Two New Directors Elected To lAA Board 



THE two new directors elected to the 

 board of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation, C. J. Elliott, Streator, LaSalle 

 county, and F. E. Morris, Buffalo, Sang- 

 amon county, have long records of Farm 

 Bureau service. 



Mr. Elliott, who was elected to com- 

 plete the unexpired term of the late Rex 

 E. Peddicord, Marseilles, in the 12th dis- 

 trict, has been a member of the LaSalle 

 County Farm Bureau's executive commit- 

 tee for 20 years and at present is its vice- 

 president and chairman of the finance 

 committee. He was one of the founders 

 of the Farm Bureau in his county which 

 was formed as the LaSalle County Better 

 Farming Association. 



Graduated from the University of Il- 

 linois College of Agriculture in 1912, 

 Mr. Elliott has farmed ever since gradu- 

 ation, owning and operating 360 acres 

 located five miles west and five miles 

 north of Streator. His wife is the former 

 Lillian King, who was graduated from 

 the U. of I. in home economics in 1913. 

 They have five sons and one daughter, 

 and three of the sons and the daughter 

 are in the armed services. 



Mr. Elliott's other activities include a 

 part in organizing the LaSalle County 

 Farm Supply of which he is secretary. He 

 is also a director on the Producers Sup- 

 ply board, member of the state advisory 

 committee of the FSA. He served as 

 appraiser for the Federal Land Banks 

 from 1933 to 1940, and as farm evalu- 

 ator for the FHA since 1938, and school 

 trustee from 1915 to 1934. 



Mr. Morris, elected to succeed Dwight 

 Hart, Taylorville, Christian county, who 

 represented the 21st district for 8 years, 

 operates a 220-acre general livestock 

 and grain farm. Part of this acreage 

 he rents and part he owns. Mr. Morris 

 was elected to the Sangamon County 



Farm Bureau board in 1936, and during 

 the last three years has ser\'ed as its vice- 

 president. He was the first secretary of 

 the county corn-hog program and later 

 was elected county AAA chairman. He 

 has recently ser\'ed as a member of the 

 lAA schools committee and as a member 

 of its subcommittee. Mr. Morris was 

 especially well fitted for the lAA schools 

 committee having served as a director on 

 both the grade and high school boards of 

 Buffalo. He was on the board of the 

 Buffalo High School at the time of its 

 consolidation with the Tri-City High 

 School. 



Mr. Morris' other activities include 

 chairmanship of the rural division of the 

 Sangamon county war fund drive last 

 year, and service of several years as a 

 member of the FSA farm loan commit- 

 tee of his county. 



Mr. Morris is married and has four 

 children, two daughters and two sons. 

 One son is in the Navy, and one daugh- 

 ter is employed in war work at Illiopolis. 

 Mrs. Morris is the former Amelia Sam- 

 pen of Emden, Logan county. Mr. Mor- 

 ris was born in Lincoln, Logan county, 

 and started farming at the time he was 

 married in 1922 near Delavan, Taze- 

 well county. He moved to Sangamon in 

 1926 and joined the Farm Bureau there 

 the same year. 



Mr. Hart who leaves the lAA board 

 after eight years of service, has taken 

 a keen interest in the growth of member- 

 ship in the Farm Bureau in Illinois as 

 he served on the organization-information 

 committee of the board during the en- 

 tire period of his directorship. He has 

 certainly witnessed the accomplishment 

 of one of his fondest ambitions — ""My 

 ambition has been to help build a farm 

 organization to promote the farmers' in- 

 terest." 



C. I. EUiott 



F. E. Moiria 



Dwight Hart 



Mr. Hart was one of the charter mem- 

 bers of the Christian County Farm Bu- 

 reau when it was formed in 1918. He 

 served 5 years as its secretary and 10 

 years as its president. At present he is 

 chairman of the legislative committee of 

 the Christian County Farm Bureau. His 

 other activities in the community include 

 12 years as president of the Christian 

 County Agricultural Fair, and service as 

 a member of his local school board. Mr. . 

 Hart expects to maintain his interest in 

 the statewide activities of the Farm Bu- 

 reau and its associated companies. He 

 will serve during the ensuing year as 

 a director on the board of the Illinois 

 Grain Corporation. 



Mr. Hart operated a 275-acre farm 

 from 1892 to 1924, and moved from the 

 farm to Sharpsburg in 1924 where he 

 lived until moving to Taylorville in 1942. 

 He is maintaining his farming interests 

 by operating his farm on a livestock lease 

 basis with his son-in-law. He also owns 

 40 acres of unimproved land which he 

 rents on a grain basis. Mr. Hart who 

 was married Dec. 9, 1903, has two daugh- 

 ters, Mrs. Fern Brown, and Elma who 

 lives at home. 



12 



Engage New Actuary 



Dirk Heezen, actuary for the Na- 

 tional Guardian Life Insurance Company 

 of Madison, Wis., for the past 12 years, 

 was scheduled to start work Dec. 15 as 

 actuary of Country Life Insurance Com- 

 pany and consulting actuary of Illinois 

 Agricultural Mutual Insurance Company 

 and Farmers Mutual Reinsurance Com- 

 pany. 



Heezen succeeds 

 Bruce Batho who re- 

 signed Dec. 15, to 

 take a position as 

 associate actuary of 

 the Industrial Life 

 & Health Insurance 

 Company of Atlan- 

 ta, Ga. Batho came 

 to the lAA March 

 16, 1942 from the 

 Illinois State Insur- 

 ance Department where he was employed 

 as assistant actuary. Previously he had 

 served as actuary for the Franklin Life 

 Insurance Company. 



Heezen has been office manager of the 

 life department for the National Guard- 

 ian Life Insurance Company for the last 

 two years in addition to being actuary. 



L A. A. RECORD 



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