C3B—Uncaster Farming, Saturday, April 5,1950
Livestock marketers ask cutback in Packers Act funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Livestock Marketing
Association is asking
Congress to “sharply reduce
or delete” funding for ad
ministration of the Packers
and Stockyards Act, saying
the Act is no longer needed
as it relates to the livestock
marketing sector.
In a statement Monday
before the House Ap
propriations subcommittee
on agriculture, rural
development and related
agencies, LMA said the
estimated $8.9 million sought
by the U.S Department of
Agriculture to enforce the
Act in fiscal 1981 is
“unrealistically and un
necessarily high ”
Chester Co. to hold
slipcovering and
upholstering courses
WEST CHESTER ~ The stored at the meeting place
Chester County Extension “"til the end of the work
Service is offering dasses in sessions. Boudoir and living
making slipcovers and room chairs that do not have
reupholstennga chair. diamond tufting are
In the slipcover course, a suitable: the chair must be
senes of four meetings will structurally sound. Channel
include fabric selection, back chairs and sofas are not
measurement and fitting! suited to beginners. The
application of zippers, and ins tructor will be Marion
making self-binding. A Dawson,
variety of details and The 531116 course will be
techniques will be demon- offered a t two different
strated. The classes will be tunes - 1716 week day classes
held on Thursdays, April 17, held April 17, May 5,
24, and May 1 and 8, from 6,7,9,12,13,14,15, from 9:30
9:30-11:30 a.m. at the ex- a.m.until2:3op.m.
tension office. The instructor 7716 evening/Saturday
will be Dons Hoag. classes will be held on April
In the upholstry course, May 8, 16, 19, 21, 23, 28,
the orientation meeting will * 7une from 6-9 p.m. and
include prelimmaiy steps in Saturdays, May 10, 17 from
the preparation of the chair, P-m
-the supplies that are needed Deadline for these courses
and resources available to be Tuesday, Apnl 8.
purchase fabric and sup- There is a fee for each of the
plies. In the work sessions courses. Classes will be
the actual restoration is conducted at the extension
accomplished. The chair is offlce For further in
formation call 215/696-3500.
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This is particularly true,
the statement said, “in light
of the contemporary mood of
the nation insisting upon
fiscal restraint and in view
of the historical develop
ments in livestock
marketing, which raise
serious questions regarding
the very need for these
provisions of the Act.”
The statement noted that
when the P&S Act was
adopted in 1921, there were
only a few large terminal
stockyards, which were
regulated as public utilities.
However, “Congress has
explicitly denounced the
public utility concept,” in a
House report which ac
companied the 1978
marketing rates and tariffs
deregulation bill, the
statement said.
The House report noted,
“It is apparent, due to the
tremendous growth in the
number of posted
stockyards, that the
monoply theory under which
livestock markets were first
brought under regulation by
Congress in 1921 is no longer
appropriate.”
LMA said it is “also
inappropriate to continue
funding a program which
has lost its vitality in terms
of business practice and
fiscal integrity.”
The Kansas City-based
trade group, which furnishes
business services to over
1500 subscribing livestock
markets, dealers, brokers,
feedlots and livestock
transporters in the U S. and
Canada, said “The costs to
our subscribers of com
plying with the P&S Act are
astonishing ”
The statement noted the
federal Office oi
Management and Budget,
Congressional investigations
and the General Accounting
Office are currently looking
m the paperwork burden
imposed by the Act, and the
costs of complying with the
regulations.
LMA also pointed out
committees of both the
House and Senate have
endorsed the Trade Group’s
Crime Prevention in
Livestock Marketing Act as
an amendment to the revised
Federal Criminal Code. This
act would provide for stiff
penalties and imprisonment
for a variety of interstate
livestock marketing frauds.
Because enforcement of
this act would fall to the
Justice Department, “any
expenditure by the
Agricultural Marketing
Service, or USDA’s Office of
General Counsel in this
regard are duplicative and
unnecessary. . . this leaves
funding of the ad
ministration of the P&S Act
by the AMS highly
debatable.”
Students
admitted for
Fall & Spring
Semesters
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Other highlights from the
i statement, which was also
delivered Wednesday before
the Senate Appropriations
subcommittee on
agriculture, rural
development and related
agencies were a request that
. .no more lawyers should
be hired for USDA’s Office of
General Counsel.
“In a day when citizens
are literally outraged by the
expanding role of govern-
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ment in their everyday
private lives, it would seem
at best imprudent to furnish
nine additional attorneys to
further plague the private
sector and almost by
definition dream up still
more regulation that has
never been and will never be
necessary.”
LMA questions whether
the process of ad
ministrative appeal of
decisions under the P&S Act
to USDA’s Judicial Officer
should continue. The Trade
Group’s subscribers will
continue to seek ultimate
jurisdiction in the United
States Court of Appeals.
USDA should not be
allowed to pay “so-called
public participants” in rule
making procedures, a
program for which the
Department has neighter
“implicit or explicit”
authority, LMA said.
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