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POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT

Lawrence F. O'Brien, Postmaster General, Washington, D. C.

     The Post Office Department became an executive department in 1872 although it had been known as a department for many years. The Operations Division of the Post Office Department has assigned three Postal Service Officers to the State of Nebraska. These officers are under the jurisdiction of the Wichita Regional Office, which includes the States of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. The Postal Service Officers travel continuously in specified areas of the state, making direct contact with postmasters and assisting them in the direction of postal activities.

      Bernard W. Braasch, Postal Service Officer, Omaha.
      Francis J. Gillette, Postal Service Officer, Lincoln.
      Robert M. Failing, Postal Service Officer, Grand Island.

      The Department of the Interior was created by Congress on March 3, 1849. Its work is concerned principally with the management, conservation and development of the natural resources of the United States. The jurisdiction of the department extends over the continental United States, to islands in the Caribbean and the South Pacific, and to lands within the Arctic Circle. It includes the custody of approximately 570 million acres of land, the conservation and development of mineral resources, the promotion of mine safety, the protection and enhancement of fish and wildlife values, the administration of the nation's great scenic and historic areas, the reclamation of the arid lands in the West through irrigation, and the construction and management of hydroelectric power systems. It supports non-federal water resources research installations and administers laws to curb stream, river and lake pollution. The Department of the Interior is also responsible for the welfare of thousands of persons in the territories and island possessions and provides services to three hundred and eighty thousand Indians nearly all of whom reside on, or adjacent to, reservations. The department has more than a score of bureaus and offices, several of which have field offices within the state.

      The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has, under the Secretary of Interior, management of all Indian affairs and of all matters arising out of Indian relations, except law enforcement which was turned over to the state and county officials pursuant to Public Law 280, approved by the Congress on August 15, 1953.

      The Winnebago Indian Agency in Nebraska comprises the Omahas and Winnebagoes in Thursten County and the Poncas and Santee Sioux

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in Knox County. There are approximately 5,000 enrolled members of these four organized and incorporated tribes.

      Alfred DuBray, Superintendent, Winnebago Indian Agency, Winnebago.

      The Bureau of Reclamation is engaged in carrying out a broad program of multiple-purpose water development and related production of hydroelectric power in the Missouri River Basin. Present plans call for supplying irrigation water to about 3,000,000 acres, of which 670,000 acres are presently irrigated, and 2,330,000 acres are dry lands. The major benefits to be derived from irrigating this acreage are a more stabilized agricultural economy, softening the effects of drought, and broadening of the tax base.

      Existing projects, exclusive of Missouri River Basin developments, completed in Nebraska, include the North Platte Project on the North Platte River and the Mirage Flats Project on the Niobrara River. The North Platte Project provides a full irrigation water supply to about 172,000 acres of Nebraska land and a supplemental supply to more than 92,400 acres. The Mirage Flats Project, in northwestern Nebraska, contains about 11,700 acres.

      Existing and proposed units of the Missouri River Basin Project in Nebraska total nearly 410,800 acres to receive a full irrigation water supply and about 117,300 acres to receive supplemental water.

      Units existing or under construction will provide a full irrigation water supply to about 178,100 acres, and a supplemental water supply to 9,600 acres. These units include: Sargent, 12,700 acres; Farwell, 52,500 acres; Ainsworth, 34,000 acres; and Bostwick Division, 24,200 acres; all receiving a full irrigation water supply. Also, the Frenchman-Cambridge Division provides a full water supply for 54,700 acres, and a supplemental supply for 9,600 acres. The dams and reservoirs, permanent diversion dams, and the many miles of canals necessary to service this acreage provide multiple benefits, such as, irrigation, flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife, sediment retention, and stream pollution abatement.

      Other proposed developments, not yet authorized for construction, will irrigate 244,370 acres of dry land and provide a supplemental water supply for 96,000 acres.

