"Members of the Board of Supervisors of the Clay County Soil Conservation District receive bronze plaques awarded by the Globe-Democrat in recognition of the district's record in the newspaper's Soil Conservation Districts Awards Program in 1953. From left are Winn Wilkerson, Kearney, chairman; W. A. Crouch and James J. Crockett, Liberty; William Long, Smithville; Fowler Young and Glen Burk, Liberty. The plaques were awarded at a meeting at the Kearney, Mo., High School."
