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Dr. Hoyt, Roseville, Is Honored as 

 Illinois' Outstanding General Practitioner 



IN DOWNTOWN Ro.>,cviIlt. popu- 

 lation lOOO. tilt litii;L•Il^ lia\c- erci.ti.-vl 

 this si^n : 

 "Resc'r\cJ lor physician hy orJcr 

 ot the village hoard. 

 Fine S5." 



It is a token of cs 

 teem h) the towns 

 men to "Dot ' Hoyt, 

 the town's only 

 physician, who has 

 recently been chosen 

 by the Illinois State 

 Medical Society as 

 the outstanding 

 general practitioner 

 in Illinois. 



The si^n was put 

 there to end the parking problems of 

 Roseville's busiest citizen. The rural 

 area Dr. L. T. Hoyt serves has a popu- 

 lation of about -1.000. It comprises 



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Henderson and Knox counties. 



Dr. Hoyt is an outstanding e.\amplc 

 of the type of country doctor the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and the 

 Ilhnois State Medical Society are seek- 

 ing to attract to rural areas through 

 their jointly-sponsored student medical 

 loan plan. 



Under this plan medical students are 

 granted loans up to $5,000 to finance 

 their medical education. In return, 

 tliey agree to practice in counties in 

 Illinois where rural doctors are needed. 



Loans have been granted (o three 

 medical students who enrolled last fall 

 for their first year of work in Chicago 

 medicals schools. 



Dr. Hoyt is held in high esteem a- 

 inong his colleagues for the quality of 

 his medical and surgical work. His aid 

 as a consultant is frequently sought in 

 liiagnostic problems. 



He \v.is praised tor keeping up with 

 the new developments in medical litera 

 ture and techniques despite his heavy 

 work sihedule. colleagues for the 

 quality ot his medical and surgical 

 work. 



As a loyal member of his community. 

 Dr. Hoyt has served on the local board 

 of education and has been active in 

 establishing a modern health program 

 in Roseville, with emphasis on pre- 

 ventative medicine and immunization. 



He is president of the county chapter 

 of the National Foundation for Infan- 

 tile Paralysis and is a member of the 

 county tuberculosis district board. 



He is also know to Farm Bureau 

 members as the chief examiner for 

 Country Life Insurance Company in 

 Warren county. 



Raised a country boy at Good Hope, 

 McDonough county, he came to Chi- 

 cago for his medical work, and was 

 graduated from Rush Medical College. 



After his internship at West Subur- 

 ban Hospital in Oak Park, he went back 

 to the country, practicing seven years in 

 Raritan. Henderson county, before 

 movinc to Roseville. 





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THE LATEST in logging machinery 

 was demonstrated recently to 

 more than 700 farmers, foresters 

 and sawmill operators during the 

 first Illinois Logging Equipment 

 Show staged in the Kaskaskia Experi- 

 mental Forest near Harrisburg. 



The show was planned by the de- 

 partment of forestry of the University 

 of Illinois and the Central States Forest 

 Experiment Station. 



Visitors entering the forest area 

 watched chain saws felling trees. They 

 saw the various makes of new saws 

 and compared the techniques of the 

 operators doing the work of felling and 

 buckinc. 



FARMERS SEE 

 MODERN LOGGING 

 DEMONSTRATION 



With the trees felled and bucked. 

 the skidding and yarding equipment 

 took over, and the large tractors, sul- 

 kies, log carts and hydraulic lift bars 

 were put to work. 



Wood chopping and sawing contests, 

 traditional logging show stunts, were 

 held during the noon hour. 



The afternoon was devoted to log- 

 loading demonstrations and sawmill 

 operations. One of the new machines 

 shown was a self-loading attachment 

 for log trucks. 



Final sawmill operations were per- 

 formed by two portable mills. Both 

 were diesel-powered. 



Men in charge of the show estimated 

 that more than half a million dollars 

 worth of logging machinery and equip- 

 ment was demonstrateil during the day. 



Registration cards showed visitors 

 from 12 states, including Illinois. 



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 dam on 



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This is a self-loading attachment for log trucks. Here an oak 



log is being removed from the forest during the show and loaded 



for hauling to the sawmill. 



This winch and sulky is skidding a white oak log from the forest 

 to area where it will be loaded on trucks to be taken to the 



sawmill. 



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