30—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. September 20.1969 Our investigation into these
■ ■ 1 * "■ charges indicate* thus far that
there are 26 ca»cs In which more
~ than ono duplicate payment was
A View From The Governor s Office
By Gov. Raymond P. Shafer indication of fraud in many of
them.
This Administration is taking
action to prevent and crack down
on any fraud or potential fraud
in the State's public assistance
program.
Last week, I approved estab
l.shment of a 20-member field
auditing team to travel through
out the State checking on the
issuance of public assistance pay
ments.
The major purpose of this
team will be to make certain the
local county boards of public
assistance are issuing checks on
ly to those who qualify. In ad
dition, the Department of Public
Welfare has established new pro
cedures to help us guard against
fraud in the system.
These new procedures are the
result of an investigation into
the reasons for the rapid rise in
public assistance rolls and charg
es of fraud in the issuance of
emergency public assistance
Success Seen For
Fertilizer Industry
A fertilizer industry leader
sees a “period of promise” ahead
for his industry, but success, he
indicates, hinges on attention to
better marketing, better busi
ness practices and better handl
ing of customer credit.
W. J. Turbeville, President,
Agnco Chemical Co., and Vice
Chairman, Board of- Directors,
National Plant Food Institute,
spoke this week at the 12th an
nual Northeast Fertilizer Con
ference.
He pointed out that fertilizer
marketing programs must be or
iented more toward customer,
less toward products, and added
“you'can’t 'sell tomorrow’s com
mercial farmer with yesterday’s
marketing skills.” This means,
indicated Turbeville, that more
than ever, success or mediocrity
of a fertilizer business outlet
will center on dependability,
knowledge and initiative of the
local dealei, not only in selling,
but in servicing each account
and following up on every sale
Turbeville sees “an expanding
realization among industiy to
ward need for better business
piactices in all areas, from better
profit-loss statistics to handling
customer credit ” NPFI, he indi
cated, is set to help industry in
developing programs to improve
business data collection and
knowledge of credit use for bene
fit of both industry and its cus
tomers
The annual conference is spon
sored by NPFI m cooperation
with northeastern land-grant uni
versities
Pennsylvania Tobacco
Prosptects Improve
Production of Pennsylvania
Seedleaf tobacco for 1969 is fore
cast at 38 0 million pounds, am
increase of 1 percent from the
August 1 estimate If the current
forecast materializes, the crop
■will be about 1 percent larger
than last year’s but 16 percent
less than the lecent 5-year aver
age production.
Yield prospects increased to
1,900 pounds per acre, 100
pounds higher than 1968 and
about 110 above average.
Tobacco harvest began as ear
ly as the last week of July and
nearly all producers began cut
ting at least two weeks earlier
than normal Tobacco leaves
were generally large and heavy.
Curing weather during mid-Au
gust was ideal with low humidity
Because of the heavy crop, a lot
of good weather will be needed
checks in Philadelphia earlier
this year
The reforms we are making
are part of my Administration’s
determination to make certain
that the integrity of our system
is maintained and that the possi
mility of fraud is eliminated.
On April 7, we called in the
certified public accounting firm
of Peat. Marwick, Mitchell and
Company, in Philadelphia, after
statistics showed- that emergency
fund payments to Philadelphians
asking for public assistance in
creased by 289 percent from
June. 1968, to January, 1969.
In addition, we also launched
an investigation into the charges
of then Auditor General Grace
Sioan that more than 800 Phila
delphians had received duplicate
public assistance payments. She
charged fraud existed in hun
di eds of these cases.
In addition there were 50 cas
es in which there was one dupli
cate payment made to the recip
ients. In 49 of these cases, resti
tution was recommended by fak
ing the duplicated amount out of
future payments to the recip
ients. In one case, prosecution
has been recommended.
As a result of this investiga
tion several changes already
have been made by the Depart
ment of Public Welfare to im
prove the system of issuing all
checks.
First: Emergency checks are
issued only from the Executive
Director’s Office of the Philadel
phia County Board of Assistance.
Second: A complete register
of all checks forwarded to the
Treasury Department for mail
ing to recipients is mailed daily
to the Philadelphia County
Board of Assistance. This makes
it possible for the Board to and a team of systems analysts
verify immediately that a check from the Public Welfare Depart
has been mailed to a recipient ment and the Governor’s Office
and prevents claims of non-re- of Administration ha* been as
ceipt of assistance. signed to implement them
Third: The firm of Peat. Mar- The firm also made a review
wick, Mitchell and Company has other county board operations
recommended 16 ways to im- throughout the Commonwealth
prove the methods and proced- to determine if similar situations
ures of the Philadelphia office, exist but discovered none ,
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