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Show Food Stamps Report Given The federal food stamp plan Is bringing about 11500 day In new business to Salt Lake county food stores. This report was made Tuesday by F. J. Lucas, a director of the Utah Retail Grocers association, asso-ciation, at a meeting of the board In the Hotel Utah Tuesday at 2 p.m. Mr. Lucas warned merchants against violating rules of the stamp system and Instructed them that the state tax commission has ruled they may not absorb the sales tax on food stamp sales, but must collect col-lect Jt from the purchaser. Two principal matters discussed In the afternoon were arrangements arrange-ments for the association's participation partici-pation in the Intermountaln Junior Stock show, to be held in Salt Lake City next June, and the attitude toward provisions of the wage board's recommendation for maximum maxi-mum hours and minimum pay tor women and minors In retail trades. In charge of the meeting was William B. Spencer, president. Time and place for the 1940 state convention were to be decided. |