      Before the 89th Congress for consideration and for authorization, are the Mid-State Project having 140,000 acres, and the North Loup Project consisting of 52,600 acres. Other potential unauthorized Nebraska units of the Missouri River Basin Project would provide a full water supply for about 128,800 acres.

      In summary, all existing, proposed and potential projects in Nebraska would total 804,200 acres-594,500 acres of irrigated new lands and supplemental water for 209,700 acres.

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      Under the program, Enders Reservoir on Frenchman Creek near Imperial, Harry Strunk Lake on Medicine Creek near Cambridge, Swanson Lake on the Republican River near Trenton, and Hugh Butler Lake on Red Willow Creek near McCook, are in use, serving the irrigable area of the Frenchman-Cambridge Division. Harlan County Dam and Reservoir on the Republican River, constructed by the Corps of Engineers, serve the Bostwick Division. Merritt Dam and Reservoir on the Snake River near Valentine, is completed and storing water for use in the Ainsworth unit. Sherman Dam and Reservoir on Oak Creek is essentially complete.

      The Bureau of Reclamation has three principal offices in Nebraska: The Kansas River Project Office located at McCook; the Niobrara-Lower Platte Projects Office at Grand Island; and the Ainsworth Project office at Ainsworth.

      Since March 3, 1879, the U. S. Geological Survey has been one of the primary research and fact-finding agencies of the federal government, concerning itself with the preparation and publication of topographic, hydrographic, and geologic maps, and reports on a variety of subjects, including geology and the mineral and water resources of the Nation. The program of water-resources investigations in the state is under the direction of Mr. Kenneth A. MacKichan, District Chief, Water Resources Division of the Geological Survey, with offices in Nebraska Hall, 901 North 17th Street, Lincoln. The Water Resources Division also has personnel at subdistrict offices in Bridgeport, Cambridge, and Ord.

      The National Park Service, a Bureau of the Department of Interior, administers the National Park System, which includes National Parks, National Monuments, and several other types of scenic, historic or scientific areas. The Midwest Region office located in Omaha coordinates areas in northern part of the Plains and the Rocky Mountain States. In Nebraska, there are three National Monuments and one National Historic Site administered through the Omaha office. Scotts Bluff National Monument is about five square miles in size and was visited by approximately 106,000 persons in 1965. Homestead National Monument contains 163 acres and visitation numbered 36,000 in 1965. Agate Fossil Beds National Monument was authorized on June 5, 1965. It contains approximately 3,150 acres, and development plans are in progress. Chimney Rock National Historic Site, 83 acres in size, is administered jointly by the Nebraska State Historical Society and the City of Bayard under an agreement with the Department of Interior. In addition there are six Registered National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska. These are sites under private ownership, which have been

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certified by the Advisory Board on National Parks, Historic Sites, Buildings and Monuments, and approved by the Secretary of Interior as being of exceptional value in commemorating the history of the United States. By virtue of an agreement between the National Park Service and the owner-operator they have been formally designated as Registered National Historic Landmarks. They arc: William Jennings Bryan Home, Lancaster County; Fort Atkinson, Washington County; Fort Robinson and Site of Red Cloud Agency, Dawes County; Leary Site, Richardson County; Palmer Site, Howard County; and the Pike-Pawnee Village Site, Webster County.

      Fred C. Fagergren, Regional Director, Midwest Region, 1709 Jackson Street, Omaha 68102.
      Superintendent, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Box 427, Gering 69341.
      Superintendent, Homestead National Monument, Route 1, Beatrice 68310.

      The Field Solicitor's office was established July 1, 1954, as a part of the program to integrate the lawyers of the United States Department of the Interior under the jurisdiction of the Solicitor in Washington, D. C. Previously, departmental attorneys were assigned to particular bureaus or agencies. Now the Field Solicitor in Omaha handles all legal problems presented by any bureau or agency of the Department of the Interior which may be assigned him by the Regional Solicitor in Denver, Colorado. As a matter of practice, the Field Solicitor in Omaha handles principally the legal matters pertaining to Region Two of the National Park Service. The Field Solicitor is the only attorney of the U. S. Department of the Interior located in Nebraska. He is under the jurisdiction of the Regional Solicitor in Denver, Colorado.

