^nhmw Meetings for Farm Bureau 

 Leaders Sdieduled by AFBF 



Two programs of interest to Illinois 

 Farm Bureau leaders will be held this 

 summer under the sponsorship of the 

 American Farm Bureau Federation. 



The annual Midwest Training School 

 will be held June 27-30 at the Lowry 

 Hotel in St. Paul, Minn. 



The annual Farm Bureau Institute will 

 be held August 15-20 at the University 



Dorward Named 

 General Manager 

 Of Pana Refinery 



JACK G. DORWARD, petroleum sales 

 manager for Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, has been named general man- 

 ager of the Pana Refining Company plant 

 at Pana, Illinois. 



The refinery was bought recently by 

 Illinois Farm Supply to increase ita source 

 of supply. Dorward replaces E. G. 

 Youngberg, retiring manager. 



Dorward has been employed by Illi- 

 nois Farm Supply for more than 1 3 years. 

 Before going to Chicago to head the 

 petroleum sales department, Dorward was 

 assistant to Morris Crandall at the Kings- 

 ton Mines Terminal. Before that, he 

 was manager for 41/2 years of the Iro- 

 quois County Service Company. For 

 four years prior to that he worked as a 

 Farm Supply fieldman throughout the 

 state. 



Before he went into field work .he 

 managed the Macoupin Service Company 

 for three years. His first connection with 

 the organization was his employment by 

 the McLean County Service Company. 



Dorward is a graduate of Eureka Col- 

 lege and has a masters degree in chem- 

 istry from Iowa State College. 



of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. No 

 definite program has yet been arranged 

 for the Farm Bureau Institute. 



Among the speakers on the program 

 at St. Paul will be Charles B. Shuman, 

 president of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation; George E. Metzger, lAA sec- 

 retary of organization and information; 

 and O. D. Brissenden, lAA director of 

 organization. 



President Shuman will speak on "Ex- 

 planation of Farm Commodity Pro- 

 grams," Secretary Metzger will discuss 

 Farm Bureau personnel, and Director 

 Brissenden will speak on organization 

 problems. Chief topics for discussion on 

 the program will be farm legislation and 

 organization. 



9 Illinois Advisers 

 Are Appointed to 

 National Groups 



NINE Illinois county farm advisers have 

 been appointed to 10 committees of 

 the National Association of County Agri- 

 cultural Agents for 1948. 



W. B. Bunn, Champaign county, is 

 serving as vice-chairman of the commit- 

 tee on professional improvement and 

 also as a member of the livestock com- 

 mittee. 



Other farm advisers and their com- 

 mittee membership include Edwin Bay, 

 Sangamon, chairman of the committee 

 on coordination with the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; T. W. May, Madi- 

 son, vice-chairman of committee on rela- 

 tions; O. O. Mowery, Macoupin, pub- 

 licity; C. A. Hughes, Cook, city-county 

 agents; W. F. Coolidge, Livingston, rural 

 youth; C. E. Yale, Lee, vocational agri- 

 culture; Harold N. Myers, 

 DeWitt, soil conservation; 

 and L. E. McKinzie, Edgar, 

 agricultural planning. 



McKinzie is serving this 

 year as president of the Illi- 

 nois State Association of 

 Farm Advisers. 



Jarry Blanchard, Christian Coun- 

 ty organization diroctor, signs 

 LaVamo ■wchtar a* Ciiristian's 

 3000th mambar whiia M. {. 

 Daal, prasidant, ami tay High 

 looic on. 



By JOHN COX 

 iAA Director of Rural School Relations 



BONDED debt within the boundaries of a 

 proposed larger school district should not 

 prevent necessarily the establishment of the 

 larger district. 



Several larger districts have been voted 

 down, when the entire bond issue if spread 

 over the new district would have amounted to 

 less than I/2 of one per cent of the assessed 

 valuation of the new district (the constitu- 

 tional limit on bonded indebtedness is five 

 per cent of the assessed valuation). This ob- 

 ligation would have been negligible on the 

 tax bill. 



Most bond issues run for 20 years, and a 

 building 10 years old which has 10 years of 

 bonds outstanding certainly offers a good deal 

 more utility and service than a 23 year old 

 building, bonds for which were retired five 

 years ago. 



Most of these buildings will be used in the 

 larger district, the others sold and the proceeds 

 credited to the larger district. If people wish 

 to have the additional service of the newer 

 building, then they should be willing to pay 

 their part for such service. 



The important consideration, is not the per 

 cent of bonds yet to be paid or whether they 

 have two or 18 years to run, but what per cent 

 of the assessed valuation of the larger district 

 would the bonds be when spread over the 

 larger district and how much would that mean 

 to them as taxpayers. Also they should con- 

 sider the various educational and possible finan- 

 cial advantages which might result from co- 

 operation with others to set up the larger dis- 

 trict. 



After reflecting upon some of our present 

 limitations in school opportunities, the diffi- 

 culty of securing good elementary teachers, 

 the inequality of our tax system, it is some- 

 times difficult for even our most pessimistic 

 doubters to paint a darker picture than the ac- 

 tual condition existing today. 



We have been getting fair service out of a 

 poor educational system and many inequalities. 

 Surely school patrons can secure better service 

 from a system adapted to modern needs and re- 

 quirements. 



Foes of Co-ops 

 Spend $1000,000 



Latest figures on lobbyist registrations 

 filed with the Clerk of the House of 

 Representatives show that groups joined 

 with the National Tax Equality Associa- 

 tion spent $244,749 fighting cooperatives 

 in 1947. When the more than $500,000 

 spent by NTEA is added, more than 

 $1,000,000 annually is being spent to 

 battle cooperatives. 



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