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Houghtby Resigns; 

 Mason Is Named 

 Dairy Dept. Head 



EE. HOUGHTBY, DeKalb county 

 . dairy farmer, has resigned as direc- 

 tor of the dairy marketing department 

 of the Illinois Agricultural Association 

 effective Jan. 1. He will be succeeded 

 by Judson P. Mason, 33, who has been 

 assistant director in the department since 

 September of 1946. 



Houghtby was asked and agreed to 

 serve the department during its reorgan- 

 ization period. He will return to his 

 farm home near Shabbona in DeKalb 

 county. Active in Farm Bureau affairs 

 for many years, Houghtby was a member 

 of the lAA board of directors from 1934 

 to 1943. 



From 1945 until he started to work 

 for the Illinois Agricultural Association, 

 Mason was employed as an economist 

 with the dairy branch of the U. S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture in Washington. 



Before going to Washington, Mason 

 worked for three years, as a statistician 

 for the milk market administration in St. 

 Louis. 



Born on a dair)' farm near Elgin, 

 Mason was graduated from the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois College of Agriculture 

 and then worked five years for the Mc- 

 Lean County Milk Producers and the 

 Prairie Farms Creamery of Bloomington. 



I. E. Parett, lAA secretary of general services, explains the proposal In which the lAA 

 In cooperation with the Illinois Medical Association would undertake to assist deserving 

 young men to complete their medical educations provided they agreed to practice in 

 rural areas. The proposal was approved by the lAA delegates. At table, I. to r.: George 

 IMetzger, Paul Mathias, President Shuman and Vice President F. E. Morris. 



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ITH an eye on the relatively poor 

 health records of rural youth 

 examined by the armed services 

 during the war, voting delegates 

 to the lAA annual meeting in 

 St. Louis approved the establishment of 

 a loan fund to help deserving students 

 through medical school. 



The fund is being set up in an effort 

 to attract more doctors to rural areas 

 and will be financed jointly with the II- 



Front 

 Cover 



OUR cover this month is a picture of the 

 dinner given for delegates to the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association annual meeting 

 in St. Louis. The dinner was given for 

 the first time this year to enable the dele- 

 gates to get better acquainted. 



The lAA delegate body makes the final de- 

 cision in matters of Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation policy. Through the delegate body 



the individual farmer is able to make his voice 

 heard when important decisions affecting him 

 are to be made. 



Each county Farm Bureau president, who is 

 elected by vote of the membership, automatical- 

 ly becomes a member of the lAA delegate 

 body on his election. Each county Farm Bu- 

 reau also is entitled to at least one delegate 

 for membership up to 500 and additional 

 delegates for each additional unit of 500 mem- 

 bers or major fraction thereof. 



The Farm Bureau membership banner, 

 prominently displayed at every lAA annual 

 meeting has been superimposed on the cover 

 picture. 



linois Medical Society. First of the funds 

 will be available to students in the fall 

 of 1948. 



Students eligible for the loans must 

 have finished three years of their pre- 

 medical work and must meet with the 

 approval of their county Farm Bureau 

 and their local medical society. 



The fund would advance $1,000 an- 

 nually over a period of five years to stu- 

 dents admitted to recognized medical 

 schools and who agree to return and 

 practice general medicine in a town of 

 less than 5,000 population until their 

 loan has been repaid. 



It provides for four students to be 

 taken each year for a five year period 

 starting next fall. Over a period of 

 five years the plan should result in 20 

 doctors being added to rural areas. lAA 

 officials pointed out that this is a trial 

 program which may be expanded if re- 

 sults are encouraging. 



FARM AND HOME WEEK 

 SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 9-14 



Many organizations are planning to 

 hold their annua! meetings in connec- 

 tion with Farm and Home Week at the 

 University of Illinois College of Ag- 

 riculture, Feb. 9 to 13 at Urbana. In- 

 cluded in the list are Illinois Bee- 

 keepers association, Illinois Turkey 

 Growers, Illinois Farm Managers and 

 Rural Appraisers, and Illinois Crop 

 Improvement Association. 



JANUARY. 1948 



