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REA Awards Received By 



3 Farm Bniean Families 



TTie first public presentation of na- 

 tional rural electrification awards for in- 

 creased wartime food production through 

 the use of electrical equipment was 

 made during March to three Illinois 

 farm families. 



Awards were presented at a ceremony 

 in Carlinville in early March to William 

 H. Moore, Jersey county; Adolph Monke, 

 Macoupin county, and Arthur Grassel, 

 Montgomery county, all Farm Bureau 

 members. 



New Law Requires Coops 



To File Annual Reports 



Cooperatives associations will be re- 

 quired to file informational returns with 

 the commissioner of internal revenue by 

 May 15, 1944, according to C. C. Cha- 

 pelle, tax consultant for the Illinois Ag- 

 ricultural Auditing Association. This is 

 required by the new tax law. 



The May 15 deadline applies to co- 

 operatives whose business year ends on 

 Dec. 31. The returns for cooperatives 

 whose business year ends on a date other 

 than Dec. 31 are required to be filed 

 on the 15th of the fifth month follow- 

 ing the close of the fiscal period. Co- 

 operatives whose business year ended be- 

 fore Dec. 31, 1943, will not have to file 

 their first return until 1945. 



Forms for the preparation of these 

 returns are not yet available, but asso- 

 ciations will no doubt be required to 

 furnish the following information: 



1. Balance sheet at the close of the 

 period. 



2. Income and expense accounts for 

 the last fiscal period. 



3. A copy of their original letter of 

 exemption. 



4. Amendments to the articles of in- 

 corporation and to by-laws since the date 

 of granting of the letter of exemption. 



The following information may be 

 required : 



1. Statement as to the payment of 

 patronage refunds if the association is a 

 purchasing or marketing organization. 



2. Statement as to the necessity for 

 the maintenance of reserves. 



Theme of the conference will be 

 "Farm and Rural Life After the War." 

 Special attention will be paid to the fol- 

 lowing problems: kind of farms after the 

 war, living standards for rural people, 

 educational standards for rural people, 

 cooperative activities of farm people and 

 world relationships that affect the Amer- 

 ican farmer. 



Plans for the program have been for- 

 mulated by a committee appointed by Dr. 

 D. E. Lindstrom, U. of I. College of 

 Agriculture. Members of the committee 

 are Paul V. Maris, FSA, chairman: Car- 

 roll Streeter, vice-president of the a-ssoci- 

 ation, and associate editor of the Farm 

 Journal and Farmer's Wife, and Re*-. 

 Fr. George Nell, director of Co-op Par- 

 ish Activities, Effingham. 



Name lAA Delegation To 



Country Life Conierence 



Three lAA board members and two 

 staff members have been named to attend 

 the American Country Life Conference 

 to be held April 11-13 in the Hotel 

 Sherman, Chicago. 



From the lAA board will be Talmage 

 Defrees, vice-president, and Albert Hayes, 

 director from the I6th district. Staff 

 members attending will be John C Wat- 

 son and L. H. Simerl of the research 

 department. 



Assistant Adviser Resigns 



James C. Hoyt has resigned as as- 

 sistant farm adviser in McDonough coun- 

 ty. He had sers'ed as assistant farm ad- 

 viser and organization director from 

 June, 1938, to June, 1943, when he was 

 employed as full-time assistant adviser. 



The American Dental Association re- 

 ports that less than 10 out of every 

 100 American children and less than 

 2 out of every 100 American adults 

 have normally healthy mouths. 



FARM BUREAU members have the privilege of 

 merchandising their wool through their own 

 organization. The Illinois Wool Marketing 

 Association is one of 21 state and regional members 

 of the National Wool Marketing Corporation. The 

 National handled over 60,000,000 pounds of wool 



Markef wool eooperatively — help your own 



in 1943. This makes it the largest single handler 

 of wool in the United States and gives it the 

 necessary bargaining power for higher prices. 



Make it possible for your organization to render 

 still greater service. See your Farm Bureau and be 

 a cooperator in 1944. 



organization to help you to better farm living 





ILLINOIS WOOL MARKETING ASSOCIATION 



APRIL. 1944 



