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Show Page 4 Clifford Mclntire New AFBF Legislative Head Clifford G. Mclntire became legislative director of the no-fau- lt AFBFs natural resources department since 1965, will succeed Marvin L. McLain who retired on May 1. A new director of the natural resources department will be named later, Kuhfuss said. In his new position, Mclntire will be administratively responsible to Roger Fleming, director of AFBFs Washington office and secretary-treasur- of er the John C. Lynn, Executive Vice President of the Florida Farm Federation. Mclntire, a member of the committee that organized the Maine Farm Bureau Association in 1950, served seven terms in the U.S. House of Representatives Bureau from 1951 through 1964. Born in 1908 in Aroostook County, Maine, honorary degrees from the University of Maine, Bowdoin College, and Maine Maritime Academy. From 1933 to 1947 he was em- Clifford G. Mclntire moved to Washington in 1953. At that time he became director of the grain division of USDAs Commodity Stabilization Service. He served in that position until he became assistant secretary. As assistant secretary of agriculture, he supervised the Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1947 Conservation Service, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the crop insurance activities of. USDA became assistant general manager of Maine Potato Growers, Inc. In 1951 he was picked by the University of Maine for an award as the Pine Tree States outstanding farmer. On October 22, 1951, he was elected to Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Representative Frank Fellows. He served on the House Agriculture Committee and was reelected six times. During this period he became ranking minority member of the subcommittees on dairy and poultry, forests, and conservation and credit. He also served as a member of the foreign agricultural operations subcommittee and as a member of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Merchant Marine testified no-fau- lt Iowa region. He continued active operation of his farm until he ployed as appraiser, supervisor, and regional manager for Farm of Credit Administration he Federation, before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on behalf of Farm Bureau members on this issue. automobile Florida has a ' therefore and reparation system should throw some light on the programs proposed in Congress. Mr. Lynn said, We feel that a nationwide system as is S. in 945 be fraught would proposed with many problems due to the different conditions existing in each state and could not possibly work equitable for all people in all states and territories. Thus, it appears evident that insurance should be regulated at a level that most benefits the public; namely the representative states. We oppose the pending Federal lt bill not because we are against the concept of but because we object to having a single, monolithic untested system no-fau- lt Mclntire maintains his residence on the home farm in the rural town of Perham. He attended the Perham public schools and received a B.S. degree in agronomy from the University of Maine in 1930. He has received National No Fault Insurance Plan The Answer Is A The question of a insurance plan has been discussed and reviewed by most states. The public has pressured for a review of the auto insurance industry and the methods of settling claims due to injury and property damage :rom auto, accidents. The public has hoped that in the process of getting something better, the time required to settle claims would be reduced and that premium costs would be reduced. The question-c- an more be given for less? If so, how can it be so? American Farm Bureau Federation on May 1. Mclntire, who has been director of Agricultural Stabilization and In 1960 he became assistant director of AFBFs legislative division, and in 1969 he succeeded John C. Lynn as legislative no-fau- no-fau- lt, suddenly imposed upon fifty states at once, he continued. Thie chaos which would result if such a director. sweeping comprehensive law were McLain is married and has two found at some later date to be children a son and a daughter -- unconstitutional is a challenge to and seven grandchildren. anyones imagination. - Academy. He married the former Wilda A. Holts of Perham in 1931. They have one daughter, Mrs. Malcolm (Patrice) Andrews, a resident of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, ond one son, Blynn, a captain for Delta Airlines and a resident of Dallas, Texas. Mclntire is a member of Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Zeta, Phi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma, Free and Accepted Masons, Shrine, Perham. McLain, a former County Farm Bureau president and a former member of the board of directors the Iowa Farm Bureau Federaton, served as assistant secretary of agriculture from 1956 until he joined AFBFs legislative of staff in 1960. A native of Poweshiek County, Iowa, he graduated from Iowa State University with the degree of bachelor of science in agricultural engineering in June, 1928. He is a member of Alpha Zeta and Sigma Delta, national agricultural honorary fraternities. He was given the tfentennial award for distinguished service by the Iowa State University Alumni Association in 1958 at the time of the centennial anniversary of this