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STILL UNDER PROTEST, the Rappahannock Supervisors voted at their March 7 meeting to formally request that the county’s existing excess food commodity program be replaced by the Food Stamp program. “They not only make us do something we don’t want to do, they make us ask for it,” commented Chairman Newbill Miller. Mrs. Elizabeth Buntin, head of the county’s welfare activities, was aware of the Supervisors’ feelings, on the basis of previous actions. “I’d like to come up here once in my career and tell you something you would like to hear,” she said. “But today is not the day.”
She then went on to describe how the Food Stamp program is becoming mandatory throughout the nation, and of how the surplus food commodity program is being phased out. She needed a formal resolution endorsing the change, so that preparations can begin to crank up the new program.
Preparations, Mrs. Buntin said, will involve hiring, renting space, acquiring coupons, and making arrangements for^ handling the coupons, which are the equivalent of legal tender. She recommended that the local bank be contacted for handling the stamps.
FRETTING SOMEWHAT, Newbill Miller read from a letter stating that federal action had been approved making the Food Stamp program mandatory
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