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Show HOME TOWN REPORTER 61 Rural Phone Coops Loaned $18.8 Million Last Year by REA By WALTER A. SHEAD pHE RURAL electrification has allocated to 61 borrowers tor the rural telephone program Involving miles of line and 74,585 subscribers in the first year ot Its operation. This allocation was made trom a total ot 609 applications amounting to $60,470,956. The state of Texas leads in actual allocation of loans with seven borrowers, or new telewith $4,704,000 for phone 6,869 miles of line and 15,461 subscribers. Minnesota comes second, Louisiana third. New Mexico fourth, then cornea Iowa, Indiana, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Utah and Alabama in the order named. The loan allocations have been mad to 20 newly formed farmer and to 41 commercial As was pointed out in companies. this column last week, work of the rural telephone program will be hampered and cut back considerably during the coming year due to lack of money and the scarcity of essential materials.' For instance approximately $30,000,000 Is available for 1951 fiscal year, but there will be only about $14,000,000 for 1952. If you do not have telephone service on your farm write to the rural electrification administration, department of agriculture, Washington, D.C., and ask for their booklet "A Telephone for Your Farm. Answers to all questions are in$18,-631,0- 21,-4- 00 08 . - - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1951 The Dragerton Tribune, Dragerton, Utah Page 10 co-op- s, cluded. House Throws Out Bill You can lobby and high pressure a small group of men much easier than you can a house is That committee. appropriations the answer to the backward step taken by that house committee when by a coalition vote of 31 to 18 the committee overrode its chairman. Rep. Clarence Cannon of Missouri, and threw the singlepackage appropriation bill into the ash can. As a result the house will obsolete go back to the methods of making up appropriations for the government expenses in 11 separate measures, considered by 11 separate passed at separate times which prevents any member from knowing what expenses of government will be until the final eleventh bill is passed. Another reason for the retrogressive step was the Jealousy for power, for under the single package - appropriation bill the chairmanships for these 11 subcommittees were es, eliminated, and the chances for login rolling and the whole committee are much less than In the smaller This is the second reorganization plan In the house which has been discarded at this session, the first having been restoring autocratic and dictatorial power in the rules committee wherein eight men on that committee can, by their opposition, - prevent any bill from coming to a vote on the floor of the house. back-scratchi- ng sub-committe-es. Washington Silhouettes Land around the beautiful Jefferson memorial located on the tidal basin has sunk approximately 18 inches With an influx of some 300,000 new war workers coming Into the city, some agencies such as the patent office, the REA and other smaller agencies may be moved to other cities for the duration as was the case during World War II and plans are being made for dispersal of some other important agencies to points within a radius Washington Silhouettes .... of 20 miles of Washington, which means construction of new buildAnother angle to this ings dispersal is the possible bombing of the nations capital For about two years there has been a for sale sign on a modem brick church edifice and rectory in the 4600 block of 13th street N. W. .... 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