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Jack Frost, left, Washington National Director of Farmers Home Administration’s Emergency Loan Office; J. Phelps Walker, center, Farmers Home Administration County Supervisor for Rappahannock County; and L. Stanford Finney, right, Farmers Home Administration State Director for Virginia, at a meeting in Richmond recently, discuss the 1963 drought and need by farmers for emergency credit.
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