      Vacancy, Field Solicitor, Room 401, 1709 Jackson Street, Omaha.

     The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife maintains the Valentine National Wildlife Refuge primarily for waterfowl and the Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge for big-game animals, mainly buffalo and elk, both near Valentine, the Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge for waterfowl, near Ellsworth, and the Crawford National Fish Hatchery. The North Platte National Wildlife Refuge for waterfowl, near Scottsbluff, has been established on a Bureau of Reclamation project. The bureau also enforces the provisions of the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, conducts predatory animal control programs for the protection of livestock, and cooperates with other federal agencies in studies of the effects of federal water impoundments on fish and wildlife.

      Robert C. Fields, Refuge Manager, Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge, Valentine.

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John Malcolm, Acting Refuge Manager, Valentine National Wildlife Refuge, Valentine.

Loren J. Bonde, U. S. Game Management Agent, Lincoln.

John E. Wilbrecht, Refuge Manager, Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Ellsworth.

William Ohnemus, Hatchery Manager, Crawford National Fish Hatchery, Crawford.

Ernest J. Giese, Jr., District Supervisor, Division of Wildlife Services, North Platte.

Robert H. Wheeler, U. S. Game Management Agent, North Platte.

Kermit D. Dybsetter, Refuge Manager, DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, Missouri Valley.

James L. Coats, Area Supervisor, Missouri River Basin Studies, Grand Island.

David R. Purinton, U. S. Game Management Agent, Grand Island.

Delmer J. Robinson, District Fishery Manager, Division of Fishery Services, c/o Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge, Valentine.

Walter K. Vail, Supervisor, Area Acquisition Office, Hastings.

     The Department of Agriculture was created in 1862 and attained cabinet rank as an executive department in 1889. Directed by law to acquire and diffuse useful information on agricultural subjects, the department performs functions relating to agricultural research, (including human nutrition), education, conservation, marketing, regulatory work, agricultural adjustment, surplus disposal, rural development, and crop adjustment. It makes research reports available for practical field application through extension and experiment station work in cooperation with the states. It cooperates with the states, through a grant-in-aid program, in carrying on the national school lunch program and other activities. It makes loans to farmers and farmer cooperatives, including loans for rural electrification and telephone services; administers marketing agreement programs; develops foreign outlets for agricultural commodities; supervises commodity exchanges designated as contract markets; provides a system of crop insurance; seeks to eradicate and control animal and plant diseases and pests; promotes better protection and management of forests; and, provides crop reports, commodity standards, federal meat and poultry inspection services and other inspection, grading and marketing services of value to all U. S. consumers. In 1961 the department was reorganized to include an Economic Research Service and a Statistical Reporting Service. Rural Areas Development work was given increased emphasis. The Farmers Home Administration and the Soil Conservation Service have county offices throughout Nebraska and there is a State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee with locally elected county ASC committees. Other agencies of the department such as the Agri-

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cultural Research Service, the Forest Service, the Consumer and Marketing Service and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation have offices and field stations at various locations in the state.

      Agricultural Economics administers programs through the Economic Research Service and the Statistical Reporting Service. The Economic Research Service conducts programs in agricultural economics research, commodity outlook and situation, farm manpower, levels of living and rural development studies as well as marketing research, and economic and statistical research on use of land, labor and equipment and farm costs and returns. ERS also analyzes and interprets world conditions involving agricultural trade, prices and policies that affect U. S. agricultural trade. The Statistical Reporting Service administers programs dealing with crop and livestock estimates and reports as well as a program concerned with review, coordination and improvement of statistics in the department. This service maintains formal cooperation with the State Division of Agricultural Statistics.

      A. V. Nordquist, Agricultural Statistician In Charge, Post Office Bldg., Lincoln.

      Studies made are concerned with the effective economic use of human and natural resources in agricultural production. Economic analyses are made of current problems in farm production and resource development.

