"The men who'll pick the winners in the Globe-Democrat's Soil Conservation Districts Awards Program meet at Columbia to discuss some of the outstanding districts. From left, are Lowell Burns, director of trade development in agriculture, St. Louis Chamber of Commerce; L. C. Carpenter, State Commissioner of Agriculture; Howard C. Jackson, deputy state conservationist, Soil Conservation Service, Columbia, Mo.; Robert S. McClelland, executive secretary, state Soil Districts Commission; Preston V. Walker, member State Soil Districts Commission; Ed Stegner, executive secretary, Conservation Federation of Missouri; Coe Pritchet, Consumer's Cooperative Association, Kansas City, and Dr. George E. Smith, professor of soils at the University of Missouri."
