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ASC Committee
Nominations Taken
Slates of nominees for membership on ASC community committees soon will be established at the ASCS County Office. The present ASC Committee is making a special effort to encourage the greatest possible participation of eligible voters in the election. Any local resident who is eligible to take part in an ASCS farm program may vote and may hold office as a committeeman regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin. H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Rappahannock County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, said today that farmers who are eligible to vote in the committee elections also have the right to nominate as candidates for committee membership any farmer who is eligible and willing to serve. Such petitions, each one nominating one farmer and signed by six * or more eligible voters, may be filed at the County Office any time before September 23. Eligible voters may sign as many petitions as they wish. Additional nominations may be made by the incumbent ASC community and county committees.
*We want the best man available to serve on our ASC committees," Chairman Barksdale declared, "because the committee system is the backbone of farm programs — ^hose dealing with conservation of soil and water, as well as the price support activities for various commodities. In the last few years, the farmer-elected committee system -- unique in the history of agriculture — has been studied intensively by a committee of farm and public administration experts especially appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture for that purpose. The system not only
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