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...last week the New Deal's dream valley (est. pop. 4,000), brimming with prosperity, was Alaska's biggest farming region. In the 23 years of colonization, Matanuska's feeble 1,000 acres has grown to about 13,000 acres of cropland worth some $6,000,000, accounts for 55% of Alaska's salable agriculture (1957 share: $1,854,000 in dairying, potatoes, berries, green vegetables). For a total outlay of about $5,400,000, the Matanuska experiment, says Anchorage Times Publisher Bob Atwood, is "one of the best investments Uncle Sam ever made...
...G.O.P. proposals alike, offering no aid at all. Determined to include feed grains in the soil bank, farm-area Democrats defeated a plan to raise corn acreage limits 14 million acres, lower the support price 5? a bu. but require corn farmers to take soil-bank payments on some cropland. But the rural Democrats' move to include oats, barley, rye and sorghum in the soil bank was knocked down by a coalition of Republicans and city Democrats fearful of the extra cost ($500 million to $1 billion a year...
...Northwesterners doubt that the investment will pay rich dividends. Grand Coulee irrigation water has already turned hundreds of square miles of sagebrush desert into lush cropland, boomed Grant County population 67% (to 40,000) in six years. The once-barren hills have sprouted new farming towns and fertilizer plants, railroad yards and huge sugar-beet refineries. When the $200 million Wanapum Dam follows Priest Rapids into production, Grant County citizens will at last have the cheap, abundant power to balance their boom with industry...
...Sardinia. Already the fund's associated agencies have taken over a third of the island's arable land from large holders and passed it out to peasants in 15-acre plots. By draining the old malarial swamps, the agencies are making another 185,000 acres of cropland for small holders. But the most ambitious project by far is a $75 million complex of three dams being built to catch floodwaters which race seasonally down the Flumendosa, Sardinia's most important river, and are lost in coastal lagoons...
...undefeated Crimson cross country team will challenge today what could be its toughest opposition so far this year. The squad will oppose Columbia and Pennsylvania on the van Cropland Park course in New York...