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THE attention of a food-conscious 

 world will be focused next month 

 on Atlantic City when the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation, the na- 

 tion's largest farm organization, 

 holds its annual convention there Dec. 

 13-16. 



Speakers of national reputation, includ- 

 ing Harold E. Stassen, now president of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, and Paul 

 G. Hoffman, head of the European Re- 

 covery Program and former president of 

 the Studebaker Corporation, will address 

 the largest delegation expected to meet 

 at an AFBF convention. 



Senator George Aiken of Vermont will 

 be on hand to address the assembly and 

 to defend his recently enacted long-range 

 farm bill to the more than 5,000 farm- 

 er-delegates expected to attend. 



Helping to make it the biggest conven- 

 tion in Farm Bureau history will be spe- 

 cial trains running to Atlantic City from 

 the corn belt states of Illinois, Indiana, 

 Iowa, and Wisconsin, from the tobacco 

 and cotton states of Georgia, Mississippi, 

 Arkansas and Tennessee, and from die 

 citrus fruit state of California. 



Three special trains from Illinois will 

 carry more than 450 farm couples to the 

 convention. The trains will combine a 

 sightseeing and vacation trip to and from 

 the convention. 



The first days of the AFBF meeting 

 will be devoted to women's meetings and 

 commodity conferences, and the last two 

 days to the general sessions. ::.•.,= 



The highlight of the convention for 

 many Illinois delegates will be the all- 

 expense train trips to the convention. You 

 can still get reservations by writing Roy 

 Johnson, Illinois Agricultural Associa- 

 tion, 43 East Ohio Street, Chicago 11, 

 Illinois. The deadline is Nov. 20, and 

 not too many are left. 



Two special trains will carry vacation- 

 ing Illinois farm couples on a southern 

 route through Florida and up the Atlan- 

 tic seaboard to Washington, D. C. A 

 third train will travel on an eastern 

 route through New York City, Williams- 

 burg, Va., and United Nations head- 

 quarters at Lake Success. 



Farm Bureau folks on the southern 

 tour will get a taste of deep-south hos- 

 pitality. Members of the Alabama Farm 

 Bureau are planning to take both train 

 loads of Illinois folks on a car tour to 

 Wilson dam, a part of the TV A system. 



Later they will be treated to a barbe- 

 cue and rodeo at the famous Norris 

 Cattle Company ranch at Ocala, Florida. 



Folks on the eastern trip will have a 

 chance to see the workings of interna- 

 tional diplomacy at close range on their 

 tour of the United Nations headquarters 

 at Lake Success. Here they will see the 

 general assembly in session or visit 

 smaller committee hearings. 



The lAA has secured good rooms at 

 special rates at two of the best hotels in 

 Atlantic City, hotels that are close to con- 

 vention headquarters. The lAA has 

 made hotel reservations for all those 

 going by special train. 



Osborn Named lAA 

 Internal Auditor 



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ILLIAM T. OSBORN, 42, has 

 joined the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation as its internal auditor. 



Before coming 

 with the lAA Os- 

 born was assistant 

 comptroller of a 

 large .Chicago manu- 

 facturing company. 

 He lives in Chicago. 



During the war 

 years Osborn was 

 comptroller and as- 

 sistant secretary of 

 the Illinois division 

 of Bendix. 



Earlier he worked 

 as an internal au- 

 ditor for a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel 

 Corporation, and was on the special serv- 

 ice staff of Ernst and Ernst, a Chicago 

 public accounting firm. 



Osborn was reared in Kansas City, 

 Missouri, attending public schoob there, 

 and later the University of Kansas. He 

 later enrolled at Walton's School of Com- 

 merce in Chicago where he received his 

 training in accounting. 



Osborn is married and has one child, 

 a son, Donald, 19, a pre-veterinary stu- 

 dent at the University of Missouri. 



W. T. Osbeni 



Last m ForM- 



Stnictur* at l«ft Is th« Wran building at th« ColUg* of William 

 and Mary. It Is th« eldest academic ballding In America In spite 

 ef In modem look. At right U the colonial capitol bwiiding crt 



Williamsburg, Va. It Is reconstructed on the site of the old 

 building which stood here In the 18th century. Folks making the 

 fostorn trip will «•• ttiOM wii^o colonial buildins*. 



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