—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 14,1968*
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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. Mrs. Kurtz old Lancaster Farming
the barn and contents of hay, straw and
a few pieces of farm equipment was a com
plete loss. Some firemen were called from
the Keener fire to help at the Kurtz fire.
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free promotion in the August is- JnS
~ ... , type of information on eggi and
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A four-page article on "Now New egg products covered in
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which included a full-color, full- freeze dried scrambled egg mix,
page photograph of imaginative- frozen hard-cooked diced dgg,
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zine goes to the influential man- the whole hard-cooked egg is
agers of hotels, resorts and res- holding its place despite th-* new
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