Evening star., 1934-11-03
Will Buy 10000 Quarts at
Eight Cents Out of Re-
lief Funds.
COST TO BE $24, 900
MONTHLY, ALLEN SAYS
Welfare Lists to Be Studied in
Making Plans for Apportion.
ment of Fluid.

Commissioner Allen announced to-
day new study would be made of
the budget of each family on relief
rolls to determine how best to appor-
ton the $500 gallons of milk to be
made available daily to the needy at
8 cents a quart.
The first purchase of the new g.
cent milk will be made Monday and
will be distributed among the families
with children. This distribution will
be made on the basis of a hasty check
of relief division records, with the ap-
portionments to be changed after the
budget survey has been completed.
For the present, the milk will be
bought by the District out of relief
funds, which this month totaled
nearly 100000. At cents a quart,
the $500 gallons daily would cost the
District $4,000 a month.
II Commissioner Allen is successful
in his attempt to obtain a portion of
processing tax money which he said
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
traitor Harry L. Hopkins expects to re-
ceive, the milk probably will be given
the relief families IN addition to their
present cash allotment, the city head
said.
To Study Budgets.
There are approximately 26,497 chill
6ren in the families of relief clients
and to complete study of the budgets
of each of these will take at least a
week, Allen said Also to be taken into
account In the relief budget study is
The amount of milk now being includ-
ed in the free school lunches. Whether
this milk can be supplied out of the
$500 gallons made available yesterday
by the Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association must be deter
mined, Allen said The school lunch
milk is being bought on contract and
Allen would not commit himself on the
possibility of abrogatlng the agree
ment.
Among the estimated 26,4 ,497 children
up to Is years in relief families, 1926
are under l year of age; 9,013 are
from to S; 1896 are from 6 to l3,
and 2,372 are between IA and Is. The
$500 gallons would supply these chill
dren with 10000 quarts or 10000 pints
per day-less than a pint apiece. AL
len intimated that if his plan to in
crease milk consumption among chill
dren on relief rolls works out salts
factorily on the 2,500-gallon basis, he
might seek to obtain even as much as
5000 to 1000 gallons a day. He ad-
mitted, however, he had no definite
plans.
Low Cost Extends Relief.
Allen said the District now was
buying considerable milk at II cents
a quart and that with the money thus
spent he could do one-third more at
the Scent figure.
Conferences over the relief milk sit
uation will begin Monday morning be-
tween Allen. Public Welfare Director
Elwood Street, Miss Alice Hill, District
emergency relief director, and Assist
an Corporation Counsel Elwood H..
Seal.
Tentatively. Allen said his plan in
volved the distribution of tickets by
the emergency relief division which
would be redeemed by the dairy COM
panies. He said he did not know at
this time how many dairies would CO.
operate in the plan. Embassy and
Chestnut Farms Chevy Chase Diaries
are the only ones which thus far have
sold any of the 10-cent milk which
Allen has made available after long
fight.