MINUTE BOOK No. 17, CITY OF OXFORD

(~ln2I~~ .......... ~ .. .MINUTE BOOK No. 17, CITY OF OXFORDRES 0 L UTI 0 NMfEREAS, the United States Department of Agriculture,based on its experience, knowledge and investigation, decidedthat the proposed soil sedimentation research laboratory shouldbe ~~thin the Yazoo-Little Tallahatchie watershed area andspecifically in the vicinity of Oxford, Mississippi; and,\,'.IHER,!;AS, the United States Department of Agriculture, inits proposed budget, included an item of $600,000.00 for theconstruction of such a laboratory in the vicinity of Oxford,which budget request was approved by the Bureau of the Budgetand the ?resident and submitted to Congress; and,1r,ffiEREAS, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture E. L. Peterson,on March 29, 1957, by letter, advised that the "proposed Oxfordlaboratory cannot be located appropriately at any point outsidethe "lvatershed to be studied", and that IIthese research studies ccould not be done as quickly, as effectively, or as economicallyif the laboratory were lucated at Mississippi State College";and,'"HEREAS, information has been received that the Presidentof Mississippi state College, the head of the 4'arm ~ureau inMississippi, and the national head of the Farm Bureau, and otherpersons, during the \,eek of June 3, 1957, met \-Jith the Secretaryof Agriculture in/,'