lAA Vice-President F. E. r.'orr^s, Ssngairon 



county, greets hail adjus:ers from Farm 



Bureau associated companies of four stages 



at a May meeting in Peoria. 



HE I'arm Burc.ui SL-rxi.c |-<rot;r.i:n 

 in Illinois was outlined by Gcoruc- 



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■ E. Mctz^cr. tic-ld sc\rctary ol the 



■ Illinois Auriiultural Association, to 

 hail adjusters trom I'arm Bureau as- 

 sociated insuranie tomjianies of four 

 states meeting in early Nf.iy at I'eoria. 

 Met2t;er was int rod need hy I'. I-. Morri>. 

 Sant;amon lOunty. lAA \ ite-president. 



(Country Mutual Eire (Company, associ- 

 ated company of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Assouation. was host to the adjusters 

 trom Indiana. Iowa and Wisconsin. 



Metz^er. who is also secretary of the 

 diMsion of organization and information 

 tor the lAA, pointed out to the visitors 

 that today the larm 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- 

 ninu and work of Illinois I'arm Bureau 

 leaders who had a vision and an over- 

 whelming clesire to serve farmers. 



Metzger also reviewed other services 

 offered farmers through the I'arm Bureau 

 in marketint;. purchasing, legislation, edu- 

 cation, etc.. and reported that the total 

 assets of the Earm Bureau and associated 



m Is Host 



To ildjusters 

 from 



3 Ms 



companies now amounted to an estimated 

 ' million dollars. 

 I he hail adjusters attending the Peoria 

 meeting will either adjust or supervise the 

 adjustment of all the hail losses in the 

 state of Illinois in 19-18 for the C^ountry 

 Mutual Eire Clompanv. 



Last \ear this group ot adjusters han- 

 dled more than 2201) losses totalling ap- 

 proximately S6()(),0()(>. Prospects for 

 19 IS indicate that the C^ountry Mutual 

 I'ire C ompany will write in excess of the 



Richard O'DeM, general agent in Piatt coun- 

 ty, and C. I. Piatt, secretary of the 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 a seporate shot. 



Illinois Farm Bureau insurance adjusters attending Peoria meeting pose for picture. 

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

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

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

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

 C. Masching, Chicago; George Dirreen, Havana. 



1J8 million dollars of coverage written 

 in 19 17. 



Vern Holland, assistant man.iger of 

 Country Mutual Eire (Company, chairman 

 of the meeting, emphasized that a suc- 

 cessful insurance company must be ade- 

 cjuately financed. 



Discussing some of the experiences in 

 hail adjusting. Holland said he would 

 rather have a man for an adjuster with 

 9(1 per cent I'arm Bureau background 

 and 10 per cent insurance experience 

 than one vvith 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 Eire C ompanv were Donald 

 Teare and Charles NEisching who dis- 

 cussed hail adjusting procedure. 



F. M. Atchley 



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Frank Atchley is 

 Named New lAA 

 Research Director 



FRANK M. AlCHEEY. .". has been 

 employed as director of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association depart- 

 inent 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 19.VS. He suc- 

 ceeds L. H. Simerl. 

 who resigned Sept. 

 1"^. 19 |7 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 193) to continue his graduate work. 

 In 193'> 1h- 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 193"^. 



Atchley joined the army in 19 i2 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 conser\ation 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 "^-year- 

 old daughter. 



I. A. A. RECORD 



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