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WASHINGTON — A House sub
committee voted Tuesday to sub-
na a Chicago television station
producer who did an undercover ex
pose of the city’s funeral home in
dustry.
The House Commerce oversight
and investigations subcommittee
said Larry Pont of WLS-TV had
agreed to be served with the sub
poena at the start of hearings today
into alleged nationwide consumer
abuses by undertakers.
The panel, chaired by Rep. Bob
Eckhardt, D-Texas, called the hear
ing to direct attention on the funeral
industry as Congress nears a decision
on whether the Federal Trade Com
mission should be allowed to follow
through with a proposed crackdown
on undertakers.
The House has voted to scrap the
FTC project but the Senate has not.
The final decision will be made next
week when a conference committee
meets to work out differences be
tween House and Senate FTC legis
lation.
Eckhardt said the House voted
“without the benefit of any hearings
into the problems of the consumer,
the states or the FTC.” He said the
hearing would examine both the
merits of the FTC proposal and the
extent of funeral industry lobbying
on the matter.
The subcommittee said it sub
poenaed Pont “because his station
had refused to let him testify volun
tarily.”
The program involved was called
“The Last Hurrah: Chicago Style.”
The subcommittee also scheduled
as witnesses a Catholic priest who
alleges he has gotten death threats
from funeral directors for supporting
state regulation of the industry; a re
porter for WHAS-TV in Louisville,
Ky., who did an investigation of fun
eral practices in that city; and a fun
eral director from San Antonio, who
says he can offer a funeral for $365
compared to the going rate of $1,400.
The FTC rule in question, the
subject of intense complaints from
many of the nation’s 45,000 under
takers, would require funeral homes
to give consumers detailed price dis
closures and forbid them from saying
that embalming is necessary or that a
casket is required for a cremation.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A House
Agriculture subcommittee has
approved an amendment to tighten
the rules on farmers who borrow
Big Bend Natali un( ^ er Farmers Home Adminis
tration’s economic emergency loan
program.
The amendment, sponsored by
Rep. Edward Madigan, R-Ill., would
prohibit use of borrowed funds to
pefmance land or homes unless the
al estate were purchased at least
year before a farmer applied for
ah economic emergency loan.
The amendment addressed an
issue raised by congressional investi
gators who found that economic
emergency loans have been used in
directly for farmland purchases,
iven though the law specifies the
money cannot be used to buy or lease
land.
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farmers bought land with short-term
notes and then immediately re
ceived economic emergency loans to
cover their mortgages.
Madigan’s amendment also tight
ened a credit-elsewhere test. Under
the amendment, a farmer could not
get an economic emergency loan un
less he had a written rejection with
an explanation from a credit institu
tion.
Congress is also tightening credit-
elsewhere tests for other Farmers
Home programs because of abuses.
Farmers can get economic
emergency loans under current law
if they are “unable at the time the
loan application is filed to obtain suf
ficient credit from normal credit
sources to finance actual needs at
reasonable rates and terms.”
Madigan’s amendment would also
bar a farmer from getting direct loans
under the program unless the Agri
culture Department determined
that the farmer could not obtain a
similar loan backed with a federal
guarantee.
Initially, the program was ex
pected to include half direct and hall
guaranteed loans. But as of last fall,
only 4 percent of loans were guaran
teed and 96 percent were direct.
On Thursday, the subcommittee
approved, by a 15-0 vote, an exten
sion of the economic emergency loan
program with several amendments.
The $4 billion program, started in
August 1978 to supplement existing
Farmers Home programs and to help
farmers recover from low prices, is
due to expire May 15. Its main pur
pose was for refinancing.
Congressmen say the program
needs to be extended until Sept. 30,
1981, because of farmers’ economic
problems caused by the Russian
grain embargo.
The pending legislation, to be
taken up soon by the full House Agri
culture Committee, would permit
lending of another $2 billion. A simi
lar provision was introduced by Sen.
Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., chair
man of the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee.
Members of the House subcom
mittee said they did not want several
amendments that change the picture
of the economic emergency loan
program to impede actual lending of
money after May 15.
They agreed the program should
continue under current rules but
that the changes must be made by
Oct. 1.
Rep. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said,
“Let’s face it, the real need is for the
money.”
In another amendment, the sub
committee approved a subsidy so
that the interest rates for guaranteed
loans would be as low as rates for
direct loans. The difference would
be paid by the taxpayers.
Under the current program, in
terest on direct economic emergen
cy loans is based on cost of money to
the government. Higher interest on
guaranteed loans is agreed to by a
farmer and his banker.
Farmers can borrow no more than
$400,000 under the program. By a
6-5 vote, the subcommittee added
another limitation — farmers can use
no more than $50,000 out of
$400,000 for current farm operating
expenses. The rest would have to go
for refinancing of debts or major pur
chases like machinery.
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5 percent.
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Based on Feb. 1 conditions, the
department’s Crop Reporting Board
said January harvest in Florida was
“generally heavy” and groves were
in “excellent condition.
The frozen concentrated orange
juice yield for Florida oranges was up
to 1.33 gallons per box.
The board said eating quality of
this season’s California Navel
oranges is excellent.
The estimate of the nation’s
grapefruit crop, at 67.6 million
boxes, was unchanged from last
month but 1 percent above last
year.
The lemon crop was esumaLv. v
19.6 million boxes, the same as last
month and 1 percent above last
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