Looking east toward food tent on Kenneth Redfield farm, this photograph shows many parked cars and attendees around the food tent on Field Day. There is also a Red Cross tent and a Coca Cola truck
Pictured above are members of the committee at their first meeting at the Field Day site in July, 1948. Left to right are: , Mel Shanda, Louise county extension director; Herman W. Beck, Field Day chairman: Ray Audsley , Farm planter;
Walter Eyre…
Frank H. Mendell, State Conservationist, writes to John H. Blaul, Chairman of the Des Moines County Soil Conservation District, complementing him and the District for their leadership in soil conservation.after reading the 1948 Annual Report.