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URAL Illinois can be just as beau- 

 tiful in the winter as in the other 

 seasons of the year. Particularly in 

 the woodland after a new fallen 

 snow. Our cover scene this month was 

 taken in a northern Illinois \soods after a 

 fresh snowfall. 



It is the 30th in our series of cover 

 pictures of iiistoric and picturesque Il- 

 linois. 



AFBF CONVENTION 



PHOGHAM lealuiiim nationally 



.* })ioniiiu'nt leaders lia> lieen ar- 



"< ranjicd for the 3 1. -I annual inoel- 



t ing of tlie Aincricai) Farm liu- 



''' reau Federation Dec. 1^^)-15 in 



('hieago. Headquarter.* fur tiie con\en- 



tiuti \xill he in the Hotel SteMM>. 



A full airing ot national farm poliey 

 and other is.sucs. a speaking program 

 made up of top authorities in many 

 fields, adoption of ])()liey resolutions, 

 and election of officers and directors 

 will provide the higldigltts of the con- 

 vention. I 



.\mong the ciiest s])eakers will be 

 Paul G. Hoffman, administrator. Eco- 

 nomic Cooperation .Ailminisiration. and 

 Fric Johnston, president. .Motion Pic- 

 ture .\ssociation of .America. Jnc. 



Others who will address th^. conven- 

 tion delegates are: Sen. Clinton P. .An- 

 derson, former Secretary of Agriculture 

 (D.. New Mexico). Re[). Christian A. 

 llerter I !{.. Mass.*. Rep. Mike Moronev 

 ([).. Okla.i. and Hep. \ll,crt Gore ( D!. 

 Tenn.K 



President Allan B. Kline of the AFBF 

 will give his adress the morning of Dec. 

 )^ following the animal report of Wil- 

 fred Shaw, secretary of the .AFBF. 



Another of the featured speakers will 

 he George H. Wilson, member of the 

 AFBF hoard of directors from Cali- 

 fornia. \^'ilson will tell the conven- 

 tion about his recent 'round-the-world 

 "Town Meeting" tour. 



Additional speakers will appear at 

 the convention to discuss topics of in- 

 terest to farm people. 



The closing business se.ssion of the 

 convention Dec. 15 will be devoted to 



frIc Johnston 



Paul Hoffman 



the adoption of resolutions aiu! the elec- 

 tion of officers and directors. 



The 15th annual convention of the 

 .Associated \X omen Dec. 11-12 will j)re- 

 cede the .AFBF meetings. One of the 

 princii)al speakers to address the .Asso- 

 ciated Women will be Vijaya l.akshmi 

 Pandit, the ambassador of India, who 

 \vill s|)eak on "India and the I'nited 

 .■States" the evening of Dec. 12. 



The dinner for voting delegates of 

 the Associated Women will be held at 

 (>:'M) |).m. Dec. 11 in the South Ball 

 Boom of tlie Ste\ens. 



The Rural ^ outh meeting will open 

 Dec. 12 aiul also schedided for the same 

 day are conferences on fruit and vege- 

 tables, poultry, livestock, tax and legis- 

 lali\e problems, organization and other 

 subjects. 



Mrs. Raymond Sayre. national presi- 

 dent of the .Associal|ed ^Women. will 

 make her keynote address Monday 

 morning and a business session will be 

 held that afternoon to elect officers and 

 board members and trf" plan a program 

 for 1950. 



Brown County 

 Youth is Elected 

 FFA President 



AN ILLINOIS farm boy has been 

 clecte<l national president of the 

 Future Farmers of America. 



He is George Lewis, 19, of Ml. Ster- 

 ling in Brown county. Lewis was voted 

 to the top I-T'.A post at the organiza- 

 tion's 22tul annual convention held in 

 Kansas City. He succeeds Do\ Ic ("on- 

 nor of Starke. Fla. 



George is the .son of Mr. and Mrs. 

 Dana Lewis who farm near Hersman. 

 His father is a mendier of (he Brown 

 County Farm Bureau. 



Flection to the national |)resideiicv 

 climaxes a brilliant FFA career for 

 Lewis, who has also won the Illinois 

 State Star Farmer award, recognizing 

 him as tops of the state's mon^ than \i.- 

 000 Future Farmers. 



He has been jtresident of his slate, 

 .■sectional and local FF.A organizations. 

 Last year Lewis placed fourth in the 

 national speaking contest and has won 

 state and regional speaking conte>t hon- 

 ors. 



He is a freshman in the Inixersitv of 

 Illinois (College of .Agricnilure but will 

 leave school for a year in order to ful- 

 fdl his duties as a natiotial FFA officer. 



He was graduated from Mt. ."Sterling 

 high school in 19 Kl Lewis is farming 

 in one-third ])artnership with his father 

 on 120 acres aiul holds 50 per ccrU in- 

 terest with his brother in herds of reg- 

 istered Guernsey cows and registered 

 Hampshire iiogs. George is the sixth 

 of niiu> children in the Lewis faniilv. 



George lewli (rlgltt), of Mi. Sterling In 

 Brown county, newly-elected notional ffA 

 president, receive* gavel from Doyle Con- 

 nor, Starke, fla., retiring president. 



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