Led by Dr. Martin Luther King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference has made plans to register five million Negro voters in the South. The campaign, which will cost $200,000 and “use all the facilities of the law, “may be endorsed by the Vice President.
In answer to Senator Proxmire’s assertion that he was elected on the strength of the deep dissatisfaction of Wisconsin’s farmers with the policies of the Department of Agriculture, Secretary Ezra Taft Benson pointed out that 1) Wisconsin went Republican in 1956 long after his Department’s policies went into effect and 2) since 1956 the farm income of the state has risen…. While the Department of Agriculture is idling 28 million acres through the soil bank formula, the Bureau of Reclamation pursues a six-year program designed to reclaim a million acres…. The United States has accorded Poland a highly favorable trade status which allows her to buy industrial machinery, and import surplus farm commodities on a barter basis.




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