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PRESIDENT SHUMAN OUTLINES NEW LONG-RANGE FARM BILL AT SPRINGFIELD MEETING 

 lAA BACKS AIKEN BILL PRINCIPLE OF FLEXIBLE PRICE SUPPORTS 



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(See story on page 10) which is now 

 getting underway in Illinois and will 

 be carried out during the summer with 

 the cooperation of the lAA, county 

 Farm Bureaus, University of Illinois, 

 the Natural History Survey, and the 

 Illinois State Department of Health. 



"The fly eradication program is one 

 of the best our organization has spon- 

 sored," President Shuman said. "Like 

 the medical student loan fund program, 

 it has good public relations value. 



C. H. Becker, manager of Illinois 

 Farm Supply Company, warned Farm 

 Bureau leaders that a critical shortage 

 of gasoline is imminent. He urged 

 farmers to keep their tanks full and 

 conserve their supply. Use the tank 

 gas for farm purposes only, he said. 



Thirty million gallons of fuels ex- 

 pected from the Pana Refinery recently 

 purchased by Illinois Farm Supply is 

 expected to help ease the shortage. 

 However, we will still be short 20 mil- 

 lion gallons we could use, he warned. 



I. E. Parett, secretary of general serv- 

 ices, speaking on the medical student 

 loan fund being sponsored jointly by 

 the lAA and the Illinois Medical So- 

 ciety, announced that applications for 



A question on legal limitations in the use 



of school funds is asked by D. H. Cuppy of 



Douglas county. 



the funds will be given priority from 

 20 Illinois counties where the need for 

 doctors is greatest. The counties are: 

 Calhoun, Johnson, Pulaski, Jasper, 

 Schuyler, Fayette, Scott, Washington, 

 Bond, Cumberland, Jo Daviess, Clark, 

 Clay, Edwards, Hancock, Brown, 

 Hardin, Effingham, Jersey, and Pope. 

 Asked to comment on the progress of 



rural school reorganization, John K. 

 Cox, director of the lAA rural school 

 relations department, said it still 

 needed enlightened aggressive leader- 

 ship. "Five years from now," Cox 

 said, "I believe we shall be proud of 

 the leadership Farm Bureau people 

 have given to school reorganization. 

 We are being given a great deal of 

 credit for the school reorganization 

 program to the point that if things go 

 wrong we may have to shoulder the 

 blame. So let's go all out for the type of 

 reorganization that gives us the most 

 and the best for the money." 



lAA Director Homer Curtiss pre- 

 sented the lAA position on the cur- 

 rent butter-margarine controversy in 

 which he explained that the lAA "will 

 not oppose the removal of the taxes on 

 oleomargarine, provided some other 

 means of preserving the identification 

 as between the two products is devel- 

 oped." 



President Shuman said he felt that 

 the lAA stand might not be quite 

 satisfactory to soybean oil men but he 

 hoped that when Illinois dairymen and 

 soybean oil men got together they 

 would be able to work out a solution 

 on the butter-margarine controversy 

 satisfactory to both groups. 





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THE reconstructed Rutledge Tavern 

 at New Salem State Park is the 

 12th in our series of historical 

 and picturesque Illinois scenes. 

 It was here that Lincoln first met 

 and loved golden-haired Ann Rutledge. 

 The Tavern was the first building at 

 New Salem and was built by James 

 Rutledge, father of Ann, in 1828. 



Rutledge built the Tavern or lodging 

 house (no liquor was sold) to accom- 

 modate men working on the mill he 

 was building nearby on the Sangamon 

 river. Floating downstream to New 

 Orleans, young Lincoln's flat boat 

 stranded on the dam. He stayed at the 

 Tavern until it could be refloated. 

 Taking a liking to the village, Lincoln 

 returned to New Salem and the court- 



ship of Ann Rutledge. 



Babcock in his "Soul of Ann Rut- 

 ledge," quotes Lincoln as saying on 

 Thanksgiving Day in 1834: "There are 

 all sorts of Thanksgivings and all sorts 

 of things to be thankful for. But 

 there will never be another one like 

 this, for I have asked Ann Rutledge, 

 the sweetest girl in all the world, to 

 be my wife, and she has done me the 

 honor of giving me her promise." 



James Rutledge sold the Tavern 

 and mill and moved to a farm 5l/^ 

 miles north of New Salem where 

 Ann died during an epidemic in 1835. 

 Lincoln was at her bedside and was 

 profoundly shocked. Reconstruction of 

 the village was begun in 1932 and now 

 includes cabins, stores, shops, the 



tavern, and the school and church 

 cabin. Buildings are furnished with 

 authentic early 19th century furniture 

 and utensils. The village is a mecca 

 for Lincoln scholars and admirers from 

 throughout the nation. 



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MAY. 1948 



