Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 19, Number 9, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 January 1949 — Stale Farmers Bring Much Aid To Europeans [ARTICLE]

Stale Farmers Bring Much Aid To Europeans

CROP Gets $300,000 Worth of Foodstuffs From Indiana Rural Areas Indiana farmers contributed more than 200 carloads of corn, meat and soybeans and three carloads of dried milk, with a total value of more than $300,000 under the Christian Rural Overseas Program campaign. Announcement of the results was made yesterday by Lee Patrick, of the Indiana Farm Bureau Grain co-operative, treasurer of the state committee, headed by President Frederick L. Hovde of Purdue. Patrick reports CROP gifts had a cash value of 306,310, with four counties yet to make final reports. A total of 73 counties patricipated, and Patrick expects the figure to reach upwards of $320,000. Grain On Way The grain, most of which left the state early in December for Philadelphia, has gone on its way to Europe. High moisture content of much of the corn forced conversion of this crop generally to wheat and soybeans, both are used generally in Europe in preference to dons?” Allen County Leads Allen led all Indiana counties with contributions of the three grain crops valued at $15,396. Montgomery county was second with contributions of $12,352; and Bartholomew county which converted its corn into three carloads of dried milk made contributions valued at $12,000. Other counties with contribtuions above $7,000 were as follows: Clinton, $11,105; Dubois, $11,388; Marshall, $9,968; Howard, $7,706; White $8,508; Benton, $8,000; Carroll, $7,646; Jasper, $7,178; Warren, $7,260; Newton, $7,194; Randolph, $7,096;* Knox, $7,080. The Tippecanoe county contribution final figure is expected to be in the neighborhood of $12,000. The CROP foodstuffs were collected under a campaign organized by the Protestant, Cathloic and Lutheran churches and will be distributed overseas by the church organization to all hungry people where the need exists for more food stuffs, regardless of church affiliations.