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Show Farmers Increase Aid To Needy Overseas Through Program America's farms and rural communities increased their commodity gifts to the destitute overseas by 15 per cent in 1961, it was announced today at the annual meeting of Church World Service, relief and rehabilitation agency of major Protestant and Easter Orthodox churches in the United States. These contributions of CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program), Pro-gram), the community food appeal ap-peal of Church World Service, reached a 10-year high of nearly five million pounds valued at $1,210,000, the Rev. Albert W. Farmer, CROP director, reported. re-ported. Cited for significant increases in contributions to the program were Kansas, Illinois and Indiana. Indi-ana. Included in 1961 CROP shipments ship-ments were 1,900,000 pounds of wheat; 1,100,000 pounds of beans; 670,000 pounds of rice; 420,000 pounds of corn oil; 200,-000 200,-000 pounds of corn syrup; 140,-000 140,-000 pounds of wheat flour and 115,000 pounds of chopped beef. Corn meal, vegetable oil, sugar, dehydrated potatoes and soy protein accounted for an additional ad-ditional 115,000 pounds. These foods helped meet dis aster ana continuing aia appeals in 28 countries, alleviated dietary deficiencies, and were also distributed dis-tributed as token wages to refugees refu-gees and the destitute . working on community self-help projects. Other important CROP contributions con-tributions to rehabilitation projects proj-ects were 40,000 pounds of field and garden seed, four incubators, and 25,000 pounds of cotton used to make blankets and quilts for homeless refugees. CROP receives contributions through Friendship Acres, a special spe-cial appeal for farmers who dedicate dedi-cate a portion of their produce or livestock as gifts, and through community-wide programs. |