Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-06-26 | Page 2 | Conferees Deadlocked on Plan for Subparity Grain Sales

Conferees Deadlocked f on on Plan Planor For or u arit Grain rain Sales a es WASHINGTON June 26 UP Senate house Senate house conferees remained remained remained re re- re- re deadlocked Thursday o over er a proposal to permit sale of government surplus corn and wheat stocks for feed at less than parity 1 t Although the end of the fiscal year when the agriculture department department department depart depart- ment will run out of funds was only five days away the senate returned the Bureaus Bureau's 1943 appropriation appropriation appropriation bill to conference after voting 46 to 13 to insist on the parity below-parity sales If the deadlock is not broken before July 1 both houses may have to pass a resolution authorizIng authorizing authorizing ing the agriculture department to continue paying expenses until the reg regular lar bill is finally approved House Wants Parity The rhe house so far has Insisted on parity prices for all of the surplus grain Secretary of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture Agri Agri- culture Claude R R. said Thursday night that this policy is the most serious threat I know to our future food supply in a radio address said that a move in congress to lock up the st of such grain gr in would If carried out force t tie the e cost of living livin up p abd give a new turn to the spiral of inflation We must not do do that he said But the only alternative left is for farmers to cut down on their production We must not do that either Parity Not at Stake added that parity to farmers is not at stake because through the government program of loans and payments farmers are guaranteed parity for their grains The future food supply outlook he warned is not so 50 bright as at present because farmers will have havea a mroe difficult time In producing the raw materials of food He cited the problems of obtaining labor Jabor and farm machinery under the circumstances