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THE "accent on youth" programs in 

 Illinois have received additional im- 

 petus by way of the federal Bankhead- 

 Flannagan Act of June 6, 1945. This 

 recent legislation not only enhances 

 further work among rural young peo- 

 ple, but provides for continued expan- 

 sion and development in the over-all 

 county extension program. 



Operation of the Act in Illinois will 

 be under the University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture as the land-grant 

 institution in this state. 



The Act provides "expenses of co- 

 operative extension work in agricul- 

 ture and home economics, including 

 technical and educational assistance to 

 farm people in improving their stand- 

 ards of living, in developing individual 

 farm and home plans, better marketing 

 and distribution of farm products, work 

 with rural youth in 4-H Clubs and 

 older out-of-school youth, guidance of 

 farm people in improving farm and 

 home buildings, development of effec- 

 tive programs in canning, food preser- 

 vation, and nutrition, and for the neces- 

 sary printing and distribution of in- 

 formation. . ." 



Prof. J. C. Spitler, associate director 

 of extension at the University of Illi- 

 nois, reveals that the funds allotted to 

 Illinois for the current year are not 

 sufficient to give assistance to every 

 county farm and home adviser, but he 

 indicated that with increased funds to 

 be made available next year it may be 

 possible to meet requests from any 

 county in the state. 



Funds provided by the Act must be 

 appropriated each year, and according 

 to the Act the amount increases during 

 each of the following two years, after 

 which the final sum made available in 

 the third year or July 1, 1947 becomes 

 the figure to be allocated during each 

 successive year thereafter. 



In line with the discussions by Con- 

 gress, first attention in Illinois has been 

 given to the placement of assistants for 

 the expansion of youth programs and 

 the expansion of home advisory work 

 into counties that do not have a home 

 adviser. 



Counties selected for this additional 

 assistance were determined by the pres- 

 ent load placed on farm and home ad- 

 visers, and by the p>otential number of 

 teen-agers (10 to 19 years) in the 

 counties indicated by the 1940 census. 



Seventeen counties have been selected 

 to have an assistant for boys and girls 

 4-H and older rural youth programs 

 under these new funds. Additional 

 counties will be selected as funds be- 

 come available. Two thousand dollars 

 per county has been budgeted for the 

 salary of a youth assistant with all 

 other expenses to be met locally. 

 Twelve of these counties have em- 

 ployed assistants to date. The new as- 

 sistants will WQrk under the joint super- 

 vision of the farm and home advisers. 



Youth assistants who are now em- 

 ployed and their county include the 

 following: Mary Elizabeth Vick, Wil- 

 liamson-Franklin; Mildred Benz, Jack- 

 son; Mary E. Davies, Kankakee; Mrs. 

 Beulah Petty, Lawrence-Crawford ; D. 

 C. Rocke, Macon; Mrs. Helen C. Har- 

 less, Shelby ; Webster H. Gehring, War- 

 ren; Margaret M. Knecht, St. Clair; 

 Eldon W. Barnes, Bureau; Carlos C. 

 Reichert. Iroquois; Hobart V. Deffen- 

 baugh, Edgar; and M. O. Vesaas, Knox. 

 Other counties expecting to employ 

 youth assistants soon are DeKalb, Han- 

 cock, and Randolph. 



COMING EVENTS 



Feb. 12-14: Farm and Home 

 Week, U. of I. Urbana. 



Feb. 1-2 : lAA Insurance Round- 

 up, Hotel Pere Marquette, 

 Peoria. 



Feb. 15-16: National Farm In- 

 stitute, Hotel Fort Des 

 Moines, Des Moines. 



Feb. 16: Springfield Producers 

 Livestock Conunission Com- 

 pany, Annual Meeting, 

 Springfield High School. 



March 7: Chicago Producers 

 24th Annual Meeting, Bal 

 Tabarin Room, Hotel Sher- 

 man, Chicago. 



March 12: Pure Milk Associa- 

 tion, Hotel Sherman, Chica- 

 go. 



REINSTATEMENT OF POLICIES 



The board of directors of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Mutual Insurance Com- 

 pany has authorized the reinstatement 

 of pKjlicies of insurance issued to serv- 

 ice men who dropped their policies 

 when they entered the armed forces. 



There is no additional f>olicy fee or 

 reinstatement charge of any kind if the 

 application is made for reinstatement 

 of such policy within one year after 

 such person has been honorably dis- 

 charged from the armed forces. Such 

 person, however, must fully qualify for 

 Farm Bureau insurance before rein- 

 statement can be made. 



GIVE TO RED CROSS 



Disaster victims and convalescing vet- 

 erans look to the Red Cross for help 

 in reorganizing their lives and to face 

 the tedious hours while recovering. 



Do your bit now! Give to the 1946 

 Red Cross fund campaign! 



New employees of Farm Bureaus and 

 subsidiaries from central Illinois counties 

 listen to panel discussion of statewide 

 cooperatives at Bloomington. This was 

 one of a series of ten such meetings held 

 during the last of 1945. Total attendance 

 was 332. 



Seated beneath the chart, and engaged 



in the panel discussion, are George Cur- 

 tiss, manager, McLean Service Company: 

 Clare Grube. general agent Champaign 

 county; W. P. Sandiord. lAA sales service 

 director, chairman; I. Wollcer Robbina, 

 Champaign county's COD; lohn R. Spen- 

 cer, IAA soil improvement director; and 

 Ray Miller, fieldman, Prairie Fanns 

 Creamery of Bloomington. 



JANUARY, 194S 



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