Layne R. Beaty Papers

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  • Collection: Layne R. Beaty Papers
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Farm Broadcaster John Baker photographed in 1945. Baker was the author of the book Farm Broadcasting: The First 60 Years, which was published in 1981.

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Frank Atwood of Radio Station WTIC in Hartford, Connecticut, with President Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary Ezra Taft Benson at the 1955 Spring meeting of the National Association of Television and Radio Farm Directors.

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Edith Swing, Layne Beaty, and Jules Renaud, in 1961, taping the USDA TV show Across the Fence. The show's name was later changed to A Better Way.

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Farm director Wayne Lilies of KWTV in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, interviews Honeymoon, the Grand Champion Steer at the International, which was given to the Oklahoma 4-H Clubs by Arthur Godfrey. The 4-H Clubs presented Honeymoon to the Cowboy Hall of Fame.

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Everett Mitchell, the emcee of National Farm and Home Hour.

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NAFB Past Presidents (L-Fr) Layne Beaty, Roy Battles, John McDonald, Jack Timmons, Bob Mill. (L-Bk) Wally Erickson, Maynard Speece, George Menard, Orion Samuelson, George Stephens, Bob Nance. Photographed in November 1967.

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In the past, farm families relied on the radio as a vital link in keeping abreast of world events and current agricultural information.

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Charlie Slate, Farm Service Director of the Carolina Radio Network, interviews a local farmer in the spring of 1962.

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With the station's pig farm in the background, WNCT Greenville, North Carolina Farm Director Dick Stokes conducts his daily farm program, which strives to show farmers how their farm income can be upped through means of swine production.

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President Harry Truman with the Radio Farm Directors at a While House conference held on May 2, 1949.

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Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture (right) and Morse Salisbury, USDA broadcaster, doing a program for the National Farm and Home Hour, circa 1939.

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