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Show CEILING PRICES COVER 99 PER CENT OF UTAH munities above defined were computed under the direction of Mark H. Greene, OPA state price officer, and Joseph M. Bean, OPA food price specialist. Orders Nos. 1 and 3 were used as base from which varied freight advances were computed. Separate ceilings are established estab-lished for different retail store groups. Stores are classified in 1, 2, 3 or 4 groups, as previously, according to type, yearly business busi-ness volume, and character of service offered. It is again pointed out by Mr-Ivins Mr-Ivins that these community ceilings ceil-ings are not treated as roll-back prices, but as calculations of specific dollars-and-cents maximums maxi-mums that a retailer in any classification clas-sification may charge his particular par-ticular customers per pound, can or package for any one of the many listed items. A retailer may charge less, but n5ver legally more, than his group ceiling price for any item. He is still required to post conspicuously con-spicuously on his premises his store group number. A copy of the official community ceiling price list for his proper group and area must be always available avail-able for public inspection in his store. Copies of the orders and the prices are being mailed to all food retailers who are affected. Consumers may obtain the new ceiling price lists for their own communities from the price clerk of their local war price and rationing board, or by writing to the OPA state office in the Atlas Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. They are urged to preserve these lists for reference and future use. After August 15, community ceiling prices for hundreds of items that go into housewives' market baskets will be effective in practically the entire state of Utah, according to H. Grant Ivins, OPA state director. OPA has now extended community com-munity ceilings, Mr. Ivins said, to cover about 99 per cent of Utah's area and population, beginning be-ginning next Sunday. Only a few remote and sparsely sparse-ly settled sections in the extreme northern, western, and southeastern south-eastern parts of the state remain uncovered. In these very few localities lo-calities costs to consumers of market basket items will still be controlled by other OPA price regulations, although no specific dollars-and-cents maximums have been established there. Five new community price lists just issued fix different schedules of top selling prices for the following different community com-munity groups: Order No. 1 covers the Salt Lake City wholesale free delivery de-livery area, including Salt Lake county; all of Weber county except ex-cept Liberty, Huntsville and Eden; and all communities on the principal highways, north including North Ogden; west including in-cluding Tooele; east including Park City; and Provo, Vineyard, and Orem in Utah county. Order No. 2 covers Box Elder county, except points west of Thatcher, Portage and Penrose; all of Cache, Morgan, Wasatch counties; Huntsville, Liberty and Eden in Weber county; all of Summit except Park City; all of Utah county except Provo, Vineyard, Vine-yard, Orem and Dividend; all of Tooele county east of the Cedar Mountains except Tooele; also covers Green River and Emery, in Emery county. Order No. 3 covers the Carbon Car-bon county free wholesale delivery de-livery area, including all of Carbon Car-bon county and Emery county except Emery and Green River. Order No. 4 covers Duchesne, Uintah, Sanpete, Sevier, Piute, and Rich counties; all of Millard county except Garrison and Bur-bank; Bur-bank; all of Juab county except Trout Creek; covers cities of Stockton, Ophir, Mercur, and Wendover, Utah in Tooele county; coun-ty; Cedar Citv in Iron county; Dividend in Utah county. Order No. 5 covers Garfield, Beaver, Kane, Washington, Wayne, Grand and Daggett counties; coun-ties; all of Iron county except Cedar City; all of San Juan county coun-ty except Mexican Hat and Bluff; city of Fredonia in Arizona. It might be well to explain here that the counties of Mo-jave Mo-jave and Coconino in Arizona north of the Grand Canyon are covered by the Utah state office, and all cities in this special area for which community lists have not been published will compute, their prices under the new Maxi-1 mum Price Regulations 423 for group 1 and 2 stores and 422 lor 1 group 3 and 4 stores. The different community schedules sche-dules for the five groups of com- |