Burial in Vermont

To Vermont's rock-ribbed Republicans, it was just another example of New Deal bungling. To the War Food Administration the Great American Egg Problem was not the least bit funny.

Last week the Burlington, Vt. WFA office received nine carloads of overripe eggs. After brooding a bit, the WFA officials figured that the simplest way to dispose of the nearly two million bad eggs would be to bury them beyond the town limits of South Burlington. They hired a bulldozer, dumped five carloads into a gully, and covered the yolky quagmire with a thin layer of sandy topsoil.

But the sun was hot, and a soft breeze blew from the wrong direction. A ripe stench, something like that of Algiers' Casbah district, was wafted into town. The enraged selectmen, prodded by public opinion, quickly got a court injunction halting WFA from planting the four remaining carloads.

Thrifty Vermonters calculated the nine carloads of eggs had cost taxpayers $48,600. WFA bought some 6.2 million cases of eggs at an average price of 30-c- a dozen to support farm prices. Most of the eggs are still clogging valuable cold-storage space badly needed for this season's ripening crops.

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