—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 14,1968* 8 THE STILL SMOKING RUBBLE of the Harlan Keener barn located at 1266 Gypsy Hill Road, as it appeared before the sun broke through the clouds Thursday morning. A fire of undertermined origin raged through the 150-year-old barn late Wednesday night. The loss was set at 560,- 000. In another barn fire only 8 miles from Keener’s at 3 a.m. Thursday morning the 56,000 Rural Families Get $494 Million In USDA Housing Credit The Farmers Home Admmis- gram started, Mr Freeman said tailored to individual needs and 1 ration advanced a record $494 Farmers Home Admimstra- f !1 , loan . s aie accompanied by million in credit assistance, to technical assistance and super nore than 56,000 mral families tlon houslng loans 31 p made t 0 vision from any one of about oi the purchase construction oi applicants unable to obtain cied- 1600 local county offices. mpiovement of their homes 'anng fiscal 1968, Secretary of agriculture Oiville L Freeman .nnounced today ‘We are now making substan hal pi Ogress in our effoits to mprove lural housing and with he new housing legislation le ;ently enacted we have set a ,oal of eliminating the some 3 million substandard homes in iural Ameuca within a decade,” Secretary Freeman said Ninety-eight peicent of the funds advanced undei this pro giam was piovided by private mvestois on an insuied basis, Jir Freeman said The $494 million in credit as .istance was used foi vauous housing piogram -$4613 million was loaned to ndividual families, other than -enior citizens -$l2 3 million was loaned to bout 4 350 individual senior cit zens 62 years and ovei This piogram was started in 1961 -anothei $l3 2 million went oi the construction or impiove nent of rental housing units for '3OO iural residents, including bout 965 senioi citizens Since his piogram was authorized in -963, moie than $25 8 million ■'as been advanced foi rental ’’ousing in uual aieas -S7 2 million was advanced for iie constiuction of low-ient ■ousing foi domestic farm labor Secretary Freeman said that ■n addition to impioving the quality of housing in ruial Ameuca, the present building ■ ate i esultmg fi om the pi ogram '3 cieating moie than 39,000 nan-years of on-site employ ment, and most of this is in ar eas where theie is much unem ployment and underemployment Repayments on principal and interest exceed the amount that has fallen due Losses on rural housing loans aie less than two one-hundi ediths of 1 percent of the total loaned since the pro- barn of Arthur Kurtz, New Providence HI was leveled by fire also of undetermined origin. 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Photo Tibet’s Rainfall Although rainfall in the Him alayas often reaches 200 inches annually during the monsoon season, the rest of Tibet is one oi the driest areas in the world, v ith a precipitation of less than eight inches per year it elsewhere. The program is Large-Scale Food Managers Urged To Try New Egg Products Egg* and new egg products meal* daily and are an inipor received almost $B,OOO worth of tont consumer of eggs. free promotion in the August is- JnS ~ ... , type of information on eggi and sue of Institutions magazine, re- ncw e gg products supplied by ports Dr. L. A. Wilhelm, presi- peNB and, to encourage ui,e of dent of the Poultry and Egg Na- the products by large-scale food llonal Board. - operations. Included recipes with a yield of 50 to 300 serving!!. A four-page article on "Now New egg products covered in convenience in Buying Eggs,” elude fresh frozen whole .*ggs, which included a full-color, full- freeze dried scrambled egg mix, page photograph of imaginative- frozen hard-cooked diced dgg, ly decorated hard-cooked eggs, maringue powder, eggnog pow would have cost the egg indus- dor, egg salad mix. fresh fuwen try $7,895 if the monthly niaga- egg blend and egg custard mix. zinc’s regular advertising rates T . . _ .. ... .. had been eharned he said In closin g- the article ? ald had Been charged, he said. tnbute to the old-fashioned egg. The 85,000-circulation maga- It noted: “A long-time favoute, zine goes to the influential man- the whole hard-cooked egg is agers of hotels, resorts and res- holding its place despite th-* new taurants, including managers of egg products that are steadily chains, and also to officials of invading the scene. 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