The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1960-11-11
In Cumberland County Units Program
Halt OF Some Forms OF Federal
Aid Recommended By Farm Bureau

CUMBERLAND, Nov. 10 - j.
c. Rea, Jr., will head the Cum
berland County Farm Bureau in
1861. Other officers elected at
recent meeting include Eric Rob-
inson, vice president: and Gar
land Clements, secretary and
treasurer.
Directors selected from the
various county districts are: j.
H. Bryant and Mrs. Rebecca
French. Madison; E. C. Walton,
Jr., and Eldridge Blanton. Hamil-
ton; and Leroy Welchlin and
Glen Easter, Randolph.
Directors at large are Charlie
Goodman and L. w. Midkiff. Rea
and Mrs. French were elected
delegates to the state convention,
and funds for Rea to attend the
National convention in Denver,
Colorado. were voted.
The following recommendation
were approved by the organi-
Zation:
National
l. Many tobacco acreage allot-
mentS are too small to be worked
economically. We recommend
amending the tobacco marketing
regulations SO as to permit the
selling and buying of acreage al
lotments in much the same man
ner that milk bases may be sold
and bought when dairy farmers
sell out their herds.
2. We recommend that the 1860
American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton policy on public schools be
reaffirmed with particular en-
phasis on the paragraph oppos-
ing expanded federal aid to ele-
mentary and secondary educa-
ton.
3. On our small federal aid sec
ondary road projects we see an
appalling waste of money. Roads
carrying comparatively light
traffic are built as though meant
to be boulevards. Federal in
spectors are kept on the job dur
ing long periods of bad weather
when there is nothing to inspect.
Meanwhile many miles of dirt
road badly in need of hard sur
facing remain uni1nproved due to
lack of funds. Undoubtedly the
waste of money on larger federal
aid projects is proportionally
greater.
We feel that this waste on sec
ondary road projects can only be
stopped by the elimination of fed
eral aid to such projects. We
recommend that the burden of
financing public roads be shifted |
back to the states where it be-
longs. This would necessitate a
shifting of the tax burden back |
to the states, but the overall |
gasoline tax could be reduced. |
Our tax dollars would no longer
undergo the shrinkage they now
suffer when returned to the states
from Washington.
We are saddled with the fed
eral interstate highway program
which consumes SO much of our
state highway revenues that even
routine maintenance of our sec
ondary roads must be curtailed.
We strongly oppose any expan-
sion of this program.
|. We recommend that the 1859
Virginia Farm Bureau policy on
Polio Shots be amended so as to
make it compulsory that the
three necessary polio shots be
given during the first year of the
child's life.
2. We feel that the 1859 Vir-
ginia Farm Bureau position on
The Seventh Commandment is
insufficiently strong and there
fore reaffirm our 1859 Cumber-
land Farm Bureau recommen-
dation which read as follows:
Whereas there appears to be a
diSpropOrtionate use of welfare
funds for the support of unwed
mothers and Legitimate chill
dren, with a consequent demora-
lization of the population, we
recommend that Virginia Farm
Bureau support legislation de-
signed to curtau the high rate
of illegitimacy and to release
funds now used for the support
of such people so that they may
be available more generally for
the support of elderly and other
needy people. We specifically