L L HOUGHTBY NAMED 

 DAIRY DEPARTMENT HEAD 



E. E. Houghtby, DeKalb county dairy 

 farmer and a member of the lAA board 

 of directors from 1934 to 1943 has 

 been employed as 

 director of the 

 dairy marketing de- 

 partment of the Il- 

 linois Agricultural 

 Association. 



Houghtby s u c- 

 ceeds Wilfred Shaw 

 who resigned to be- 

 come dairy market- 

 ing director for the 

 American Farm Bu- 

 I. E. Houghtby reau Federation. 



For the past 

 three years Houghtby has served as 

 manager of the War Hemp Industries, 

 Inc., processing plant at Shabbona. 



Active in Farm Bureau, civic and co- 

 operative affairs for many years, 

 Houghtby was awarded a Master Farm- 

 er medal by Prairie Farmer in 1931. 



He has been president of the DeKalb 

 County Farm Bureau for the past 14 

 years and served as treasurer of Pure 

 Milk association from 1935 to 1942. 



From 1919-29 he served as secretary 

 of the Shabbona community high 

 school. While on the lAA board he 

 served as chairman of the business 

 service committee and secretary of 

 Country Life Insurance Company and 

 the Illinois Agricultural Holding Com- 

 pany. 



Graduating from Illinois State Teach- 

 ers' College in 1913, Mr. Houghtby 

 taught school for five years, acting as 

 superintendent of high schools at Ohio 

 and Neponset. 



For two years he taught mathematics 

 at the Rock Island high school. In 

 1919 he began farming near Shabbona. 



Mr. and Mrs. Houghtby have one 

 daughter Joan Elizabeth, 18, who is at- 

 tending William Woods College, Ful- 

 ton, Mo. 



Mr. Houghtby has served as a mem- 

 ber of the boards of the Kishwaukee 

 Service Company, DeKalb Locker Serv- 

 ice, Inc., and DeKalb County Producers 

 Supply Company. 



Crossbred cattle produced by combinatioiis 



of both two and thru.- breeds yielded sli>;ht- 

 ly more beef and profit per animal than 

 comparable purebred stock, the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture found in experi- 

 ments conducted at its range livestock sta- 

 tion in Montana. The studies covered sev- 

 eral years. 



Team beards plane fer flight home to Champaign from Des Molnei, la. E. C. 

 president of the Champaign County Farm Bureau, holds gold championship trophy. 



Champaign 35ers Beat 

 Iowa For Corn Belt Title 



CHAMPAIGN county's men-over-35 

 Softball team won a Corn Belt 

 championship recently, by defeating 

 Iowa's state winners 16-2 at a post- 

 sports festival interstate contest held at 

 Indianola, la. 



The amazing thing, the Illinois team 

 contended, was not so much in the lop- 

 sided score as the way they flew to Des 

 Moines in a converted, commercial 

 C-47. 



The entire squad, along with 20 sup- 

 porters, took off from Champaign at 

 7:30 a.m., ate dinner in Iowa, played 

 two ball games, and were home in time 

 for supper with their families. 



The ball game itself was pretty well 

 in the bag during the first inning when 

 Burdette Griffith, Champaign county 

 team captain, hit a home run with bases 

 loaded to drive in four runs. 



Reinhold Baileschki pitched a seven 

 hitter against the Iowa team and was 

 never in very serious trouble. 



E. C. Harriott, Champaign county 

 Farm Bureau president and Griffith, 

 team captain, brought home the hand- 

 some gold trophy pictured here, a sub- 

 stitute for the engraved scoop shovel 

 which earlier had been billed as the 

 prize for the winner. 



This scoop shovel had been awarded 

 to the Iowa team when it defeated the 

 Illinois champions, Vermilion county, 

 in 1936. 



Both teams were winners in their 

 respective state rural sports festivals. 



Many of the Illinois players could not 

 have attended if a plane had not been 

 chartered since the trip would take 

 two days by car. 



As soon as the plane was chartered 

 many requests for the trip were turned 

 down. 



CHAMPAIGN COUNTY FARM 

 BUREAU — ILLINOIS 



A.B. R. H. 



Seymour, 3b 6 4 2 



Smith, 2b 3 4 3 



Buddemier, ss 5 2 2 



Sunderland, lb 5 



Griffith, c 3 3 3 



Young, If 4 2 



Williams, cf 1 



Springer, cf 4 13 



Eichhorst, rf 10 1 



Jones, rf 4 12 



Bialeschki, p 4 11 



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WARREN COUNTY FARM 

 BUREAU — IOWA 



A.B. R. H. 



Kenney. 3b 4 



Morrison, 2b 4 1 1 



Hommer, ss 4 1 



Allen, lb 4 



Randleman, c. 4 1 



Lockwood, If 3 2 



Hatcher, cf 3 2 



Hartman, rf 2 1 



Rawson, p. 2 



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NOVEMBER, 1948 



