Friday, March 9, 1973
Washington Report
— By —
CONGRESSMAN WALTER B. JONES
Again last week the House
attempted to eiqiress its wishes
in regard to priorities con
cerning an approach to a
balanced budget. A bill from the
Agriculture Committee which
would resUve the Rural Water
and Sewer Grant Program
under the Farmers Home
Administration was approved
by a vote of 297 to 54, This is a
program which has been in
existence since 1965 wherein
PHA provides loans and grants
to rural communities to im
prove their water and sewer
systems and more recently, to
comply with environmental
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legislation passed by the
Congress. On January ii,
President Nixon announci^ the
termination of all grants under
this program, but a con
tinuation of the loans. Par too
many small communities have
no tax base or any other way to
raise the necessary money to
replace the prior "existing
grants; so the legislation which
the House approved deleted the
words in the original Act “is
authorized to,” and inserted in
lieu thereof, the word “shall.”
This, of course, means that it
will be a congressional mandate
for this grant program to
continue. Even some of the
President’s strongest sup-
portors on the RepubUcan side
agreed that this is one of the
most valuable and worthwhile
programs which has ever been
enacted for the benefit of rural
The age of chiva
and one of calculators anL
economists has succeeded.—
Edmund Burke.
Cities force growth, and make
men talkative and entertairdng,
but they make them artificial.—
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
America. It should be kept in
mind that rural pollution affects
the city dweller as much as it
does the rural resident, and a
continuation of this program
will add much to providing a
better and cleaner atmosplKre
for all of us.
Also last week the House
Committee on Agriculture spent
many hours considering the
future of the Rural Elec-
triflcation Program in this
nati(Mi. At the present time, the
entire program is terminated
by Executive Order and the
Committee is working on
compromise legislation which
hopefully will be acceptable to
the Acbninistration and the
Congress as well as those af
fect^. The compromise would
eliminate to some degree the 2
percent loans, and put some of
the co-ops in a position of paying
a more compatible rate of in
terest consistent with the cost of
money to the government. It
would also create a revolving
fund thereby eliminating the -
necessity of the Treasury fund
ing this program from year to
year. Vi^e recognizing the
value and the contribution that
the electric co-ops have made in
the years past, certainly it is
time to re-examine the original
Act which was passed in
another day under other con
ditions and upgrade the
modernize a sensiUe approach
to the problems of elecMc co
ops.
We sometimes think of the
Committee on Agriculture as
not being a too effective voice in
the Congress, but I am proud to
say that of the five major bills
considered by the House for this
the 93rd Congress, four have
been from the Committee on
Agriculture, while the other
Conunittees continue to hold
unending hours of public
hearings on various and sundry
matters.
Sunday, I had the pleasure of
participating in the dedication
ceremonies in Morehead City
for a new Administration
Building for the Morehead Port.
Many of us living nearby
sometimes fail to realize the
importance of this operation
and what it means to tiie total
economy which, of course,
includes e)q>editious shipping of
agricultural products, such as
tobacco, soybeans and other
grains. In my opinion, this port
means much to the total
economy and deserves the
interest and support of all
citizens of eastern. North
Carolina.
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