This will place all communities on the 

 same basis. 





School Transportation 



The bill to increase the maximum 

 state contribution toward the cost of 

 pupil transportation from $15 to $20 

 per pupil has passed the House and has 

 been favorably reported by the Senate 

 committee on Education. 



The bill authorizing the creation of 

 official county school survey committees 

 in counties where such a survey is 

 approved by the local school board 

 members has passed the House and has 

 been favorably reported by the Senate 

 committee on education. 



Open Season on Foxes 



A bill providing a year-round open 

 season on foxes in the central zone has 

 passed both Houses of the legislature. 

 The law now provides a year-round 

 open season on foxes in the northern 

 zone and this legislation will place the 

 central zone on the same basis. 



Bang's Disease Control 



Bills covering the recommendations 

 of the legislative committee on live- 

 stock legislation have passed the Sen- 

 ate and have been referred to the com- 

 mittee on agriculture in the House. The 

 bills as passed contain the provisions 

 outlined in the May 1945 issue of the 

 RECORD. However, the provision re- 

 quiring compulsory testing for Bangs 

 of animals sold at private or public 

 sales was amended to become effective 

 July 1, 1947. The Illinois Agricultural 

 Association is supporting this legisla- 

 tion. 



Sealing Oil Wells 



The Illinois Agricultural Association 

 is supfxjrting legislation which would 

 require persons proposing to drill oil 

 wells to give a bond for the proper 

 plugging of the well in case it is dry 

 or is abandoned. This bond would be 

 in the amount of $1,000 for each well 

 or a $5,000 blanket bond for all wells 

 of any operator. There have been a 

 number of instances in which oper- 

 ators have failed to plug or to properly 

 plug oil wells and have failed to clean 

 up their slush pits, resulting in a great 

 deal of damage to the property on 

 which the oil well is located and also 

 to adjoining property. This legislation 

 has been favorably reported by the Sen- 

 ate committee on efficiency and econ- 

 omy. 



C. C. Chopell* 



Name Chapelle 

 As lAA Comptroller 



R. G. Ely, comptroller for the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and as- 

 sociated companies since 1935, has re- 

 signed to accept a position as secretary 

 and auditor with the Strom Steel Ball 

 Company of Chicago. Mr. Ely's resig- 

 nation is effective June 9- 



Named to succeed Mr. Ely is C. C. 

 Chapelle, tax consultant for the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Auditing Association. 

 Mr. Chapelle joined 

 the Auditing As- 

 sociation staff in 

 September, 1935. A 

 native of Michigan, 

 Mr. Chapelle was 

 employed with the 

 Radio Corporation 

 of America for 10 

 years and by Ar- 

 thur Young & 

 Company, certified 

 public accountants, 

 for five years be- 

 fore being employed by the Auditing 

 Association. He studied at Shurtleff 

 College, Alton, for three years and re- 

 ceived his law degree from Chicago 

 Kent College of Law in 1915. He was 

 admitted to the bar in the same year. 

 Mr. Chapelle has one daughter, Eliza- 

 beth, a student at Wheaton College. 



Mr. Ely, a native of Chicago, was 

 graduated from the University of Wis- 

 consin College of Conmierce in 1923 

 and passed an ex- 

 amination for certi- 

 fied public account- 

 ant in Illinois in 

 1930 with honors. 

 Before joining the 

 lAA staff, Mr. Ely 

 was associated as a 

 certified public ac- 

 countant with 

 Price, Waterhouse 

 & Company for 

 nine years and also 

 worked in the au- 

 diting department of a Chicago bank 

 for several years. 



J. T. Nelson, auditor in charge of 

 the Bloomington district office of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Auditing Associ- 

 ation, has been named chief account- 

 ant and assistant to Mr. Chapelle in the 

 comptroller's office. 



Mr. Nelson came with the Illinois 

 Agricultural Auditing Association in 

 the fall of 1939 and worked in the Chi- 

 cago office for a year before going to 

 Bloomington. He is a native of Wiscon- 

 sin and was graduated from Northwest- 

 ern University in 1931. After gradu- 

 ation he was employed by the Chicago 



R. G. Elr 



Title and Trust Co. He later worked 

 for the public ac- 

 counting firm of Al- 

 exander Grant & 

 Company, Chicago, 

 as junior accountant. 

 In 1935 he went 

 with S. D. Leides- 

 dorf & Co., Chi- 

 cago, another public 

 accounting firm, as 

 senior accountant. In 

 1938 he served as 

 office manager and 

 accountant for a 



large retail grocery store in Chicago. He 



is married and has one son. 



I. T. NaUon 



This Month 



(Continued from page }) 

 stating that they felt action in political 

 convention was too general in character 

 to be permitted to play such an important 

 part in the consideration of an amend- 

 ment to the constitution. Were the Gate- 

 way Amendment other than an amend- 

 ment to the amending article of the con- 

 stitution, the Illinois Agricultural Associ- 

 ation would be in accord with such op- 

 position. However, it must be under- 

 stood that the wording of the Gateway 

 Amendment, if adopted, will forever 

 close the door to the use of the poltical 

 convention or party circle voting in the 

 consideration of any amendment later 

 submitted to a basic article of the con- 

 stitution. 



The Gateway Amendment provides 

 that when adopted, any proposed amend- 

 ment submitted thereafter, shall be sub- 

 mitted to the voters in a separate column 

 provided on the main ballot or upon a 

 separate ballot. 



The immediate concern is to provide 

 the machinery whereby the Gateway 

 Amendment (which amends only the 

 amending article of the constitution) may 

 have a reasonable opportunity of favor- 

 able consideration at the polls. Adop- 

 tion of the Gateway Amendment will 

 give to the people of Illinois the op- 

 portunity and privilege in the future of 

 amending basic articles of the constitu- 

 tion to meet current needs, if such 

 amendments are submitted to the elec- 

 torate by two-thirds vote of each house 

 of the General Assembly, and if two- 

 thirds of those voting on the proposal 

 vote affirmatively. 



If the citizens of Illinois are to be per- 

 mitted to modernize the Illinois constitu- 

 tion in the future to such extent as is re- 

 quired to meet some of the present day 

 problems, both the Gateway Amendment 

 and the Party Circle method for its con- 

 sideration by the voters at the polls in 

 the next general election should have the 

 aggressive support of the people of Il- 

 linois and their representatives in the 

 present General Assembly. 



JUNE. r945 



