WILLIAM
T. SMITH (1916-
)
In
1955, a Federal Subsidy Program was introduced and a run-in with this
program,
limiting farm corn acreage paved the road for William T. Smith to
become a N.Y.
State Senator for the 49th & 52nd District,
serving
from 1962-1986, he having taken the $6,712.00 paid him for not planting
corn,
and buying a Cadillac, attaching a sign thereon thanking JFK, and the
taxpayers
for their generosity. He again was paid $5,000 for not growing corn in
1970
but donated the money to his alma mater, the State College of
Agriculture at Cornell. He served on
Presidential Commission on
Drunk Driving, and SAAD. Developed, STOP DWI program. In 1983 received
outstanding Legislator of the year Award. Chairman of Senate Task force
to
investigate the lack of disaster warnings in the Floods of a 1972 and
1975.
