Show LAND PROGRAM t IMPERILS TAXES j v jk rL k J f r But Rut Officials Say Retirement I t f Plans Would Save i J t J Counties Money WASHINGTON March 9 One JP-One PJ One at of t the most violent objections raised d against present government plans for buying farm land ond and using it for timber game and fur production is that it will be removed from taxation and nd thus cut down the incomes of states and counties The men behind the program reply reply reply re re- re- re ply Most of ot this this' land is already tax delinquent and of no income value to states or counties It would be far better betler to buy it it eliminate the competition of its prodUcts products prod u ts with those of ot f better acres and relieve counties and states states' of the expense ex cx- pense of feeding people on it and providing pro proS viding them with an Rn expensive system tem tern of ot roads roods and schools they con continue con con- A midwestern county which has been studied as an example of at poor land in a a. rich area was found to have on one consolidated school district five school townships seven urban independent independent inde inde- pendent school districts and md 61 01 rural independent school districts taking care of ot children at a Q total cost cf cI If annually It It has several everal hundred miles of oC road much of at them running through acreage considered The roads reads must be maintained at county expense |