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Show RESTRICTIONS WAIVED ON STOCK SHOW MEAT Housewives who want to treat their families to better dinners without additional strain on their budgets, should look for meat stamped Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show, during the next week. This bargain in good meat is the result of a recent ruling by the Office of Price Administration Adminis-tration governing the restrictions on animals sold at the show on Friday, at the Salt Lake Union Stockyards. According to James A. Hooper, show president, OPS price restrictions re-strictions will not apply to animals ani-mals sold at auction, and slaughtering slaugh-tering quotas will be waived. However, price ceilings will apply ap-ply when the meat is sold at retail. re-tail. As a result, meat which normally nor-mally gets premium prices will be available at regular prices. All meat coming from the show will be stamped for easy identification. identi-fication. Despite anticipated confusion resulting from OPS restrictions, interest in the 15th Annual Intermountain In-termountain Junior Fat Stock Show has been at an unexpectedly unexpect-edly high level. Figures released prior to the opening of the show indicated this year's entries would almost certainly pass the total of last year. Exhibitors were looking forward for-ward to this year's innovation by the show, ringside grading, during which exhibitors and spectators would be given an opportunity to match their skill at grading animals with the judgement of officials. Also high on the list of anticipated antici-pated thrills for the exhibitors were the two entertainment sessions, ses-sions, sponsored by Salt Lake City newspapers. And the prospects of an auc-tion auc-tion not restricted by price ceilings ceil-ings pointed to a profitable show for the FFA and 4-H boys and girls. The consensus of opinion of everyone connected with this annual event is that it will certainly cer-tainly stand up with any previous prev-ious years, and uphold the reputation repu-tation of the stock show as the outstanding junior show in the Intermountain West. .w-V |