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/^^^ / Illinois !"arm Bureau Sports 

 Festival. The state committee met in the 

 lAA offices, April 29, to lay plans for the 

 hit' event to be held on the University of 

 Illinois tampiis. Urhana, September :: 

 •md r 



With two years of experience behind 

 them. 2"^ men and three women on the 

 ■committee sailed in, tiirneil out a smooth- 

 vvorkini; organization .ind built a pro- 

 i;ram that may draw *i,()f)() participants. 



The third I'estival will pack more 

 puncii than either of its predecessors. 

 The big^'est ilitference is that less popu- 

 lar events have been supplanted with 

 more lively ones. 



I'arm womenfolk bid fair to steal the 

 rshow with a series of smart events espe- 

 cially for the ladies. Most of them are 

 home-made contests. Iliere'll be chair 

 ^]uoits, paddle tennis, shutfle board, clock 

 tiolt. dart throwing, rifle siiootiny, swim- 

 mint; and track events. Trap shootint; 

 ind skeet shooting too, will he open to 

 women. 



FOLK FESTIVAL COMMITTEE AT U. OF ILL. 

 Lei to right: Helen Harrison Hurst, Edgar County; Harold 

 Templeton. Champaign; D. E. Lindslrom. Univ. of 111.; John P. 

 Weaver, Country Life Ins. Co.; H. H, Brunnemeyer, Winnebago; 

 Geo. C. Biggar, WLS; E. G. Thiem, lAA present but not in 

 picture. 



I'vents of the I'estival are: Baseball, 

 Softball (including divisions for all 

 C'ounty teams, Tount)- league teams. 

 Farm Bureau Members over 1*1, Boys 

 i-H f'lub, and Girls teams), tr.uk for 

 boys and girls, horseshoes for men, tug 

 o'war, horse pulling, trap shoot, skeet 

 shoot, rifle shoot, women's events, hog 

 calling, checkers, swimming for boys and 

 girls, bait casting contest, oldest Farm 

 Bureau member, oldest Fiome Bureau 

 member, largest Farm Bureau family and 

 a tour of the experiment station. 



A folk festival is planned that will in- 

 clude family singing, novelty bands, 

 scjuare dance bands, scjuare dance groups, 

 folk dance groups and musical specialties 

 and novelties. 



WOMENS EVENTS COMMITTEE 

 Left to right: Mis Clareta Walker, Macoupin County; Miss Lois Schenk, 

 Prairie Farmer; Mrs. Sponcer Ewing, McLean County, chairman, representing Il- 

 linois Home Bureau Federation. 



A tentative. Friday evening program in 

 the Memorial Stadium includes a band 

 concert, entertainment by \X'LS, VC'.MBD 

 and WDZ radio artists, music and dance 

 festival events, a choru^s of a thousand 

 voices and a boxing and wrestling ex- 

 hibitions. The committee plans to secure, 

 if possible, a nationally famous radio or 

 opera star for the program. 



C'omplete rules for all events are being 

 assembled and will he sent to all Coimty 

 Farm Bureaus as soon as they can he 

 printed. Folks interested in any of the 

 events are asked to contact their farm or 

 home advisers. 



Members of the state committee are: 

 F.h Harris, Chairman; Frank Gingrich, 

 Secretary; A. O. Eckert; Otto Stetfey ; 

 Paul I:. .Mathias; George F. Metzger; 

 George 'Iliiem ; Larry Potter ; C. L. 

 (Cap) .Mast; C M. Se.igraves; Harrison 

 Fahrnkopf; Gcoriie C Biggar, WT.S; 

 Clair B. Hull, WDZ; F;. I.. Bill, 

 WMBD; .Mrs. Spencer Fwing, Illinois 

 Home Bureau Federation; Clareta Walk- 

 er, Home Adviser, Macoupin County; 

 Roy Johnson, DeKalh C^oimty; H. C. 

 Gilkerson. L.ike County; ]. F. Harris, 

 Champaign Clounty; Paul Dean. Bureau 

 County; T. W. May. Madison County; 

 J. (. . .\lc(all. j.tckson County. Floyd 

 Rodman, .McLean Coimty; |. L. Stor- 

 mont. Livingston C'ounty ; I). F. Find- 

 Strom, U. of I.; J. F.. Spitler, U. of I.; 

 E. I. Pilchard, U. of I.; and Lois Schenck, 

 Prairie Farmer. 



( ommittees made up of the state com- 

 mitteemen and assistants number nearly 

 l-iO persons. They represent the lAA, 

 Illinois Home Bureau Fei-ieration. Coun- 

 ty Farm Bureaus, C'ounty Flome Bureaus, 

 the University of Illinois, Prairie Farmer, 

 WLS, WMBD, .md WDZ. 



'Ihe next meeting of the state commit- 

 tee IS scheduled to be held July :>;. 9:00 

 AM (Central Standard Time) in the 

 lAA offices, Chicago. 



I'a rm 

 in Illmo 

 farmers 

 reation 

 harvest 1 

 baseball 

 of Cass 

 Bureaus 

 board c 

 board to 

 second i 

 mostly o 

 Next ye, 

 Farm Bu 

 By \92 

 such a p< 

 organized 

 year until 

 teams we 

 through t 

 came to t 

 started up 

 On Mai 

 of the III 

 I. eigne w J 

 office at 1 

 Macon. M 

 as m.my o 

 m.iy entci 

 counties |( 

 b.igo and 

 sihiy enter 

 up will be 

 DIVISK 

 Ogle and 

 DIVISK 

 Boone, I..1 

 DIVISK 

 L.iSalle, C. 

 DIVISK 

 ALirshal-P, 

 DIVISK 

 Montgomc 

 DIVISK 

 Moultrie, 



At mee 

 chairmen \ 

 of games c 

 part of Ma 



Fhgible 

 niembcrs i 

 dent meml- 

 ers may nc 

 ••re played 

 holidays. 



Fleeted , 

 are libb H. 

 and Alberi 

 president. 



This yea 

 Scheduling 

 winners be 

 as to reduc< 



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I. A. A. RECORD 



JUNE. 1938 



