PLAN NOW TO ATTEND lAA 



ANNUAL MEETING 



Romeo Short 



WHAT does Illinois Farm Bureau 

 leadership think of the Brannan 

 Plan? the Anderson Plan? the 

 Aiken Plan? What effect will 

 all these plans have on Illinois 

 farmers? What is going to happen to 

 the prices of grain and livestock? 



You can expect to hear the answers 

 to most of these questions by attending 

 the 35th annual meeting of the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association to be held Nov. 

 14-17 at the Hotel Sherman, Chicago. 



You will hear discussions of na- 

 tional issues by prominent speakers, 

 talks on specific farm problems, and 

 discussions of programs and projects 

 being sponsored by the lAA to help 

 solve local rural problems. An example 

 will by the lAA Road Study Committee 

 Report discussed on page 4 and 5 of this 

 i'ssue of the RECORD. The recommen- 

 dation in this report will be up for dis- 

 cusion and approval by the voting dele- 

 gates to the lAA annual meeting. 



A review of the year's activities of 

 the lAA and its affiliated companies 

 with their financial reports will be pre- 

 sented during the sessions by company 

 managers and department heads. And 

 a summary of the year's progress will 

 be made in the report of President 

 Charles B. Shuman. 



More than 5,000 farmers registered 

 for last year's convention which also 

 was held in Chicago. 



The first two days of the convention 

 will be devoted to conferences. Rural 

 Youth activities, and the annual meet- 

 ings of the lAA-affiliated cooperatives. 

 The third and fourth days will be de- 



voted to the general session of the Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association and to 

 farm problem conferences. 



The closing hours of the convention 

 will be concerned with the election of 

 a president, vice president, and half the 

 lAA board of directors. 



Finals of the state Rural Youth Talk 

 Fest will be held during the lAA annual 

 meeting. A champion will be selected 

 to represent Illinois at the American 

 Farm Bureau Convention in Chicago in 

 December. Finals of the state Rural 

 Youth skilled drivers' contest also will 

 be held in connection with the lAA 

 annual meeting. More than 500 Rural 

 Youthers are expected for the youth 

 sessions. 



Among the men who have been in- 

 vited to address the convention are Gov. 

 Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. 



Among the speakers who are sched- 

 uled to speak are Romeo Short, 54. 

 president of the Arkansas Farm Bureau 

 and vice president of the American 

 Farm Bureau Federation. 



Short is a rice, cotton, and livestock 

 farmer in Lee county, Arkansas. He 

 has been president of the Arkansas 

 Farm Bureau since 1936 and a member 

 of the American board since 1937. 



He was born in Illinois, reared in 

 Iowa, and has been a resident of Arkan- 

 sas since 1920. He farmed briefly in 

 Canada following his graduation from 

 Iowa State College before enlisting in 

 the army as a private in World War I. 

 He is one of Arkansas's Ibading rice 

 growers and now owns 2,600 acres of 



NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING 



ILLINOIS AGRICULTURAL 



ASSOCIATION 



Notice is hereby given that the an- 

 nual meeting of the members of Illi- 

 nois Agricultural Association will be 

 held in the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 

 Illinois, on the 16th day of Novem- 

 ber, 1949, at 9:30 o'clock A.M. for 

 the following purposes: 



To receive, consider and if ap- 

 proved, to ratify and confirm the re- 

 ports of the officers and the acts and 

 proceedings of the Board of Dire«ors 

 and officers in furtherance of the mat- 

 ters therein set forth since the last 

 annual meeting of members of the As- 

 sociation ; 



To approve, ratify and confirm the 

 several purchases heretofore made by 

 this Association of stocks and evi- 

 dences of indebtedness of corpora- 

 tions whose activities will directly or 

 indirectly promote agriculture or the 

 interests of those engaged therein; 



To secure consent and authorization 

 to acquire on behalf of the Associa- 

 tion by purchase certain stocks and 

 evidences of indebtedness of corpora- 

 tions whose aaivities will directly or 

 indirectly promote agriculture or the 

 interests of those engaged therein; 



To elect seven (7) members of the 

 Board of Direaors to serve for • 

 term of two years; 



To elect a President and Vice-Presi- 

 dent who shall also serve as directors, 

 for a term of one year; 



To consider and aa upon such pro- 

 posed amendments of the Articles of 

 Incorporation or of the By-Laws of 

 Illinois Agricultural Association as 

 may be properly submitted; 



For the transaaion of such other 

 business as may properly come before 

 the meeting. 



Paul E. Mathlas, Secretary 



land, of which 700 acres is usually 

 in rice, 250 acres in cotton and the bal- 

 ance in pasture and feed crops. He 

 maintains a herd of about 300 cows 

 and feeds about 700 to 800 beef cattle. 

 He has one child, Romeo Jr. 



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