The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1942-12-04
whats Doing?"
Program Highlights.
Election and Banquet.
"Vic" Hanson Resigns.
New National Secretary.
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The first question that stockholders
in the Farmers Union business enter.
prises ask, when they arrive in st.
Paul for their annual meetings, gen.
orally is: whats doing?" meaning
what's on the program. Perhaps a
little preview here of that part of the
program involving the Grain Terminal
Associations two busy days-Decem-
Der s and 9-might be helpful here.
1t may also interest those who, by
reason of rubber shortage and gas
rationing, are held at home and I'M
able to attend this year, as in years
past. 1t is the fortune of war" that
many good soldiers of the soil are not
able to rally to this great national
guard meeting of those who long since
enlisted for the duration of their lives
in this army of agriculture.
Here are some of the high-lights
of the two-day program, which begins
at in the morning with registration
and opens formally with the call to
order by Ole L. Olson, president of
the board of directors. Committees
then are named and Albert E. Kathan,
secretary-treasurer, reads the annual
report and NJ w. Thatcher, general
manager, follows with a commentary
on the report. At 8 p. M, ]. E. Wells
Jr., deputy governor of the Farm
Credit Administration speaks. The
do xrrffh ri nv
O'Neill, assistant general manager; G.
P. Meyer wheat salesman, and F. G.
Tousley, field representative of Fargo.
The second day, December 8, opens
with a talk by H. ]. Glewwe, director
in charge of grain loans, and Matt
Sauter, manager at Duluth, follows
him. At 1915 T. G. Croll, production
manager, will be heard and at IL Glenn
Talbot, president of North Dakota
Farmers Union, will hit the ball with |
no broken wrist to hamper his ges- |
lures. Yep-that wrist is practically |
WE'LL =
After noon lunch, NJ. w. Thatcher |
starts his speech at 2:15. Having at
tended and spoken at every state con-
vention in the northwest except South |
and having attended and adj
dressed the National Convention, Mr..
Thatcher knows what the count is and
what the Farmers Union membership
is thinking about and has its mind
from the feed box and the grass roots.
At p. m. comes election of directors
three whose terms expire and one
Who has resigned. At 6 p. m. comes
he banquet and there A. G. Black,
governor of the Farm Credit Admins
J. Patton will be the after-dinner
jpeakers. In addition to all this,
music will be interspersed between
vents during the two days and some
inc exhibits will be displayed in
ooms adjoining the hotel auditorium.
The director who resigned is "Vic"
/. Hanson of Herman, MINI. He has
,een i'll since last June and in recent
weeks became so i'll that he felt in
"a pacitated for active service In his
esignation he asked that there be
Iamed in his place, to fill his unex-
tired term, his old friend and neigh
or, Harold B. Johnson, also of Her
nan. "Vic" has for years been vice
resident of the Herman Market Co.
elevator and his buddy
Iarold has been secretary of the same
The board of directors,
moving Mr.. Hanson and his friend,
acceded to his request,
as Mr.. Hanson was the
My member on the board from Min
esota and recognized that the Gopher
tate qualified for that representation.
Iere's hoping Mr.. Hanson makes a
uick comeback to health and returns,
It as fiddle, to our fighting front.