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,, 8 - . One of the special aiervi.ee- a university stav.on may render is typified in the var *?&?& and Hoae ' : ' 0 ek w aeries presented from *.*X)X, In 1942^43 it became apparent that wartime restriction on gasoline and rubber would seriously curtail travel,. The important Farm and Horae meeting on the campus that year, for its 43rd annual sessions had been viewed as an Important gathering to plan goals and farm production for the Impending war years.. The an^carapus meet.was cancelled. Ha-Mo came to the rescue* The college Immediately drew up a program for a meeting to he produced for and by radio in place of the originally planned affair , A full week of special broadcasts vae planned and presented, The scries met with such success that the program vae continued on this annual radio basis until the end of the war. Cooperating agencies working with the entire college staff included the United States Department of Agriculture, the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation* the British Information Service* and others, A serious limitation on this otherwise successful venture was the inaW IVy of viol to secure evening broadcast hours during this crucial food production period,. The Des Moines 'Register and Tribune* owner (then) of two competing radio stations saluted the eventg *ThIs yearns “Farm and Home Wed* 9 at Iowa State College. *•**•!« } by radio v for the third successive year*. ..Come to think of it, it Is odd that we made so little ues of such techni before we were forced to it by’ war-time conditions*Important gatheringn occasionally get part of the proceeding broadcast **• but generally it' 1 s the speech by a Dig name 6 « which has nothing whatever to do with the business of the gathering, , * *with the «Farra and Home iv’eek” c however, the broadcasts are the meeting itself* 15 (Des Moines Register, February 12, 1945} Inserted here was Exhibit 172* a 'bulletin describing the Iowa State Collage w Faroi and Home Veek 1 *, Ho riot® copies of this booklet are available-- Originals are on fils with the Federal Communications Commission*