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Show December, 1969 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Volume XV, Number 12 Sloan to V.P. Post The 51st annual meeting of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation adjourned in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, December 1 1, after Charles B. Shuman as president and choosing David H. Sloan, Jr., president of the South Carolina FBF, as re-electi- ng vice-preside- nt Shuman a livestock and grain farmer from Sullivan, was first elected Illinois as AFBF president in 1954. Sloan, president of the So. Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, succeeds Walter L. Randolph, Montgomery, Alabama, who has retired after having served as AFBF vice-preside- nt since 1953. UFB Sees New York The Utah Farm Bureau group, with more than 120 in Washington for the meeting, flew home after a brief tour of New York City. The majority of the group flew via chartered flight, with the i 1 Golden Anniversary Meeting Hears Nixon, Agnew: Reelects Record Attendance of Alore Shuman than 6,000 Hears "Friend In the White House" overflow on other planes. The tour included a visit to Williamsburg, December 6, a special church service on Sunday morning, December 7th, the convention sessions, a tour of Washington landmarks on Wednesday, December 1 0, the New York tour on Thursday, December 11 with the return flights leaving New Your late that evening. It was a tired buthappy group of farm people who arrived in Salt Lake City early Friday morning, already discussing plans for a similar excursion to the AFBF convention in Hous- ton, next December, with a to Yucatan possible side-triand the Book of Mormon lands. p Westerners In business sessions at the convention, voting delegates named 15 members of the AFBF Board of Directors during their election meeting. The AFBF Board is made up of 22 state Farm Bureau presidents, the AFBF president and along with the chairman of the AFBF Womens' Re-elect- ed vice-presiden- t, (Continued on Page 8) CO c3 Hh-- 4 0 04 A.V. Smoot Thrice Honored with AFBF Distinguished Service Award, UFB Distinguished Service Award, and U.S.U. D.S.A. Citation AFBF Former Utah Farm Bureau president and long-tim- e Board Member, A. V. Smoot, reaped a golden harvest of recognition for his dedicated service to organized agriculture, in the 50th year of the American Farm Bureau. In November, he received awards from the Utah Farm Bureau and the U.S.U. College of Agriculture, and at the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington, D.C., received .the highest award the farm organization can give, along with Ovid Martin, farm writer for Associated Press for more than 30 years. See inside for details. the 50th Anniversary Convention of CO O H 2) H Cfl CO 30 ra CO 3a C CD cr a'J Ha H tr o CO 4 t c n 3c 4 |