Midland Cooperator

3 Important Questions To Come Up At Midland Annual Meeting June 10

Delegates Will Wrestle With Redistricting, Interest, By-Laws

Three important questions will be decided by delegates from nearly 200 local cooperatives at the fifteenth annual meeting of their Midland Cooperative Wholesale at the Radisson hotel in Minneapolis on Tuesday, June 10.

They are:

(1) Redistricting of the territory served by Midland.

(2) Reduction of the interest rate on the wholesale's

(3) Revision of the Midland by-laws.

These proposals, recommended by the Committee of Review and approved by the Midland board of directors, have been submitted to the ten district meetings in the last two weeks.

General Approval

Redistricting (map on page 8) was approved in principle by all districts but II. The interest rate reduction was approved in all but District I, which went the Committee of Review one better by recommending payment of NO interest on common stock.

The by-laws revisions were approved in general. (An explanation of the proposed changes is on page 8.)

In addition to these three items of business, there will also, of course, be the election of a new board of directors, as nominated by the districts, and reports by Emil Selvig, Midland comptroller; J. F. Shea, president of the board, and A. J. Smaby, general manager.

The business meeting will begin at 10 a.m. June 10.

Club Conference June 9

On the day before will take place the third annual Co-op Club conference, which will convene at 9 a.m. in the Radisson hotel ball room.

The annual Midland rally banquet will be held that evening in the same place beginning at 6:30 o'clock, with Mr. Selvig as toastmaster.

After John B. Vandermyde, Midland sales manager, has presented achievement awards for good work in the future oil sales campaign, I. H. Hull will make the address of the evening. Mr. Hull is general manager of the Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Ass'n. and president of both National Cooperatives and United Cooperatives, federations of co-op wholesales. He is also a director of the Cooperative League of U.S.A.

Meetings of various Midland-affiliated organizations will be held as follows in the Italian room at the Radisson on June 9:

Midland Credit Corporation, 9 a.m.

Midland Mutual Fire Insurance, 10 a.m.

Consumers Agency, 1 p.m.

Cooperative Auditing Service, 3 p.m.

RALLY SPEAKER

I. H. Hull, general manager, Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Ass'n., and president, National Cooperatives, Inc., will be the speaker at the Midland annual rally banquet on the evening of Monday, June 9, at the Radisson hotel in Minneapolis.

(Story in adjoining column.)

Mr. Hull will also speak at the Co-op picnic at Fairmont, Minn., on Sunday, June 8.

Midland Board To Have Two New Directors

Two new nominees for election to the Midland board of directors were selected in the ten Midland district meetings held during the past two weeks. They are:

William Bergeron, Somerset, Wis., a director of the Polk County Co-op Oil Ass'n. in District VII, in place of C. R. Nyman, Hayward, Wis.

Joseph W. Reichert, manager of the Farmers Oil Cooperative, Thorp, Wis., in District VIII, in place of Louis Doede, Wausau.

These two, with the eight directors who were renominated, are slated for formal election to the Midland board at the annual meeting in Minneapolis June 10.

The eight are, by districts:

I--Frank Lair, Twin Lakes, Minn.

II--C. D. Clipfell, Redwood Falls, Minn.

III--Theo. J. Winkjer, Garfield, Minn.

IV--Henry T. Johnson, Audubon, Minn.

V--Oluf Haugen, Winger.

VI--Andrew Jensen, Minneapolis.

IX--Jerry F. Shea, Pickett.

X--William Kittleson, Blanchardville, Wis.

District boards were also

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Cooperator Circulation

This Issue ... 57,990

Year Ago...50,738

Increase .... 7,252
Midland Board
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elected in all but Districts IX and X, which hold such elections in December. They are, in addition to the Midland director for each district, as follows:

I—Carlos Bosse, Lewiston; N. A. Caron, Faribault; H. I. Ike, Spring Grove; O. K. Storre, Lake Mills.

II—George Smith, Cottonwood; Elmer Schultz, Springfield; Sam Franz, Mountain Lake; Ted Bruns, Canby; Alfred Wichelmann, Glencoe.

III—Frank Olson, Clarissa; Bernard Nelson, Clinton; Evert Skoog, Little Falls; A. R. Anderson, Lowry.

IV—Henry Sieling, Perham; Frank Beaton, Fargo; Lorimer Torgerson, Fergus Falls; Chas. H. Suomela, Sebeka.

V—William Wilson, Greenbush; A. C. Knudsen, Warren; Art Erickson, Mentor; John Engberg, Blackduck.

VI—Roland Heckeroth, Rush City; P. C. Van Someren, Princeton; Art Peterson, Stillwater; Vic Ericson, Cambridge.

VII—E. E. Kulp, Cumberland; Eli Baribo, Freeland; Frank Anderson, Ashland; Oscar Larson, Baldwin.

VIII—Ben Lang, Marshfield; Erich Lenz, Merrill; Art Schrader, Antigo; Earl Witter, Wausau.