Evening star., 1936-09-20
u. 5. MILK CONTROL
.STARTSTOM0RROW
FOR CAPITAL AREA
ApIin Named Administrator
of Marketing Plan for
Distributors.
COURT CHALLENGE
OF PROGRAM HINTED
Dairy and Consumers Council
Voiced Opposition During
Hearings.

Over the protests Of some consumer
and producer factions and Of the larg-
est independent dairy in Washington,
Federal control of the Districts milk
supply begins at 1901 am. tomorrow.
The hotly- debated Washington milk
marketing agreement was signed by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
Thursday and Richard D. Aplin, 33-
year-old dairy expert, was appointed
yesterday to administer it. q.
The agreement may be challenged
in the courts. Its opponents, unable
to prevail upon the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration to drop the
idea of Federal control, first advanced
at hearings two months ago, have in
dicated they may seek to halt it by
legal means.
A similar control plan in Boston, of
which Aplin was assistant administra-
tor. was suspended by court order
in July.
Supporters Of the agreement include:
The Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association, purporting to
represent 1,100 Of the 1900 dairy
farmers shipping milk to the Washing
ton market, which initiated the request
for an agreement.
The dairy section of the A. A. A.,
which modelled the program and de-
clares that "a per cent of this areas
producers favor 1t, and that 1t will
not cause higher retail prices.
Opponents are:
Fairfax Farms Dairy, threatening,
through Attorneys Seton Darr and
Louis Obergh. to seek from District
Court an injunction staying the
agreement.
Consumers Council Opposed.
The Washington Consumers Coun-
Gil, fearful of retail price rise, de-
claring it will ask the Senate to in
vestigate the A. A. A. dairy section
and the Maryland and Virginia Pro.
ducers' Association.
A few hundred independent pro-
ducers, who feel they will be prevented
from continuing to sell their milk to
handlers at the rates below those stip-
ulated under the agreement.
Aplin, the new administrator, Is not
Federal employe. Although pro-
ducers and distributors. groups had no
say In his appointment, his salary and
the administrative expenses Of his
Office are to be paid by them. An
official Of the A. A. A. Information
Division, questioned regarding Aplins
salary, said he did not know the
amount, but presumed it was some
where around $4,000 q year."
The marketing agreement was
established under a section of the
agricultural adjustment act not IN
validated by the Supreme Court in its
otherwise sweeping A. A. A decision.
A clause in this agreement states that
administrative expenses, including the
administrator salary, shall be paid
by a pro rata assessment of handlers
amounting to not more than 2 cents
per 100 pounds of all milk delivered
to them by producers during each
monthly delivery period. =
Must Report Receipts.
Each month the milk distributors
will report to Aplin receipts of milk
from producers, and the use and sales
of milk, to enable him to compute
the uniform prices which all handlers
will pay farmers. Aplin must make
his findings public.
Aplin will assign to each producer
a base" which, for the rest of this
year. will be rs per cent of deliveries
during October, November and De-
cember, 1885. For that quantity of
milk represented by this base the pro-
ducer will receive from handlers 1902
per 100 pounds.
The remainder of the money accru-
ing to handlers from the sale Of class
/ and class 2 milk-classed accord
ing to its utilization, whether for
fluid milk or as cream or ice cream
will be distributed as q uniform price
(See MILK Page B-2)