Rural Telephone Bank Appointment of Five Members of the Board of Directors.

The President today announced the appointment of five persons as members of the Board of Directors of the Rural Telephone Bank. They are:

EILEEN J. A. GREVEY, commissioner of the New Mexico Public Service Commission in Santa Fe;

ALEX P. MERCURE, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development;

CLIFFORD M. OUSE, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture;

ROBERT L. STANTON, president and director of the Rock Port Telephone Co. in Rock Port, Mo., and vice president of Stanton Grain Co.;

SARAH WEDDINGTON, General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture.

The Rural Telephone Bank is part of the Rural Electrification Administration. It was established in 1971 to make loans to rural telephone systems.