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The approaching election of ASC community committees for farm program administration in Rappahannock Couni ty was announced today by H. S. Barksdale, Chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee.
The community committees assist the ASC county committee in administering the price support, acreage diversion, agricultural conservation, and other farm-action programs in the county; they are particularly responsible for keeping their neighbors informed about the programs. The county committee supervises the ASCS County Office and is responsible for the administration of the various programs. Voting will be by mail, the Chairman explained, and ballots will be mailed on September 30, 1966 to each known eligible voter. In case eligible voters fail to receive a ballot! through the mail, ballots can; be obtained at the Rappahannock ASCS Office. Generally, a farm owner, tenant, or share| cropper is eligible to vote if I
he is eligible to take part inj one or more of the programs! administered by the A SC committees. Eligibility to vote1 or to hold office as a com-! mitteeman is not restrictedl by reason of race, color, creedi or national origin. Envelopes containing marked ballots may be mailed or returned to the ASCS County Office, anytime before Octo-i ber 13, 1966. Ballots will be tabulated publicly by the county committee October 18, 1966 at 9 a.m. in the county office. The public is invited to wit-! ness the vote counting. Following are the slates of nominees for ASC community committees: Stonewall - W. R. Burke, Daniel Jacobs, J. M. O’Bannon, H. B. Wood, Jr., James Falls, and Raymond Johnson; Piedmont - Jake Fincham, Thomas R. Taylor, Brown Miller, A. H. Buckner, III, Earl Kilby, L. J. Kilby, Elmer Atkins, and Luther S. Jenkins; Hampton - Thomas Massie, Wade H. Massle, III, Aubrey Keyser, Marshall Burke, George W. Beahm, Alice R. Wood, Thomas Lee; Wakefield - D. M. Eastham, Stanley Underwood, Thomas Williams,' Thomas Eastham, E. J. Welch, Roland Welch,
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