Salt Lake Telegram | 1944-11-09 | Page 14 | OPA Specialist Announces Drop in Cost of Cigars to Consumer

OPA Specialist Announces Drop In Cost of Cigars to Consumer The good cigar may be beback beback back on the market for tor 7 c. c according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to Richard A. A Paradis I price specialist office of price administration administration ad ad- I ad-I 1 ministration who said Thursday that a change in pricing methods effective Nov 13 13 will wUl increase present ceiling prices for nil all March 1942 brands of domestic cigars but will lower the over all cost of cigars to consumers by byan byan byan an estimated 10 1089 1089 89 per thousand The saving he Ile said will represent represent rep rep- resent the di difference between cost cast to consumer of lower priced cigars that will again be available and the cost of higher his priced substitutes substitute tute Popular priced brands that normally normally nor nor- r mally sold for or at retail have practically disappeared fro from I the market As a result smokers have been forced to resort to higher high high- er priced cigars at or over The Thc 0 OPA P A action by permitting a price increase to 7 c of the former Gc cigar allows manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers to resume production of or the lower priced brands