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Roanoke Farms Meeting Explores Resettlement Vacancies
Public service agency representatives from Farm Security Administration WPA and Welfare met at Roanoke Farms in Halifax County to discuss rehabilitating families, referring eligible households to the resettlement project, and filling vacancies created by defense work. The 18,000 acre project is split for Negro and white families, with eligibility based on farming income health and equity in stock or implements.
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Hore Management
Farm Management
Farm Security
Roanoke Farms
FSA
Halifax County
Farm Security Administration
Works Progress Administration
State Department of Public Welfare
L. L. McLendon
Roanoke Farms Project
WPA
Halifax
McLendon
Mr. Gordon
James A. Mullins
Eugene Brown
Public Welfare
E. B. Hargett
Myra Scull
Mary Johnson
S. E. Wilson
Tully Williams
Archie K. Robertson
Martha Biggs
Carrie Sharpe
Gordon Blair
Ida May Knight