Watson Heads Prairie 

 Grain; Iftner Made 

 Ass't to Terminals Mgr, 



TW changes in f)ersonnfl have 

 been announced in connection with 

 the lAA-affiliated grain marketing pro- 

 gram. George H. Iftner. lAA director 

 of grain marketing for the jiast eight 

 years, ha;^ lieen named assistant to the 

 manager of the Illinois Grain Terminals 

 Company. 



Kay \. \^ atson. Mason county farm 

 adviser for the j)ast IM years, has liecu 

 appointed manager of the Prairie Grain 

 Company with iieadquarters at Henrv. 

 III. Prairie (»raiii Companv is affiliated 

 with Illinois Grain Terminals, an as- 

 sociated company of the lAA. Prairie 

 Grain operates two large suh-termiual 

 river elevators at Hennepin and I. aeon. 



As director of grain marketing Iftner 

 did a great deal of the groundwork 

 which resulted in the organization of 

 Illinois Grain Terminals. He was horn 

 in Pittsfield in Pike county and attended 

 Illinois College for two years then 

 finished at the I'niversity of Illinois 

 College of Agriculture in 1922. 



Iftner was an assistant in crop 

 production at the I niversitv before 



American Legion, vice president of the 

 Havana Rotary Club and is a member 

 of the official board of the Methodi.st 

 (Church. He has been active in farm 

 youth work for manv years. 



Ray V. WafMOH 



going to Sullivan to teach vocational 

 agriculture. He was Effingham county 

 farm adviser from 192.S to i9X^. and in 

 Tazewell county farm adviser from '3'^ 

 to "H. He organized the first Hural 

 ^ outh group in the nation at Effing- 

 ham. He is a member of the Pekin 

 American Legion. Hotarv. Masons. 

 Kvangelical and Heformed ChuFch. and 

 is a past president of Pekin Kiwanis 

 Club. 



Watson graduated from the Univer- 

 sity of Illinois College of Agriculture 

 in 1020 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 Grundv county. He left 

 Grundy county in 1936 to become 

 Mason county farm advi.*er. Watson is 

 a member of the Havana Post of the 



American Country 

 Life Conference to 

 Be Held Sept. 7, 8, 9 



Ij'AHM It-adcrs 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. 



TN£RE'$ MarHllM6 LIKE AN EA6V MARK- 

 OF FARMEA SMlDQEN'S KIND ^ 



HE RAI$E$ LOTS OF TA^TV 

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