress, high government officials, and other national leaders.

After a short stay in Washington, they expect to go to New York and perhaps elsewhere to meet with other friends of 4-H. Club members everywhere will share honors with the 302.599 men and women who serve as unpaid volunteer leaders, and guide 4-H work in local communities throughout the 50 states and Puerto Rico. Among the purposes of 4-H Club Week are: To acquaint more young people with opportunities open to them through joining or forming 4-H Clubs, to increase public understanding of 4-H aims and accomplishments. and to express appreciation to the many friends of 4-H who support the "learn by doing" program of character development and good citizenship.