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Show SUGAR CONTROL IS NECESSARY Before taking stock in rumors that sugar warehouses arc full to overflowing while the OPA maintains control on a "plenti-1 ful" commodity, thereby letting j fruit rot on the trees, get a clear picture of the sugar situation, OPA officials advised. "Beet sugar manufact irvr-, irvr-, make a year's supply of sugar in two to four months, and at the end of the 'campaign' their warehouses ware-houses are full, but this supply is controlled and sold gradually during the entire year, instead of being distributed all at once", pointing out that cane sugar manufacturers bring in raw sugar su-gar the year round, and by comparison com-parison their warehouses are much smaller. Sugar manufactured in this area is distributed mainly in the western half of the nation, and since many cane sugar distributors distribu-tors in the middle west have been obliged to turn to beet sugar, su-gar, there has been a demand far greater than manufacturers could meet. Sugar is needed for purposes other than canning, and if all the fruit growers' and canners' demands de-mands for sugar were met, other j industrial, institutional and household users would have to go without. Householders who applied late for home canning sugar will receive re-ceive coupons in the mail this week, according to word from the district office. O |