Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-19 | Page 8 | Closing Work of Food Department

CLOSING WORK OF FOOD DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, Dec. IS. Paid employees em-ployees of all stale, county and local food administrators . will be discharged January Janu-ary 1 and nil activities requiring paid staffs, including the work of the sugar equalization board, will be discontinued on that date, It was announced today by tlie food administration. Voluntary workers and the various food administrators administra-tors will remain until the national food administration is dissolved as a governmental govern-mental agency by President Wilson. The work at the food administration offices here is gradually being brought to an end. The conservation and policies . board was dissolved yesterday and the ' educational division under Ben S. Allen : b:is been reduced to a small number of i employees needed to carry on puhlicity ! work in connection with the program for j relief of other countries. The boards administering the milling : regulations and for co-ordinating of pur- : chases for the allies, for enforcement and for distribution, it was announced today, will be continued, pending instructions .from Administrator Hoover following Ida en-'Vrences wKh President Wilson in Paris. ,