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Show COMMITTEEMAN APPOINTED Dee Houston Picked By FHA ,D. F. Houston of Pangultch is the new member of the Garfield County Committee for the Farmers Home Administration. His appointment became effective July 1. 1916. Mr. Houston succeeds Thurman Spencer of Escalante whoso term on the three-member committee expired this year. Mf. Houston operates a grocery and dry goods store In Fan-gultch. The other two members of the committee are Lloyd .Hatch, 1'angultch, and Kldredge It. Shakespear, Tropic, farmers. There la a FHA county committee In every agricultural county In the country. The committee determines the eligibility of applicants, and helps the county supervisor adapt the agency's loan policies and services to local conditions. Each member Is named for a three year term, and one appointment expires each. year. A member completing his three year term cannot succeed himself. At least two of the members must be farmers. The FHA makes loans to the. farmers to buy, Improve, enlarge, or efficient fetn- operate lly.type farms. It also lends money to farmer or their nonprofit associations to establish and carry on approved soil and water conservation practices Purposes Include establishing and Improving permanent pas-lures, terracing, soil erosion practices, ejid many other oon-rervatlon rdeasures, as well as Irrigation and farmstead water Improvement!. Most of the toll and water conservation loans :md loans' buy, Improve, or tnlargn fartas are made from funds advanced by private lenders and Inrured by the agency, The agency makes emergency loans, but dnly In areas designated by thV Secretary of Agriculture as bt'Ing In need of emergency loans due to some calamity. At the present time Garfield County Is not designated a disaster area. However, last year the eastern part of Garfield County1 was designated because of the drought. During that time 84 applicants were approved for assistance which amounted to 489,700 lbs of grain. The agency does not make a loan of anytype to an applicant whose credit needs can be ban-tiled by other credit sources. JL |