CONTENTS Opening statement of Senator McGovern, Chairman. Statement of Senator Joseph M. Montoya--- 1748 CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES Bartlett, Lawrence, Chairman, State Directors' Section, The American School Food Service Association, Nashville, Tennessee- Hansford, Byron, Executive Secretary, Council of Chief State School Lyng, Hon. Richard, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agri- culture; accompanied by Miss Isabelle M. Kelley, Assistant Deputy Ad- ministrator; Mr. Edward Hekman, Administrator; and Mr. Herbert Rorex, Director, Child Nutrition Division, Food and Nutrition Service, Martin, Miss Josephine, Administrator, School Food Service Program, Appendix 2. Material submitted by witnesses—Continued State Agency Directors of USDA Midwest Region : Comments, Page 1856 Item 2-From Senator Hart: Letter from Howard W. Briggs, director, Detroit Public Schools. 1860 1862 Item 3–From Senator Cook: Letter from Mrs. Helen A. Davis, food service director, Todd 1863 Letter from C. W. Bevins, director, Division of School Food Service, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Ken- 1863 Letter from Harold Garrison, superintendent; and Jane Watts, school food service director, Fulton County (Ky.) Schools---- 1864 Letter from Doris Watts, director, Campbell County (Ky.) Schools Lunchrooms. 1864 Item 4—From Josephine Martin : Statement of Jack P. Nix, Georgia State Superintendent of Schools, and Coordinator, School Food Service Committee, 1865 Appendix 3. Material submitted by others than witnesses : Open Letter to Secretary Lyng, by John Perryman, for publication in the October issue of School Foodservice Journal... 1869 Statement of the National Milk Producers Federation.. 1870 The Washington Evening Star: "McGovern Asks Lifting of 1873 August 26, 1971: The Denver Post: “McGovern Charges : "Top Brass' Blamed 1874 1875 1876 The Providence (R.I.) Journal: "Skimping on School Lunches" 1878 The Washington Post : "Hunger In The Classroom”. 1878 1879 1879 August 31, 1971 : The Associated Press, Wire Release: By Austin Scott---- 1880 1881 September 3, 1971: The Washington Post: “U.S. Cutting School Lunch Funds”- 1886 1887 1888 The Washington Evening Star: “Federal Changes Won't Hurt Area School Lunch Program”. 1889 “School Lunch Crunch”_ 1890 The Washington Post: “U.S. Denies Cutting School Lunch Funds" 1890 V Appendix 4. Articles of interest-Continued The Berkeley (Calif.) Post: “New Regulations Menace School Page 1891 1892 “44 Senators Request President's Intervention in School Lunch Crisis”. 1892 The Washington Post : Herblock cartoon : "Got To Teach 'Em the Value of a Dollar”. 1895 September 10, 1971 : The Providence (R.I.) Evening Bulletin : "Curb on Lunches 1895 Station KOWH, Omaha, Nebr.: An Editorial by Mrs. Wini fred Peterson, chairman, Welfare Task Force, Urban 1897 September 11, 1971 : The Washington Food Report: "Furor Over School Lunch 1898 September 16, 1971: The New York Post: "44 Senators Fight School Lunch 1899 The Wall Street Journal: “Nixon's Diet for Pupils : Agency Seeks Curb on School-Lunch Funds; Stiff Quiz is Likely by 1899 1901 September 28, 1971: The Washington Evening Star: "Showdown on School 1902 September 29, 1971: Letter from the White House to Hon. George McGovern from Eugene S. Cowen, Deputy Assistant to the President----- 1903 The New York Times : “Senate Acts To Force Rise in Aid 1904 1905 October 7, 1971: The Wall Street Journal: “Administration To Lift School Lunch Fund $135 Million But Tightens Eligibility Rules"-- 1906 The Washington Post: “U.S. Retains Lunch Share, Cuts 584,000 Off Program” 1907 The New York Times: “U.S. Increases Pupil Lunch Aid But Tightens Rule on Eligibility”. 1908 October 8, 1971 : The New York Times: "Fudge for Lunch”. 1909 The Washington Post: Herblock cartoon : “New Play in the Big Game Plan Against the Kids”. 1910 October 9, 1971: The Washington Post : "Taking Back the Lunch Money”- 1910 The New York Times: “U.S. Tightens Rule on Free 1911 October 13, 1971: The Washington Evening Star: “New Challenge Set on Lunch 1912 October 15, 1971 : U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, press release : "59 Senators Write President Urging 1913 1916 The Wall Street Journal: “House Panel Approves Unanimously Boosting School-Lunch Spending” 1917 Appendix 4. Articles of interest-Continued The Washington Post : "Congressional Report: House Unit Page 1917 The Washington Post: "School Lunch Edict Hit by 59 1918 The New York Times : "School Lunches : The Script Called 1918 1919 The Washington Post: "Nixon Orders Clarifying of School 1920 The Washington Evening Star: "Agriculture Bows to Critics, 1921 1921 1922 to Pare School-Lunch System by Curbing Eligibility'. 1923 1924 1924 1925 1925 The Washington Post: “Excerpt from Article by Carroll 1926 1926 Free Lunches-Reduced Price Lunches for Needy Children-- 1929 1987 School Lunch and Breakfast Programs for Needy Children.- 1989 Free or Reduced Price Lunches for Needy Schoolchildren -- 2014 0 U.S. SENATE Washington, D.C. The Select Committee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 1114, of the New Senate Office Building, the Honorable George McGovern, chairman of the committee, presiding: Present: Senators McGovern, Hart, and Cook. Staff members present: Kenneth Schlossberg, staff director; Gerald S. J. Cassidy, general counsel; and Judah Sommer, minority counsel. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR MCGOVERN, CHAIRMAN Senator McGOVERN. The committee will please come to order. Today's hearing deals with the proposed regulations of August 13 which reduce the reimbursement rate to 35 cents for free and reducedprice school lunches. Over the last 2 weeks the Select Committee has been besieged by literally hundreds of State and local school lunch directors and by community representatives of all kinds, with urgent requests that we hold a hearing on the proposed regulations at the earliest possible date. I cannot recall any time since this committee has been in operation when there has been such an outcry against a proposed regulation as we have heard over the past 2 weeks. Thirty-seven State school lunch directors, meeting in Minneapolis on August 5 through 7, unanimously condemned the new regulations and have called upon this committee to hold these hearings today. BASIC POINT OF DISAGREEMENT There is one basic point of disagreement that we are going to deal with in today's hearings. The question is very sharply drawn, and it is just that single issue that we will be looking at: The August 13th regulations which the Department of Agriculture claims are designed to assist the States to do a better job in carrying out the congressional intent of Public Law 91–248, that every eligible child “shall be served meals free or at a reduced cost;" and, on the other hand, the point of view of the State school lunch directors' unanimous position that this new regulation will bring the School Lunch Program-in their words— "to a screeching halt." (1747) |