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Show Celing Prices For Non-Storable Potatoes Announced Dollars and cents ceiling prices for non-storable early white-flesh potatoes have been established by OP A for Utah, according to E. Eric Snow, chairman of the price panel of the St'. George war price and rationing board. Since this type of potatoes is normally sold only during the summer months, the panel chairman chair-man gave the following as the ceiling prices on the farm for U. S. No. 1 grade potatoes of the 1943 crop: July' $2.50; August $2.30; September $2.15. "It is assumed that a new regulation regu-lation to cover the regular storage potato crop will be issued when it is harvested in the fall," the panel chairman said.- The new early white-flesh potato regulation provides that if a farmer ships his potatoes to a wholesale terminal market he becomes be-comes a "country shipper" and may add the country shipper's allowance al-lowance of 6c per 100 pounds plus actual shipping costs, it was stated. Further, if a farmer delivers in less than car-lot or truck-lot quantities quan-tities to a retail store or institutional insti-tutional user, he may add the actual costs of transportation plus 66c per 100 to his basic farm price, the local board member indicted. in-dicted. However, . if the delivery is made to a wholesale warehouse rather than .to the actual retail store or institution, he may add only 6c plus actual transportation transporta-tion costs to his base farm price. In the event the farmer peddles his potatoes making sales directly to the ultimate consumer, he may add $1.06 to the base farm price plus actual shipping charges from his farm to the community where the product is peddled. The regulation also provides that a country shipper or farmer shall furnish an invoice or other document of sale or attach a tag or label to each sack which indicates indi-cates the state in which the potatoes po-tatoes were grown and the month of the year the sale was completed. com-pleted. The following information was given regarding prices of potatoes which are above or below U. S. No. 1 grade: U. S. Extra base price plus 10c; 85 U. S. No. 1 base price less 10c; less than 85 U. S. No. 1 base price less 30c; size "B" U. S. No. 1 base price less 30c; 6-oz. or 2-inch minimum size base price plus 15c. The price panel chairman said that small additional charges might be made by the country shipper in the event he packs potatoes po-tatoes in 10, 15 or 25 pound bags rather than the regular 100-pound |