New Approach Results In Twice
The Income On Widow’s Farm
What happens to the ?: farm
when the farmer dies and his
widow has to take it over?
Let’s look at the case of'Mrs.
Lela Burns of Cumberland
County. Her husband died in
1955, leaving her a farm that
she knew little about managing.
Realizing her inadequacy, she
put the farm in the soil bank.
“Two years later, Mrs. Burns
decided that she and her ten
ant would have to try to run
the farm,” says F. E. Leathers,
assistant Negro agent. ‘'But she
soon found out that she didn’t
know enough about management
of a farm.”
The farm started downhill and
picked up speed. “From 1955 to
1960, I didn’t make any money
on the farm,” she says.,
In 1959, they grew five acres
of tobacco. It averaged 1,000
pounds per acre, for which they
got about 45 cents a pound.
Gross income from tobacco was
only $2,250.
That same year, her six acres
of peanuts yielded 640-,. pounds
(eight bags) per acre. Total pea
nut income was $405.
Mrs. Burns decided she need
ed help, and she turned to
Leathers. He put her on the
Farm and Home Development
Program.
“I found that her farm was
plagued with improper' manage
ment practices, lack of nutrients
No Comment
By JAMES W. DOUTHAT
AssiMxnt Vice I'reaident, Government
Relations Division of the National
Association of Manufacturers
NO COMMENT is a report of
incidents on the national scale,
and does not necessarily reflect
NAM policy or position. M “
Washington Congressional
leaders on both sides of the
aisle have raised their battle
flags over what may be the
most important domestic legis
lative controversy of the 87 th
Congress . . . Federal Aid to
Education.
With Senate approval com
pleted, the final showdown will
come when the House of Repre
sentatives considers the three
year $2.5 billion Federal . Aid
Program for public elementary
and secondary schools. The
vote is now expected to come
late in June or early in July.
Congressional activity is al
ready heavy, with both pro-and
anti-administration strategists un
dertaking their own “education”
prbgrams to educate members
on battle plans.
A document produced by the
U. S. Office of Education is be
ing pointed to in Congress as
evidence of the inevitability of
federal domination of school
policies if a federal aid plan
is approved.
The publication, prepared by
staff members, is described by
Rep. Lipscomb (R-Calif.)*' as
“nothing short of amazing^*
What it does, he says, is to
emphasize the contemplated role
of the Federal Government in
directing and controlling > ( the
educational processes o!'the na
tion —long considered basically a
local function. / I
Mir. Lipscomb quoted at length
from the document (
Among other things the re
port said the Federal Office of
Education must stimulate and
participate in the process of for
mulation, examination, and re
formulation of the goals of- our
national society in terms of ed
ucational objectives.” j j
Further, he said, the pamphlet
states that in the 1960’s the Of
fice “must assume a new role,
speaking within the ■ Federa'
Government, for the long-term
interests of education; md it
must render assistance Uk. the
development of public qjiuca
tional policy.”
Proponents of Federal AS(t to
Education have strongly denied
that it would lead
control. ' Jp
But Rep. Lipscomb, OTter a
study of the publicatmulsays
that “It should empha#o*Hy and
completely put at rest any
doubts that wheels an*.- tuning
—end turning fast—in ite di
rection" of federal control (over
education.”
To many Members of Con
gress, the most
of the education bill 'ls “Title
If which provided federiff aid
for impacted areas. These are
areas where classroom over
crowding'has resulted from gov
ernment
of this title in the gfeneraf bill
has created major troubles for
in the soil, crop diseases, the
wrong kind of seed and poor
cultural methods,” says Leath
ers.
Farm and Home Development
has reversed the farm’s down
hill trend.
It began with a soil test last
year of all land on the farm.
Mrs. Bums followed all recom
mendations based on the test —
liming, application of sulfate and
muriate potash, accurate top
dressing, proper cultural prac
tices—on her 1960 crops.
On her tobacco, the yield
jumped to 1,600 pounds per acre
—with less fertilizer and no top
dressing. It sold for 65 cents
a pound.
"Mrs. Bums got $5,200 for the
crop off the same five acres,”
says Leathers. “In other words,
using 650 pounds less fertilizer,
she made $2,950 more than in
1959.”
On the peanuts, she got 1,700
pounds per acre 1,060 more
than the previous year. She
was paid $1,013 for the crop,
compared to $405 in 1959.
“The Farm and. Home De
velopment approach has helped
boost income on the Burns farm
by $3,558 in one year,” says
Leathers.
And a Tar Heel widow rea
lizes it’s not necessarily the man,
it’s the method that determines
the success of a farm.
new bill providing the federal
cash for these impacted areas
would be enacted.
There has been considerable
skirmishing over the order of
consideration of various educa
tion bills. In addition to the
major bill, there is a higher ed
ucation bill carrying money for
college facilities construction and
scholarships and there is another
bill providing for extension and
expansion of the National De
fense Education Act As of now
there is no certainty which of
these bills will be brought to
| the House floor first. But this
!is really a side issue. The
battleline- of the controversy
over central versus local school
control is the three-year s2tfe
billion omnibus bill, H.R. 7300.
House voting will be close.
Many members are still listed in
the “undecided” category by
floor leaders on both sides.
',V' "it ; ' - •
Very Close Race
In Little League
Continued from Page 1, Section 1
The Rotary team had a fine
week. They defeated the Lions
15 to 1 and the Jaycees 5 to 3.
The Pony League will swing
into action on Thursday after
noon at 3 o’clock. They will
play a team from Cross Roads.
The top ten batters, based on
20 times at bat, for the Little
League follows:
AB H Pet.
Mike Overton 37 20 .541
Wesley Chesson 40 18 .450
Danny Hassell 34 15 .441
Ronnie Harrell 33 14 .424
Buddy White 39 15 .384
Bill Mitchener 47 17 .362
Larry Overton 38 13 .342
Curtis Leary 40 13 .325
Troy Bailey 35 11 .314
Guy Williams 42 12 .310
Team Standings
W L Pet.
Rotary ...7 6 .538
Corvairs 8 6 .571
Jaycees 9 5 .643
Lions 3 10 .231
Changes Announced
For ASC Offices
Continued from Page 1. Section 1
ington level is now Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Service (ASCS).
The new organization will as
sume most of the functions of
the former CSS and will remain
under the Assistant Secretary for
Agricultural Stabilization James
T. Ralph.
Another change in connection
with this reorgrriization brought
the Agricultural Conservation
Program service under Mr. God
frey’s jurisdiction "as a part ‘of
ASCS in Washington, D. C.
" Hassell also stated' that export
operations, formerly functions of
CSS, as well as the office of the
General Sales Manager and the
'Barter and Stockpiling Division
have been transferred out of the
CSS or ASCS to - the Foreign
Agricultural Service.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Boyd Har
less, Jr., announce die birth of
a daughter, bdm ’’Monday, July
3rd. ,
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