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Show Director Outlines New Rehabilitation Program There are two major aspects to the work of the newly organized land policy section of the program planning division, agricultural adjustment ad-justment administration, according to P. V. Cardon, director of tlio Utah State Agricultural Experiment Experi-ment Station, who is serving temporarily temp-orarily as regional director of the new work in six states, Colorado, New Mexico. Arizona, Utah, Nevada Ne-vada and California. The first, or emergency, aspect of the work cf the land policy section, sec-tion, relates to the purchase of submarginal farm land in certain acutely distres ed areas where the acquisition of such land would help forward a program of rehabilitation for the people occupying them. In this relationship the regional director di-rector serves at the same time, as regional representative of the Surplus Sur-plus Relief corporation. It is expired ex-pired that the $25,000,000 made available for the Surplus Relief corporation of the public works administration ad-ministration will be ured to acquire submarslnal tracts in certain key areas to rervs as demonstrations, Direct.: r Cardon said. No purchase v.ill be made, however, in the absence ab-sence of a well-defined, workable prriect prorn-am which would provide, pro-vide, fir, for the voluntary removal remov-al and rehabilitation rf the families fam-ilies affected and. second, for the hipher use of lands thus removed from cultivation. Rehabilitation would be effected, where practicable, by s:curir u suitable tract cr tract-, of land up-n up-n which families removed from the submarginal tracts could acquire ac-quire on an acceptable amortized purchase plan, a setup providing a higher and more satisfying standard stan-dard of living. This would be ac-compUshed ac-compUshed through existing federal agencies, such as the FERA, rural rehabilitation division, the farm credit administration and others. Higher use of the acquired sub-marginal sub-marginal lands would bd affected through assigning them for administrative admin-istrative purpose- to one or more existing agencies, as the forest service, national park 'ervice, biological bio-logical survey, Indian service, soil erosion service, and others. The second, or long time, aspact of the w-rk of the land policy section, sec-tion, relates to the assemblage of facts regarding land use and the formulation of suggested policies for improvement. This will be done through full cooperation with various var-ious states and federal ygiencics, in the interest of effective coordination coordi-nation and procedure, Director Cardon Car-don said. |