Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-02-25 | Page 3 | O P a Halts Rise of Spinach, Lettuce Prices

I o 0 OP PA P A Halts Rise Of Spinach Lettuce Prices WASHINGTON Feb 25 UP The The prices of lettuce and spinach were frozen Thursday as the office office of- of fice Ice of price administration considered considered con- con placing a price freeze on the few remaining items of food outside governmental control The new emergency crackdown Wednesday night the night the second this week on skyrocketing fresh vegetable vegetable vege- vege table able prices prices brought brought nearly 96 per cent of all foodstuffs under price irice control The only important items terns n not t controlled are fresh fish apples pears cauliflower sweet potatoes cucumbers broccoli celery celery cel- cel ery ry and a few other fruits and vegetables Apples probably will be next and officials said 0 OPA P A is studying studying study study- ing price ceilings for fresh fiso although the complexity of the job ob precludes Immediate action Sweet potatoes have reached 88 per er cent of parity and officials indicated that a price ceiling would be clamped on them as soon as they reach parity Although the monthly rate of increase in the price of lettuce has las been less less' sharp this winter than a year ago labor department department department depart depart- ment statistics show that on January January January Jan Jan- uary 12 1943 the average pr price e of lettuce was cents a head i per cent above the price last ast May when price ceilings went into nto effect on on hundreds of other food items The average price of spinach on January 12 1943 was cents a pound per cent above last Mays May's quotation The temporary ceilings placed on lettuce and spinach are the highest price at which Individual l ls s sellers llers sold them during the five days ending Thursday FIRE SWEEPS BANGKOK NEW YORK Feb 25 OP UP The UP-The The The German radio in a broadcast recorded recorded recorded re re- re- re corded here said a hour five-hour fire in Bangkok capital of Japanese- Japanese occupied Thailand destroyed a quarter of the city Wednesday night