to work for the Norris Grain Com- 

 pany in 1938. 



He is married and has a son, David, 

 5, and a daughter, Dianne, 2. 



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BUYS FRONTAGE, ELEVATOR 



THE grain merchandising program of 

 the Farm Bureau in Illinois is moving 

 ahead rapidly with the acquisition of 

 river frontage and elevators. 



Developments during the first of June 

 included the purchase June 7 of the 

 elevator {properties of the Havana Co- 

 operative Grain Company at Havana by 

 the Havana River Grain Company. The 

 sale was approved by a unanimous vote 

 of stockholders at the Mason County 

 Farm Bureau with President Rudolph 

 Hackman in charge of the meeting. 



The transaction makes available to the 

 new river operating company a 25,000- 

 bushel elevator and nearly 500 feet of 

 choice river frontage on which will be 

 built a modern river terminal which will 

 be used to load barges operating on the 

 Illinois River. 



The board of directors of the Havana 

 River Company met June 7 and author- 

 ized immediate construction if materials 

 can be secured. 



The Western Illinois Grain Company, 

 with headquarters at Dallas City on the 

 Mississippi River, shipped the first load 

 of barged grain May 18 when a barge 

 of 40,000 bushels of corn moved from 

 that point to the St. Louis market. The 

 consignment was government corn assem- 

 bled at the port at Dallas City. 



The Bureau County Farm Bureau has 

 filed incorporation papers for the organi- 

 zation of the Bureau County Grain Com- 

 pany. The new company will be a sub- 

 sidiary of the local County Farm Bureau 

 and is being organized for the purpose 

 of providing a nucleus for a countv-wide 

 grain and feed service to Farm Bureau 

 members. 



A 30,000 bushel elevator has been pur- 

 chased from the Larson Seed Company. 

 This elevator is located in the same block 

 with the Farm Bureau and adjoins the 

 feed properties of the Bureau County 

 Service Company. 



The Bureau county grain project will 

 be tied in with the operations of the 

 Prairie Grain Company when the latter 

 company starts its proposed grain business 

 on the Illinois River. 



WATTS IS MANAGER 

 OF WESTERN GRAIN 



Fred J. Watts, 30, former manager of 

 the Norris Grain Company river elevator 

 at Havana, has been named manager 

 of the Western Illi- 

 nois Grain Compa- 

 ny, subsidiary of Il- 

 linois Grain Termi- 

 nals Company, the 

 lAA's new $3,000,- 

 000 grain market- 

 ing cooperative. 



Western Illinois 

 Grain Company, 

 which will serve pa- 

 trons in Hancock, 

 McDonough, War- 

 ren, and Henderson 

 counties, has purchased elevator prop- 

 erties in four localities from the Dallas 

 City Grain and Feed Company. 



Watts was employed by the Farmers 

 National Grain Corporation from 1933 

 to 1938, including two years at Havana 

 and three years at Morris. He went 



F. J. Worn 



ARMY ENGINEERS HEAR 



(Continued from page 6) 



One hundred fifty, he said, say they will 

 have to relocate and another 150 farmers 

 say they will be unable to operate eco- 

 nomically. 



Speaking for the State Department of 

 Agriculture, Director Arnold P. Benson 

 also protested the acquisition of farm 

 lands for the 15 reservoirs saying his de- 

 partment felt that sufficient study had 

 not been given proper soil conservation 

 methods for flood control. 



Several of the speakers asked that 

 some of the levees and river bottlenecks 

 be eliminated to allow the river to flow 

 into its natural flood plain thereby less- 

 ening the danger of floods in other areas 

 downstream. 



When Brig. Gen. Roscoe C. Crawford, 

 chairman of the board of engineers, 

 called a halt to the presentation of argu- 

 ments by the opposition to give pro- 

 ponents of the plan a chance to be heard. 

 Mayor John W. Kapp of Springfield pro- 

 tested that all opponents of the flood 

 control plan should be heard. 



Gen. Crawford overruled Kapp's pro- 

 test saying there were only 21/2 hours of 

 the 8-hour session left for the proponents 

 to be heard. 



Kapp had previously protested to the 

 board that the flood control project 

 would submerge township roads, sub- 

 merge or isolate 10 Sangamon county 

 schools, submerge the cemetery contain- 

 ing Lincoln's tomb, damage Springfield's 

 sewerage system and create a health haz- 

 ard. 



Gen. Crawford announced at the end 

 of the hearing that the time for filing 

 statements and data for and against the 

 plan had been extended until July 15. 

 Crawford said he planned no additional 

 hearings. 



The board's report will be submitted 

 to the chief of army engineers. Before it 

 is sent to the budget bureau on its way 

 to Congress, the report will be referred 

 to Gov. Dwight Green of Illinois. 



Two members of Green's administra- 

 tion have already announced their op- 

 position to the plan — Director of Agri- 

 culture Benson and Livingston E. Os- 

 borne, Director of Conservation. Os- 

 borne contends that the natural river 

 flood plains should be retired from till- 

 age and devoted to hunting and fishing. 



JUNE, 1946 



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