A27867e American Friends Service Committee__. Atencio, Tomas, assistant director for program development and evalu- ation, Colorado Migrant Council_ Bartlett, Clyde, director, Maine Office of Economic Opportunity. Bertsch, Howard, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration_ Bryan, Billie, manager, Caddo Electric Cooperative, Binger, Okla___ Carstenson, Dr. Blue A., representing the National Farmers Union. Carter, Lisle C., Jr., Assistant Secretary for Individual and Family Cochran, Clay, executive director, International Self-Help Housing Corona, Bert, president, Mexican-American Political Association_ - - . Crangle, Charles L., assistant director for program operations, New Doyle, Mortimer B., executive vice president, National Forest Prod- 431 Esser, George H., Jr., National Association for Community Develop- 551 Freeman, Hon. Orville L., Secretary of Agriculture. 1 Garcia, Robert G., Director, Division of Economic Opportunity, State Graham, Harry, legislative representative, the National Grange- Greeley, Arthur W., Associate Chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Hansen, Hon. Julia Butler, a Representative in Congress from the Harding, Bert, Deputy Director, Office of Economic Opportunity---- Hendricks, Logan B., Associate Administrator, Small Business Hillenbrand, Bernard, executive director, National Association of Hoff, Hon. Philip H., Governor of Vermont__. Huber, J. David, National Association for Community Development-- Ingram, Clifford, National Association for Community Development__ Johnson, Hon. Harold T., a Representative in Congress from the State Kiley, Edward W., National Rural Electric Cooperative Association__ Lynn, John C., legislative director, American Farm Bureau Federa- 571 853 475 195 585 468 Mansfield, Jack P., director, Center for the Study of Unemployed Youth, Graduate School of Social Work, New York University. Marshall, Robert, executive director, Self-Help Enterprises, Visalia, 127 749 541 455 564 Statement of-Continued Mercure, Alex, director, home education livelihood program, Albu- Montgomery, Bob, administrative assistant to Hon. G. V. Mont- Moore, Hon. Dan, Governor of North Carolina_ Page 97 645 695 870 Olson, Donald J., editor, Marshall Messenger, Marshall, Minn. 518 170 419 Rustad, Wallace, area development specialist, Basin Electric Power 488 Ruttenberg, Hon. Stanley H., Assistant Secretary of Labor__ Smith, Robert Neal, on behalf of the Governor of the State of Wis- Threatt, W. Frank, president, Congaree Iron & Steel Co., Inc_______ Walker, Hon. E. S., Johnny, a Representative in Congress from the Watts, Lowell H., director for extension and university services, Wyman, O. Lewis, State program coordinator, Cooperative Exten- 312 Correspondence submitted to the subcommittee: Anderson, Hon. Clinton P., a U.S. Senator from the State of New 285 Bell, Theron J., Director, Office of Economic Opportunity, State of 855 Bernal, Joe J., Senate of the State of Texas, Austin, letter of June 12, 285 Black, Col. Joseph A., chief, New Mexico State Police, letter of June 286 Castillo, Albert C., Stockton, Calif., letter of April 6, 1967, to Mr. Bert 168 Kirk, Hon. Claude, Governor of the State of Florida, letter of June 27, 856 Matthew, John C., associate for town and country ministries, Board 863 Ralston, N. P., Deputy Administrator, Federal Extension Service, 375 Correspondence submitted to the subcommittee Continued Sloan, Frank K., regional director, Office of Economic Opportunity, Thompson, Myron B., administrative director, executive chambers, 858 Bilingualism: A Problem or an Asset, by Dr. Clark S. Knowlton_ Caddo Helps Its Kids___ 477 Causes of Land Loss Among the Spanish Americans in Northern New 209 Community Development, by E. W. Mueller, Department of Church Condition of Farm Workers and Small Farmers in 1966, by Fay Cooperative Extension Service, College of Agriculture, Urbana, Ill. Economic Environment and Urban Development, by Johnathan 556 of Rural Spanish-American Villages of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, by Dr. Clark S. Knowlton_ Impact of Social Change Upon Selected Social Systems of the Spanish- American Villages of Northern New Mexico, by Dr. Clark S. Laborers Stage Protest on Housing- Land Question in New Mexico, by Dr. Clark S. Knowlton....... Logan-Union-Champaign Tri-County Community Development Semi- Responsibilities of the States in the War on Poverty, by Hon. Joseph S. Clark, a U.S. Senator from the State of Pennsylvania.. Sign by the Side of the Road, by Edward W. Kiley. 476 207 Social Consequences of Economic Deprivation, article by Tomas 149 Some Present Trends and Prospects Among Indians of the Southwest, 267 South Virginia Co-op Helps Reduce Underemployment, by Edward 479 Spanish Americans in New Mexico, by Dr. Clark S. Knowlton_-_ 242 246 368 EFFECT OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS ON RURAL AMERICA TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1967 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:30 a.m., in room 1302, Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Joseph Y. Resnick (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Resnick, Poage, Nichols, Montgomery, Goodling, and Mathias. Also present: Martha Hannah, subcommittee clerk; and Fowler C. West, assistant staff consultant. Mr. RESNICK. We will open the hearings of the Rural Development Subcommittee of the House Committee on Agriculture. The purpose of these hearings is to see how various Federal programs, especially the newer Federal programs, are reaching and affecting the people in rural America. In particular, we are looking at the impact they have, whether this money is reaching them, whether these programs are reaching them, and just how much good the programs are doing. At this time our first witness is Secretary of Agriculture, the Honorable Orville Freeman. STATEMENT OF HON. ORVILLE L. FREEMAN, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, ACCOMPANIED BY ROBERT E. NIPP OF THE FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION Mr. FREEMAN. Mr. Chairman, Congressman Montgomery, I appreciate the opportunity to come here on the opening of testimony on this very, very important, complicated and complex and sometimes misunderstood program and challenge. With your leave, Mr. Chairman, I am going to do something that I have not done in the many times I have appeared before this committee and others in Congress, that is, to respond to that old Chinese admonition that a picture is worth a thousand words, and to show some slides that I think tell a story much more effectively than words alone could do, a story of progress, a story of example as to what can be done. When I became Secretary of Agriculture in 1961, farmers and their rural neighbors in the thousands of small communities and towns across America were faced with almost insurmountable problems. They had seen the passing years extinguish the flame of rural opportunity. And they had few tools with which to fight back. |