Orangetown Oranges

When citizens of Orangetown in New York's apple-growing Rockland County spied children from the town's Relief families playing catch with luscious California oranges last week, they indignantly questioned town Welfare Officer Clifford O. Poole. Republican Poole retorted that Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. (which has already spent $26,243,743 so far this year buying excess crops to help maintain market prices) had dumped 18,000 lb. of oranges for distribution to Orangetown's 221 Relief families in three weeks. Also dumped were similar gluts of butter, eggs, kidney beans, rice, and, Mr. Poole sourly added, apples. To prevent spoilage Mr. Poole had distributed his bonanza shipments at three times the rate FSCC suggested.

Nowhere else in the U. S. was the Orangetown glut reported. In fact, 60 miles southwest at Princeton, Junior Theodore H. von Laue of Berlin announced that he and six fellow students were collecting table scraps from their eating clubs for underfed Princeton townsfolk, already had two families as clients.

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