The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-22
News Of
Connecticut

Hartford, Conn, Nov. % - (U.P.)
Regarding the operators of small
farms as the only remaining source
Of increasing food production dur
ing the next year, the Connecticut
\State Farm Security Administration
Advisory Committee meets with
regional FSA Director Wilfred
Purdy Tuesday to appraise the pro-
duction situation.
Purdy. director for Connecticut,
Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
said there is no question that our
future increases must come prin-
cipally from the small operators.
Commercial growers have done a
magnificent job, but their future
expansion is limited by machinery
and labor shortages"
Purdy said that small growers,
"using comparatively little mach
inery and depending largely upon
their families for labor, can expand
tremendously, as records show, if
they are supplied with the neces-
sary financial backing and given
expert technical advice. We have
been doing these things and we
hope to do them on a larger scale
during the coming year"
FSA-aided farmers in Connecticut
during the past year increased their
milk production by 80 per cent, as
compared with 3 per cent for all
producers; jumped egg production
81 per cent while the general in
crease was per cent, and upped
poultry production SO per cent as
against Is per cent state average.
During the past Is months, Purdy
said FSA farmers were repaying
loans with interest and requests for
new loans had dropped off sharply.
SOuthingtOn, Conn.,, Nov. a.
(UP)-Funeral services will be held
| Tuesday for Lewis o. Shepard, IS,
former town court Judge and tax
collector, who died Sunday after
an illness. His widow and q son
survive.
New Haven, Conn.,, Nov. IT,
(UP)-Martin Kennedy, 81, Phila-
delphia, a New Haven railroad
worker, was killed early today by
an automobile while walking along
roadway.
Stanley Novak, Bridgeport, op.
orator of the car was held In $500
bond on a technical charge. He
told police that because Of the
heavy rain he did not see Ken
needy in the road.
Hartford, Conn, Nov % - 20.
PO - Governor John j. Dempsey
of New Mexico wrote Governor
Baldwin today, asking him to urge
the Connecticut congressional dele
CATION to support legislation in
creasing crude oil prices so cents
barrel so as to bost production to
meet military requirements and es-
sential driving and fuel needs of
the American public in 1914"
Governor Dempsey wrote I'VE feel
that the united action on the part
of the 48 states will have great in
fiuence in relieving this grave stu
alton"
Governor Baldwin said he would
have copies of the letter sent to the
Connecticut congressman, without
comment from himself.
Hartford, Conn, Nov. 22-(UP)-
Gov. Baldwin today approved the
purchase by the State Board of
Fisheries and ga: lie of eight tenths
of an acre of land at East Twin
Lake, Southbury, for $2625. The lake
is the only one in the state stocked
With sock-eyed Salmon.
Hartford, Conn, Nov. 22-CUP)-
Gov. Baldwin will speak on Con
necticut Looks Ahead" at the Ma
tional Interfraternit' Conference
Friday at Hotel Commodore. New
York city. The conference will be
attended by representatives of So
national college social fraternities.
The governors address will be
broadcast over the NBC Red Net
work.
DR.. Albert N. Jorgensen, President
OF University of Connecticut, also
vii, speak.
Hartford, Nov. 22-(UP)-State
OPA Director Anthony F. Arpaia
said that 10 persons would be ar
rested sometime today by the U.
S. Marshall, charged with viola
tions of OPA gasoline ratiOning
regulations and black market &C
tivities.
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