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OTHELLO OUTLOOK
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1952
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NorIh : ea, armers Ideas Given
to U. S. Soil Conservation Leader
PORTLAND, Ore.--Dave J
Done(n, pcesident of the Wash-
ington State Ass~ciation of Soil
Conservation DistricL Supervis-
ors, reported this week that Dr.
Robert N. Salter, new chief of
the U. S. Soil Conservation Ser-
vice, learned first-hand what
Northwest farmers like -- and
don't like --- about the Depart-
ment of Agriculture's various
soil conservation programs dur-
ing an informal session with
more than a score of Oregon and
Washington soil conservation
district supervisors in Portland
last Friday.
Edward Splichal, Cheney, and
Wes Cornwall, Fairfield, along
with Doneen were the supervis-
ors attending the meeting from
Eastern Washington.
Salter. who recently replaced
Dr. Hugh H. Benett as the nat-
ion's No. I soil conservationist.
protect and imp,-()ve the coun-
~y'~ a:JTicultura! land and wat-
,-r res~mrces. He pledged the
continued help of his agency to
~he di,atrict leaders. "Soil con-
servation dist,'icts." Salter de-
c!ared, "offer a completely dem-
ocratic-and practical--way o[
insuring that the U. S. has e-
nough good, productive land to
maintain its position of leader-
ship in the Free World."
Wants Coordination
The meeting between Salter
and the Oregon-Washington soil
conservation supervisors was
completely frank and direct-to-
the-point. Much of the discus-
sion centered on how the incen-
tive program of the PMA and
the technical service program of
the Soil Conservation Service
could be coordinated so as to
give the most to .the farmers in
.~fide:ed pa'~men{s fu"