Los Banos Rotary Club History
Receives Young Farmer Award

Ralph Bove, local purebred Holstein-Friesian breeder and past president of the Young Farmers Club, was guest of honor at the Rotary Club luncheon Tuesday noon, where he was, officially presented with the Rotary Club's Outstanding Young Farmer trophy. The trophy is awarded each year to the outstanding Future Farmer exhibitor at the Los Banos spring Fair and Livestock Show. It was originated in 1943. The name of the winning exhibitor each year is engraved on the trophy and a miniature trophy of the same award is given to the award winner.

C. W. Bates, who introduced Bove to the club and made the presentation, commented that it was Bove who won the award when it was first offered in 1943. He praised Bove's work as a local dairyman, his interest and work on behalf of the Fatima 4-H Club, and as a member of the Spring Fair board of directors.

Other winners of the award include: Rolla Spina in 1944, 1949 and 1951 and Alberti Brothers in 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1950.

The remainder of the noon day Rotary program was given over to the hearing of a report on county roads in this district, and the appearance of a group of Los Banos and Dos Palos people before the supervisors at Merced to ask certain substitutions in the road building program for this area to include surfacing of eight miles of county road on the east end of Henry Miller Road and a portion of Hutchins Avenue. Farmers in that area said that the handling of a $5 million crop of cotton, plus some 60,000 tons of hay and 80,000 tons of rice depended on a good roadway to get their crop to market. The supervisors readily agreed to the necessary change, transferring funds from several other planned road projects.

July 18, 1952

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