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...Murrow's sob story on TV about the "death of a small farm" was interesting, but even more so is your priceless epilogue wherein Mr. Peterson's relatives state that "he just sold out because he thought he could do better in California, and they like it fine so far" [Feb. 6]. Could it be that this is the Murrow method of discrediting the Eisenhower farm program...
EDWARD R. MURROW: Good evening. This is See It Now . . . Tonight, "The Farm ProblemA Crisis of Abundance." This is the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson [camera swings to a bespectacled Mr. Benson'], who is ... going to sit here and watch this program with us and take an occasional note...
...MURROW: There is a time to live and a time to die-a time to sow and a time to reap-a time to laugh and a time to cry. This auction might well be called the death of a small farm . . . Dale Peterson was one of about 3,000 Iowa small farmers who quit in the last six months. In the nation, 600,000 have given up in the last four years. . . Some economists and agricultural experts claim that we are witnessing the death of the small farm in the United States-that in a world of machines...
...farm that Dale E. Peterson left last month to take his family to California where he thought he might "do better." Dale's younger brother William, 25, his wife and their three boys have rented the. place on which Dale had his "quitting farming" sale, televised on the Murrow-Benson program last night . . . "We had a letter from [Dale] Thursday," said Mrs. Bill Peterson. "Dale has a job in a warehouse in Glendale ... He just sold out because he thought he could do better in California. And they like it fine...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews H. V. Kaltenborn and Actress Carol Channing...