      William F. Lagrone, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Lincoln.
      John W. Putman, 134 So. 12th St., Lincoln.

      State and County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Offices were established under a reorganization of the Department of Agriculture in 1953 to take over most of the functions in connection with federal agricultural programs formerly performed by the Production and Marketing Administration. At the change of the national administration in 1961, the word "service" was added to the title of the State and County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Offices. However, the function of both the state and county offices in connection with federal agricultural programs remained about the same as they were previously.

      Some of the federal programs administered by the organization include: (1) The Agricultural Conservation Program, which affords federal cost-sharing assistance to farmers for the carrying out on the

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farms of approved soil conservation practices; (2) Agricultural Price Support operations through loans, purchase agreements, and the purchase and sale of agricultural commodities by the Commodity Credit Corporation; (3) Acreage Allotments and Marketing Quotas when they are in effect for basic crops; (4) The Sugar Beet Program under the Sugar Act of 1935; (5) The Soil Bank Program which is designed to withhold presently unneeded crop land from production and at the same time devote that land to conservation uses such as grasses, legumes, trees or shrubs, wildlife, and water conservation; (6) The Wheat Stabilization and Feed Grain Programs which are special agricultural conservation programs under which conservation payments are made to producers who divert acreage from the production of wheat, corn, grain sorghum, and barley; and (7) Any other special and emergency programs which may be authorized by Congress from time to time.

      The activities of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Offices are administered at the state level by a three-member state committee appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the State Director of Extension, who is an ex officio member of this committee. At the county level the responsibility of the administration of these programs is vested in a three-member committee elected each year by the farmers in the county.

      State Committee:

Hans O. Jensen	Chairman
Charles C. Brodersen	Member
Murl L. Mauser	Member
Dr. John L. Adams	Ex Officio Member
Joseph A. Tresnak	State Executive Director

     The Nebraska office of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation is charged with the administration of the Federal Crop Insurance program in the state. The Federal Crop Insurance Corporation is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture and offers insurance against unavoidable causes of crop loss to farmers. It is a voluntary, self-help program. Crops on which insurance is offered in 63 counties are wheat, corn, dry edible beans, safflower, grain sorghum, and soybeans. The insurance is intended to protect the farmer's investment in his crop by insuring against losses due to such causes as drought, hail, wind, insect infestation, plant diseases, flood, winterkill and frost. In some counties a commissioned insurance agent is appointed by and responsible to the State Director. His function is to sell and service the insurance program. In other counties, crop insurance fieldmen sell and service the program. They are under the immediate supervision of district directors. Crop insurance fieldmen are part time employees, usually farmers working only when needed.

      Edwin J. Finigan, State Director, 303 Post Office Building, Lincoln 68508.

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MARKETING AND CONSUMERS SERVICES
CONSUMER AND MARKETING SERVICE

      The Consumer and Marketing Service administers programs relating to domestic marketing and distribution, including consumer food, consumer protection, and other services to aid in advancing the orderly and efficient marketing of products from the nation's farms. The primary functions of C&MS are (1) Marketing services (market news, commodity standardization, inspection, classing, and grading) programs which contribute to the efficient and orderly marketing of farm products; (2) Inspection programs to insure the wholesomeness of domestic, imported and exported meat, and poultry food products; (3) Marketing agreements and orders designed to improve returns to producers through orderly marketing; (4) Marketing regulatory programs to protect farmers and others from financial loss resulting fom (sic) deceptive, careless, and fraudulent marketing practices; (5) Food stamp programs to provide food assistance through State welfare agencies to needy households; (6) School lunch and special milk programs to improve the health and well-being of the nation's school children, and broaden the market for agricultural food commodities; (7) Programs for distribution and donation of surplus agricultural commodities to State agencies for school lunch programs, charitable institutions, needy families and for disaster or emergency relief; (8) Food trades programs designed to promote consumer purchase and use of plentiful foods to increase movement through normal channels of trade; (9) Freight rate services to assist in obtaining and maintaining equitable transportation rates and services on farm supplies and products; (10) Matching fund programs designed to provide consulting services to States in the development and execution of marketing service projects; and (11) Assigned civil defense and defense mobilization activities involving planning for processing and distributing foods and fibers under emergency conditions.

