Open lAA Co-op Terminal Elevator J 



First barge load of groin moves info Iffi- 

 nois Oroin Terminofs Company elevator. 



txamlning the corn In the first shipment 

 are left to right: Homer Curtiss, Terminals 

 president; lAA Held Secretary 6. t. Metz- 

 ger, lAA Grain Marketing Direcfor 6. H. 

 Iftner and Hovrard Stone, Terminals dl- 

 rector. 



PRAIRIE Grain Company at Lacon enjoyed 

 the distinction of having the first barge 

 load of grain moved into the Illinois Grain 

 Terminals Company's 2V2 million bushel 

 elevator on the Calumet River in South Chi- 

 cago. 



The Terminals company took over opera- 

 tion of the former Irondale elevator on June 

 1. It was a memorable day for cooperative 

 grain marketing and on hand to greet the 

 first shipment were the following persons who 

 are pictured below on the deck of the first 

 barge. Left to right are: Fred Watts, man- 

 ager, Havana River Grain Company; Howard 

 Stone, president, Havana River Grain; L. L. 

 Colvis, lAA marketing director; Robert Sayre, 

 manager, Irondale elevator; Homer Curtiss, 

 president, Illinois Grain Terminals ; G. E. 

 Metzger, lAA field secretary; Sam L. Hassell, 

 manager, Illinois Grain Terminals; Chris 

 Studley, Bureau county. Terminals director; 

 G. H. Iftner, lAA grain marketing director 

 and assistant to manager of Grain Terminals ; 

 Carl Pratt, manager of Prairie Grain Com- 

 pany; J. F. Holderman, secretary. Grain 

 Terminals ; Chris Diehl, Monroe, Grain Termi- 

 nals director; Donald Kirkpatrick, lAA legal 

 counsel ; George Merker, assistant in lAA 

 legal department ; Charles Schmitt, president 

 of Illinois Grain Corporation and member of 

 Terminals board, and Harry Meloy, assistant 

 in lAA legal department. 



Tfiis firsf barge food of corn was shipped 

 from the Prairie Grain Company at Lacon. 



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Nof fo be oufdone by Prairie Orain, Havana 

 River Grain shipped a carload of corn to 

 Terminals. Left to right are lAA field Sec- 

 retary G. t. Metzger; fred Watts, manager, 

 Havana Grain, and Howard Stone, Terminals 

 director. 



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