Maryland Farm Families Needed To Host Russian Ag Students
ANNAPOLIS. MD The
Maryland Department of Agricul
ture (MDA), Maryland Farm
Bureau (MFB), and other ag orga
nizations are looking for families
to host agricultural students from
Russia this year as part of an
exchange program.
If enough farm family hosts are
found, as many as 30 students age
19-23 would spend two to three
months in Maryland this summer
working on farms and learning
American ways.
The exchange program is an
outgrowth of a cultural exchange
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Also being recruited are Maryland
ag students who would be inter
ested in spending a summer in
Russia on farms.
Host families would be required
to provide room and board for the
exchange students and be encour
aged to hire them to provide the
visitors with pocket money.
Transportation expenses to and
from the United States will be paid
by the students.'
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Robert L. Walker, deputy secret
ary of the Maryland- Department
of Agriculture, said, “the
exchange allows young agricul
turalists to gain a first-hand know
ledge of the people and methods
of farming in both the Soviet
Union and the United States. It’s a
people to people exchange that
allows hosts to learn from the
guests as well.”
Walker of MDA and Elmer
White of MFB are coordinating
the program with officials of the
Soviet Embassy in Washington.
According to Walker, host fam-
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ilies in Maryland need not be able
to speak Russian as students in
Russia selected for the program
will have a working knowledge of
English.
“American students interested
in going to Russia don’t have to
know Russian,” he says, “because
they will be given some Russian
CORTLAND, NY As state
and federal officials prepare then
annual budgets, the New York
State Grange is again calling on
local, state and federal govern
ments to control expenditures to
ease the property tax burden faced
by state residents.
“Residents of this state are
faced with ever increasing proper
ty taxes and the fault lies primarily
with the governments which are
unable or unwilling to act with fis
cal conservativism,” Bert S.
Morse, master of the state Grange,
said today.
Morse was particularly critical
of steps taken by state and federal
governments in recent years to
shift the burden of funding public
services to counties, cities, towns
and villages.
He said it is unfair for the state
and federal governments to cut
their own budgets by passing their
financial troubles on to local gov
ernments which are already
overburdened.
“The Grange continues to be
concerned that no action seems to
be taken to at least hold taxes to
their current level,” Morse said
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language instruction in the Soviet
Union.”
Anyone interested in being a
Maryland host for a Russian ag
student, or in going to Russia as an
exchange ag student for the sum
mer is asked to contact Walker at
301/841-5881 or White at the
Maryland Farm Bureau
301/922-3426.
horn the Cortland headquarters of
the state Grange.
He said economic growth in
recent years has expanded the tax
base and governments should be
able to use this additional revenue
to pay for increased expenses
without having to raise taxes.
The state Grange is also
opposed to governments borrow
ing to pay for capital projects.
Morse said fiscal foresight would
enable governments to plan ahead
for such expenses and borrowing
should be kept to a minimum.
The state Grange is an agricul
tural and rural affairs organization
with 457 Granges in 52 counties
within New York State.
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