      S. R. Smith, Administrator, South Building, Washington, D. C. 20250.

      Nebraska has a Federal Milk Marketing Order, covering sixty-three counties in the eastern, central and western part of the state. There are seventy-eight separate marketing areas in the United States, all operating under the Dairy Division, Consumer and Marketing Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C.

      Orders are issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, under the authority of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended, after need for regulation is established at public hearings.

      Each order regulates the minimum prices handlers must pay producers for Grade A milk purchased for sale in the designated area.

      James V. O'Meara, Market Administrator for Nebraska-Western Iowa Area, with offices in Omaha.

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Fruit and Vegetable Division

Federal State-Inspection Service

      The Federal-State Inspection Service inspects fresh fruits and vegetables upon the request of any applicant, who is usually the shipper. The service maintains a personnel of men trained in the Inspection Service for the specific purpose of interpreting the U. S. Standards used in packing various fresh produce. It is their responsibility to report to the applicant the exact grade represented by the produce inspected. By use of inspection a buyer is enabled to transact his business by wire or telephone. On each inspection a certificate which is prima facie evidence in all courts in the United States is issued. This service is available to any applicant, and there is a fee of 3ç a hundred pounds for blanket inspection and 5ç a hundred pounds, plus mileage, for those who do not have blanket inspection. A fee of 3 1/2ç a hundred pounds is charged for all Nebraska certified seed inspections. Potatoes are practically the only commodity inspected in Nebraska.

      The only office of this nature in the State of Nebraska is located in Scottsbluff.

      Max A. Masters, Supervising Inspector, Box 28, Scottsbluff. Lewis P. Von Wald, District Supervisor, Chicago, Illinois.

      The Omaha District Office of the Grain Division is one of some fifty such offices located at grain terminals and shipping points throughout the United States directed by an Area Office at Kansas City, Missouri, in accordance with enforcement policies as formulated in Washington, D. C.

      The primary function is to supervise and instruct grain inspectors licensed by the Secretary of Agriculture under the U. S. Grain Standards Act in the correct and proper application of the official grain standards, to take corrective action when necessary to accomplish this objective and to entertain appeals from inspections for any party holding interest in a grain transaction.

      Other activities include the inspection, and grading of edible beans and peas, and certain other products manufactured from cereal grains. Also cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration in a program to eliminate from commercial mixing channels grain which is unfit for mixing with grain of higher milling quality, and to assist in research projects designed to improve or formulate grade standards for grain.

      Guy D. Ridings, District Supervisor, Room 501, 1709 Jackson Street, Omaha.

      The Livestock Market News serves producers and the industry by reporting daily movement, trade activity, price trends and prices of

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livestock. Reports are released throughout the day as trade progresses and are given wide dissemination through radio and newspapers. Reports from each market are also transmitted by teletype to all other markets covered by the Market News Branch so that livestock producers and marketing agencies throughout the county are currently informed on movement and price of livestock by class and grade at all other markets.

      The Market News Branch is also responsible for the grading of livestock delivered in fulfillment of contracts on livestock futures trading.

      Marshall G. Ivy, Livestock Division, 609 Livestock Exchange Building, Omaha.

      The function of the Meat Grading Branch, Livestock Division, United States Department of Agriculture, is to interpret the federal grade and class standards and, upon request by interested federally inspected and recognized nonfederally inspected meat slaughtering and wholesale establishments, to perform the federal grading of meat. The grading of meat includes two types of service: (1) meat grading service, which pertains to the grading, grade marking, and certification of carcasses and wholesale cuts of meat and (2) compliance service, which pertains to the examination, acceptance, and certification of fresh-chilled meats, prepared meats, and meat food products.

