Evening star., 1940-02-03
Relief Milk
Stamp Plan
Considered
Decision by Bondy
May Give Distribution
To Store Chain

A modified version of the Wal
lace food stamp plan may be adopt
ed in part here to ease the oper-
alton of the proposed relief milk
program, it was understood today.
The plan would call for the dis
tribution of the relief milk, at S
cents a quart, through regular re-
tail store outlets. At the same time
the possibility appeared that the re-
lief plan may be extended to Mary
land.
Meanwhile, Delegate Maurice D.
Rosenberg of Alexandria intro
duced in the Virginia General As
sembly meeting in Richmond bill
for the abolition of the Virginia
Milk Commission, controlling the
price of milk throughout the State.
The measure was sent to the House
General Laws Committee, which
will meet Tuesday.
Robert Bondy, District public well
fare director, made it clear today
that the Inauguration of the stamp
plan is still long way off. 1t depends
not only on the agreement on
method of distributing the milk,
but on getting the funds to finance
the District of Columbia govern
ment's expenditures in connection
with it.
Until yesterday Mr.. Bondy favor
ed distribution through public de-
pots, 10 in number, which would be
established in various parts of the
city convenient to the persons who
would be certified an authorized to
buy the scent milk. Isaac Jacob
son, president of the District
Grocery Stores. Inc, suggested the
distribution through stores. Mr..
Bondy is still undecided.
Decision Up to BOndy.
DR.. E. M. Gaumnitz, head of the
Agriculture Departments Division
of Marketing Agreements, said yes
terday at meeting in Mr.. Jacob
sons office that the department
would approve the store-distribution
system if it was satisfactory with
MIR. Bondy. Milk distributors, Mr.
Bondy and Mr.. jacobson attended
the meeting
The relief milk eligibles would be
sold Stamps-each worth 5 cents
for trade at stores for relief milk.
Some limit. depending on the size
of the family, would be placed on
the amount of milk available to
each family, perhaps one quart
day for a family of three. The
stamps would be issued in monthly
allotments.
DR.. Gaumnitz said that in Boston
and Chicago. where relief milk pro-
grams have been established in the
past, central depots operated by the
cities were the distribution sources.
Mr.. Jacobson pointed out that dis
tributlon through stores probably
would prove more convenient for
the buyers of the milk. There are
more stores than there would be
depots.
May Include Nearby Maryland.
DR.. Gaumnitz, during the meeting,
intimated that the department
would approve the extension of the
relief plan to suburban Maryland,
depending on the extent of public
sympathy for the plan shown in that
area. The plan is authorized in the
new milk-marketing agreement is
sued by the Secretary of Agriculture,
which puts Federal control over milk
marketing not only in Washington
but also suburban Maryland.
The price changes in retail cream
put in effect by the dairies here
when the milk-marketing agreement
went into operation were attacked
yesterday by Donald E. Montgomery,
consumers counsel of the Agricul-
tural Adjustment Administration.
He said:
THE distributors raise the price
Of half pint of table cream 2 cents
at retail, but the slight change made
by the Federal order in the price
which producers receive results in
an increase of less than two-thirds
of a cent in the distributors cost
Of this half pint of cream.
"On half pint of whipping cream
the distributors take is even more
unwarranted. Because of the order,
they pay producers 1H cents more
for this cream, but now they have
raised the price to consumers cents,
from 30 to "a cents a half pint"