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Godfrey Receiving
ASC Service Award
oOne of the highest honors open to career civil servants will go to Horace D. Godfrey, Administrator of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), James E. Warren, Chairman of the Virginia ASC Committee said today. The announcement that Godfrey and nine others would receive the National Civil Servie League’s Career Service Award was made in Washington Wednesday night. The acutal presentation will be at a special ceremony in Washington April 21. Godfrey has been administrator of ASCS and Executive Vice President of the Commodity Credit Corporation of the U. S. Department of Agriculture since 1961. He has been an employee of the agency which administers farm action programs since 1934. He is receiving the award for excellence in several phases of his career in Government. These include efficiency in administration, leadership in career development, advancement of understanding between rurdfl and urban people, assistance to Congress, implementation of equal opportunity in program participation and employment, and fundamental basic improvement in agriculture as a result of his energetic leadership over the years. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman praised the selection of Godfrey for the award. “In his job as administrator, he has accomplished goals that could only have -been reached by a man with his unique combination of long-term career service plus extraordinary leadership and abilfty," Secretary Freeman said.
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