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Show NE.4WS .r FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Stabilization of Farm Prices T1Y; Government has issued f "Jn,or a 10 Pcr cont increase in 19- 2 spring hog production over the 1912 crop. The 1942 bpnng farrowing was 62,000,000 head which was a new record I he new goal calls for about b8, 000,000. Secretary of Agriculture Agri-culture Wickard said these increased in-creased farrowoings will result in an increase of 2,400,000,000 pounds dress weight slaughter over last year. He estimated inat the 1913 requirements for U. S. military forces and Lend-lease Lend-lease will exceed 1942 requirements require-ments by more than 1,000,000,-000 1,000,000,-000 pounds. The Department of Agriculture reported the over-all demand for farm products in 1913 will be stronger than in 1942, and prices received by farmers generally will be higher on the average than in 1942. The Department aas asked for production of an additional 44,000,000 pounds of spray process dry skim milk for shipment by December 31 because be-cause it is urgently needed to supplement the fluid milk supply sup-ply of the Alied nations and is in greater demand than roller process dry milk. As part of its program of speeding up the delivery de-livery of this milk, the AMA is now buying dry skim milk on a weekly basis instead of the first and third weeks as heretofore. Agriculture Secretary Wickard has authorized the Commodity Credit Corporation to sell for cash available wooden storage bins to approved warehousemen and elevator operators for the storage of wheat in areas where storage facilities are not sufficient suffi-cient to take care of this year's near-record production. Several thousand of these bins, the sale of which has been restricted to ..heat producers cooperating in the 1942 AAA agricultural conservation con-servation program, are available,, principally in the Dakotas. Producers Pro-ducers will still be encouraged to erect such bins on their farms. Tenants and others who cannot buy bins will be given first consideration con-sideration by AAA county committees com-mittees in making wheat purchases pur-chases for storage in CCC ovvned jins. Warehousemen purchasing the bins will issue negotiable insured in-sured warehouse receipts representing repre-senting wheat stored by producers produc-ers as collateral against CCC loans. The authorization provides pro-vides that where surplus steel and wooden bins owned by the ai-e available, county committees com-mittees may purchase from eligible elig-ible Droducers wheat grading No. 2 or better, with moisture content not in excess of 13y2 per cent, for the account of CCC "for storage. The price paid will be the loan rate at the point of storage applicable to the grade, class, and protein of the wheat purchase, ilationing To aid in voluntary meat conservation, con-servation, the Food Require-.jjirements Require-.jjirements Committee called upon up-on restaurants to make available .ialf portions of meat at reduced prices. This program is designed to aid persons who dine out to limit their consumption of meats until rationing goes into effect. Priorities and Allocations The War Production Board cut production of most Farm Machinery Ma-chinery to 20 percent of 1940 output out-put and ordered concentration of farm equipment manufactured manufac-tured among the smaller and in-termediate in-termediate producers. This order docs not apply to repair parts, tractors, tractor-mounted implements, imple-ments, combines, harness hardware hard-ware and hand tools. The Board allowed manufacturers to produce pro-duce 130 percent of 1940 production produc-tion of repair parts. Strategic Materials Planes of the Army Air Force Command, the Army Air Force Service Command and the Noval Air Transport Service, returning after delivering personnel and material to fighting fronts, are being used to bring back strategic strate-gic matrials to America. To date they have brought back $475,000 worth of platinum from points on the Persian Gulf; balsa wood from Central America, needed for the American glider and British mosquito boats; tantalite, beryl ore, quartz crystals, industrial indus-trial diamonds and mica from South Africa ;crude rubber from Brazil; 20 tons of rubber seeds' from Liberia for planting in the ' Western Hemisphere, and various vari-ous other vital materials. Taxation and Profits The International Revenue Bureau soon will distribute full instructions to employers concerning con-cerning the new tax on individual individ-ual incomes in excess of $624 a year gross incomes in the case of wages, salaries, interest and dividends, and net incomes in the case of rents and money from business, professional and farm sources. According to the Revenue Act, employers must deduct the tqx, which goes into effect January 1, 1943, from wages and salaries. Although taxpayers will not make returns for the gross individual income tax until 1944, and there will be no reference to tills tax on the regular individual income, tax forms soon to be distributed for use in reporting 1942 income, the Treasury asked individuals sup- j ject to the new tax to keep i througout 1943 detailed memo- j aiiua on which to base their returns. re-turns. These memoranda should cover abounts of income re ceived, the periodic deductions made by employers and all transactions involved in the Rev-'ii'j" Rev-'ii'j" Act's scheme of "post-war credits" against the tax. rood Kecraireme:its Housewives are asked to re-1 duce their canned goods purchases pur-chases by at least one can a week. Cans consume tremendous tremend-ous quantities of two of our most critical materials, tin and steel, J and it must be remembered that demand for cans Is constantly going up because of the necessity neces-sity of providing our allies and our troops with large quantities of canned goods. 190,000 tons of sieel, 2,600 tons of tin, and about 77 tons of rubber would be made available for cans to supply the food requirements of our soldiers and Allies if housewives cooperate cooper-ate in the one-can-less-per-week program. Ccrap Salvage A federal program of turning condemned and adulterated food stuffs into glycerin for use in explosives ex-plosives has proved so successful that it will be extended to foods seized by. the States. The government gov-ernment inspects only food moving mov-ing in interstate trade, but already al-ready has seized thousands . oi pounds of condemned butter, soy beans, olive oil, and other foods from whichc grease can be extracted ex-tracted for glycerin making. The WPB Conservation Division will recommend that State Salvage committees take over foods condemned con-demned by State health and agricultural groups which have jurisdiction over foods in intrastate intra-state commerce, j 'arJare of Merchant Seamen The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill lo protect rights of merchant seamen while they are under WSA. Under present law when tlie seamen enter Government Gov-ernment service, they lose Social Security and other benefits they ei.joycu as employees of private shipping companies. i-.:r.y The White Pass and Yukon ' a vailH-ay extending from .....ii..u, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon Territority, Canada,; which will provide rail connec- lion between the coast and the ..laskan-Canadian Military High ... . i.;is U-on leased by the U. S. "in) for the duration of tne war. |