European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stars Amu stripes 1945 Dixie gis Harvest bumper crop of Loans ambulances with wings Loans under the i Bui of rights to onetime Farmers and farmhands in the armed forces Are being certified throughout the and yearnings for five acres and in dependence Are materializing for those who can show they have a reasonable Chance of making a Success from the first reports indicated a flood of applications from the agricultural with other sections making skimpy this is right in line with Accord ing to the veterans pm Farmers Are in the midst of Spring planting and interest is at Peak below the Mason Dixon As season comes around in the rest of the officials expect a Large influx of at the present no figures Are Avail Able on the number or value of the Loans regulations governing the issuance of farm Loans were announced in the last of the three sets of provisions set up by the veterans administration to govern guarantees on Loans for businesses Homes and forms for the applications were not distributed until sudden interest in farms As with on businesses and the government May guarantee 50 percent of any private Advance for a up to the guarantee amount of half of a 000 Farmers and would be farm ers May obtain Loans for the Purchase and improvement of to pay off Delin quent indebtedness or or to buy or repair farm As with other provisions of the i the government does not make farm Loans itself it Only guarantees repayment of part of each privately contracted loan if the vet eran is unable to fulfil his financial Obliga the weight of the governments guar makes it a comparatively easy matter for a Veteran to obtain a loan from a private company or provided it is for a practical purpose and there is a reasonable Chance of veterans Bureau officials report that a Large number of Loans for farms Are being sought by Cit bred and euro psychiatric reasons for the Large number of requests from the latter is prob ably that these men believe that on a farm they can find the quiet and Independence necessary to Complete the Sud Den interest in farms shown by City boys is harder to perhaps its the be ginning of a Back to the soil lending advisory committees and government officials Are making a conscientious Effort to discourage these Farmer they Are pointing out the Dan Gers in present inflated land the High mortality of new farms and the pit Falls for unscientific applications for farm Loans go through a winnowing process that is perhaps the most careful and thorough Given any Type of loan provided by the i Stop checks and aids for the Veteran Farmer Are webbed into a nationwide system of eche loved from local Farmers themselves to Frank veterans in nearly every farming Community in the country there Are local advisory commit tees which donate services to Brief former servicemen on the situation m that the various processes and Steps through which a loan application sounds like an endless amount of red but actually each step is designed to Aid the most Loans Are cleared in less than a huge lending operation i farm Loans Are expected eventually to snowball into a huge lending operation involving thousands of Veteran Farmers and the whole farm Economy of the the matter of homesteads has interested Many there is still Public land remaining in new North South Wyoming and Small areas in Oklahoma and lands in the original thir teen North new new new Rhode South Carolina and and in the states of West ten Nessee and Are not part of the Public they Are governed by state and information on them can be had from state no Public lands Are known to remain indisposed of in the states of Iowa and information on More than 2 million acres of unappropriated government land in Alaska can be obtained from the general land that office can also furnish information on Home steading on Public land in those states which have the Booklet shall i be a Farmer can be obtained upon request to the department of Washington it tells about opportunities in farm including kinds of sound farming methods and sources of world cartoons Armack in Christian science Monitor Button in the Philadelphia inquirer with a Load of wounded soldiers in her a Douglas c54 plants her wheels on the turf at Mitchell Field and Rolls to a eighteen hours ago these men were at a scottish base 60 hours in the frontline on them yet is foxhole but just 30 minutes after the Douglas stops rolling they will be be tween clean getting benefits of full surgical and medical there evacuating them by air Nowa not but from to each they can pick you up in Luzon and drop you off at a Texas receiving Center in 46 hours they can tuck you in at Aachen press and release you in Kansas in not More than three troop Carrier services in England announced recently that More than wounded were transferred Froni the continent to England a who gets in on these mercy veterans with every conceivable with the exception of two those with Chest injuries or serious mental which wont stand the these Are usually returned by speedy Hospital i Twenty to 36 besides the Are carried on each they May land at new Yorks Mitchell Field or at Hamilton near on both Long the North Atlantic and South stops Are made for refuelling and passenger Temple in the time Picayune Sweigert in son Francisco chronicle by Joseph Wechsberg correspondent lieutenant John Mason onetime new York dramatic watched the first minutes of Day from the signal Bridge of the heavy Cruiser Augusta on three years Roosevelt and Churchill discussed the Atlantic standing behind Vic Admiral Kirk and Browns assignment was to give to the hundreds of seamen Down in the flagship Over the ships Public address system the Story of the blow by a terrifying assignment and one of the moments when history holds its in his new Many a watchful night Whittlesey Brown gives the Story As he the whole Battle but an inspiring account of courage and sweat 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