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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...
...couldn't see any purpose served by your article except to infer that Ed Murrow . . .was deliberately attempting to distort the situation...
...Fancy Ed Murrow being such a babe in the wood ! He made Ezra Benson look the hero- something Mr. Benson hasn't been able to do for himself recently...
...confident that Secretary Benson understands the basic farm problem and its solution, but feel that his comments on the Murrow broadcast were very misleading. Low-income farmers are not being driven off the land by foreclosures when they can sell out at alltime peak prices; they are leaving, as shown in the Murrow telecast, of their own free will, to take their profits on land prices and find more profitable employment. It is through this migration of surplus low-income farmers to more profitable and useful employment . . . that the farm problem of surplus production and low prices will be solved...
...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...