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<br />Colorado's luralElectric Scene
<br />Burns Youth Wins FFA Award
<br />From State RQralElectrics
<br />An -lS.yelri'-old Eagle, county youth' who Dves on an 800-RCl'9
<br />~ch _on the Oolorado river is the winner of the 1957' CoJorado
<br />Rural Electric assoeiatlObFFA coDege scholarship.
<br />He is Nick A. Strubl of Burns, son
<br />of the Jacob Strubl !amily, a grad-
<br />liate- 01 the Gypsum high schooL He
<br />plans'to attend the CllloradQ State
<br />Unive~sltr at Fort Collins with the
<br />openil).g of ,tp.e ~all terrrt,
<br />The Stnlbf"tlllll1ly didn't gat,oon.
<br />trat 'station electdclt)' .(ron1 the
<br />'X ,.ey B~ P4wer Lines as-
<br />JiQt;II::U&, 'but Nick: IllW aJ,
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<br />Beginnm:g in 1950 with-work on a
<br />newly"acquired 32-volt- larrq "plan,!,
<br />NIck and other members 01 his iarn.
<br />lly Wired the house and farm build-
<br />Ings acoordlng,to REA specifications.
<br />Sfnc~ that time Nick has had the
<br />respOn~lbllity for the cleaning Bnd
<br />maint-enance,_ q1 .fill, electrical ,equip-
<br />ment on the !ann and has built up an
<br />electrical ''inventory'' that includes a
<br />water 'pump, heating apparatus, sol.
<br />derlng equipment, Wire, a grinder,
<br />and a -complete set of electrIcal tools.
<br />In FFA work be has had lnstrue-
<br />tion in the,overhaullng of ele~trl(l
<br />motors, wlffl spllillng, the grounding
<br />of motors !lnd eleotrloal safety.
<br />Not a one.slded student' in any
<br />sense of the word, be aleo bas other
<br />extensive FFA projects including 15
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<br />En10Ying some ,8UMhine._ at OO'lora40 springs durlnO tM Oow.
<br />ra40 REA Accountants' Club annuaZ meeting at the AOOcla Hotel are,
<br />left to right" REA Field Reprea:entative Bob 1!otland, Denv,81'; Club
<br />V~Pre8idtmt Ed Grange, Offke Manager of the Holy 01'088 Eleotrio
<br />A88Oc:i<Jtion, G.'lenwood.-8prlng8; ~EA Field Representative Fred Ham~
<br />lin, tlOOldiT} William Lines,_ IUDA Field Aoconntant/ H, A: Galligan,
<br />aom~ercial Managef', Department of UWities, Oity of Oolorado
<br />SpringS,' Olub President Marie Bigltn) Office MaMg81', San MigueZ
<br />PoWer Association, NucZa, and Club Seoretary-Treciwrer Marie
<br />Schmidt of Y-W Electric,A88ociation, Akron. Following the.meeting, .
<br />the Accountants Club elected new officers for the ensuing year and they
<br />i1Ul~ude Ed Grange of Holy Or088 Electric of Gknwood Springs,
<br />President.. Marie Schmidt of- Y- W Electric A88Cciation of Akron, Vice~
<br />Pre8ldent,' Ben H, Gilbert, Yampa Valley Eelectrio Association 01
<br />Steamboat Springs, Secretary, and Ned, Wade, Morgan ,County
<br />Electric of F01't Mor1?an, TreaS'Urer. (Stewart Photo.)
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<br />!. Here 18 the out8tanding "old time appliances" di8piaV at the Y.W Electric headquarters dwring
<br />the 7Sth Diamond Jubilee celebration at Akron -last month, Mra. Margaret _Reynolds, Ooordinator tor
<br />t1uJ Oolorado Farm Power Oouncil. which co-sponsored the ex1Mblt) fa 8hown in the booth, More' th4n
<br />1.000 people a day during tM three da'Q8, for a total of over 3)000, registered at the Y~W building and
<br />enjotJed'the erohibit. " . _i
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<br />NIck -Strubl
<br />FFAWlnner
<br />head 'of beef, four acres 01 crops, 10
<br />acres of hay and five hood of swIne.
<br />At school he' has ranked: well In
<br />his class, earning membership In the
<br />N(ltiona] Honor soclety. During his
<br />senior year he s-erved as student body
<br />president and participated In many
<br />other school extra-<:urrlcu]ar' !lctlvl.
<br />t!-es. '
<br />He has served as sentinel, vice
<br />president and preifi4ent of his local
<br />FFA chapter, as district vice preril.
<br />dent of the Colorado River FFA dis.
<br />trlct. He holds State Farmer 'degree
<br />in the Colorado FFA assoCiation,
<br />The ColorAdo Rurlll Electric Asso.
<br />clat1pn FFA sohotatship -pays $100
<br />aunUli-l1J" to 3Jl FFA member who has
<br />done outstanding work In the eJee.
<br />trloalfleld,
<br />Voted by the Colorfl,do REA state
<br />board, rules for judging the annual
<br />contest Were worked out under thepsupervlslon of State REA ~sldent
<br />George WlIson, Nucla, and, M. G.
<br />Lindson, state supervisor of voca.
<br />tlonal education, and Duane E, Hen.
<br />derson, executive secretary ot the
<br />Colorado FFA. both ot Denver.'
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