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Show Needy Rural Utah Is Promised Help With the closing of the federal rehabilitation re-habilitation corporation office in Salt Lake City and the opening of the office of-fice of rural rehabilitation and resettlement re-settlement on the campus of the Utah Stale Agricultural college, came the announcement of a plan to appoint an assistant to the agricultural agent in almost every county in Utah. In add'tion, district home demonstration assistants will be asssigned to aid homemakers under the new plan. This new set-up w-as recently disclosed dis-closed by Walter E. Packard, regional region-al director of the resettlement administration ad-ministration which was recently created cre-ated by government officials and i laced under the jur'sdiction of Dr. Rexford G. Tugwe'l. The new organization for this state, which is to be under the direction direc-tion of C. O. Stott, former U. S. A. C. extension economist, will work in close cooperation with the extension service of the state college, Mr. Packard said. Director William Peterson Pe-terson was informed that the new assistants as-sistants will be placed in offices with er near the permanent county agents as their programs will be closely related. Mr. Packard said that 'he rural re-habil'tatiou re-habil'tatiou and resettlement division will have two major functions: To j make an inventory of tile basic needs cf the inhabitants of rur:U areas of the state and put into effect a pro-gram pro-gram for proper utilization of the land and water resources. The' amount of work done by this division ; in Utah is dependent upon commun- ity and individual needs as disclosed by the survey. ' |