This is an aerial view of the 40-reem mansion and part of the 6,185 acres In Piatt county 

 which Robert Allerton, Montlcello, has given to the University of Illinois. The bequest 

 provides for the establishment of a parte area of 1,685 acres Including approximately 100 

 acres deeded as a site for the Illinois 4-H Club Memorial Camp. Income from the re- 

 maining 4,500 acres, of which 80 per cent is rich tillable land, will be used to develop 



and maintain the pork. 



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FOR STATE MEMORIAL CAMP 



THE state war memorial camp honor- 

 ing Illinois 4-H Club members who 

 died in World War II will be built 

 on the site of the 100-acre tract given 

 to Illinois 4-H Clubs by Robert Aller- 

 ton of Monticello. 



Allerton deeded approximately 6,000 

 acres of his Piatt county estate to the 

 University of Illinois. 



The 100-acre tract is part of the land 

 known locally as "The Farms" and is 

 situated near Monticello within an area 

 to be set aside by the University as a 

 public park. 



The state-wide project for the bene- 

 fit of Illinois" 37,000 4-H Club boys 

 and girls was conceived in 1942 and a 

 year ago a drive was started to raise 

 $100,000 to buy a tract of land, de- 

 velop and equip it. 



Although the site is being received 

 without charge, the $100,000 goal still 

 stands and all money raised will be 

 used to develop and equip the camp. 

 At last report, approximately $30,000 

 had been raised. 



First expenditure of these funds will 

 be for the construction of a headquar- 

 ters building. Dining hall, kitchen, 

 cabins and related buildings to be built 



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for year-around use will be added as 

 soon as funds, and availability of labor 

 and materials permit. 



The new state memorial camp will 

 not hinder the development of the 

 northern and southern district camps 

 nor the numerous county camps which 

 are springing up throughout the state. 



Preliminary work is now underway 

 on the northern district 4-H Club camp 

 of 50 acres along Rock Creek near its 

 juncture with the Kankakee river in 

 Kankakee county. The site was given 

 by a public utility company and is be- 

 ing used this summer as a tent camp. 



When permanent facilities are in- 

 stalled, the northern district camp is 

 expected to accommodate 300 boys and 

 girls at one time. 



A similar district camp is to be lo- 

 cated in southern Illinois as soon as 

 an appropriate site can be found. For 

 14 years the southern district camp has 

 been held at Dixon Springs, but this 

 area recently was purchased by the 

 state for a state park. State author- 

 ities have, however, leased the site this 

 year so the southern Illinois 4-H'ers 

 can hold their camps again this sum- 

 mer. 



L. A. Reisner 



JO DAVIESS MAN JOINS 

 lAA PUBLICITY STAFF 



LEWIS A. REISNER, formerly of Jo 

 Daviess county, and recently dis- 

 charged from the navy, has been hired 

 as field editor of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association Record and assis- 

 tant in the lAA publicity department. 



A graduate in the class of 1938 of 

 the College of Agriculture, University 

 of Wisconsin, at 

 Madison, Reisner 

 worked on the staff 

 of the Department 

 of Technical Jour- 

 nalism at Iowa State 

 College, Ames, and 

 helped edit the 

 weekly news bulle- 

 tin "Better Iowa." 



While attending 

 the University of 

 Wisconsin, Reisner 

 worked on the staff 

 of the Wisconsin Country Magazine, 

 agricultural student publication, and in 

 his senior year acted as business man- 

 ager. 



From 1939 until January, 1942, he 

 farmed with his father on the family 

 homestead. Entering the armed forces 

 in January of 1942, Reisner served aboard 

 the battleship Washington, during the 

 Guadalcanal invasions. 



Upon receiving his commission as 

 ensign while aboard the Washington, 

 Reisner was assigned duty on a small, 

 wooden-hulled submarine chaser, the 

 SC1037, on which he eventually served 

 as commanding officer. 



When released from active duty in 

 November, 1945, he worked in the 

 Great Lakes Division of the Army 

 Engineers as manager of the 50,000 

 acres of the War Department-controlled, 

 government-owned lands at ordnance 

 plants, airfields and army camps in Il- 

 linois, Wisconsin and Michigan. 



His father L. A. Reisner, now retired 

 and living at Warren, has farmed most 

 of his life on his livestock and grain 

 farm three miles west of town on state 

 highway 78, and now serves as presi- 

 dent of the Warren Fair Association. 



Reisner is a former 4-H club mem- 

 ber, having won all-county awards 

 three times. His 4-H projects covered 

 garden, sheep, hogs and poultry. 



Addition of Reisner to the lAA pub- 

 licity staff brings it up to pre-war 

 strength. Creston Foster is director of 

 the department and James C. Thomson 

 is assistant in the department and as- 

 sistant editor of the lAA Record. 



LA. A. RECORD 



