Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-20
PATCH AND PATTON FORCES NEAR JUNCTURE
Administration
Curb on Farm
Benefits Beaten
House Group Vetoes
Budget Bureau Move
For Cut in Program
By the Associated Press.

For Cut in Program
BY the Associated Press.
An administration move to
curb farm program payments
next year drew veto today from
the House Appropriations COM
mittee as it approved an $685.
S01 1892 Agriculture Department
supply bill.
The move to cut the payments.
made to farmers for land conserva-
ton and utilization practices and as
incentives for production, was made
to the committee by the Budget Blu
reau during hearings on the bill to
finance the department for the II
months beginning July /.
General farm program payments
now are limited by law to $780,
600 900. The Budget Bureau pro-
posed a 100000, 900 limitation for
the 1916 crop.
The committee. however, said 1t
doubted the wisdom of limiting the
program in advance without a rec
concentration from the Agriculture
Committee.
Benefit Payments Boosted.
The committee boosted by $4,000
600 the Budget Bureaus recommen-
dalton for $500, 600 900 for farm
benefit payments for the 1945 crop,
making the figure $500, 0O0, 600.
These payments are in addition to
approximately $500 ,00o, 900 in direct
subsidy payments to be made by the
War Food Administration to en-
courage production of milk and
sugar.
The item for farm program pay
ments, which have helped boost
United States food production to
record highs, was the largest in the
measure.
The total in the bill for all Agri-
culture Department activities was
$56, 958 POT over current year ap-
preparations. but s141 ,499 $50 below
budget estimates. The reduction
from these estimates was accounted
for largely by cuts of $50 OO0, 900 in
loan authorizations for the Rural
Identification Administration, ST.
500 900 in the Rural Rehabilitation
loan fund and $4,000, 900 in the
Farm Tenant loan fund. These
more than offset increases approved
for other departmental activities.
Large Individual ALLEGATIONS.
Large individual ALLEGATIONS. In
addition to the various benefit pay
ments. included:
Payments to States under the ex-
tension service program, $14, 1876, $50.
in addition to S7,001 ,208 for expert
ment stations; eradication of tuber-
culosis and Bangs disease in cattle,
IS .848 600; meat inspection service,
81 SOC, 900. regional research labora-
tories, $4,000,000: national forest
protection and management, SIS
349 100; War Food Administration.
$13 .636, 472; Federal Crop Insurance,
81 1874 900.
The committee recommended that
the Commodity Credit Corp. be per-
mitted to use $6,562 900 of it's funds
for administrative expenses. 1t also
wrote into the bill a ban against
sale of aforementioned or con-
trolled farm products at less than
parity prices for most commodities,
1t approved continuance of the
school-lunch program at an esti-
mated cost of 1000 900 and ear
marked $25 900 900 of the $40, 900 600
farm tenancy loan fund for ad-
vances to returning servicemen.
REA Loan Fund Boosted.
The 100000 recommended for
REA loans, while 10000, 900 below
budget estimates, was an increase Of
$35 ,000, 900 over current year author
izations for that purpose.
| Although the printed hearings
devoted hundreds of pages to the
Commodity Credit Corp. the COM
mittee barely mentioned the CCC in
| its report to the House.
The hearings were marked by
sharp questioning of CCC officials
concerning reports voiced in the
House that 10000, 900 pounds of lard
were permitted to spoil and were
sold for soap purposes, that the gov
eminent failed to make the most
out of a sale of $50 tons of raisins,
and that thousands of spounds Of
scarce food items acquired by the
CCC for lease lend and price sup
port purposes were allowed to spoil
Ralph w. Olmstead. vice presi-
dent and director of the CCC, gave
the committee this information:
Loss of CCC-acquired food by
spoilage has amounted to 1-25th Of
the amount handled; 18O,S25 cases
of eggs purchased for food were di-
verted to animal feed because of
lack of storage space; 500 railroad
cars of potatoes were lost through
spoilage; the CCC was overcharged
approximately $4,000 by the New
York firm of Lynch, Donahue & Dee
under contracts for reconditioning
food at ports.
Made by Army.
Mr. Olmstead said the ALLEGATION
of the 100000 pounds of spoiled
lard, stored near Cincinnati, was
made to soap manufacturers by the
Army Quartermaster Corps.
The $50 tons of raisins, he said,
were sold to the Empire Frosted
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