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.SANTA FBi iT— New Mexico'* supVeme court Wednesday got the qyeptlpn of who is entitled to approximately $13,000, collected in W\% /or relief of McKinley and Valencia. county veterans captured in. Bataan.: ,The . money was raised by public Subscription and the sale of a carload of carrots, via public auc-tlorrln New York City, by a group oJf:'ilyIcKinlcy and Valencia county cltbensj . J .lOncc * the money was collected, however* war conditions and the refusal of the Japanese made it Irt^oiteibife :for; the relief supplies to be'ient -to the Philippine war prisoner-camps.Tlie $13,000 lay in Gallup and Grants barik* until last fall when the trustees of the fund petitioned ttfeH1vrcKlnIey county district court Unmake a ruling on disposition of th%Tfibney. 7.•DUtrlct Judge David W. Car-mody.v ruled thaLyslnce the money been, collected, in;. McKinley aricl^Valenciacounties with the IdeBl-.lhatil would be used ■ for Japanese. :!.prJsoners froin those the trustees, should divide •'wthe;; .'fundsequally among I .counties1 men returning from the* tfiiillppine: prison camps.;Bataan Veterans: association*; ^meanwhile, ’ had intervened . *i '• ••• .In the district court case, contending that It, as a non-profit organization devoted lo the weN fare of Bataan veterans, should receive the money for its work benefiting such veterans.It was on the appeal or the Bataan Veterans association from Judge Carmody's decision that, the case came to the state supreme court Wednesday.Urges Brannon Farm Plan For Potatoes‘ WASHINGTON, J?~ Secretary of Agriculture . Brannan urged Congress again Wed. to apply the Brannan farm plan with I Is “production payments” provisioh Lo the 1951 Irish potato crop. • • * * • ■.The Secretary told a Senate Agriculture Subcommittee he figures It will be cheaper.As an . example, he estimated the current huge potato- surplus would have*-cost Lhe government “between 25 or 35 million dollars under , the; Brannan Plan. Under i present price supports the cost. will run between 80 ®nd 100 mil-] lion dollars,”: he said. |.’The secretary wns called to give ; his views on measures lo clamp rigid controls^ on potato crops inI ft #11 ohJ fnl t A. »lni« lt;t PAX
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Clovis News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico, US
Thu, Mar 16, 1950
Page 6
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