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From the Friday, Aug. 24, 1934, edition of The Steamboat Pilot:

The importance to Routt County of the 4-H clubs and the home demonstration clubs was manifested in the variety of exhibits of food, clothing and other articles on display in the Wither building Friday and Saturday. Surprise and admiration were expressed by hundreds of visitors who lingered at the booths or the tables. Mrs. Marian E. Birdseye, of Washington, D.C., head nutritionist of the extension service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who was in Steamboat on Saturday, said she was so impressed with the exhibit of dried products that she planned to take a photograph of this exhibit with her on her tour of the country to show what could be done. She complimented the Mesa club very highly on its display.

She also was pleased with the exhibit of preserved wild fruits in the Snake River club's booth. In these times of stress, she said there was a return to the utilization of wild foods. The cheese products in the Toponas booth were given special mention. The food budget arranged by the Elk Mountain club was of great value, Mrs. Birdseye said. In the next five or 10 years, it will be imperative to budget the food for the family.

If each home would plan for the amount of food needed for a given length of time and provide as much as possible of this food in the garden and the field, the farmer would find out his best market was right at home, Mrs. Birdseye explained.

Boy killed by contact of wire with power line

James M. Pizor, the 15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pizor, of Hayden, accidentally was killed by electrocution on Friday morning when a wire he held in his hand came in contact with the high power line of the Colorado Utilities corporation in the vicinity of the dumping ground west of Steamboat Springs.

James and his cousin, Wolcott Smith, age 13, had come to Steamboat Springs from Hayden the evening before and stayed all night with relatives. The next morning, they did some shopping for bicycle repairs and started to walk back to Hayden, expecting to meet someone they knew going that way. They stopped at the dumping grounds, and there they picked up a coil of wire, which they untwisted and lengthened out.

Each one took a hold of an end, whirling it about. At the count of three, they were to let go to see how far the wire would go when they tossed it off. Wolcott said he let go at the third count and at the same time saw Jim tumble to the ground on his face and noted the wire hanging to the electric wires overhead. He was much excited but had presence of mind to jar his wire loose from the line with a stick. He then put a bicycle tire under Jim's arms and pulled him about 5 feet away from where he fell. Hearing a car coming, he flagged the truck in which Paul Diesel was riding.

Mr. Diesel found that Jim still was breathing and made an effort to stretch him out and turn him over. A second truck was flagged, and Jim was taken to the Steamboat hospital. All efforts at restoration proved futile.