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Show Meat Prices To Continue Climb Report States With food prices at an all-time high, retail meat dealers feared that the worst is yet. to come. A majority of butchers checked in a nationwide survey said they would have to raise prices again anywhere from five to 15 cents a pound, to keep pace with the run-away wholesale and livestock prices of the last few days. George Dressier, executive secretary sec-retary of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers, said that retail meat prices now are the highest in history, surpassing even the price rise that followed the demise of OPA. ' Dressier said he feared more price increases are in the offing during the next few days. Retailers Retail-ers -have been absorbing wholesale whole-sale price boosts for the last several months in the belief the market would slide back down, he said. But now, he said, most retailers have given up hope that prices will level off. They hate to push prices into the stratosphere, he said, because of evidence that consumer con-sumer resistance again is developing. |