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Show Federal Aid to be t Taken from Lunch Program Withdrawal of federal participation partici-pation in community school lunch and milk programs was announced announc-ed today by Leonard B. Trainer, Rockv Mountain regional administrator admin-istrator of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Food Distribution. Distribu-tion. The Food Distribution for several sev-eral years has assisted local communities com-munities in their school lunch programs by making food available avail-able to them thru cooperating state agencies. Because of shortages short-ages of man power and warehouse ware-house fcilities and other factors, the FDA recently made possible for sponsoring agencies, which included P-TA organizations and American Legion posts, to purchase pur-chase designated specific commodities com-modities from regular channels. FDA then made reimbursement up to a specified maximum providing certain prescribed nutrition nu-trition and health conditions were met by sponsorsing agency. Although started in 1935 largely large-ly in low-income areas, the school lunch program was spread to include in-clude children with parents able to pay for lunches. With the country coun-try at war, this was considered an important move, because it was felt many children could no longer long-er depend on the home to supply a nourishing noon meal. Many mothers who formerly made a full time job of taking care of their families took work in war industry, leaving no one to serve meals to children coming home from school at noon. Almost 200,000 children in 2,912 schools in the Rocky Mountain region benefited from the program last year. |