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At left Mrs. C. W. ievrell, admlnlttrallve director. Associated Women, fastens a diamond farm Bureau pin on AfBf President Allan t. 

 Kline. At right are Illinois Home Bureau delegates to AfBf convention. Left to right: Mrs. Cecil Smittkamp, Idgar county; Miss Myra 

 Robinson, Illinois Home Bureau federation president, Idgar; and Mrs. Adam McWIIIIam, Stark county. 



Farm Women 

 Pick Leaders 

 At Atlantic City 



MRS. Raymond Sayre, of Iowa, was 

 elc-cted president of the Associated 

 NX'omen of the American Farm 

 Bureau I'ederation at its 1-ith 

 annual lonvention in Atlantic 

 City in Deiember. The Associated 

 Women held its meeting in conjunction 

 with the AFBF. 



Mrs. Sayre. former vice president, re- 

 places Mrs. Roy C. F. Weagly of 

 Hagerstown, Md., who has served in 

 this post since 19-44. The new presi- 

 dent was nominated by Mrs. Weagly 

 and elected by majority vote of the dele- 

 ^•ates. 



New vice president of the organiza- 

 tion is Mrs. Paul Palmer of Missouri, 

 who formerly served as recording secre- 

 tary. 



The voting delegates, of whom there 

 were several hundred present, re-elected 

 Mrs. M. L. Rceder of Utah as regional 

 director for the Far West. 



They also voted to retain Mrs. Philip 

 Jones, of Connecticut, as regional direc- 

 tor for the Northeast. 



Preceding the election ceremony. 

 AFBF President Allan Kline welcomed 

 the delegates and praised their part in 



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helping to maintain a sound and pro- 

 gressive agriculture. 



Among the other highlights of the 

 two-day meeting was a plea by Repre- 

 sentative Walter Judd (R.. i\|inn.) for 

 "a more realistic and etfective" U.S. 

 leadership in the realm of world affairs. 



Rep. Judd declared that such leader- 

 ship can avert war between Russia and 

 the U. S, "Russia does not want to fight, 

 because she knows she would stand no 

 chance of winning," he asserted. 



Mrs. Weagly, outgoing president, 

 called upon the delegates to continue 

 and strengthen their leadership in build- 



ing a better rural life. 



A frontal attack upon rural educa- 

 tion problems was recommended to the 

 group by Agnes Samuelson, of the Na- 

 tional Education Association. 



Better care for the aged people of the 

 nation was urged by Dr. Theodore 

 Klumpp. president, Wintro-Stearns, 

 Inc., New York. Social phases of Farm 

 Bureau membership were discussed by 

 Mrs. Wilma Sledge, of Mississippi. 



A vesper service in Convention Hall 

 ballroom marked the convention's open- 

 ing. This included choral numbers by 

 the Princeton choir. 



Illinois' exhibit had 

 a prominent place 

 at the farm Bureau 

 convention in At' 

 lanlic City. Illinois 

 women looking It 

 over, left to right, 

 include: Mrs. Ed- 

 win Gumm. Knox 

 county; Mrs. J. S. 

 Woodburn, Rock 

 Island; Mrs. W. f. 

 Staggs, fulton, and 

 Mrs. M. R. Staggs, 

 fulton. 



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 home-accident! 

 proof she asks 



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 bathroom flooi 

 handrails for 

 outside.' Ar 

 lighted?" 



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 clothing price; 



