LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 



A. P. Schuck Joins 

 Treasurer's Staff 



: 



FROM EX-RURAL YOUTHER 



I'VE BEEN thinking for some time that I 

 should write and then when a news re- 

 lease about the Rural Youth tour came in I 

 decided to get right at it. 



The reason for my having access to a news 

 release is that we get U. of I. radio news here 

 at WKTY. I've been working in radio as 

 a farm director since the first of the year. The 

 big reason for my getting into radio was my 

 Rural Youth and Farm Bureau activity. That's 

 why I've wanted to write. I feel that I owe 

 something to the people who were so nice to 

 me and did so much for me in Illinois Rural 

 Youth. I've always heard that you get out of 

 a thing just what you put into it, and that's 

 just how it worked with Rural Youth. Rural 

 Youth got me my job. I worked for WLPO 

 in LaSalle, Illinois, first and then came here 

 July 1. The only way I could be happier 

 would be to be closer to home. 



I'd like to make Rural Youth camp this 

 year, but that's impossible. I do hope though 

 to get to the lAA convention in Chicago next 

 winter. 



Wisconsin has no Rural Youth and it's cer- 

 tainly a shame. I think you should bring some 

 Illinois Rural Youthers up here and do some 

 missionary work. It would make a grand tour. 



I'd better close now as I have a news 

 cast coming up. 



Bill Mason, Farm Director 



Station WKTY 



La Crosse, Wisconsin 



WANTS COUNTRY SCHOOL 



11 FTER reading about the rural school bus 

 •'■'on page 12 in July's RECORD I sort of 

 agree with the mother who doesn't want her 

 six year old meeting the 6 o'clock bus. 



After all a child of six is just a baby and 

 needs those extra hours of sleep. Of course 

 a school bus is safe. 



But does that give the child that extra 

 shut eye? No! 



I used to go to a city school and I've gone 

 to country schools. It may seem strange to 

 you but I say: "Give us back our country 

 schools". And to make your book more inter- 

 esting lets have a poem page too. I love to 

 write poems. I enjoy The Record very much. 



Mrs. Elmer Lyotis 



• - ..".'■• ', |",v Montgomery County 



RURAL YOUNG MARRIEDS 



I'M SORRY that I have not written before 

 concerning our Edwards County Rural Young 

 Married Couples organization. 



This is our second year of being organized. 

 At the present time we have }2 members and 

 the prospects of 28 more. A couple must 

 attend our meetings two times to become a 

 member. Our committee for a meeting is 

 selected by drawing the names of three couples 

 from the "hat." There have been 33 different 

 children attending the meetings this year. 



So far this year we have had four outdoor 

 meetings, a wiener roast, swimming, a picnic 

 supper, and our June meeting's big hit was a 

 mock wedding. Some of our othier meetings 



have been a Valentine party, St. Patrick's day 

 party, and our May meeting was as guests of 

 Rural Youth. 



We have had several very interesting edu- 

 cational features given by local people. At our 

 last meeting, our local dentist. Dr. Clyde 

 Straup, enlightened our group on a new tooth 

 powder which is being used in several school 

 programs this year. Some of our other speak- 

 ers have spoken on insurance and the showing 

 of moving pictures of a trip through Alaska. 



I hope you have some idea from this letter 

 as to how our group works. 



Mrs. Don Cowling 

 v^ -. . . •■ Edwards County 



LIKES COVER 



I'VE been enjoying and appreciating your 

 cover pictures and keep looking forward 

 for new surprises. Several of the small (in- 

 side) descriptive pictures have been saved 

 for my scrap book — where, by the way, 

 only choice material is considered. I hope 

 the old state house at Kaskaskia is coming 

 up — and how about the present one.' 



Mrs. Blanche WUfaelm 

 Fulton County 



RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS 



Abova or* tw« of thr«« madlcal itudants 

 awardsd lAA-llllnels Madicol Sociaty loans. 

 Right Is Burton Bagby, 35, Mounds, and, 

 left, L C. Flono, 31, Sparta. Thoy have 

 agreed to practice five years In community 

 •f SOOO or less after internship. 



TWO FROM lAA JOIN 

 lU. FARM SUPPLY STAFF 



TWO men from the staff of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association have 

 transferred to the Illinois Farm Supply 

 Company, the lAA's largest affiliate. 



C. E. Strand, for the past 10 years 

 manager of the Illinois Agricultural 

 Auditing Association, will become 

 Farm Supply Company comptroller 

 starting Sept. 1. 



W. W. Whitlock, lAA director of 

 public health and safety for the past 

 two years, has become director of safety 

 for Farm Supply. 



ARTHUR F. SCHUCK, who was as- 

 sociated with Sears, Roebuck and 

 Company, in many positions for 12 

 years, has joined the staff of the treas- 

 urer's office of the 

 Illinois Agri- 

 cultural Associa- 

 tion. 



Just prior to 

 coming with the 

 lAA, Schuck was 

 associated with one 

 of the larger mort- 

 gage investment or- 

 ganizations of Chi- 

 cago. 



A veteran o f 

 World War I, 

 Schuck held responsible positions dur- 

 ing World War II in several ordnance 

 plants. 



Schuck had a wide variety of business 

 experience with Sears starting in 1928 

 and continuing until 1940. He was 

 first assigned to the staff of the vice- 

 president of finance and his major work 

 was with the factory organizations. 

 Later, he was made assistant to the vice- 

 president in charge of retail adminis- 

 tration. He then was called upon to 

 serve as operating manager of the com- 

 pany's rock wool plant at Wabash, 

 Ind. His next assignment placed him 

 in the position of president and general 

 manager of Sears' three sporting goods 

 manufacturing companies. Just prior 

 to the outbreak of World War II, 

 Schuck was named comptroller and 

 treasurer of Encyclopedia Britannica. 



Born in Washington, Ind., May 11, 

 1896, Schuck attended grade and high 

 schools in that community and worked 

 on the family's farms during the sum- 

 mer months. He entered the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois in 1915. His engineer- 

 ing and commercial studies were inter- 

 rupted in May, 1917, when he enlisted 

 in the army. After his discharge 

 from the service March 3, 1919, he 

 went with the Bedford Stone and Con- 

 struction Co., Indianapolis, as assistant 

 secretary and treasurer, and remained 

 until 1921. 



Following a short term of service in 

 the Springfield division of the Bureau 

 of Internal Revenue, Schuck went with 

 Corporation Service Co., financial coun- 

 selors. 



Schuck has a 183-acre fruk farm 

 northeast of LaPorte, Ind. Mr. and 

 Mrs. Schuck have two children, Arthur 

 F. Jr., 15, and daughter, Dorothy Ann, 

 13. 



SEPIOiIBEH, 1948 



