Evening star., 1945-05-19
Higher Subsidy Plan
Designed by vinson ID
Raise Meat Supplies
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of available suypa1es for civilian
use"
As q further step. the Govern
ment may decide for the first time
to direct packers to ship supplies
to specific cities or individual stores
experiencing undue shortages.
Mr.. Vinson worked out the changes
with the Once Of Economic Stabili-
zation, OPA, War Food Admins
tration, the Army and the Defense
Supplies Corp. after President Tru-
man repeatedly instructed him to
straighten things out. The war
mobilizer said recommendations of
congressional food investigating
committees-critical of past admin
istrative policies-had been care
fully considered"
No Immediate Increase,
While the new program is ex-
pected to improve distribution and
to make more meat available In
areas Of the country where relative
shortages have been most pro-
nounced," Mr.. Vinson declared, 1T
will take some time for the effects
OF the program to be felt.
Consumers should not expect any
immediate increase in retail meat
supplies as result of the program .
Wilbur La Roe, counsel OF the Ma
tional Independent Meat Packers
Association, commenting on the new
program, said 1t partially relieves
bad situation" in that it will i'm
prove both the quantity and quality
OF beef by midsummer. However,
he added, pork will remain scarce
until the new pig crop of next
winter.
"Only experience will show it will
work." he said.
AS Mr.. Vinson announced the pro-
gram for feeders who take range
cattle and grain-feed them to higher
weight and grade, the Agriculture
Adjustment Agency issued a plea
for early marketings to insure an
even flow of meat through the sum-
mer.
AAA warned that short transpor-
tation and slaughter facilities could
cause cattle to pile up unless the
flow is regulated, with an early
summers start OF marketings.
CCC to Pay Subsidy.
The Commodity Credit Corp. will
pay the 50-cent per hundredweight
feeder subsidy to a seller of AA and
A grade cattle marketed for slaugh-
ter (sold for $14.25 or more per hun
dred pounds, Chicago basis weigh
ing 300 pounds or more, which have
been owned by the seller 80 days or
more
Expected to cost the Government
between s35 5,000, 900 and $40, ,O00, 900 q
year, the subsidy will be paid
through local AAA farmer commit
tees on the basis of feeders sales
receipts.
The pork subsidy increase will be
at the rate Of 40 cents per live hun
dredweight, retroactive to April /,
1945, or s1.70 as compared with 81 80
Mr.. Vinson said there would be q
further adjustment after an ac-
counting study is completed and as
hog prices may decline.
Defense Supplies Corp.
The Defense Supplies Corp. Is In
creasing subsidy payments on all
grades Of cattle IS cents per live
hundredweight, effective June 4
1945, with proviso for withdrawal
of 4 cents Of the subsidy for each
cents decline in the average drove
costs for the maximum to the min
imum of the sterilization range.
There will be a minimum payment
OF Is cents per hundredweight.
These new subsidies by hundred
weight will be: So for AA grade, s2.95
for A grade, $50 for B grade and
s1.25 for all other grades.
Also effective June 4, the addi-
tional subsidy for nonprocessing
slaughterers. who fail to realize the
extra revenues from by-products,
will be 10 cents. This differentia]
has been 80 cents in the past. The
cut was explained by Mr.. vinson
only as resulting from studies
made by the Once of Price Admin.
istration."
The job Of developing a book
keeping system for all cattle, Mr.
Vinson said, will be worked out b,
OPA and VITA by June Is, afte,
consultation with stockyard opera
tors and livestock sales agencies.