      Andrew Rot, Main Station Supervisor for Omaha, Lincoln, Fairbury, York, Grand Island, Minden, Lexington, Darr, North Platte, and Fremont, Nebraska, and Glenwood and Oakland, Iowa, 609 Livestock Exchange Building, Omaha 68107.

      Acts are administered controlling meat inspection, imported meat, horse meat, and canned or frozen dog food.

      D. W. Glascock, 709 Livestock Exchange Building, Omaha.

      The Packers and Stockyards Division enforces the provisions of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, as amended. This act was enacted to prevent meat packers from engaging in or doing any act for the purpose of manipulating or controlling the prices or creating a monopoly in the purchase or sale of livestock or meats in commerce, to assure that posted public terminal and auction yards provide market patrons with adequate services and facilities at reasonable and nondiscriminatory prices, that livestock is weighed correctly, that market agencies, packers, and dealers subject to the act do not engage in unfair, deceptive or discriminatory practices and that correct and complete

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accountings are furnished producers and buyers of livestock. The act also requires that market agencies and dealers operating in commerce furnish bonds to assure performance of the financial obligations they incur. Livestock producers and other patrons in commerce are also provided with an inexpensive procedure for obtaining reparation from stockyard companies, market agencies, and dealers subject to the act.

      The State of Nebraska is under the supervision of the area office located in Omaha.

      Quentin H. Bierman, Area Supervisor, 435 Livestock Exchange Building, Union Stockyards, Omaha 68107.

      The Poultry Division, Grading Branch, is responsible for all gradings of poultry and poultry products, eggs and egg products, under the rules and regulations as set forth under the United States Department of Agriculture, in the State of Nebraska.

      The Nebraska Department functions in correlation and in cooperation with the State Department of Agriculture. Work consists of the grading of poultry and poultry products; grading of shell eggs and egg products for grade, quality, class, size and condition; and inspecting and grading of egg products in liquid, frozen and dried forms, when application is made from interested parties of the poultry industry. It also handles the supervision and inspection in plants that request its services.

      Gilbert D. Pefferman, Federal-State Grading Supervisor, 2022 Avenue C., Council Bluffs, Iowa 51501.

      The Warehouse Service Branch is a consolidation of warehouse examination programs conducted by Consumer and Marketing Service (C&MS) and Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS). An area office is located at Omaha, Nebraska, to conduct the program in the States of Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, Missouri and Kansas. Its functions are the administration of the U. S. Warehouse Act and periodic inspections of the following: All federally licensed warehouses, non-federally licensed grain warehouses under Uniform Storage Agreement, except in the States of Nebraska and Kansas, and all general warehouses under contract to store Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) owned processed commodities.

      John G. Anderson, In Charge of Omaha Office, 8427 Federal Bldg., 215 North 17th Street, Omaha 68102.

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SCIENCE AND EDUCATION AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE

      Through its Agricultural Research Service, with George W. Irving, Jr., Administrator, Washington, D. C., 20250 the United States Department of Agriculture conducts nation-wide research and regulatory programs in cooperation, in many cases with state organizations. Research in Nebraska is in cooperation with the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. Brief paragraphs follow on work within the state covering research and regulatory activities in Nebraska, with names of Agricultural Research Service field representatives who may be contacted for further information.

      Use of radio-frequency electric waves for conditioning of grains, seeds, and forage, and destruction of insects is studied.

      Stuart O. Nelson, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Lincoln.

      The division cooperates with the various states in control and eradication of animal diseases that may attack our livestock, in sanitary handling of import animal byproducts, hay and straw, in issuance or endorsement of certificates for export of livestock, and in public stockyards inspection.

     Eric H. Nordstrom, Farmers Mutual Insurance Building, Lincoln.
     Robert D. Green, Livestock Exchange Building, Omaha.

