THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1943
HARRY F. BYRD
MAKES ATTACK
ON SPENDING
Cost Os Travel And
Wire Tolls Wasteful, He
Says.
WASHINGTON, June 3.
Chairman Harry F. Byrd, Demo
crat, Virginia, of the joint con
gressional economy committee,
estimated that federal agencies
exclusive of the army and navy
are spending $100,000,000 annual
ly for travel, telephone and tele
graph costs and demanded that
Congress halt “such wasteful and
unpatriotic expenditures.”
He submitted an itemized re
port based on a committee inves
tigation covering expenses dur
ing the last six months of 1942
which held that some agencies
not essential to the war effort
have permitted these costs to
“double, treble, even swell to
nine times their peacetime
leivels.”
Byrd believed some of the ex
penditures were “so excessive as
to warrant immdiate action by
Congress.”
Urges Drastic Cut.
The report said the estimated
$100,000,000 total could be “dras
tically cut” and pointed out that
it was “no more than fair” for
the government to reduce its
travel and communications ex
penses when the public is oblig
ed to do so by war emergencies.
It reported that $15,573,833 was
spent for communications and
$35,672,853 for travel by agencies
other than the war and navy de
partments from July 1, 1942, to
the beginning of this year.
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i of war information at the top of
j the list, “far out-stripped 1 the
| rest” in rolling up bills fer local
| and long-distance phone calls,
telegrams and cables, and tele
type and miscellaneous expenses,
it said. The agricultural depart
ment headed the list of six agen
| cies that accounted for more than
half of the travel expenses.
Summarizes Costs.
To demonstrate the “waste
ful” communications practices,
the committee said the $3,538,024
j spent in long-distance calls by
! all agencies during the period,
1 computed on the average night
| rate basis, was sufficient to make
I “495 three-minute calls around
] the world at the equator daily.”
' The war production board alone
j spent enough in long-distance
I calls to “put in hourly three-
I minute telephone calls to the
I moon ; 221,463 miles away
| every hour in the day, every
day in the year,” it said,
j OWl’s bill for communication
j facilities was reported by the
| committee at $1,812,061, or 11.6
I per cent of the total. Following
| in order were WPB with $1,735.-
071, commerce department, sl,-
415,609; agriculture, $1,153,937;
state, $1,054,732; office of price
1 administration, $940,433; justice,
$936,442, and treasury, $811,967.
Altogether, they accounted for
60 per cent of the overall total.
The committee said travel ex
| penditures comprised $6,379,630
!to meet railroad costs, and $5,-
J 119,045 for automobile and $2,-
| 640,208 for airline travel.
The agriculture department’s
j share was $5,175,796, or 15 per
' cent of the total. The other five
I following in order were the jus
! tice department, $3,434,998; WP
B, $3,415,953; treasury, $2,671,-
| 691; federal security agency, sl,-
■ 935,001, and OPA, $1,723,151. In
all, the six agencies accounted
i for 52 per cent of the total ex
j penditures.
I The United States was produc
ing fighting equipment eight
times as fast as Japan in the
j Spring of 1943.
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Rationing At
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PROCESSED FOODS The
valid period for blue stamps G,
H, and J have been extended
from May 31 through Monday,
June 7. Blue stamps K, L, and M
became valid Monday, May 24,
and will continue good through
July 7.
SUGAR —Stamp No. 12 expires
on May 31. Stamp No. 13 will
become valid on June 1 and will
be good for five pounds of sugar
until August 15. Stamps No. 15
and 16 in war ration book I are
valid five pounds of sugar each
from May 24 through October 1,
only if the holder has not previ
ously obtained sugar for home
canning. If an allotment has been
obtained for home canning,
stamps No. 15 and 16 should be
retained as they must be pre
sented to the rationing board at
a later date.
COFFEE—Stamp No. 23 ex
pires on May 31. Stamp No. 24
will be good for one pound of
coffee from Monday, May 31,
through Wednesday, June 30, a
period cf one month instead of
; five weeks.
I MEATS and FATS Red
; stamps E, F, G, and H will ex
j pire in the hands of consumers
] on May 31. Stamp J will be good
through June 30, instead of ex
piring on May 30. Red stamp K
is gcod from May 30 to June 30,
‘ stamp L from June 6 to June 30,
! stamp M from June 13 to June
30, and stamp N from June 20 to
j June 30.
SHOES—Stamp No. 17 in war
j ration book one is goed for one
; pair of shoes until June 15. A
j loose or detached coupon is of no
value. Shce stamps must be de-
I tached from war ration book I
by the person selling or deliver
ing shoes.
Poultrymen
Go Slow On
Summer Broilers
North Carolina poultrymen
should go slow and stay on the
safe side in producing summer
broilers, says Prof. Roy S. Dear
tyne, head of the Poultry De
partment at N. C. State College.
Since the feed situation is so
serious, he suggests that growers
make sure of an adequate supply
of feed from the feed dealer be
fore contracting for the chicks.
He further suggests that grow
ers anticipate the necessity of
more floor space per started
chidk, than is usually required in
the spring. About 2 square feet
of floor space should be given
for each 3 chicks at the begin
ning of the feeding and this
space should be increased to one
square foot per chick, when they
are 4 weeks of age.
Dearstyne pointed out that
slower growth and higher mor
tality must be anticipated for
summer broilers as compared
with spring broilers. One way of
conserving feed is through re
duced mortality and this may be
accomplished by less crowding,
strict sanitation, and careful
management.
Another method of conserving
feed, cited by Prof. Dearstyne,
is the culling of males not in use
i in the laying flock. He says that
after the breeding season is
over,-males serve no useful pur
pose in the flock and their pre
sence is responsible for heavy
egg loss in improperly stored
eggs during the hot weather.
He estimates that there are a
bout 700,000 breeder males in
North Carolina - poultry flocks
consuming about 1.75 pounds of
feed a week. If grower will cull
out these males, when not in use,
they will ibe saving about 560
tons of precious feed every week.
CHICKS
Poor quality chicks, poor qual
ity and inexperienced per
sons attempting to grow ihccks,
has caused the greatest mortaility
experienced in many years, re
ports County Agent L. F. Weeks
of Duplin.
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