Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-01-02
RESETTLEMENT TO
EXPAND ACTIVITIES
1904 Additional Families
To Be Assisted Toward
Owning of Farms.
Daily Dispatch RurcnM.
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Raleigh, Jan with 6,996 farm
families already being assisted by It's
farm rehabilitation program IN Nortn
Carolina, the ReSettlement ADMINS
traton plans to extend it's rehablHta-
ton activities to 1904 additional farm
families between now and May j, 1886,
and funds for this expansion OF the
farm rehabilitation are already avail
able, it was learned today from rhe
regional and state offices of the Re
settlement Administration here. OF
the 1904 additional farm families
which the rehabilitation division ex-
poets to take over within the next
four months, to bring the total to the
states full quota of 1890 families
to be assisted by the rehabilitation
program, 1904 of the families Will be
standard rehabilitation cases with
farm and home plans provided, while
1900 will be emergency cases takes
over from relief rolls.
The farm families being assisted by
the rehabilitation division are those
which because Of unfortunate circum-
stances such as illness, poor manage
ment, worn out land, lack of training
and so forth, are not financially sol
vent but nevertheless are industrious,
willing to work and deserving, 1T was
pointed out by Homer H. Il. Mask,
regional director Of Resettlement of
Region Four, which includes North
Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee. The reha-
Utilization division, of which Vance q.
Swift is state director, is extending
aid to those families by providing
trained agricultural and home man.
agement supervisors to advise them.
1t is also extending loans TO rehablll-
tation families to enable them to pur-
chase food supplies. seed, fertilizer,
tools, mules and other needed live
stock. If these families have mort
gares on their farms, they are also as
sisted by the farm debt adjustment
service which helps these farmers
refinance their loans in such way
as to enable them to retire them by
small payment.
These farm families are also being
given an opportunity to work togeth-
or with other families in acquiring
farm equiprcGnt and community ser
vices they cannot afford individually,
by providing loans on a cooperative
basis to groups of families.
Three large scale land dernOnstra-
ton projects are already under way
in the state by the Resettlement Ad-
ministration, in addition to the rehab-
iitation work. These projects, COM
prising $4,000 acres, are the Crabtree
Creek Recreation Park of 5000 acres
GY.l~ So1f or
and Singletary Lakes land project of
10000 acres in Bladen county and the
Sandhills land utilization projects of
$4,000 acres in Hole, Richmond, Scot
land, Montgomery and Moore coun-
ties Each is designed to show for
mer relief families how they may get
o new start on better lands and how
the old, WORKOUT lands may be used
for the benefit of the entire state in
son-crOp growing uses.
Looking toward greater activity in
1886, plans have been submitted for
zine agricultural resettlement COM
munity projects in the state to be
composed of $3.50 acres to be diVid-
ed UP into 1880 farmsteads for as
many farm families. Preliminary APP
prevail has already been given to five
of these projects comprising 31,S43
acres to provide for GAO families at a
cost of $1,222,303 The development
of these projects will provide employ
ment for $3.50 workers at an addi-
tional cost Of $1,520,542.
During 1880, Resettlement intends
to complete Penderlea Farmsteads,
near Wilmington, started by the sub
sistence division Of the Department of
the Interior, before all Of these acti-
vities were transferred to the Resettle
ment Administration und tire Depart
ment Of Agriculture. A farm tenant
Rroject is also in prospect which con-
templates the purchase of 100 farms
for 100 selected tenant farmers in the
state who can convince investigators
they can pay for these farms.
Accordingly, Regional Director
Mask and Assistant Director James
M. Gray, believe that 1886 is going
to be an even buster year for Reset
tlement activities in North Carolina
than was 1886