Farm Program to Aid Needy Farmers
Nisqually Valley New January 9, 1936
Every effort is being made to assist all Thurston County farm families who have been forced on relief or whose credit facilities have been exhausted, George Lightle of Yelm and R. E. Munson, of Olympia, local rehabilitation supervisors announced. Many families on potentially productive farms will be given immediate attention.
Rehabilitation is not relief but a plan to place farmers who have been unduly affected by low farm prices of the past few years and unexpected reverses to regain a self-supporting basis through adjustment of their debts, setting up a profitable farm plan and supplying a loan for capital goods necessary to make a farm aa “going” concern.
Where no debt adjustment or farm plan is necessary loans for the necessary capital goods, such as livestock, seed, feed and equipment can be made in a sort time. If more extensive adjustments are necessary, the family can be temporarily placed on subsistence grants until debt realignment and the farm plan can be put into effect.
Clients can establish eligibility by being referred to the rehabilitation supervisor through the local relief office or with a statement from the local credit production association stating that credit facilities have been completely exhausted.
Families applying for rehabilitation may do so either directly to the office of the local supervisor or through county relief agencies.
I love this stuff. I was born in Yelm in 1934, then moved to Pysht (anyone recognize THAT name?) until about 1942 when we moved back to Yelm. I went to Yelm school through the first 1/2 of the 7the grade, then moved to California with my mom and brother. My grandfather had a place in the Bald Hills. My cousin Carol lived right across the street from the original Yelm school. My dad worked for Weyerhauser Timber and was a Union rep. The good ol’ days.
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