The Kennewick Courier Reporter

Delegation Gives Hope of Securing Food Stamp Plan

Surplus commodities to be distributed thru plan in use in larger centers of country

Telegrams from Senator L. B. Schwellenbach and Congressman Knute Hill brought hope Monday to Yakima valley business men, farmers and officials who recently showered 600 telegrams and 75 letters on officials in Washington, D. C., in attempt to have the federal stamp plan for distributing surplus commodities put into operation in Yakima, Benton and Kittitas counties, according to an item in yesterday's Yakima Herald.

Leslie V. Morgan, Yakima county commissioner, said that some of the residents who received telegrams from Hill were Lyle E. Brand, Moxee mayor, C. D. Stephens, Yakima county treasurer, John Dobie of Lower Naches and Hal H. Hinesley of the Central Washington Bakers association.

Hill's telegrams, all alike, stated he had arranged for a surplus commodities distribution representative from San Francisco to contact Yakima valley residents within the next month to discuss the advisability of introducing the stamp plan here.

Morgan declared that Senator Schwellenbach's telegrams declared he is doing everything he can to have the plan inaugurated here.