Word: wasco
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...hear them talk about him in little (pop. 6,000) Wasco, Calif., one would think that P. D. Spilsbury was both mayor and millionaire benefactor. Actually, he is a high school teacher of vocational agriculture, and his chief achievement is the Future Farmers of America chapter that he and his students have built up. To the citizens of Wasco, this is achievement enough. "By golly," says Fred Fry, co-owner of the Wasco Hardware Co., "we just couldn't get along without...
...from their chapter and grow crops on ground leased through it. These they can sell for a profit, while the chapter uses whatever is left over to make a profit of its own. Under P.D. (for Paul Duane) Spilsbury, this learning-by-earning process has paid off handsomely in Wasco. When he took over in 1938, the Wasco Union High School's chapter was worth $275. Its assets today...
...steer calves, uses $40,000 worth of feed. Once, it bought 40 acres of sagebrush land, leveled it, tested its soil, built up its fertility, then gave it to the district as a $35,000 gift. The boys have proved such able businessmen, in fact, that the Wasco bank thinks little about making them loans. One boy-the son of a Swiss immigrant who works for $1.37 an hour-has borrowed and repaid...
Barbecues & Banquets. Wasco's steers command prices of 1? to 1½? Ib. more than those at the Los Angeles stockyards...
...hogs have won more top prizes in the past ten years than those of any other California high school, and in 1951, Wasco's livestock won $60,000 in prizes and sales at the Great Western Livestock Show. In the last 15 years, P.D.'s students have won seven Armour Trophies, five Swift Trophies, nine Safeway Stores Trophies. Their activities, however, go far beyond taking prizes. Each year they have staged a rodeo, a community barbecue, and an annual parents-and-sons banquet for about 400 guests...