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Robert Temple (left) ol La Salle county is 

 congratulated by lAA Director E, T. Smith 

 of Greenfield after he was adjudged win- 

 ner ol the national Rural Youth Talk Fest. 



LASALLE YOUTH IS 

 NATIONAL WINNER 



Robert C. Temple, 19, of La Salle 

 county won the National Rural Youth 

 Talk Fest at the contest held in conjunc- 

 tion with the 27th annual American Farm 

 Bureau Federation convention in Chicago 

 Dec. 17-20. 



Acclaimed Illinois state champion dur- 

 ing the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 convention in Chicago in November, 



Temple spoke third in the national con- 

 test program drawing the topic "Soil 

 Conservation and World Peace" for the 

 subject of his five-minute talk. 



After being judged national champion. 

 Temple delivered a talk on the same sub- 

 ject before a general session of the Amer- 

 ican Farm Bureau convention. 



In second place was Emerson Haussler 

 of Saline, Mich., who spoke on "Farm 

 Youth as a Bulwark in Agricultural and 

 Industrial Relations." 



The national champion is a son of 

 William Temple, president of the Illi- 

 nois Wool Marketing Association, and 

 has been active for some time in 4-H 

 club and Rural Youth work. 



STANDING COMMITTEES OF 

 lAA NAMED FOR '46 



The following standing committees 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 board of directors have been appointed 

 by President Charles B. Shuman to 

 serve during the year 1946: 



Finance — F. E. Morris, Buffalo, chair- 

 man ; R. V. McKee, Varna, and Charles 

 Lauritzen, Reddick. 



Organization-Information — Otto W. 

 Steffey, Stronghurst, chairman; August 



Eggerding, Red Bud; John T. Evans, 

 Hoopeston, and a farm adviser repre- 

 sentative to be appointed. 



Public Relations— K. T. Smith, 

 Greenfield, chairman; Milton W. War- 

 ren, Mansfield; F. E. Morris, Buffalo, 

 and a farm adviser representative to be 

 appointed. 



Business Service — Lyman Bunting, 

 Ellery, chairman; Dan Clarke, New 

 Berlin; Chester McCord, Newton, and 

 a farm adviser representative to be 

 appointed. 



Marketing — Homer Curtiss, Stock- 

 ton, Chairman; Ronald A. Holt, Galva: 

 J. King Eaton, Edwardsville; Harvey 

 Adair, Chicago Heights; C. J. Elliott, 

 Streator, and a farm adviser repre- 

 sentative to be appointed. 



NEW ASST. FARM ADVISER 



Robert Castle, Vermilion county, a 

 1942 graduate of the University of Illi- 

 nois college of agriculture, took over 

 his duties Jan. 1 as assistant farm ad- 

 viser for Champaign county. The new 

 assistant farm adviser was recently dis- 

 charged from the air forces. 

 • Before going into the army. Castle 

 was a vocational agriculture instructor 

 at Oregon in Ogle county. 



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