

G«erg« Lawit, Brown 

 county, president of 

 Illinois Future Farmers 

 and a member of Ru- 

 ral Youth, presents 

 honorary state farmer 

 degree to State Ag 

 Director Arnold Ben- 

 sen at Illinois State 

 Fair. Left is Lee 

 Rogers. Right is Lorry 

 Douglas. 



RURAL YOUTH 



WHEN this issue of the lAA 

 Record reaches you a number 

 of counties will have held their 

 talk fests. Other counties will 

 not complete speech activities 



until about the middle of October. 



All along the way, from the small 

 local practice sessions to the big state 

 talk fest in Chicago on Nov 16, each 

 reader of the Record can give support 

 to this speech project by participation, 

 by giving information on the topics 

 discussed, or by attendance at talk fest 

 meetings. 



This worthwhile project has proven 

 its value in personal development and 

 community leadership many times in 

 the history of Rural Youth. Former 

 participants speak with enthusiasm of 

 the confidence developed, of the ability 

 gained to think and speak while stand- 

 ing before an audience, of the informa- 

 tion added to knowledge from researdi 

 upon the various topics, and of skills 

 discovered in organizing speech ma- 

 terial as some of the values to be de- 

 rived from talkfesting. 



A number of topics this year deal 

 with some phase of rural health. The 

 State Rural Youth Committee recom- 

 mended that opportunity for partici- 

 pants be given to discuss several phases 

 of this problem since the general topic 

 of the National Talk Meet sponsored 

 by the American Farm Bureau Federa- 

 tion is "National Health Problems 

 Facing Rural America." The health 

 and safety topics listed for our talk 

 fests are in harmony with the recom- 

 mendations of our department of safety 

 and public health. 



Here are the topics: (1) Brucellosis, 

 enemy of man and animal; (2) Rural 

 medical doctors are needed; (3) Muffle 

 that sneeze; (4) Better hospitalization 

 is needed in my community; (5) First 

 aid education for everyone; (6) Swat 



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the fly with D.D.T. ; (7) A good school 

 — a healthy community; (8) Time for 

 that annual health check; (9) Soil ero- 

 sion is human erosion; (10) Control 

 those rats; (11) Glide or slide on 

 country roads; (12) Planned recreation 

 leads to good health; (13) Democracy 

 must first be lived and taught in my 

 community; (14) My limbs are my 

 living; (15) What are the opportuni- 

 ties in farming not found in other oc- 

 cupations; (16) My idea of a successful 

 farmer or homemaker; (17) An ounce 

 of insurance protection; (18) Getting 

 along with the family. 



The schedule for the district talk 

 fests is as follows: Mon., Oct. 18, 

 Oregon; Tues., Oct. 19, Cambridge 

 Wed., Oct. 20, Rushville; Thur., Oct 

 21, Petersburg; Fri. Oct. 22, Streator 

 Mon., Oct. 25, Champaign; Tues., Oct 

 26, Greenville; Wed., Oct. 27, Louis 

 ville; and Thur., Oct. 28, Benton. 



Any help we can provide for Rural 

 Youth members to take part in the 

 talk fests, or any support by encourage- 

 ment or attendance at talk fests will be 

 appreciated and will be of much value 

 in developing leaders for agriculture. 



By ELLSWORTH 

 D. LYON 



Director 



lAA Young People's 



Activities 



The Rock Island Coun- 

 ty Rural Youth square 

 dance team takes part 

 in the state folk festi- 

 val held in connection 

 with the State Farm 

 Festival at Cham- 

 paign-Urbono 



Farm Sports Festival 



Rural Youth increased participation 

 in the Farm Sports Festival this year. 

 The district sports festivals provided 

 opportunity for wide participation in 

 bowling, Softball, and folk and square 

 dancing. Rural Youthers were out- 

 standing in their participation at Ur- 

 bana on Aug. 26 and 27. The Rock 

 Island square dance team shown on 

 this page which took first place in 

 Moline's Centennial celebration in July, 

 received an "A" rating and attracted 

 much attention in Urbana. Ilene Kruse, 

 Tazewell, received high individual 

 score for Rural Youth Girls' Bowling. 

 Coles County took first place in Rural 

 Youth Softball. Ed Dew, Ogle Rural 

 Youther, was rated as the outstanding 

 community song leader. i 



County Activities 



Darrell McAfee, past president of 

 Christian, and Ave Hancock were mar- 

 ried in the old Stonington Baptist 

 Church, Sept. 5. While on their honey- 

 moon in Chicago they paid a visit to 

 the office of Young People's Activities 

 of the lAA. Come again Mr. and 

 Mrs. McAfee. Word comes from the 

 same county that Barbara Shetler and 

 James Atkinson were married Aug. 2 

 in the Presbyterian Church in Taylor- 

 ville with 200 relatives and friends 

 present. Be on the alert. Christian 

 Rural Youthers, and keep adding new 

 members to your group. 



Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Clark, popular 

 Warren youth leaders, left for Iowa 

 State College, September 15, where Mar- 

 vin will study in the Iowa State College 

 of Veterinary Medicine. We hope they 

 will return to Illinois when Marvin has 

 completed his studies. 



Congratulations LaSalle upon your 

 successful "snack bar" project at the 

 4-H Club Fair held August 10. 11, and 

 12 on the selling of 22,715 items. 

 Profits were $806.07. Co-chairmen were 

 Betty Barr and Bob Wilson. i 



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