This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kellogg, Dyke, Phipps, Snook, Smith, Stubbs, Pullman, Smith, Gordon Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4228 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. February 29, 1940. "FRIDAY, MARCH 8TH, AAA TO OBSERVE SEVENTH BIRTHDAY AT BANQUET".-- Fremont county's AAA committee this week announces that plans have been completed for commemoration of the seventh birthday of the national administration's farm program at a banquet at the Legion hall, Friday evening March 8. Guests at the dinner will be addressed over the radio by Prsident Franklin D. Roosevelt, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and Postmaster General James A. Farley. These broadcoasts from Washington, will be at 9 p.m. Tickets for the dinner meeting are now being sold. Chairman Sam Kellogg has the following committee men working with him in planning for the observance: Fisher township: Wayne Phipps Green township: L. D. Dyke Locust Grove township: Ivan Snook Madison township: Carl Smith Riverton township: William Stubbs Sidney township: James Pullman Walnut and Monroe townships: A. L. Smith Washington township: J. M. Gordon N.B.: The Environnmental Working Group (EWG) has posted farm subsidies on their "Farm Subsidy Database". For an idea of present day farm payments 1. Go to Google and type in "farm subsidies" in the SEARCH SPACE and click "enter". 2. When these postings come up, click on "EWG// Farm Subsidy Database" by choosing "cached" on the third line of this posting. (Usually this is the second posting here.) 3. On the map that comes up, click on the portion set off as the state of Iowa. 4. When the Iowa site comes up, go to the selection box where it says "Pick a County". Drop this down to Fremont county and click it. 5. On this Fremont county site, you will find TOP RECIPIENTS. Click that which you might want to see. 6. The first page lists the top recepients for Fremont county. Notice that at the bottom that you may click onto the second pages, etc.--W.F.