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Analyzing Rural Groivth
An analysis of the pattern of
public investments in three rural
communities, issued last week by
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA), points out
that communities may use very
different options for funding
captial expenditures depending
on population shifts.
The report by USDA’s
Economic Research Service
details the patterns, magnitude,
and sources of funds used for
selected capital expenditures in
three rural communities in
Washington state between 1930
and 1965. In one community the
population was growing, in
another it was stable, and in a
third, declining.
The growing community in
vested in municipal services at a
level approximately six times
greater than the declining
community and three times
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greater than the stable com
munity over the 36-year period.
Similarly, expenditures per
capita for education in the growth
community was $402 greater than
expenditures in the declining
community and $BB greater than
the stable community, (constant
dollars).
Each community used a
distinct set of options for funding
municipal capital expenditures.
The growing community relied
primarily on special property
assessments on local parcels of
property (the local improvement
district) and increased its bonded
indebtedness. In contrast, the
declining community used out
side financial aid (in
tergovernmental transfers) to
finance over half of all capital
investment.
The stable community funded a
significant part of its total ex-
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tergovernmental transfers.
However, the largest single
source of its investment capital
came from surpluses from
current revenue, accruals, in
vestment earnings, short-term
indebtedness, and other
miscellaneous sources.
A copy of “Public Investments
and Population Changes in Three
Rural Washington State Towns,”
AER 236, is available free on
postcard (please include zipcode)
or telephone (447-7255) request
from the Office of Com
munication, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
20250.
Fur Dealers
Warned About
Meat Sales
The Department of Agriculture
has notified all licensed Penn
sylvania raw fur dealers against
illegal sales of carcasses for
meat comsumption.
Secretary Jim McHale
disclosed that through a recent
investigation by department food
inspectors, it was learned that
meat from animals who have
died other than by slaughter is
reaching the market for con
sumer comsumption. This in
cludes carcasses of muskrat,
raccoon and opossum.
As a result, McHale has or
dered a crackdown on dealers
who are not denaturing their
skinned carcasses immediately.
Glorio J Patsy, acting director
of the Bureau of Foods and
Chemistry, explained that under
the General Food Law meat from
animals that have died other than
by slaughter is considered
adulterated. Further, the law
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. February 3,1973
Neppco Charts
New Directions
“The best service the Nor
theastern Poultry Producers
Council (NEPPCO) can perform
for its members now and in the
immediate future is to act in the
multiple capacity as a watchdog,
a voice, and an information
clearinghouse for the industry in
the Northeast,” declared
NEPPCO’s Executive Director,
Richard I. Ammon, in addressing
the annual meeting of the Ver
mont Poultry Association, held
here today in conjunction with
the Vermont Farm Show in
Barre’s Memorial Auditorium.
Speaking on “NEPPCO and the
New Poultry Politics”, Ammon
first recounted how and why
NEPPCO was organized and
briefly reviewed its major ac
complishments over the 41 years
of its existence. Last fall, he said,
new officers and a number of new
directors were elected to the
Council’s Board. One of the first
actions of this new Board was to
order a restructuring of NEPP
CO to meet three basic ob
jectives :
1. That membership in NEPP
CO be structured around the
people who own birds;
2 That filling the needs of
members be the overriding ob
jective of all of NEPPCO’s
programs and activities; and,
3. That the past casual
relationship between NEPPCO
and its affiliated state
associations be strengthened so
that all services and activities
provides that possession of
adulterated meat is considered
evidence of intent to sell the
meat.
Patsy said the law requires
that the meat be denatured with
kerosene or some other agent
approved by the department,
thereby rendering the meat unfit
for food.
are closely coordinated between
regional and state offices.
To meet these objectives,
Ammon continued, the Board
directed the staff to begin im
mediately to set up a program
that will be known as AID,
meaning “Action in Depth”,
which will be able to help
members with technical,
legislative, regulatory and inter
industry problems.
The Technical AID program,
he expalined, will operate like
this. Whenever a producer
member runs into a problem
relating to ecology, or waste
disposal, or residues, or a special
or unusual disease, or housing, or
nutrition, or any similar
technical matter, he simply calls
the NEPPCO office. NEPPCO
will have an up-dated file of the
most knowledgeable people in the
Northeast on that particular
problem - the person or persons
to contact to get the answer - and,
depending on the situation,
NEPPCO will either direct its
member to that person or obtain
the answer for him.
Other programs will be
somewhat similarly structured
and all will be coordinated with
state poultry association, college
and state government officials.
To do these things requires a
sizeable membership with a
broad base of industry support,
Ammon pointed out. Ac
cordingly, the most intensive
membership drive in NEPPCO’s
history will be launched in
another month with Dr John
Dodge of Agway, one of NEPP
CO’s new directors, as General
Chairman.
Turning to the political scene,
Ammon concluded his remarks
with a review of the changes
taking place in the Department of
Agriculture and in the Congress,
as well as the probable thrust of
legislation this year.
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