Watson Heads Prairie 

 Grain; Iftner Made 

 Ass't to Terminals Mgr. 



Two changes in personnel have 

 been announced in connection with 

 the lAA-affiliated grain marketing pro- 

 gram. George H. Iftner, lAA director 

 of grain marketing for the past eight 

 years, has been named assistant to the 

 manager of the Illinois Grain Terminals 

 Company. 



Ray V. Watson. Mason county farm 

 adviser for the past 13 years, has been 

 appointed manager of the Prairie Grain 

 Company with headquarters at Henry. 

 111. Prairie Grain Company is affiliated 

 with Illinois Grain Terminals, an as- 

 sociated company of the lAA. Prairie 

 Grain operates two large sub-terminal 

 river elevators at Hennepin and Lacon. 



As director of grain marketing Iftner 

 did a great deal of the groundwork 

 which resulted in the organization of 

 Illinois Grain Terminals. He was born 

 in Pittsfield in Pike county and attended 

 Illinois College for two years then 

 finished at the University of Illinois 

 College of Agriculture in 1922. 



Iftner was an assistant in crop 

 production at the University before 



Ray V. Watson 



Oaorga H. Utnar 



going to Sullivan to teach vocational 

 agriculture. He was Effingham county 

 farm adviser from 1928 to 1933, and in 

 Tazewell county farm adviser from '33 

 to '41. He organized the first Rural 

 Youth group in the nation at Effing- 

 ham. He is a member of the Pekin 

 American Legion, Rotary, Masons, 

 Evangelical and Reformed ChuFch, and 

 is a past president of Pekin Kiwanis 

 Club. 



Watson graduated from the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois College of Agriculture 

 in 1920 and farmed near Clinton until 

 1925. He went to McLean county as 

 assistant farm adviser where he re- 

 mained until 1929 when he became farm 

 adviser in Grundy county. He left 

 Grundy county in 1936 to become 

 Mason county farm adviser. Watson is 

 a member of the Havana Post of the 



American Legion, vice president of the 

 Havana Rotary Club and is a member 

 of the official board of the Methodist 

 Church. He has been active in, farm 

 youth work for many years. 



American Country 

 Life Conference to 

 Be Held Sept. 7, 8, 9 



FARM leaders from Illinois have 

 been invited to join the conference 

 of the American Country Life Associa- 

 tion meeting Sept. 7, 8, and 9 at Co- 

 lumbus, Ohio. Theme of the meeting 

 is "The Place of the Rural Community 

 in Farm Policy Making." 



The meeting will be organized on a 

 workshop basis to discuss 10 phases 

 of rural life — home, church, schools, 

 health, recreation, utilities (power, com- 

 munication, transportation), farmers' 

 organizations, private services, govern- 

 ment agencies, and labor. 



President Charles B. Shuman has 

 been asked to preside at one of the 

 sessions and take part in the discus- 

 sions. Many prominent figures in 

 American public life will be heard dur- 

 ing the three-day meeting including 

 Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. 

 Brannan. 



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