land-grauniversity. For many years, McLain operated a livestock farm in Poweshiek County. Besides corn and hogs, he raised Guernsey cattle, poultry, fed cattle, and raised other crops grown in the Already insurance companies are conforming to Floridas nofault law when their insureds are in the state, suggesting that little difficulty would exist should all of the states have their own dans because of the reciprocal agreements. Advocates, he said, of the lt Federal regulation of insurance will say it provides We uniformity and efficiency. of many question the efficiency Federal agencies and programs when we view the records of the no-fau- Medicare, social security, Medicaid programs, the FAS, some of the railroads that are under Federal control, postal system and many others. Gamma Service Award Presented to Provo Man The U.S. Department of Agriculture Superior Service Award is presented to Dr. Marden Broadbent, right, by Secretary Earl L. Butz at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Dr. Broadbent is honored for unusual perception, creativity, and ability as an educator and supervisor in determining needs and utilizing resources of local leaders and Extension professionals for betterment of people and communities. Dr. Broadbent is area coordinator with the Utah Cooperative Extension Service, at Provo, Utah. His award is for work with citizens on zoning and development in a rapidly urbanizing region of Utah. Born in HeberCity, Utah; beholds a B.S. from Utah State University, M.S. from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. 1972 Road To Delano' Now Available color film, "The The Road to Delano, produced by the American Farm Bureau Federation, is now available Arrangements to purchase one of the films for use in this state were made during the meeting of the county presidents in February. Produced in California, in the very grape fields where the trouble started, farm workers grape pickinterviewed in the fields, exers pressed strong opposition to Cesar Chavez and his United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. (UFW-OC- ). 30-min- Jack Angell, farm labor communications director for the AFBF, who spoke at the Montana Farm Bureau annual meeting in Great Falls a year ago last November, is narrator of the film. The movie features the visit of a group of farm workers from Watsonville area of California who came to Delano for a first hand inspection of the conditions of employment and job security in Delano after UFWOCs contract with Delano growers had been in force for 18 months. Their findings are a severe indictment of the contract and of labor conditions aris ing from it The film reveals a side of the controversy that has not, optional coverge costing an hitherto been fully presented to the estimated $10. This means his public. premium for full bodily injury All the people participating in the coverage would be $252, or about two and a half times what he now film are farm workers with the expays for the injury portion o his ception of Father Michael Cross of workauto policy. Salinas, a Spanish-speakin- g ers' priest Workers in the picture Negligent drivers are relieved place loss of freedom, loss of inof all liability for damage they come and a growing loss of jobs as inflict on other vehicles, unless the major problems inherited from would UFWOC contracts. It must be borne parked. Vehicle owners have to buy collision insurance at a in mind that the vast majority of much higher cost than today or pay these workers owned their homes for all repairs themselves. The car in Delano and today are worried owner least able to absorb the over their future security. The damage done by a negligent driver workers charge that the growers is the least able to afford the new signed the contracts under duress form of collision coverage. And after a boycott of California table those who do buy it, rich or poor, grapes had left them no alternawould still have to pay the tive. It was not the purported deductible, even when the other strike, but the boycott and subsequent loss of a market for table driver is at fault. Mr. Lynn points out that the grapes that brought the growers greatest inequity is in the area of into signing away the freedom of innocent victims being saddled their previously satisfied workers. with more than their fair share of the accident costs. Abolition of driver accountability means that the people who suffer the losses, insurers would no longer be able to since they must collect from their charge accident costs against the own insurers, and the insurers insurance record of the driver would not be permitted to obtain causing the injuries and economic reimbursement from a negligent damage. Instead, the cost would be drivers insurer. charged to the insurance records of The cost of auto bodily injury insurance would rise sharply if S. 945 were enacted. The vehicle owner who now spends $100 for 0 basic liability and injury would coverages pay about $132 for S. 945s compulsory medical and wage loss coverages alone. If he wanted to collect for other serious damages inflicted by a negligent driver, such as going through life blind, or otherwise impaired, he would have to buy an additional 10-2- ATTENTION -- SOCIAL MILITANT Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Washburn Rotary Club, and the Baptist Church of nt June Utah Farm Bureau News 5EARCHIN6 FOR WISE |