Four scholarship award winners in a 4-H "better methods" activity project received 



awards from B. I. Budd, president of Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. The 



winners, left to right, are Thelma Thomas, Livingston county; Anita Reaman, and Marvin 



Subbert, both of Kankalcee county, and William Hubbard, Jr., Ogle. 



80 4-H'«s Hoirared! 



Boys and Girls From 21 lllfaiois Cmintlos 

 Aro Fotod in Ciiicago By Business Loaders 

 And National 4-H Club Officials 



MORE than 80 4-H Club boys and 

 girls from 21 northern Illinois 

 counties — all winners in this 

 year's "better methods" activity 

 — were honored by business 

 leaders and national 4-H officials Oct. 

 30 in Chicago at a special 4-H "achieve- 

 ment" day. 



The winners include two boys and 

 two girls from each of the 21 counties. 

 The boy and girl winner in each county 

 received U. S. savings bonds and the 

 runners-up were awarded all-expense 

 camping trips for 1949 to Camp Shaw- 

 Waw-Nas-See near Kankakee. The 

 "better methods" activity aims at im- 

 proving farm and home chores. 



In addition, four top winners, two 

 boys and two girls, were awarded $200 

 educational scholarships. They were 

 Thelma Esther Thomas, Livingston 

 county; Anita Reaman and Marvin 

 Subbert, both of Kankakee county, and 

 William Hubbard, Jr., Ogle. 



The scholarship winners were picked 

 by county farm and home advisers in 

 cooperation with the University of 

 Illinois 4-H club staff. 



Other winners and runners-up in each 

 county were: David L. Lampert, Phyllis 

 Holmes, Clifford Peacock and Marlene 

 Turner, Boone county; Donald Linneman, 

 Jeanne Dettman, Edwin Linneman and 

 Shirley Landwehr, Cook; John Huftalin, 

 Clara Mae Anderson, Donald Huftalin and 

 Joanne Quinc, DeKalb. 



George R. Heimann, Caryl Towsley, 

 Clarence Mack, and Betty Mae Smith, Du- 

 Page; James Williams, Eleanor McGuam, 

 Batt Maher and Barbara Dorheim, Grundy; 

 Kenneth Lange, Marjory Bailey, and Susan- 

 nah Alfredson, Kane. 



Eugene Novack, Dolores Essington, Rod- 

 ney Ohm and Betty Ranz, Kankakee; Floyd 

 Hutchings, Dolores Naffziger, George Con- 

 nell and Beverly Chamberlin, Lake. 



Bill Stassell, Joan Watts, Betty Ackland, 

 Lee; Edward Masching, Delores Collins, 

 Owen Pratt and Wyvonna Rose, Livingston; 

 Eugene Kunkel, Peggy Ransom and Rena 

 Bade, Marshall-Putnam. 



Richard Jacobson, Angela Week, Wendell 

 Calhoon and Lucy Raffel, McHenry; Melvin 

 McCaw, Barbara Guthrie and Joan Nelson, 

 Mercer; William C. Coffman, Carol Schu- 

 maker, Robert Ruthe and Reita Pope, Ogle. 



Robert Scholl, Frances Adams, David 

 Keiser and Bertha Jean Kieser, Stark ; Nathan 

 Kubly, Evelyn Rosenstiel, Lorris Bowers and 

 Carolyn Giessel, Stephenson. 



Tom Housenga, Doris Knox, Orville 

 Goodenough and Darlene Bielman, 'White- 

 side; Vernon Lankenau, Jane Wisherd, Ken- 

 neth Heisner and Dorothy Kohl, Will; 

 Cletus Schertz and James Cornwall, Wood- 

 ford. 



What About Next 

 Year's Corn, Hog Crop? 



ARE you thinking now about your next 

 year's corn and hog crop ? Are you in 

 doubt about support prices.' If you are, 

 here are some figures from the U.S. De- 

 partment of Agriculture that may help in 

 your planning. 



Hog prices are to be supported at 90 

 per cent of parity through 1949. Hog 

 prices are not expected to drop to this 

 support level during the present period 

 October-March. 



Support prices for hogs are figured 

 twice a year on the basis of parity prices 

 on March 15 and Sept. 15. The Sept. 15 

 parity was $18.20 a hundred on hogs, 

 while the average price received by farm- 



By JOHN K. COX, Director 



Rural School Relation* , T 



ALL THE survey committee pro- 

 posals not already voted on will be 

 voted up or down by the people before 

 March 1, 1949. 



Shall we wait to reorganize schools 

 until everything is favorable.' We 

 might say, "Shall we wait to get mar- 

 ried until we have 'enough' money 

 laid by, or until we have picked out 

 and paid for the type of home we 

 want.'" If we did, most of us would 

 never get married. 



Some people have said that roads, the 

 tax structure, public opinion are not 

 ready for reorganization. If we wait 

 until everything is ready, there won't be 

 much reorganization. "Those same limi- 

 tations have existed for many years and 

 have been weighed and considered of 

 secondary importance in every one of 

 the over 160 new community unit dis- 

 tricts that have been set up. 



We now have a statewide program of 

 school reorganization under way. We 

 have an opportunity in each of our own 

 counties to follow through on school 

 reorganizations proposed by the school 

 survey committees or to make other 

 plans more to our liking. 



We learn to walk by taking one step 

 at a time. We now have an opportunity 

 to take the reorganization step and thus 

 provide the conditions in which a 

 sound educational program can de- 

 velop. We have but one opportunity to 

 make good on our obligation to the 

 citizens of tomorrow. That is while 

 those citizens are the youth of today. 

 Let's put first things first. Let's re- 

 organize our school districts first. Then, 

 that being done, let us put the same 

 enthusiasm into correcting some of the 

 other long standing problems that are 

 related not only to schools but to other 

 phases of community life and govern- 

 ment as well. 



ers was $27.30. 



Corn loan rates, also based on parity, 

 range by counties from $1.34 to $1.63 

 a bushel, and average $1.44 nationally. 

 Purchase agreement rates for the 1948 

 crop range from $1.34 to $1.66 a bushel. 



A pig crop of 60,000,000 is urged by 

 the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This 

 is 17 per cent more than the 1948 crop 

 of 51,400,000. The demand for meat 

 is strong, and abundant feed supplies 

 should bring more pigs to market. The 

 feed ratio for hogs is very favorable. 



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