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By 

 ELLSWORTH D. LYON 



The Rural Youth slogan for 1946 — 

 "Serve Your Community and Know Your 

 Neighbor" — was made the banquet theme 

 for Knox county. The county Ruyil Youth 

 orchestra provided music for the crowd of 

 212 from 12 counties. Other activities of 

 this group included a discussion at the Feb- 

 ruary meeting on the subject, "What Rural 

 Youth Can Do For 4-H Clubs," sponsoring 

 of a basketball team for league play at the 

 Galesburg Y.M.C.A., a play party every two 

 weeks for the community of Galesburg in co- 

 operation with the "Y" and the recent in- 

 stallation of Fulton county officers at their 

 annual banquet. 



Other recent banquets reported are the 

 following: Peoria, March 6, the first time 

 since 1941 ; McLean, Feb. 7, with an attend- 

 ance of 130 from six counties; Mason, Feb. 

 16, with installation of officers; Fulton, Feb. 

 21, with installation service led by Knox 

 county. Pulaski-Alexander held its annual 

 banquet March 13. Jasper held its banquet 

 March 14. 



McL*an countr Burcd Youth snioy a dance 

 during a recent meeting. 



Edgar continues to lead recreation for the 

 children's home in Paris. 



The theme for Richland's fifth annual 

 banquet was, "The Atomic Age." 



"The Two-Family Farm" provided helpful 

 discussion for Wabash and Kankakee in their 

 January meetings. McHenry reports new 

 members gained. Keep going McHenry! 



The movie, "King of Waters," was shown 

 by Randolph at the February meeting. A 

 basketball game each week is played by the 

 boys. 



Brown County Rural Youthers are 

 shouldering responsibilities of leadership in 

 their county. Four are in the Farm Bureau- 

 Farm Management Service. Three are as- 

 sistant 4-H Club leaders. This year a Rural 

 Youther is organizing and leading a 4-H 

 Club in his community. 



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Franklin is now sponsoring a membership 

 drive. Lewis Van Horn and Jimmie Row- 

 land are the captains in a two-team outfit. 



MARCa 1946 



Welcome Williamson into the Rural 



Youth Fellowship. Nice to see growth in 

 your new organization, even at second meet- 

 ing. Congratulations ! 



St. Clair is very much on the alert. They 



appeared on two radio programs in February 

 and led recreation for two church socials 

 as well as for the Clinton County Home 

 Bureau Family Night. 



Clark discussed "Soil and Nutrition" at 

 the February meeting with C. N. Glover, 

 farm adviser, as leader. 



In keeping with the state slogan Adams is 



leading recreation and training recreation 

 leaders for various groups. Recently two 

 members led such an activity for a state- 

 wide church youth meeting. 



Cook scheduled O. D. Brissenden, organi- 

 zation director of the lAA, for its March 

 banquet. 



Winnebago would not be defeated when 



the weather failed to provide ice for a 

 planned skating party. The event was turned 

 into a hayride party and weiner roast with a 

 good time for all. 



Woodford is platming a dance for the last 



week in April, according to an announce- 

 ment by president. Bill Romersberger. 



Iroquois announces the following program 



series made up from suggestions by the 

 members: Etiquette, Modern Farm Home, 

 Safety, Indian Lore, History of Iroquois 

 County, Current Events. 



White County served the community in 



February by entertaining the Carmi Kiwanis 

 Club. 



Hamilton sponsored a box supper in Feb- 

 ruary. President, Katherine Gibbs, reports 

 the event successful with boxes averaging 

 $5. 



Tazewell, very much on the 'beam reports 



as follows: (1) February 28 — film on 

 "Landscaping" and a discussion of the new 

 Illinois Rural School Law; (2) March 21 

 — joint meeting with Woodford; (3) Last 

 week in March — The three-act comedy, 

 "Professor, How Could You?" A member- 

 ship drive is conducted each month in the 

 community where the meeting is held. 



McLean county Rural Youth officers for 

 1946 ore, left to right: Betty Lawrence, 

 secretary: Irene Miller, recreation leader; 

 Wayne Lege, president; Dorothy Beeler, 

 treasurer; Genevieve Rhoda, song leoder. 

 Vice president Russell Keim and Reporter 

 Lorraine Dalton were not present when 

 picture was taken. 



GRAIN CEILINGS 

 ARE RAISED 



Effective March 4, ceiling prices on 

 grains were raised in order to adjust live 

 stock feeding to reduced supplies of 

 grain. 



The joint announcement made by the 

 Secretary of Agriculture and OPA raised 

 ceilings as follows: wheat, 3 cents a 

 bushel; corn, 3 cents; barley, 4 cents; 

 oats, 2 cents, and grain sorghums, 9 

 cents per 100 poimds. Ceiling prices for 

 rye, which go into effect June 1, will be 

 increased 4 cents per bushel. 



Other steps outlined in the program 

 include: 



1. No change will be made in hog 

 ceilings prior to Sept. 1, 1946, but con- 

 sideration will be given to lowering the 

 ceiling price on heavier weight butcher 

 hogs affer that date. Consideration also 

 will be given to lowering the subsidy on 

 heavier hogs before Sept. 1. 



2. The present subsidy of 50 cents 

 per 100 pounds for finishing cattle to 

 top grades will be terminated on June 30. 



The announcement also said the grain 

 price increases were being made as a 

 cushion for possible increases in parity 

 in the next few months. As parity in- 

 creases, as it has each month since the 

 end of the Japanese war, the law recjuircs 

 that ceilings be changed to take care of 

 parity increases. 



URGE MATERIALS FOR 

 FARM BUILDINGS 



R^ommendation has been made by 

 the American Farm Bureau Federation 

 to Wilson W. W. Wyatt, administrator 

 of the National Housing Agency, that 

 the housing program make provisions 

 to assure farmers needed building ma- 

 terials. 



The telegram sent by AFBF Presi- 

 dent Edward A. O'Neal to Wyatt 

 stated : 



"Respectfully urge that you make 

 adequate provisions in your housing 

 program to assure that farmers will be 

 able to secure urgently needed build- 

 ing materials for repair and replace- 

 ment of essential farm buildings. This 

 is vitally important to farmers in meet- 

 ing their food production goals. 



"Appropriate provisions also should 

 be made to enable farmers to secure 

 building materials for critically needed 

 rural housing. 



"Farmers also should have equal op- 

 portunity with others in obtaining 

 needed materials to construct housing 

 for veterans who are tenants, share- 

 croppers and farm workers." 



