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Chicagoans by Pontiac surprised, impressed hog farm operation Marriage Licenses Daily Leader, Pontiac, 111. Page4 Nov. thing that might "scare" her, she acknowledged. She said it might be easier to a i responsibility in a more rural setting, and having trees for them to climb wouldn't be a problem. But she'd have to adjust to the quiet.

She now lives only 30 seconds from touchdown at O'Hare Airport, and sometimes has to interrupt telephone conversations while a jet passes over. And the silence might cause a few problems sleeping. "I kept listening for sounds I didn't hear in the night," she pointed out. Allen Richard Reiners, Odell, and Doris Kay Scherr, Fairbury. Clarence R.

Jensen and Barbara J. Jensen, both of Pontiac. Roger Harold Friedman and Janis Rae McCulloh, both of Fairbury. Associate Court News Brenda K. Collins, 16, Saunemin, failed to reduce speed to avoid accident, $15, State police arrest.

EDITH RUPPEL Candidate For Livingston County Board District No. 1 Your VOTE Will Be Appreciated Authorized Paid For By Edilh Ruppol Surviving billionaires eighth-grade dropout DOWN ON THE FARM Harmon D. Motch, far right, his wife Suzanne and children Howard and Wendy visited the William Swager farm, Pontiac route 4, over the weekend in a City-Farm Swap program sponsored by the Illinois Farm Bureau and WGN radio-Tv, Chicago. Showing the farrowing area of the Swager's hog barn are Bill Swager left, and his father, second from right. might be a little more primitive, based on the silos, barns and white wood frame houses with green roofs the family saw while camping in Michigan and Wisconsin.

"How scientific everything is, the knowledge required to maintain the amount of acreage they have," also impressed her, she said. "The knowledge that you need just to operate your combine is so complex it's more of a science than I thought By JOHN FADDOUL Leader Staff Reporter It wasn't what Harmon and Suzanne Motch expected. The house was modern, the harvesting scientific, and the hog barn didn't smell too badly. They didn't have to yell "Here, suey" even once. "I really had no idea what to expect," said Motch, 35, a Des Plaines townhouse dweller and a a i a a i manager for a Chicago tool manufacturer.

Motch, his wife, their son Howard, 9, and daughter Wendy, 5, were among 20 Chicago-area families who spent last weekend with farm families in 14 Illinois counties in the 1976 City-Farm Swap program jointly sponsored by the Farm Bureau and WGN radio-television, Chicago. They stayed with the William Swagers, Pontiac route 4. "My knowledge of hogs is you stand out at a fence and you feed them," Motch conceded. "We really didn't know what we were going to see when we got here. (This is) certainly farm and above what we were looking forward to." Mrs.

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Seeing the Swager's hog barn changed some preconceptions the Motches had. "After going through the hog pen, 'Here, suey, suey' seems very out of place," Motch admitted. "It's just too scientific and controlled an operation." "It's a much cleaner operation, and the odor that I expected there was not nearly as strong and pungent as the odor I might expect," he said. The market-weight animals he saw in the Swager's temperature-controlled barn "didn't look that big," he said. "I thought they would be much larger when they're ready to be marketed." Mrs.

Motch noted the selective, planned breeding of the hogs, something "not just left up to nature" but controlled by the farmer. Earlier, she was impressed with the number of people involved in processing the hogs after selling. Motch thought a central processing plant might be more efficient than the system actually used. The "swap" part of the program will come when the Swagers spend a weekend at the Motch's three-bedroom home in Des Plaines. A Livingston County farm family, the J.

Orin Taylors of rural Cullom, hosted a Skokie school principal, his wife and three children in the program, which is designed to increase understanding between farm and city families.) The Motches both grew up in Chicago's West Rogers Park section and now live in a planned development. Three other families live in their townhouse. The Motches have a yard about 75 feet by 30 feet. "We just like the openness which you can't get in the city," Mrs. Motch said in explaining their camping activity.

"I would move immediately" to a less urban area if her husband's work didn't require living near Chicago, she said. "I think it's a much better way to raise children and a much better said. The self-sufficiency needed for living on a farm is the only NEW YORK Daniel K. Ludvvig lives in a New York penthouse, running his shipping empire and overseeing the creation of a timber plantation in the Brazilian Amazon. John D.

MacArthur, an insurance company executive, holds court at a corner table in the coffee shop of a Florida hotel. Though miles apart, the men share a bond: They are the last two living American billion- sires, according to Fortune magazine. Both MacArthur and Ludwig were born in 1897, dropped out of school after the eighth grade and "operate through an intricate web of private companies about which there is only limited public information," the financial magazine says in its November issue, to be published Tuesday. There the parallel ends, according to Lewis Beman, Fortune associate editor who wrote the article on those he termed "magnificent relics of an earlier age of capitalism." MacArthur and Ludwig took different paths to become billionaires in a nation that now boasts about 180,000 millionaires. They outlived the three other men who until recently shared their status as billionaires: Howard R.

Hughes, J. Paul Getty and H.L. Hunt. Fortune estimated each man's financial worth at more than a billion dollars, but said it did not have access to figures on their exact holdings. MacArthur, whose late brother was playwright Charles MacArthur, is the only stockholder of the Chicago-based Banker's Life and Casualty, the nation's 44th largest insurance company.

Fortune describes MacArthur the fourth son of an itinerant preacher born in Pittston, Pa. as looking "less like a billionaire than a retired postal clerk." He wears a rumpled shirt and baggy wash-and-wear slacks, lives in a room overlooking a parking lot, has "quit smoking three or four times a year" and drives a five-year- old Cadillac with "erratically functioning windows." Ludwig is less accessible, Fortune said, and hasn't spoken to a journalist since 1963. RE-ELECT REPUBLICAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE 38th LEGISTAT1VE DISTRICT This Ad Authorized and Paid for by Thomas Ewing Campaign Committee, Robert Caughey, Treas. Fertilize in the Fall! Apply Amoco, anhydrous ammonia this fall. Next spring may be too late.

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Standard Oil Division of Amoco Oil Company FINISHING AREA Harmon Motch, Bill Swager Mrs. Motch and William Swager tour the finishing section of the Swager's hog barn where hogs are kept while they grow to market weight. (Leader Photos by J. Faddoul). JL Shepherd, Blackstone, III.

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