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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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San Francisco's War Food Administration denies waste charges in program forcing San Joaquin Valley raisin-variety grapes into raisins or agency sales, blames critic profits loss, stresses equitable war needs production.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6. (UP) The regional War Food Administration, denying charges that great waste is involved in its operation of program requiring all raisin-variety grapes produced in the San Joaquin valley to be converted into raisins or sold to the WFA, Wednesday ascribed criticism to interests dissatisfied with curtailed profits.
Donald E. Wilcox, fruit and vegetable branch representative for WFA in the west, said the WFA had never said there was not more profit for some people in shipping Thompson seedless, Sultana or Muscat grapes fresh, or selling them to wineries, instead of driving them into raisins.
"The fact remains, however," he said, "that raisins and other dried fruit are a vital war requirement, that extremely heavy production of sun-dried raisins is desired to meet indicated war needs and that the most equitable manner of getting this required production is to treat all producers alike."
Wilcox said that for this reason WFA required that all raisin-variety grapes produced in the eight San Joaquin valley counties be dried into raisins or sold to WFA at the applicable support-price levels, with the WFA disposing of the grapes as it saw fit.
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San Joaquin Valley
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Sept. 6
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wfa required all raisin-variety grapes produced in the eight san joaquin valley counties be dried into raisins or sold to wfa at support-price levels, with wfa disposing of the grapes as it saw fit
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The regional War Food Administration denied charges of great waste in its operation of a program requiring all raisin-variety grapes produced in the San Joaquin valley to be converted into raisins or sold to the WFA. Criticism was ascribed to interests dissatisfied with curtailed profits. Donald E. Wilcox stated that while there might be more profit in shipping grapes fresh or to wineries, raisins and dried fruit are vital war requirements, and treating all producers alike is the most equitable manner to meet production needs.