By Ellsworth 0. Lyon 

 Rural Youth "bonds for bombers" 

 drive had moved up to the encour- 

 aging figure of $65,651.70 by May 20. 

 Faithful and careful reporting of all 

 bond purchases should enable the 

 Rural Youth of Illinois to reach the 

 goal of $110,000 by June 30 for the 

 purchase of the ambulance plane — 

 first project for 1944. 



Macon County Rural Youth in its 

 May meeting heard an informative ad- 

 dress given by an Army Lieutenant 

 who had recently returned from one of 

 the fighting fronts. He spoke of being 

 transported from the front lines in an 

 ambulance plane of the type which the 

 Rural Youth of Illinois are sponsoring. 



Tazewell County Rural Youth which 



ranked second place in the state last 

 year in the sale of bonds, has a catchy 

 slogan to aid its campaign for 1944. 

 It is "Try to buy more war bonds for 

 T. R. Y." This group is working not 

 only for T. R. Y., but for Rural Youth 

 throughout the state and for our men 

 in the services through this bonds for 

 bombers' program. A picnic is being 

 planned for the afternoon of June 25 

 to be held at Mineral Springs Park, 

 Pekin. 



Morgan County sends its Newsletter "The 

 Morgan county Rural Youth Rambler " each 

 month to 40 service men throughout the 

 world as well as to former members. This 

 group held its annual spring banquet and 

 dance in April. Representatives were pres- 

 ent from Brown, Christian, Fulton. Kane. La- 

 Salle, McDonough and Pike counties. 



Kenneth Wilson, president of Montgomery 



county, had the privilege of introducing the 

 dean of farm advisers in Illinois, A. E. Sny- 

 der, at the eighth annual banquet May 17. 

 The banquet was attended by 110 Rural 

 Youthers and Farm and Home Bureau lead- 

 ers. 



Bond county had Vice-President Talmage 

 DeFrees of the Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation as speaker at its fourth annual ban- 

 quet May 9. His theme was "Roads of Ad- 

 venture and Romance." 



Brown county featured a "Torches for 



Freedom" program May S with 55 attend- 

 ing. "Three recent weddings lost us four 

 members," says Mamie Spiers, president. 

 Brown county responded with 12 volunteers 

 for the mobile blood donor unit visiting 

 Ouincy in May. 



The Rural Youth of Bureau county plan 

 to donate blood to the blood bank June 27. 



Kane county will hold a semi-formal dance 



June 9, at the Hampshire gymnasium. Betty 

 Teeple sends this interesting news: "A new 



Rural Youth group has been organized in 

 the county, and for 'the first two meetings 

 there has been a grand turn out." 



Plans are under way for a Rural Youth 

 festival including Carroll, Stephenson, Ogle, 

 Lee and Whiteside counties. It is to be held 

 in either July or August, according to 

 Lawrence E. Woessner, president of Carroll 

 county. 



Lawrence county plans a "big and glorified 



hay ride and wiener roast for June meeting. 

 All Rural Youth members are welcome," 

 says Clair A. Piper, president. 



Eleanor Fulton, secreury of Randolph 

 County Rural Youth, reports an attendance 

 of 90 at the 10th annual banquet May 1. She 

 further reports, "I think our 10th annual 

 banquet was quite a success and everyone 

 enjoyed the evening." This group is plan- 

 ning a hay-ride party and weiner roast for 

 their June meeting. 



Thelma Sturgeon presided at the annual 

 banquet of the ' Edgar County Rural Youth 

 May 16. Miss Clareta Walker's message in 

 the form of a poem was well received. 



Dorothy Rliodes, secretary of Peoria 



county sends a full and well written report 

 of the May meeting. Some outstanding fea- 

 tures of the evening were: A donation to the 

 Red Cross, the showing of the movie by Mr. 

 Neal, assistant farm adviser, on safety en- 

 titled, "A Stitch in Tjme." the reading and 

 amendment of the constitution, and the mak- 

 ing of plans for a debate on "Marriage in 

 War Time." Twelve new members were re- 

 ported at the meeting. 



Glenn Eisenbrondt, 18, Will county, re- 

 ceived this plaque May 18 in St. Louis in 

 recognition oi winning state honors in 

 the national 4-H rural electrification con- 

 test in 1943. 



W. E. Green, president, Wabash county, 

 reports that its recreational leader, Mary 

 Pole, is leaving in June for the Army 

 ^Nurse's Corps. 



James Wehrly, president of the Greene 



county group, reports that the annual ban- 

 quet was held on the date of the regular 

 meeting in April. At the May meeting Miss 

 Marian Ashford led a discussion on "The 

 Woman's Land Army. " 



The Ma> meeting of Macoupin county was 



a very successful guest-parent night with 11} 

 people in attendance. 



Lucille Denby, Macoupin's president, be- 

 gan work as assistant to Mrs. Sunny Schroed- 

 er Benson in the recreational phases of Rural 

 Sociology Extension at Urbana. Vice-Presi- 

 dent Emma Pcoklington will take over the 

 duties of president. 



President Richard Cline's recent report of 



Clark county says, "New members are still 

 coming." This county held election of of- 

 ficers at the April meeting. Flag identifica- 

 tion and flag etiquette were the subjects of 

 talks given by two members of the club. 



Winnebago county's May meeting was a 



guest night. 



Whiteside county held a skating parry io 

 April. At the May Rural Youth meeting Mrs. 

 Anshus, who left Norway two days Oetore 

 the invasion, gave an address on that coun- 

 try. 



A former Rural Youtfaer, Les Frankland, 



now in the service and who has been in the 

 Aleutian Islands spoke at the May meeting 

 of the Edwards county Rural Youth. 



Henry county enjoyed a bam dance May 



2, and Ruby Kleinau reports it was a "great 

 success." 



Here is the pursuit ship named in recog- 

 nition of the $75,000 War Bond purchases 



Plane hitilt by North American Aviation Inc. 

 made by Illinois Rural Youth in the last 

 quarter oi 1943. 



JUNE, 1944 



