Festival Plans Move Along 



V^^^ITY the folks whose job it is 

 Lj to tell everyone about all the 

 ^. fun there'll be at the Illinois 

 Farm Sports Festival on the campus 

 of the University of Illinois, Sept. 1 

 and 2. How in the world can they 

 tell about the Festival when plans are 

 developing so fast they can barely 

 keep abreast? Anyway, here's the latest 

 dope: 



Woodchoppers' contest. Use any ax 



you please. In the contest you will 

 chop through an eight-inch black oak 

 log. (The logs will be peeled to ju.st 

 the right size.) Logs will be three- 

 foot sections mounted firmly on a plat- 

 form. You can chop from either side 

 or on top. Winners will be decided 

 solely on the basis of speed. 



If you can chop pretty spry, better 

 get in a little practice. It may net 

 you a prize at your County Sports 

 Festival and at the State Festival, too. 



Watch for the new Festival posters at 

 your County Farm Bureau office. They 

 are made up of pictures taken at last 

 year's festival. Maybe yours is among 

 them. While you're at the Farm Bu- 

 reau, ask about the 1939 official rule 

 books. 



Few changes were made in the rules 

 from last year. The important ones 

 are: 



Softball players will be permitted to 

 wear metal spikes on their shoes this 

 year. The spikes must have blunt 

 edges all around and must not extend 

 more than three-eighths of an inch be- 

 low the shoe sole. This change was 

 aimed at making softball faster to give 

 players and fans more thrills per min- 

 ute. Bunting, too, will be allowed. 



Pole vault and shot put events are 

 ruled out of the track program this 

 year. Events scheduled are, 50 and 

 100-yard dashes, high jump and broad 

 jump for boys 15 and under. Older 

 boys will compete in the 100-yard dash, 

 880-yard run, high jump, broad jump 

 and half-mile relay. Events for girls 

 15 and under are 75-yard dash and 

 high jump. Girls 16 and older will 

 enter the 75-yard dash, the high jump 

 and broad jump. 



Swimming is becoming so popular 

 that more folks want to enter. Each 

 county may enter two contestants in 

 each of four divisions, or eight swim- 

 mers instead of four as in other years. 



Folk Festival fans will find a new 

 contest for choruses, choirs and glee 

 clubs listed in the 1939 rules. Your 



song group may enter through the 

 Farm Bureau. 



A hot tip just came through from 

 the fun committee. Chocolate meringue 

 pie will probably displace blueberry 

 pie in the pie eating contest. What 

 a picture that will make! 



Come to think of it, the prize-win- 

 ning picture in the last Festival Photo 

 contest was one of pie-eaters. Camera 

 fans will again have a chance at prizes. 

 There will be cash awards for the best 

 three pictures submitted and prizes of 

 $1 each for all pictures published. 



An entertaining program is being 

 planned for Friday evening, Sept 1, 

 in Memorial Stadium. Folk Festival 

 winners will provide part of the show. 

 There'll be a special wrestling event 

 and other lively attractions. Free tick- 

 ets are available now at your County 

 Farm Bureau office. You will be able 

 to get them, too, at the Festival. 



The big G. Huff Gym, on the south 

 campus, will be the center of activities 

 both days of the Festival. The Folk 

 Festival contests will be run off on the 

 basketball floor. Swimmers will use 

 the pool. Checker players will be care- 

 fully fortified against outside influences 

 in one of the gym's many rooms. If 

 it's a hot day, they may take their 

 boards to the basement. The gym, 

 located near the center of the 20-odd 

 Softball diamonds, is an ideal place for 

 Softball and press headquarters. 



ONE OF FOUH 

 Here is the 1939 state champion groin 

 judging team of Sterling high school in 

 Whiteside county. Sterling teams also 

 won state titles in dairy judging, milk 

 judging and meat identification during 

 the annual round-up oi Future Farmers on 

 the State University campus at Urbana. 

 Members oi the team are. Harold Steiner. 

 Francis Orlowski, high individual in the 

 state contest, and Raymond MellotL I. A. 

 Twardeck is coach. 



The Saturday afternoon program 

 with its tug o'war finals, hog calling, 

 bait casting, women's events and sjjecial 

 fun features will be held just south 

 of the Huff gym. The amateur wres- 

 tlers, too, have picked a shady spot near 

 the gym for their bouts. 



Trap and skeet shooting is scheduled 

 for Friday morning at the Champaign 

 Gun Club west of town. Rifle shooting 

 will be in the Armory. The Farm 

 Bureau Baseball championship tourna- 

 ment will be held on Illinois Field, 

 the horse pulling contest south of the 

 stadium. 



Radio stations WLS, WDZ, WDWS, 

 WMBD, WILL are planning to broad- 

 cast from the Festival. 



Final plans will be laid at a meeting 

 of the state Farm Sports Festival com- 

 mittee, July 24, at the University of 

 Illinois. 



IFS Opens River 

 Terminal IMear Peoria^^. 



A new service for Illinois farmers 

 was inaugurated June 27 at Kingston 

 Mines, Peoria county, when a barge- 

 load of 640,000 gallons of gasoline was 

 unloaded at the recently completed 

 1,500,000-gallon marine terminal of the 

 Illinois Farm Supply Company. 



The cargo, equivalent to a train 

 load of 80 cars, is a week's supply for 

 19 farmer-owned service companies 

 supplying farmers in 24 counties. 

 Trucks ranging in capacity from 4,- 

 000 to 7,000 gallons are used to dis- 

 tribute the fuel to cooperatives' bulk 

 plants in an 100-mile radius of the 

 terminal. 



Directors of Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company okayed the terminal at a 

 regular monthly meeting, June 21. 

 Representing an investment of $70,000, 

 the terminal consists of a million-gallon 

 tank, a 500,000-gallon tank, an unload- 

 ing dock and connecting pipe lines. 



"The company will handle about 

 24,000,000 gallons of gasoline through 

 the terminal the first year," said Fred 

 E. Herndon, president. "By the time 

 the facilities of the terminal are com- 

 plete, the company will have approxi- 

 mately $100,000 invested in it. Plans 

 call for the construction of a garage, 

 machine shop and office building." 



Illinois Farm Supply Company, in 

 cooperation with the Wabash Valley 

 Service Company, started two years ago 

 to operate a 300,000-gallon terminal 

 at Shawneetown on the Ohio river. 

 Savings effected there prompted the 

 company to erect the Kingston Mines 

 plant to serve farmers in central Illi- 

 nois. 



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JULY, 1939 



