Evening star., 1938-08-02
SELLING Of MILK
|NPAPER CARTONS
|SL|CENSED HERE
Philadelphia Concern Gets
Permit to End Dispute
of Six Months.
PRICE MAY COME DOWN
TO 13 CENTS A QUART
Question of Cost Is Undecided,
However-Labor Body Hits
Plan as Dangerous.

Sale of milk in patented paper car
tons instead Of the ordinary glass bot
tie has been licensed by the District
Health Department after a six-month
dispute over stipulations covering this
type of service it was disclosed today
at the District Building.
The permit was issued to Sylvan
Seal. Inc, Philadelphia concern,
which already is engaged in distribu-
ton of milk in paper cartons in
number Of Eastern cities. including
Atlantic City. Trenton, N. j.. Whining
ton. Del. and Baltimore.
The license was issued July 20 by
the Health Department, but no an
nouncement was made until today.
Preliminary discussion was that the
concern planned to sell to Washing
ton retailers at price permitting
retail price of 13 cents a quart-one
cent lower than the prevailing price
here. However, officials OF the con-
Germ told The Star the question OF
price had not yet been decided and
indicated distribution of milk here
might not start for several weeks.
Came Up in May.
The issue came before the Commits
sioners last May when issuance was
opposed by the Health Department
unless the department could add a
sufficient staff of inspectors to permit
inspection of the firms dairy in Balti-
more. from which the Washington
supply was to be received.
At that time, the Commissioners
denied the permit and announced the
Budget Bureau would be requested to
approve sfunds for the hiring Of a
needed additional inspector
Thereafter, unofficial reports were
that the Budget Bureau had declined
to approve the request. but it now
develops that the last deficiency bill
approved by Congress contained an
item of $4,000 for the hiring of the
inspector and the money became
available July l.
One of the stipulations agreed to by
Sylvan Seal, Inc. was that all of the
milk used by the Baltimore plant,
whether for the Washington trade or
for its other services, would be OBJ
tained from farms having inspection
approval from the District Health De-
partment. Officials said this limited
the field of producers to those in the
Washington milk shed.
Labor Hits Plan.
A. E. Carpenter, vice president of
Sylvan Seal, Inc. in Philadelphia,
said some little time would be re-
quired to start the service to Wash
ington since the firm would have to
provide itself with a new fleet of
trucks. additional delivery personnel
and manufacture cartons for the
Washington market bearing the ap-
propriate name for its Washington
service
Health Officer George C. Ruhland
said:
I'VE resisted the granting Of the
license on the ground that We could
rot adequately inspect an operation
in Baltimore with the inspection per-
sonnel which We had. But now the
funds for the hire of an inspector
in Baltimore have been made avail
able and the permit, therefore, has
been granted"
The Central Labor Union. at its
meeting last night in the Typograph-
ical Temple. adopted resolution pre-
sented by the Milk Drivers Union con-
demning shipment of milk in paper
containers as detrimental to the
health of our people"
John Locher, president of the union.
said today that his organization felt
milk should not be brought into the
District unless it is delivered under the
same high standards of sanitary and
pure conditions that Washington deal
ers are forced to maintain,