lAA Vice-President F. E. Morris, Sangairon 



county, greets liail adjusters from Farm 



Bureau associated companies of four states 



at a May meeting in Peoria. 



THE Farm Bureau service program 

 in Illinois was outlined by George 

 E. Metzger, field secretary of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, to 

 hail adjusters from Farm Bureau as- 

 sociated insurance companies of four 

 states meeting in early May at Peoria. 

 Metzger was introduced by F. F. Morris, 

 Sangamon county, lAA vice-president. 



Country Mutual Fire Company, associ- 

 ated company of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Association, was host to the adjusters' 

 from Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin. 



Metzger, who is also secretary of the 

 division of organization and information 

 for the lAA, pointed out to the visitors 

 that today the Farm Bureau in Illinois 

 can go to a farmer and offer him a 

 complete insurance service. 



Ability to offer such a service, he 

 pointed out, was the result of the plan- 

 ning and work of Illinois Farm Bureau 

 leaders who had a vision and an over- 

 whelming desire to serve farmers. 



Metzger also reviewed other services 

 offered farmers through the Farm Bureau 

 in marketing, purchasing, legislation, edu- 

 cation, etc., and reported that the total 

 assets of the Farm Bureau and associated 



111 Is Host 



To Adjusters 

 from 



ntates 



companies now amounted to an estimated 

 77 million dollars. 



The hail adjusters attending the Peoria 

 meeting will either adjust or supervise the 

 adjustment of all the hail losses in the 

 state of Illinois in 1948 for the Country 

 Mutual Fire Company. 



Last year this group of adjusters han- 

 dled more than 2200 losses totalling ap- 

 proximately $600,000. Prospects for 

 1948 indicate that the Country Mutual 

 Fire Company will write in excess of the 



Ricliard O'Oell, general agent In Piatt coun- 

 ty, and C. L. Piatt, secretary of tlie Piatt 

 Service Company, came in a little late for 

 the group picture, but lAA RECORD pho- 

 tographer thought they were too important 

 to be left out, so he made o separate shot. 



148 million dollars of coverage written 

 in 1947. 



Vern Holland, assistant manager of 

 Country Mutual Fire Company, chairman 

 of the meeting, emphasized that a suc- 

 cessful insurance company must be ade- 

 quately financed. 



Discussing some of the experiences in 

 hail adjusting, Holland said he would 

 rather have a man for an adjuster with 

 90 per cent Farm Bureau background 

 and 10 per cent insurance experience 

 than one with 90 per cent insurance back- 

 ground. He also said that there seemed 

 to be no way of charting the trend of hail 

 storms over a number of years. 



Other speakers on the program from 

 Country Fire Company were Donald 

 Teare and Charles Masching who dis- 

 cussed hail adjusting procedure. 



F. M. Atchley 



Illinois Farm Bureau insurance ad|usters attending Peoria meeting pose for picture. 

 Front row, I. to r.: F. L. Borton, Montlcello; J. F. Meyers, Blue Island; Elbert Urfer, 

 Chicago; Glenn Zook, Farmlngton; George Metzger, lAA, Chicago; E. E. Sandell, York- 

 ville; J. G. Mosher, Princeton. Back row: Jacob Ouwenga, Blue Island; Den Teare, 

 Chicago; C. W. Harvey, Paw Paw; Vern Holland, Chicago; Garth Hinkley, DuQuolA; C. 

 C. Masching, Chicago; George DIrreen, Havana. 



Frank Atchley is 

 Named New lAA 

 Research Director 



FRANK M. ATCHLEY, 37, has been 

 employed as director of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association depart- 

 ment of research. He will take over 

 his duties July 1. 



Atchley has been 

 working in the farm 

 management d e - 

 partment at Michi- 

 gan State College 

 since 1938. He suc- 

 ceeds L. H. Simerl, 

 who resigned Sept. 

 15, 1947 to join the 

 extension service at 

 the University of 

 Illinois. 



Born and reared 

 in Iowa, Atchley graduated from Iowa 

 State College at Ames in 1933 and 

 worked a year for a life insurance com- 

 pany in Des Moines. 



He returned to Iowa State College 

 in 1934 to continue his graduate work. 

 In 1935 he took a job as a research as- 

 sistant at the University of Illinois Col- 

 lege of Agriculture where he received 

 his master of science degree in 1937. 



Atchley joined the army in 1942 and 

 was discharged with the rank of major. 

 Since his return from the army most of 

 his work has been in farm management 

 and soil conservation on the rougher 

 lands of southern Michigan. 



As lAA director of research Atchley 

 will work with all divisions of the 

 association and its affiliated coopera- 

 tives in furnishing research facts. He 

 will also develop reports for informa- 

 tion of farmers in general. 



Atchley is married and has a 7-year- 

 old daughter. I 



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