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NEW PERSONNEL JOINS 

 ILLINOIS GRAIN STAFF 



Because of the tremendous growth in 

 activities of Illinois Grain Corporation, 

 new personnel has been added to its 

 staff. 



Two new men have been hired: 

 Howard McWard, 42, former manager 

 of the Farmers Grain Elevator at Palmer, 

 Christian county, and Harry Treichel, 

 35, of Evanston. 



McWard as manager will be in charge 

 of sales and acquisition and Frank 

 Haines will be Chi- 

 cago sales manager. 

 This will permit 

 Haines to devote his 

 full time to sales. 

 Treichel, who has 

 been a member of 

 the Chicago Board 

 of Trade since 1935, 

 will be an assistant 

 in sales. 



McWard was 



Howard McWard born Sept. 23, 1904, 



at Miami, O k 1 a - 

 homa, and came to Illinois with his par- 



ents in 1908. They settled on a farm 

 four miles west of Morrisonville, Chris- 

 tian county. He was graduated from 

 Morrisonville High School in 1932, and 

 for the next two years taught country 

 school. He then farmed with his father 

 for two years before he became man- 

 ager of the Farmers Elevator at Palmer 

 in December, 1927. He has served 

 as manager of this elevator since that 

 time. It does an annual gross busi- 

 ness of $1,250,000. McWard is married 

 and has three children. 



Treichel is a graduate of Northwestern 

 University with the class of 1933. After 

 graduation he started work with Cargill, 

 grain commission firm in Chicago, and 

 continued in that employment until 1939 

 when he entered the Army Air Corps. 

 He was stationed in England for more 

 than two years, and was discharged from 

 the Army in October, 1945. From the 

 time of his discharge until joining the 

 staff of Illinois Grain Corporation, he 

 was employed by E. M. Combs & Son, 

 Chicago commission firm. 



Testing of a large acreage of Illinois land 

 showed that about 24 million acres, or three- 

 fourths of the farm land, needs phosphate in 

 addition to lime for clover and alfalfa. 



PUBLIC RELATIONS 

 CONFERENCE 



(Continued from page 7) 

 given consideration at the public rela- 

 tions conference were rural roads, 100 

 per cent asesssment laws, and weed con- 

 trol. 



The position of the lAA on the first 

 two are covered in the resolutions. On 

 weed control, it was pointed out that the 

 many new types of spray developed in 

 weed control offer opportunities for the 

 establishment of a county weed con- 

 trol commissioner to supersede the 

 township setup. The farmer would 

 pay the approximate cost of such service 

 on a voluntary basis. Those who did not 

 control weeds would be served with a 

 notice, and if they did not take corrective 

 action, the county commissioner would 

 do the job and collect from the owner. 

 Such a county setup would be adopted 

 only in the counties that desired it. 



E. E. Houghtby, new lAA director of 

 dairy marketing, resigned recently as 

 member of the board of directors of the 

 DeKalb County Farm Bureau where he 

 had served for 19 years, 14 as president. 



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