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lAA 's 32ml Annual Meeting to 

 Be HeU Nov. 18-21 in Chiiage 



THE 32nd annual meeting of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and 

 associated companies will be held Nov. 

 18-21 at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, 

 scene of last year's meeting. 



Housing accommodations are some- 

 what improved over the war years but 

 hotel rooms are still difficult to get. 

 Those planning to attend the annual 

 meeting are urged to secure room res- 

 ervations as soon as possible. Roy P. 

 Johnson, lAA director of special serv- 

 ices, is in charge of arrangements. 



As in the past years, the associated 

 companies will hold their annual meet- 

 ings during the first two days of the 

 meeting, Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 

 18-19. 



Farm Bureau presidents and farm ad- 

 visers will meet at noon Nov. 18 for 

 their annual luncheon and the Farm 

 Bureau presidents will meet late in the 

 afternoon for their annual conference. 



The annual Talkfest sponsored by 

 Rural Youth will be held Tuesday and 

 the general entertainment program will 

 be presented the same evening. 



Illinois Agricultural Association meet- 

 ings will be held Nov. 20-21. Officers' 

 reports and the annual address of 

 the lAA president will be given the 

 morning of Wednesday, Nov. 20. 



Two prominent speakers are to be 

 invited to address the meeting on the 

 Wednesday night program. 



In addition, one or two speakers will 

 be on the Friday morning business ses- 

 sion during which the resolutions com- 

 mittee will offer its report to the dele- 

 gates and the election of officers for 

 the ensuing year will be conducted. 



RESTUDY FLOOD CONTROL 



Two principle restudies on certain sec- 

 tions of the Illinois River flood control 

 plan will be placed before the U. S. 

 Doard of army engineers for rivers and 

 harbors when it meets Oct. 6 in Wash- 

 ington. 



One study dealing with proposed reser- 

 voirs in Sangamon county compares the 

 productive value of the farm lands to 

 be impounded at Petersburg against the 

 value of downstream lands to be pro- 

 tected from floods by the reservoirs. 



A second study considers the objec- 

 tions raised by the Springfield sanitary 

 district against the flood control plan. 



Undar the direction of Instructor Thomas H. 

 Papwerth (standing), Illinois state grain 

 inspector, a group of former G.l.'s study 

 grain grading at a recent school of in- 

 struction held at the Chicago Board of 

 Trade. Left to right: Eugene W. Morrison, 

 Livingston county; and Leon Miller and Jade 

 Skeltc^, both of Moultrie county. 



Mason Named Dairy 

 Marketing Assistant 



JUDSON P. MASON, 32, has been 

 named lAA assistant director of dairy 

 marketing. He took 

 over his new job 

 Sept. 23. 



Since June, 1945, 

 he has been em- 

 ployed as an econo- 

 mist with the dairy- 

 branch of the U.S. 

 Department of Agri- 

 culture in Washing- 

 ton. 



Mason was born 

 on a dairy farm near 

 Elgin and was grad- 

 uated from the University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture. Following gradu- 

 ation, he worked five years for the Mc- 

 Lean County Milk Producers and the 

 Prairie Farms Creamery of Bloomington. 

 In 1942, he was employed as a stat- 

 istician for the milk market administra- 

 tor in St. Louis before going to Wash- 

 ington. 



Mason tock graduate work in agri- 

 cultural economics at the University of 

 Illinois, St. Louis University, and the 

 graduate school of the U.S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture. 



His wife, Marian, was reared in St. 

 Louis. The Masons are the parents of 

 an eight-months-old daughter, Judith 

 Ellen. 



J. P. Mason 



D. C. Mieher 



Dave Mieher Leaves 

 Country Life to 

 Head Soutbem Life 



fj AVE C. MIEHER, manager of Coun- 

 *■* try Life Insurance Company and sales 

 director of lAA Insurance Service, has 

 resigned to become 

 manager of Southern 

 Farm Bureau Life 

 Insurance Company. 

 His resignation will 

 take effect Dec. 1 . 



Mieher will be- 

 come the first man- 

 ager of the recent!) - 

 organized farm bu- 

 reau insurance com- 

 pany which will 

 concentrate its ef- 

 forts among farmers 

 of Mississippi, Ar- 

 k a n s a s, Alabama, 

 Kentucky and Texas. 



The outgoing Countrj- Life manager 

 is well-known throughout the country in 

 Farm Bureau insurance circles because 

 of his thorough knowledge of Farm Bu- 

 reau insurance organization. 



He has been called for advice by a 

 number of states and has helped with 

 the organization of the Southern Farm 

 Bureau Life company which he will 

 head. 



Mieher -was born and reared in Ma- 

 coupin county and was graduated from 

 the University of Illinois College of Ag- 

 riculture. He was general agent for the 

 lAA in Macoupin county from 1929 un- 

 til 1931 when he became sales super- 

 visor for the lAA Insurance Servicc- 

 until 1937. 



In 1937 he became sales manager for 

 Country Life and sales director for the 

 lAA Insurance Service and in February, 

 1941, was named manager of Country 

 Life. 



Mieher is expected to set a record 

 for yearly sales during the 1946 fiscal 

 year ending Sept. 30 when his agents 

 are expected to sell approximately $36 

 million in life insurance. 



A record of SI 2 million for August 

 and September also is expected. 



When Mieher became sales director 

 in 1937 Country Life had $102 million 

 in life insurance in force. By the end 

 of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, insurance 

 in force was expected to reach $273 

 million. 



Mr. and Mrs. Mieher and their family 

 of two daughters and a son will make 

 their home in Jackson, Miss., head- 

 quarters of Southern Farm Bureau Life 

 Insurance Company. 



OCTOBER, 1946 



