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to a marketing quota penalty on the normal yield of the excess acres. The penalty rate for 1961 will continue at 45 pei cent of parity, which for 1960 worked out to a dollar-and-cents penalty rate of $1.08 per bushel.
The wheat price support program for 1961 will be carried out through loans on farm or warehouse stored grain and through purchase agreements. Support will be available from harvest time in the summer of 1961 to the end of January 1962. The tentative support level is a minimum announced in advance of planting, which may be increased on the basis of later information next year but not be reduced.
The total L'.S. wheat supply for the 1960-61 marketing year is now estimated at a new record of 2,682 million bushels, according to the latest L ,S. Department of Agriculture report on the wheat situation received at the local ASC office.
Bridge Party
Mrs. Elizabeth H. DeBergh entertained the Washington bridge club Thursday evening at Harris Hollow Farm. Those playing were Mrs. W. H. Massie, Jr. Mrs. Harry Lee Smith, Mrs. C. B. Palmer. Mrs. Ravner V. Snead. Mrs. C. G. Bruce, Mrs. W. F. Moffett., Mrs. E. M. Jones, and Mrs. John R. DeBergh. A salad course was served and prizes a-? warded Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Massie. Mrs. Moffett and Mrs. Smith.
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