Senator WILLIAMs began to develop this idea at the Second Annual Conference of Families Who Follow the Crops. in San Jose. Calif.. on October 24. 1960. In presenting the proposal to the conference. he said: We now believe that we should perhaps think in terms of a program that would not only help develop a stabilized work force. but one which would also make certain that we will be prepared for the future when we are able to rely less and less on the migrant and more on a local. dependable. skilled work force. Senator WILLIAMS discussed the idea in more detail at the National Farm Labor Conference in Cincinnati. Ohio. on February 7. 1961.