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Mrs. Harold Back, 25; Mrs. HaHas 

 .Wayne Roark, 17; Betty Jo Rider, 10; 



• Clara Donna Rider, 7 ; his grand- 



• children, Bobby Harold Back, 5; De- 

 lores Dean Back, 3 ; Brenda Louise 

 Back, 5 months; Hallas Wayne Roark, 

 Jr., 214 months; his son-in-law, S-2/c 

 Hallas Wayne Roark, home on leave 

 from the .Great Lakes Naval Training 

 Center. 



Three members of the Rider family 

 survived — Mrs. Rider, who was in 

 St. Louis, and her two daughters, Mrs. 

 Myrtle Stubbs, who lives a block and a 

 half from the Rider home, and Doro- 

 thy Jean Rider, 14, who was playing on 

 the levee at the time of the accident. 

 Harold Back, Rider's son-in-law, was 

 -attending a movie when the fire started. 



Scott had worked for Farm Supply 

 for five years; Tharp for the last two 

 and a half years, and Rider for a year 

 and a half. 



Scott leaves his wife, three daughters 

 and two sons. Tharp leaves his wife, 

 two sons and two daughters. 



Illinois Tops States 



In 5tli War Loan Drive 



Results of the Fifth War Loan Drive 

 show that Illinois topped the compar- 

 able states of the Union in percentage of 

 overall total sales to quota sales of "E' 

 bonds — individual sales, and cor- 

 porate sales as well, for a grand total 

 of $1,467,948,000. 



All available information indicates 

 that Illinois farmers did their full share 

 in making this splendid achievement 

 possible. 



At the July meeting of the board of 

 directors of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association President Earl C. Smith 

 reported the employees of the lAA and 

 associated companies in the Fifth War 

 Loan Drive subscribed 118 per cent of 

 their quota. He said employees of 

 the lAA and each of the associated com- 

 panies exceeded their quotas, and that 

 a total of $46,587 of bonds was pur- 

 chased. 



Lt. Leskovar, Conntry 



Life Employee. Killed 



Lt. Richard F. Les- 

 kovar, 25, Country 

 Life Insurance 

 Company home 

 office em p 1 o y e e, 

 Chicago, was re- 

 ported killed in ac- 

 tion in France on 

 July 20. He was 

 in an armored in- 

 fantry company 

 and had been a 

 member of the 

 armed forces since 



February, 1941. He was one of the first 



employees to enter the ser\'ices in this war. 

 This is the fiirst veiified death among 



the 27 Country Life employees now in the 



armed forces. 



Keep your woven wire fences tiKht and 



well fastened to posts to obtain the maxi- 

 mum life and usefulness of fences. 



J. E. Stickle, 73, formef president of 

 the McDonough County Farm Bureau 

 and a continuous 24-year charter mem- 

 ber, died in August. He served as pres- 

 ident in 1922 and 1923 and was on 

 the board of directors for a number 

 of years. The McDonough County 

 Farm Bureau also lost another con- 

 tinuous 25-year member in August 

 with the death of Fred Wiley, Macomb. 



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lAA PBOTESTS OPA BUUNG ON 



CO-OP PATRONAGE DIVIDENDS 



In RECOOMTION OF^nr^jJiniDINC. EXCELLENCE IN 

 THE INDl'STRIAL PUBLICATroNfe FrELD, THIS CERTlFICATt 

 OF AVARD IS PRESENTED TO THE FOLLOTINO 

 PUBLICATION IN THE INDICATED CLASSI FICATIC 



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Illineia Agricultural Association Record 

 won a third priio award at the third an- 

 nual Wartime Conference of the National 

 Council of Industrial Editors Association 

 in Cleveland. 0„ in lune. There were 

 1500 publications entered and a total oi 

 58 awards were made. The lAA Record 

 also won a first award in the serenth an- 

 nual contest of the Industrial Editors As- 

 sociation oi Chicago in December, 1943. 



1AA officials during the first week of 

 August called the attention of War 

 Food Administrator Marvin Jones to 

 a section of Food Products Regulation 

 No. 2 of the OPA which the lAA be- 

 lieves to be discriminatory to farmers 

 and their bona fide cooperative grain 

 marketing associations. 



The effect of section 2.4 of this 

 order is to put a stop to the payment 

 of patronage dividends by cooperatives 

 set up after Jan. 1, 1943. 



Up to date the regulation only ap- 

 plies to oats and barley, but there is 

 the possibilty that OPA might issue a 

 supplement to the order to cover corn, 

 wheat and other grains. 



Section 2.4 of Food Products Regula- 

 tion No. 2 prohibits any person from 

 adding a broker's commission service 

 charge upon the sale of any grain pur- 

 chased from or sold to a supplier with 

 whom he has an agreement to pay, or 

 actually pays any rebate, dividend or 

 share of his profit except in cases where 

 such arrangement existed prior to Jan. 

 1, 1943, and has continued since that 

 date. 



When the effect of this order was 

 called to the attention of Jones, -he im- 

 mediately communicated with OPA Ad- 

 ministrator Chester Bowles. Jones de- 

 clared that his office did not deem the 

 provisions of section 2.4 of the order 

 as being applicable to the distribution 

 of patronage dividends of the savings 



of bona fide cooperative associations. 



He said that it was his understanding 

 that OPA supplementary Order 84 is- 

 sued Feb. 14, 1944, established the 

 policy of the OPA with respect to co- 

 operative marketing associations and 

 that regulations issued by the OPA 

 would be interpreted in line with Or- 

 der 84. 



Jones declared that he hoped OPA 

 would find it possible to interpret 

 Food Products Regulation No. 2 so as 

 to permit any farmer grain cooper- 

 ative association which complies with 

 the standards set forth in Order 84 

 to continue to function without hin- 

 drance. 



He added that if OPA jfcd not find it 

 possible to make such an interpretation, 

 that the regulation be amended prompt- 

 ly so as to make it clear that farmers 

 cooperatives whether local or regional 

 which comply with Order 84 stand- 

 ards, be permitted to add appropriate 

 markups for the functions they per- 

 form and distribute their savings in 

 patronage refunds. 



The lAA, together with several co- 

 operative associations, has recom- 

 mended amendment of the Food Prod- 

 ucts Regulation to include the proviso : 



"Provided that the prohibition of 

 this section shall not apply to any 

 person which (1) is owned and con- 

 trolled by producers of agricultural 

 (Continued on page 25) 



SEPTEMBER. 1944 



