Show canning sugar ration raised to am allow conservation of food crop A food conservation pr program for utah outline maximum homb hom canning of foodstuffs both fruits and vegetables as announced last week following action ot of the office of price administration in relaxing restriction on sugar available for fruit canning the OPA recently authorized authorised local war var price and boards to permit the use of any reasonable amount of sugar tor for home canning with the understanding that with each pound of sugar four quarts of fruit will be canned I 1 gus P backman state rationing administrator ator has advised local boards to accept new appet tor for sugar to till fill late summer and tall fall canning needs ans ana reported that most boards the program under underway wai and the remainder expect to within a few days no fruit must go to waste this year he said food la is ta n weapon of war national OPA officials have advised me that they consi consider dei the conservation of 0 fruit fully as is important as the conservation oi of sugar and eions have been so relaxed that utah have every opportunity port unity to conserve fresh fruit wherever and whenever available ablee every jai of home canned fruit which your family uses leaves leases a can ot of commercially comerci ally packed fruit for our armed forces and fur our allies he asked only eniy one self impe imposed sed rest tion on the housewives to apply only for the amount ot of sugar actually needed 11 our sugar supplies lie he said I 1 must still be used carefully I 1 A bumper bumpei crop of out oui own beet sugar Is in the offing but it atone alone cannot supply the united states slates A great share of tile the national supply depends upon imports submarine warfare and the need for foi ships to carry war materials mean that imports of sugar may drop below normal every boatload of 0 sugar that is is shipped in endangers the lives of american seamen reet beet sugar pay may be shipped to tar far sections ot of the nation to relieve shortages there for that reason apply tor for a sugar continued on last page |