      Genetic, nutritional, physiological, biochemical and other factors involved in improvements of beef cattle are studied.

      Keith E. Gregory, Walter W. Rowden, R. Dean Humphrey, Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center. (Temporary) Regional Beef Cattle Breeding Project, Animal Husbandry Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

      James E. Ingalls, Beef Cattle Research Station, Fort Robinson.

      Breeding and improvement of grain, forage and oilseed crops, production and management practices, and control of plant diseases and weeds are studied.

      Cereal Crops and Sorghum: Virgil A. Johnson, P. T. Nordquist, Myron K. Brakke, E. M. Ball, State Agricultural Experiment Station, Lincoln.

      Forage and Range Crops: William H. Kehr, Herman J. Gorz, Lawrence C. Newell, State Agricultural Experiment Station, Lincoln.

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      Weed Control: Melvin K. McCarty, F. S. Davis, State Agricultural Experiment Station, Lincoln.

      Safflower: W. F. Peterson, Scotts Bluff Experiment Station, Mitchell.

      Insect pests of legume crops and livestock are investigated and means of control determined.

      Livestock: Calvin M. Jones; Crops: S. Dean Kindler, George H. Manglitz, James M. Schalk, Jr., East Campus, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

      All cooperative plant pest control activities for Nebraska and Kansas are headquartered at Lincoln.

      J. H. L. Bell, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Lincoln.

      Studies are made to develop systems of soil and water management and conservation that will permit efficient, sustained, and profitable use of the Nation's soil and water resources.

      T. M. McCalla, F. A. Norstadt, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, (Agronomy).
      N. P. Swanson, A. H. Dedrick, D. D. Fangmeier, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, (Engineering).
      Lionel Harris, Scotts Bluff Experiment Station, Mitchell.
      F. J. Dragoun, V. I. Dvorak, Hastings.
      D. E. Smika, North Platte Experiment Station, North Platte.

      Federal-grant funds for agricultural research in collaboration with state universities are administered.

      Howard W. Ottoson, Director, Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

      The Federal Extension Service is part of the cooperative extension service partnership. Three levels of government-federal, state and county-share in financing, planning and carrying out extension education programs.

      The Agricultural Extension Service is a Division of the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture and Home Economics. The staff consists of county and area extension agents and specialists. The Extension Service provides practical information on agriculture and homemaking to the people of Nebraska. This information is obtained through

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research at the experiment stations and observations by specialists in the field. It is disseminated through farm and home visits, public meetings, study workshops, demonstrations, radio, newspapers, television and circulars and bulletins.

      The extension program involves all members of the family. About one-third of the program is devoted to 4-H Club and young men and women's work. The balance is designed for adult men and women.

      Local people work with the Extension Service of the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture and Home Economics through a County Extension Board, elected by residents of the county. The board cooperates in the employment of county agents and serves as an advisory group in the development of the county program.

      John L. Adams, Director of the Agricultural Extension Service, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

      The Farmers Home Administration was established in August, 1946, by a merger of the Farm Security Administration and the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Division of the Farm Credit Administration. It is authorized to provide credit and management services for eligible farmers and rural residents who cannot secure the credit they need at prevailing rates and terms in their communities from responsible sources. These loans may be made to provide funds for the purchase, enlargement or development of farms; for livestock, farm equipment, operating and subsistence expenses; to provide funds for irrigation purposes and soil conservation practices; for the development of recreational enterprises; and replacement of farm dwellings or other farm buildings. Such credit is also available in towns of less than 5,500 population for remodeling, repair and construction of a residence. Loans can also be made for the purchase of previously occupied residences in towns of 5,500 or less.

      The Farmers Home Administration can also make loans to eligible rural groups for the purpose of developing water and sewer systems, for developing recreational areas, for shifts-in-land use, and to defray part of the local costs in developing watersheds.

      There are thirty-six county offices, four district offices located throughout the state and the state office which is located in Lincoln.

      Heasty W. Reesman, State Director, 426 Post Office Building, Lincoln.

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