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United Press International
WASHINGTON — On Aug.
11, there wasn’t one kernel of
government grain in 44 percent
of the elevator space rented
nationwide. That one day cost
taxpayers an extra $88,000.
At that rate, the annual tax-
cost would be $32 million
for empty space. Space enough,
in fact, to empty a train of grain
hoppers 761 miles long.
But Department of Agricul
ture officials say that by the end
of the year the percentage of
empty space could be above 50
percent.
At the same time the elevator
owner is free to rent the same
space to someone else simul
taneously, sometimes at the
higher-than-average rate the
government accepted. All this
can be done without negotiating
under a 2-year-old program that
was supposed to save taxpayers
money.
“This
program is a scandal,”
said Rep. Glenn English, D-
Okla., whose Government
Operations subcommittee is
scrutinizing the program man
aged by the government’s Agri
cultural Stabilization and Con
servation Service.
The allegation comes at a
time when the government is
reeling from public outrage
over a defense department
spare parts scandal. The De
partment of Agriculture also is
fa:
under siege by farmers charging
fraud and deceit in the Pay-
ment-in-Kind program.
Officials blame the empty
space on the worst drought in 50
years and the unexpected im
plementation of PIK — where
farmers receive surplus grain in
exchange for leaving their farm
land idle.
“We didn’t have a crystal
ball,” Everett Rank, ASCS admi
nistrator and vice president of
the Commodity Credit Corp.,
told English’s panel last week.
The agriculture department
says it is unable to determine the
amount of loss under the long
term program because it is only
one part of a CCC storage plan
that includes nearly 5,900 short
term grain contracts and surplus
food warehousing.
Although the stabilization
Annual taxpayer cost
would be $32 million
for enough empty
space to empty a train
of grain hoppers 761
miles long.
service administers the storage
program, the CCC is the gover-
ment agency with the funding to
implement it. It also owns the
grain kept in reserve for disas
ters and that acquired when far
mers default on their loans.
Agriculture officials con
tended they would save $12 to
$14 million during a four-year
period by putting large quanti
ties of government grain under
two-, three- or four-year storage
contracts in 23 states.
Officials originally said the
savings would come from the
grain being stored at or below
the annual rates set by each ele
vator, called Uniform Grain
Storage Agreement rates.
But English said 1982 re
cords show 64 of the first 290
contracts signed under the
program were at rates higher
than those set by the UGSA.
English said he believes the
program deteriorated because
its administrators failed to en
sure the government would be
protected. The program today
involves half of the country’s
government-owned grain.
“It’s a good good concept,” he
said.
“Where the program went
sour was when Mr. Rank and
others chose to ignore the direc
tives of the secretary (Agricul
ture Secretary John Block),” En
glish told UPI.
But Rank and Merrill Marx-
man, deputy CCC vice president
and deputy ASCS administra
tor, vow the empty space will be
filled with CCC grain within 60
to 90 days after they complete
paper movement of grain stocks
under PIK.
“My question is»
that grain come ]
going to fill theseelevt'
glish said. “Theonlyt,
going to fill theseel
simply to go out ani' 1
more grain."
He said that woub
even bigger scandal.
Marxman told UPI
will come through l
warehousemen, whk:
al about 15 cents;
load-in and load-out([
though no grainvriflh|
ly moved.
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swap ownership oil
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Wednesday that the fundamen
talist religious influence on tex
tbooks presents a “mind
shackling” view of science to
schoolchildren across the na
tion.
About 85 teachers, pub
lishers, clergymen and laymen
minister and conference panel
ist George Ricker of Austin said.
“In doing so, they would
plunge us into a non-scientific
and mind-shackling literalism.
participated in a one-day con
ference on evolution
in tex
tbooks. The conference was
sponsored by the national anti
censorship group, People for
the American Way.
The group is leading a Fight
for the repeal of a Texas Board
of Education rule it claims di
lutes the teaching of evolution.
The rule, scheduled to be dis
cussed at a board hearing today,
requires equal treatment of evo
lution and “other theories of ori
gin” in school textbooks.
“Creationists affect the dog
ma that (the biblical book of)
Genesis expresses the way the
world was created,” Methodist
College and high
school science
teachers complain
Texas influences sci
ence texts nationwide,
placing limitations on
the teaching of evolu
tion.
Ricker and otht
fundamentalist derp
being politically m
tainted by socialist
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theologies connected
ism?" Wheeler asked
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• College and highsd*
ce teachers complain
Texas, which buys n&
tbooks than any other
spent $60 million on neii
books this year influi
ce texts nationwide,
publishers tailor booh
•Texas’ limitation!
teaching of evolution.
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the conference. Howard Wheel
er of Austin, who said he repre
sented a loosely knit creationist
group dubbed “People for the
Real American Way,” accused
Dr. William Mayer,;
prof essor at the Un
Colorado, blamed i
for contributing toaii
the quality of public'll » S
by perpetuating "relirw^ U
ma disguised as sdeuel
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