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The Farmers Home Administration is taking all steps to meet the credit needs of farmers in Rappahannock County hard hit by the severe drought this past summer and'fall, J. Phelps Walker, the agency’s county supervisor reported today. Mr. Walker has just returned from a meeting of national, state and county Farmers Home Administration officials, held in Richmond, Va. where progress made to date in the agency’s emergency j loan program was reviewed.' Jack Frost, Washington national director of FHA’s emergency loan office, assured the Virginia staff of the Farmers Home Administration that adequate funds are available, Mr. Walker reported.
L. Stanford Finney, state director of the Farmers Home Administration with office in Richmond, told the group that every conceivable measure1 niUstb^tkkeh t# a^c^pro^mptly on farmers’ applications and pointed out that if necessary additional personnel will be transferred into the county offices where demand is extremely heavy. The demand for loans may run into the millions of dollars in the 76 Virginia counties designated for emergency loan assistance by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman. Applications for loans may be made at the FHA county office at 608 South Main Street in Culpeper. Emergency loans are specifically designed to help those farmers whose fields, crops, and livestock have been affected by
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