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...help small farmers get started or stay in business when faced with high land costs, high interest rates and rising equipment or operational costs, as well as to recover from drought and other disasters. FHA has since become a helpful big brother to much of agricultural America. It aids in building water and sewage systems for small towns, and provides loans to construct low-cost housing for the rural poor. Last year FHA spent about $14.5 billion in loans and public construction grants. Reagan proposes to cut this lending by 25%, saving more than $400 million...
...late Hubert Humphrey used to love to tell the story of the men from the Department of Agriculture in Washington who came to rescue his baked, broke and forgotten prairie town of Doland, S. Dak., in the midst of drought and Depression. Those fellows were white knights to Humphrey, they were missionaries, they were the reason Humphrey put so much faith in Big Government. Yet even H.H.H. before his death sometimes despaired at the way insensitive bureaucrats had forgotten that they existed to serve, not to threaten...
...year was 1977, and a Washington meteorologist said: "Jimmy Carter's first confrontation as President will not be with the Russians, but with the weather." Just to assure that Ronald Reagan is similarly humbled by elements beyond his control, nature has conjured up another trial by ice and drought for a new Administration...
...York, like much of the U.S., is also suffering from a drought. In the Northeast, reservoirs are at 15-year lows, some less than one-third full. With only a 100-day supply of water, New York City officials are weighing mandatory restrictions. The Governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware met in Trenton last week to declare a drought emergency, banning nonessential water...
...Midwest, temperatures were normal, but precipitation was not. The drought that plagued crops all last year is continuing, with little snow on the ground and low moisture content in the soil. Winter wheat needs the snow both for protection from cold and, come the spring thaw, for water. Even the Mississippi is hitting new low-water marks. The Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg has dredged the river at 18 locations this month. Still the river banks south of Memphis are a graveyard of grounded barges, and captains are lightening their loads by as much as a third to avoid...