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RESULTS of elections of board di- 

 rectors of statewide cooperatives 

 aflFiliated with the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association announced at the lAA con- 

 vention in the Hotel Sherman, Chicago, 

 are as follows : 



Illinois Farm Bureau Serum 

 Association 



Directors re-elected: R. V. McKee, 

 Varna; Ray Cunningham, Alvin; J. W. 

 Cory, Earlville; Ben Bodecker, Sutter; 

 Everett G. Reynolds, Jacksonville ; Jesse 

 E. Tuttle, West York, and K. T. Smith, 

 Greenfield. 



Illinois Wool Marketing Association 



New directors: John T. Evans, 

 Hoopeston, who succeeds Ronald Holt, 

 Galva ; J. King Eaton, Edwardsville, 

 who succeeds August Eggerding, Red 

 Bud. 



Directors re-elected; William Tem- 

 ple, Serena; A. L. Doubet, Williams- 

 field, and Escol Oxford, Elizabethtown. 



Illinois Milk Producers Association 



New directors are: Fred Patterson, 

 Harrisburg, who succeeds Joseph M. 

 Hart, Harrisburg; Julian D. Ray, Van- 

 dalia, who succeeds B. J. Schumacher, 

 Altamont; and Oran Sweet, Edinburgh, 

 who succeeds William J. Kessler, Au- 

 burn. 



Directors re-elected: George W. 

 Pitts, McLean ; Delbert Freeman, Can- 

 ton ; George I. Maxwell, Champaign ; 

 W. J. Swayer, Gurnee; J. Warren Ellis, 

 Ridge Farm; Ray H. Miller, Clinton; 

 William O'Malley, DeKalb; L. B. 

 Coomber, Freeport; Edwin Gumm, 

 Galesburg; Harold D. Kamm, Frank- 

 lin; Dean H. Radford, Kewanee; 

 Charles Cameron, Peoria; Carl Eisele, 

 Peoria; Mattie Nolan, Pontiac; An- 

 thony Grawe, Quincy; W. A. Newman, 



1947 Officers 

 Elected to 



Companies 



Rockford; O. H. Ryan, Tonica; Charles 

 W. Krell, Springfield; Glen Tom- 

 baugh, Streator; and L. A. Schnekloth, 

 Davenport, Iowa. 



Illinois Livestock Marketing 

 Association 



Directors re-elected: J. E. Mau, Har- 

 wood; LaRue Tice, Shelbyville; Ralph 

 Beckett, Blue Mound; Carl Lage, Say- 

 brook; Fred Smittkamp, Paris; R. V. 

 McKee, Varna; Milton W. Warren, 

 Mansfield, and Clark E. Wise, Cham- 

 paign. 



Illinois Coop>erative Locker Service 



Directors re-elected: J. E. Mau, Har- 

 mon; Earl Wenzel, Kirkland; Dana 

 Cryder, Minooka; Carl J. Bates, Ke- 

 wanee; C. Ray Ward, Cropsey; Paul 

 Rosentreter, Carlinville, and E. A. 

 Fosse, Marion. 



Illinois Grain Corporation 



New director is Homer Curtiss, 

 Stockton, who succeeds Charles Laurit- 

 zen, Reddick. 



Directors re-elected: E. E. Stevenson, 

 Streator; Arthur Bertsche, Pontiac; 

 Charles Schmitt, Beason ; Carl O. John- 

 son, Varna; A. E. Burwash, Cham- 



paign, and John Butterfield, Pana. 



Illinois Agricultural Auditing 

 Association 



New directors: Dana Cryder, Mi- 

 nooka, who succeeds Frank Easterly, 

 Carbondale, and Lyman Bunting, El- 

 lery, and additional member on the 

 board. 



Directors re-elected. B. W. Horan, 

 Reynolds, and Roy Elwards, Tolono. 



Illinois Farm Supply Company 



New director is J. P. Redman, Cairo, 

 who succeeds Harley R. Neal, Lawr- 

 enceville. 



Directors re-elected: Charles Keslin- 

 ger, LaFox; Frank J. Flynn, Murray- 

 ville; Jesse L. Beery, Cerro Gordo; 

 George Chappie, Dwight; Glenn H. 

 Geiter, Orangeville; John P. White, 

 Washington; R. H. Monke, Litchfield; 

 Fred Herndon, Macomb; Otto Steffey, 

 Stronghurst, and F. E. Morris, Bufifalo. 



Prairie Farms Creameries 



New directors : Henry V o 1 1 m e r, 

 Quincy, who succeeds H. B. Smith, 

 Bardolph, Elmer OrendorflF, Randolph, 

 who succeeds H. W. Enns, Minier. 



Directors re-elected: Harry Gehring, 

 Altona, elected to the presidency suc- 

 ceeding Harold W. Enns, Minier; A. 

 Oliver Bower, Bushton, who succeeds 

 Harry Gehring, Altona, as vice-presi- 

 dent ; Thad Loveless, Gillespie, elected 

 again as secretary; D. L. Garber, Mt. 

 Carroll; John Sterchi, Olney; Chester 

 McCord, Newton ; E. A. Fosse, 

 Marion; H. J. Schumacher, Toluca, 

 and Carl Geiger, Milan. 



Country Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 



New Directors are Ora Ross, Ross- 

 ville, and F. E. Morris, Buffalo; elected 

 for three-year terms. Lyman Bunting, 

 Ellery, and Otto Steffey, Stronghurst, 

 elected to one-year terms. Albert 

 Webb, Ewing, elected to a one-year 

 term to fill the unexpired term of John 

 E. Miller, retired. George W. Len- 

 hart, Georgetown, and George F. Tul- 

 lock, Rockford, formerly of St. Jacob, 

 retired. 



Director re-elected is L. E. Lingen- 



felter, Ullin. 



The topic for discussion is on improvement of Illinois' rural schools at these farmers get 

 together after the schools conference at the lAA annual convention. Left to right: Tom 

 Culbertson, Effingham county; H. P. Ash, Macon; H. T. Marshall, La Salle; E. Y. Naffziger, 

 Bureau; L. E. Lingenfelter, Pulaski-Alexander; George Hayes, Henry; J. C. McCormick, 

 Pulaski-Alexander, cmd Orin Coultas, Shelby. 



1947 Soybean Year? 



Some experts are predicting that with 

 a shortage of fats and oils rivaling that 

 of meats and corn products, soybeans 

 may be a better cash crop in 1947 than 

 com. 



DECEMBER, 1946 



