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Farmers in Rappahannock County are reminded that com munity elections of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation farmer-committeemen will soon take place. H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, ASC County Committee, said that a farmer will be eligible to cast a ballot for the men he wants to represent him on the committee if he is participating or is eligible to participate in one or more of the national farm programs administered locally by the farmer-committeemen. Such a person is eligible to vote in the committee election if he or she is of legal voting age and a farm owner, tenant, or sharecropper, or, if not of legal voting age, in charge of the farming operations on an entire farm. Programs. administered by the ASC county and community committees in Virginia include the Agricultural Conservation Program, acreage allotments, marketing quotas, commodity p r i c e-supports, the feed grain program, the voluntary wheat program, the national wool program, farnr storage facility loans, anc others as assigned by the Secretary of Agriculture. Throughout R a p p a hannock County, local elections will be held by mail September 3C through October 15, 1964. For purposes of the community committee election, fol lowing are the five (5) communities in Rappahannock County: Stonewall, Wakefield, Hampton, Piedmont, and Jackson.
The elections will choose three community committeemen and two alternates. The chairman, vice chairman, and regular member of the elected ASC committee will also serve respectively as delegate, alternate delegate, and second alternate delegate to the county convention to be held or Friday, October 23, where th< ASC county committee will b<
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