Farmers are given a "lastminute”

Farmers are given a "lastminute” reminder about important ASC committee elections now being held in Rappahannock County. Ballots were mailed from the county office on Friday, October 1, 1965. The elections are to choose farmer-committeemen who will serve for the next year as local administrators of national farm-action programs.

According to H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee, these ASC committeemen have broad important program responsibilities, which makes it all the more urgent that representative farmers be elected to the job. Programs administered by the committeemen include the Agricultural Conservation Program, acreage allotments, marketing quotas, commodity loans, the feed grain program, the voluntary wheat program, the livestock feed program, the National Wool program, and farm storage facility loans ( and other duties are assigned to the committees by the Secretary of Agriculture as the need arises. Explaining the election procedure, the Chairman said that each year qualified voters -- farmers who are eligible to take part in one or more of the farm programs which the committees administer - elect a community committee from among their own number. The chairman, vice chairman, and regular member of this committee also serve as delegates to a county convention, where the ASC county committee is elected. Throughout Virginia, eligible voters will vote by mail ballots this week for community committeemen. To be counted, ballots must be postmarked by midnight October 13 or be returned to the ASCS county office in person by that date. Chairman Barksdale urged all qualified voters to be sure to cast their ballots. Eligibility to vote or hold office as a committeeman is not restricted by reason of race, color, creed, or national origin.