Bert Yandervliet 

 Rejoins lAA Staff 



Bert Vandervliet, since 1942 repre- 

 sentative and research consultant of the 

 Taxpayers Federation of Ilh'nois, has 

 been hired for work 

 on rural taxation 

 problems for the Il- 

 linois Agricultural 

 Association. 



Expert on prac- 

 tical tax problems, 

 Vandervliet is fa- 

 miliar to Farm Bu- 

 reau members, hav- 

 ing served as assist- 

 ant director of the 

 department of Tax- 

 ation and Statistics 

 for the Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion during 1937-1942. 



He left the lAA to work for the 

 Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois and 

 in 1946, on leave of absence, served 

 as executive secretary of the civic fed- 

 eration of Madison and St. Clair coun- 

 ties. 



Born and reared at Danforth, Iro- 

 quois county, Vandervliet received de- 

 grees from Colorado College and the 

 University of Cincinnati. 



Before he first joined the lAA staff 

 in 1937, Vandervliet worked as re- 

 search assistant for the Illinois Com- 

 merce Commission. 



Prior to that he worked on a sur- 

 vey for the Tennessee Valley Authority 

 and served as executive secretary for 

 the Cincinnati Regional Crime Commis- 



B. Vandervliet 



Bernard Hicks, Farm Bureau member from 

 Jo Daviess county and owner with brotlier, 

 Jolin, of Evergreen Airport on farm soutli 

 of Warren, polisiies 4-seated monoplane as 

 Bob Hubner, center, and onloolcer help. 

 Next morning Hicics flew plane with wife 

 and neighboring couple to Flying Farmers 

 field-day at Purdue in July. 



FARM LABOR RELIEF 

 MAY BE IN SIGHT 



Farm labor is hard to get but for the 

 first time in three years relief seems in 

 sight, reports George B. Whitman, as- 

 sistant state supervisor of the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois extension farm labor 

 program. 



More married men oow want jobs on 

 farms than can be placed, due in large 

 part to returning %'eterans who can find 

 no housing, he says. 



Wages for married men, as reported 

 from DeKalb county, are set at $125- 

 $140, and for single workers are $90- 

 $110. For counties south and away 

 from congested industrial areas wages 

 are from $25 to $50 less. 



Smallpox vaccination makes one a carrier 



of cow-pox virus, and a vaccinated person 

 can pass on the disease to a cow. 



R. W. Armstrong Joins 

 Illinois Grain Staff 



Russell W. Armstrong, 41, of Jack- 

 sonville has been employed as field 

 representative for Illinois Grain Cor- 

 poration, Illinois 

 Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation grain bro- 

 kerage afifiliate. 



Armstrong will 

 travel throughout 

 the state contacting 

 elevators and the 

 organization's o f - 

 fices at Mendota, 

 Peoria, Blooming- 

 ton, St. Louis, 



Champaign, and ». w. Armstrong 



Jacksonville. H e 



also will solicit new elevator member- 

 ship and business. 



The new field man was born in 

 Hardin county, Kentucky, and moved 

 with his parents as a small child to 

 Illinois where he was reared on a farm 

 in Warren county. He attended Kirk- 

 wood schools and later took a business 

 course. 



His entire working career has been 

 devoted to selling and promotion and 

 he has spent 15 years on the road in 

 Wisconsin, Michigan and chiefly Illi- 

 nois. 



After working for an oil company 

 at Monmouth, Armstrong did sales 

 and promotion work for flour and feed 

 companies. For the past several years 

 he has been a salesman for the Ne- 

 braska Consolidated Mills of Omaha. 



Junior 4-H Qub Leaders Hold Annual Training Camp at Lake Bloomington 



Junior leaders at 4-H training camp held 

 July 23-27 at East Boy cress trestle bridge 

 over Lake Bloomington, form evening chow 

 line, ore busy making new friends. They've 

 spent day in organization-leadership talks 

 aimed at making tliem better leaders en 

 rwtmwm te local ciubs. 



At morning flag raising ceremony en com- 

 mons near lookout cabin members stand 

 at -attention while Gene Bischoff, Nancy 

 Stuckey and Cletus Schertz unfurl flag. 

 Later in day during group talks titey agree 

 en toughest membership hurdle ^ unco- 

 operative parents. 



Highlight in day comes when groups swim, 

 ride paddle-wheeler en twilight cruise. 

 Boys help sing spirituals, girls giggle at 

 wettings from fresh-water spray, both 

 banter with youth assistant l e aders. Dele- 

 gates are chosen en merit by local cem- 



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