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Show SCS-ACP Complete Plans For Joint Program In Duchesne County; Office Merger Set For July Second Finishing touches ' are being ' put on the coordination of the work of Soil Conservation Service Ser-vice and the Agricultural Conservation Con-servation program of the Production Pro-duction and Marketing Administration Admin-istration in accordance with the directive issued by Secretary of Agriculture Charles A. Bran-nan Bran-nan on February 15. Howard M. Ivory, SCS representative, repre-sentative, Reed Lyons, PMA county committee chairman, and Anthon B, Christensen, FHA supervisor, su-pervisor, said today that although al-though many steps toward coordination co-ordination of the USDA programs pro-grams were taken immediately after issuance of Secretary Bran-nan's Bran-nan's order, the various agencies involved were given until July 1 to complete arrangements and put the coordination plan into full operation. Although PMA and SCS are the two agencies primarily concerned, con-cerned, soil conservation district, the Farmers Home Administration, Administra-tion, Forest Service and county agents of the Extension Service also were included in the plans which are designed "to increase administrative effectiveness and economy and accelerate the rate of accomplishment of the department's de-partment's conservation program. pro-gram. One provision of the coordination coordin-ation directive W3S tht of cqn-solidating cqn-solidating Offices pf the various agencies. In Duchesne cpunty this has been partially accomplished accomp-lished by the SCS. PMA and FHA leasing three of the apartments apart-ments in the new Frandsen apartment building located 3Va blocks west of the Standard cabins, in Roosevelt. Offices of these agencies will be opened in the Frandsen building on July 2. The Forest Service does not have an office at Roosevelt and the County Agricultural Agent could not make arrangements arrange-ments to move at this time. The most important provision of the directive was the adoption, adop-tion, by the entire Department of Agriculture, oi a basic objective" ob-jective" in conservation that of use of each acre of agricultural, agricultur-al, land within its capabilities and treatment of each acre in accordance with its needs for ! protection and improvement, i "This gives a sound basis for all conservation planning and jwill help insure both economy and effectiveness in the conservation conser-vation program," the agricultural agricultur-al officials said. The move is designed, they explained, to get joint planning plan-ning of conservation programs, ! with not only SCS and PMA, but also the soil conservation district supervisors, the county agent. Forest Service and Farmers Farm-ers Home Administration participating. par-ticipating. Within the framework frame-work of this plan, the county PMA committee will still administer ad-minister the conservation payment pay-ment program of ACP, but the Soil Conservation Service will be responsible for planning and laying out permanent-type conservation con-servation practices for the ACP while continuing their technical services to Soil Conservation districts. FHA will continue to. handle the various loan programs pro-grams consisting of livestock and machinery, water facilities, and farm housing. PMA employees who will be in the new office are Orienne Miller, Velma Betts and Algie Hudson, along with the county PMA committee, consisting of Reed Lyons, Pep K- Dye and Joe Clayburn. , FHA employees are Anthon B. Christensen, county supervisor, super-visor, and Joyce Rogers, clerk-stenographer, clerk-stenographer, SCS employees are Howard M. Ivory, district conservationist: conservation-ist: Don B. Nielson, farm planner; plan-ner; Dale R. Ashby, engineering aid- John L. Swenson. soil scientist; Grant E. Chugg, civil engineer; Katherine Taylor, clerk-stenographer. Kelly Redmond Red-mond and Edmond Allen are temporary engineering aid employees. |