Asotin King. Kittitas Lewis.. Area headquarters-Continued WASHINGTON Meat inspection, Los Angeles, Calif.; poultry inspection, San Francisco, Calif. County Total plants.... Hardy. Meat inspection, New York, N.Y.; poultry inspection, Philadelphia, Pa. Moorefield. 1 1 8 Eleva.. Whitehall 0 Walworth.. Waukesha. Genoa City. Total plants... 36 28 Area headquarters-Continued WYOMING Meat inspection, Los Angeles, Calif.; poultry inspection, San Francisco, Calif. Mr. LENNARTSON. In terms of laboratories, we didn't set up a series of poultry laboratories for analyzing ingredients and detergents and things of that nature used in both plants. We depend upon both the meat inspection service and the Food and Drug Administration and accept their lists, which avoided having us set up additional laboratories for this purpose. At Beltsville we have a common laboratory for such purposes betwen the two services. REGULATORY ACTIVITIES U.S. WAREHOUSE ACT Mr. WHITTEN. Turning now to your regulatory activities, what use have you made with the increase of $60,000 allowed last year for strengthening administration of the U.S. Warehouse Act? I presume from my service on here that the word "strengthening" is a very essential word. It appears quite regularly. It makes me wonder if it is a word under which you get more money but don't have to spell out what you are going to do with it. Mr. SMITH. We would hope not, Mr. Chairman. Mr. WHITTEN. It is equivalent with another committee I served on, where they always wanted something to "improve employee morale." Mr. SMITH. There probably was no activity involved within the problems of the AMS responsibility, Mr. Chairman, that came in for more intensive appraisal and review than the administration of the U.S. Warehouse Act this past year. As a consequence we found that because of the expansion that has taken place in the coverage of the act-the capacity of grain warehouses has doubled since about 1957the type of scrutiny that our warehouse examiners were able to give to warehouse records and the frequency with which they were able to check those records as well as grain holdings, leave us in a position of not spotting trouble houses as rapidly as we should. We are in a period when the volume of grain in storage is contracting as compared to it having been on an expanding basis previously. Our experience shows, as this contraction takes place, that there seemed to be more temptations presented than if elevators are full. So we have undertaken to appraise the financial reports submitted by warehousemen. Actually, we employed two certified public accountants whose jobs are twofold: (1) To review and appraise the financial reports of warehousemen-they are having to submit independent reports twice a year; and (2) to give guidance, instructions, and assistance in training of our warehouse examiners. We have revised our inspection procedures. The type of action which is taken, depending upon the degree of shortage, if any, is scrutinized more carefully. It is assessed in terms of whether it is strictly an operating shortage or whether it is due to some other cause, and, if so, what. Through that process we think we have made some progress in tightening up the administration. But the number of examinations or visits to warehouses that we can make each year we find, based on our experience, is still too low. The primary reason for the increased request for 1964 is to add to the examiner staff so that the frequency of examinations can be increased per warehouse. PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ACT Mr. WHITTEN. In that connection we pointed out last year, in our report, the following: The committee's attention has been called to some recent instances where conveniences of the present business operators are ignored in the simplest investigation. On one occasion a dealer was required to travel several hundred miles for an interview which could have been conducted much more satisfactorily at his place of business. A close supervision of operation under this act is necessary, and such actions can result in an unnecessary harassment and agitation of livestock dealers and others. The Department is requested to insist that personnel engaged in this work keep in mind at all times that they are public servants as well as enforcement agents. Those of us on this committee, as far as I know, none of us are engaged in the production and sale of livestock, nor are we experts in any of these fields perhaps in which we deal. But I think it is evident to anyone who looks that the livestock business has shifted from one of shipment, as we said earlier, to Chicago, Kansas City, and various other stockyards, to a dispersed situation all over the United States. Cache. Juab. Salt Lake. Sanpete. Sevier. Area headquarters Continued UTAH Meat inspection, Los Angeles, Calif.; poultry inspection, San Francisco, Calif. County Utah.. Washington.. Weber.. Total plants.. Meat inspection, New York, N.Y.; poultry inspection, Philadelphia, Pa. Albemarle Arlington.. Bedford.. Botetourt. Frederick. VIRGINIA Meat inspection, New York, N.Y.; poultry inspection, Philadelphia, Pa. Alexandria.. Bedford Troutville. Ellerson. Glenallen. Hanover. Henrico.. Isle of Wight.. Loudoun Richmond. Smithfield. Purcellville. Urbanna 1 0 6 0 1121121013 2 10 12 Area headquarters-Continued WASHINGTON Meat inspection, Los Angeles, Calif.; poultry inspection, San Francisco, Calif. Asotin.. King. County Kittitas. Lewis... Pierce. Snohomish. Skagit.. Spokane.. Stevens. Whatcom.. Yakima. Total plants.. Hardy.. Meat inspection, New York, N.Y.; poultry inspection, Philadelphia, Pa. WISCONSIN Meat inspection, Chicago, Ill.; poultry inspection, Chicago, Ill. Barron. Green Bay. Eau Claire. Luxemburg. Wausau Marinette. Endeavor. Westfield. Beloit Shawano. Sheboygan. Arcadia. Blair. Eleva. 1 1 |