Show School District Raises Hot Lunch Prices According to Beth school foods supervisor Uintah School District has had to increase the prices of their school food services The public is becoming becoming be be- coming well aware of the increase in food cost but may not realize the difficulty difficulty dif dif- involved in procuring enough food to fe feed d persons daily dally THERE ARE at the present time shortages of some foods while others just cannot be purchased The USDA commodities in the past this had been surplus products issued to the School by the Department of Agriculture willbe will willbe willbe be approximately 40 percent less this year year They are just not available Federal funds that provided reimbursement Bement to the special milk program which made it possible to offer milk to kindergarten children and other students stu stu- dents de desiring more than one one half hall pint lint with their meal at a fee fee of 3 cents have been cut The cost is now now 10 cents to tJ the student Many items such as shortening ground meat salad dressing etc have increased from 75 percent to percent since a year ago if they can be found to purchase The School food personnel are making every effort to meet m et nutritional re keep the high quality of meals previously served but will have to control served They would like to ask the cope a tort pare a. a by asking them to encourage their children child ren to eat the amount taken and to try new and different foods that are presented to them THIS PROBLEM is not just local but is found round all over our country We Weare Weare Weare are better prepared than many other dl districts in our ur state due to good storage and freezing facilities School lunches are now 30 cents for Elementary j 40 cents for Secondary and adults connected with the school distract district dis tract will be charged 75 73 cents per meal |