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Show OPA's Retail Ceilings For Pork To Start With Rationing The recently announced OP A retail re-tail price ceilings on pork are on important adjunct to the meats and fats rationing program which begins on Monday, Mar. 29, it was stated today by Tillie Win-sor, Win-sor, community service member of St. George war price and rationing ra-tioning board. According to the pork ceiling regulations, retailers selling pork are required to display the official of-ficial government ceiling price list in their establishments by April 1. These price lists may be obtained by Class 1 and 2 retailers (those doing an annual volume of business busi-ness of $250,000 or less) either in person or by mail from the war price and rationing board in St. George. Retailers in Class 3 and 4 (those doing an annual volume of business in excess of $250,000) will receive the regulation by mail. Any retailer in Class 3 or 4 who does not receive the official list by mail should write to the OPA regional office, Kittredge building, Denver, Colo., for his copy, it was stated. Price Ceiling Regulations Typical of the price ceilings established es-tablished by the regulation for (Continued on page four) OPA Pork Rationing (Continued from first page) Class 1 and 2 stores are the following: fol-lowing: Fresh loin end chops or roasts, 39 cents per pound. Fresh center chops or roasts, 44 cents per pound. Smoked standard Grade "A" de-rined de-rined sliced bacon, 49 cents per pound. "Pork sales at prices above the ceiling prices will indicate black market operations, Miss Winsor l said, and therefore, will help in I enforcing the rationing regula- ; tions." I According to the meats and E fats rationing program, .no re- f strictions are placed on the farm- f ers own use of these products F raised by himself. This, along f with the fact that rationed prod- k ucts held in cold storage lockers by individuals need not be declared, de-clared, make it extremely important impor-tant that the "honor system" established es-tablished by OPA be followed and that consumption be voluntarily curtailed, it was said. The government gov-ernment requests that fanners voluntarily retain stamps in their family's books equal to the point value of the home-raised products they use. Sales of Farmers When a farmer sells any of his home products, meats or other rationed ra-tioned products, he automatically becomes a distributor and must collect ration stamps, checks or certificates when making such a sale and later must surrender these to the OPA. To facilitate j sales of meats direct from farm slaughterer to consumer, the OPA is allowing them to collect from the buyer all of the red stamps required for the purchase even though some of the series needed have not yet become valid for ordinary use. Retailers will go to the local postoffice for copies of the official point value chart to be posted in their stores as they did for the processed food rationing charts, it was stated. Commenting on the processed foods rationing program, Miss Winsor stated that for the benefit bene-fit of consumers who may run short of blue stamps for processed foods or who have a few odd ones left but too few for a purchase, the OPA validated the April stamps, series D, E and F beginning be-ginning on Mar. 25th. These may be used at any time until the end of April. |