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Show m NEWS Meat for everyone and not a favored fav-ored few. That is the idea back of the move to place ceilings on live hogs and cattle, according to Wilford A. Schmutz, chairman of the Washington county USDA War Board. He explained that with ceilings on meat products and no ceilings on live animals for slaughter, small packing plants were being squeezed out. And to furnish the meat needed in the war effort, every packing plant must be kept going, he said. Ceilings on live hogs can be expected soon and limits on cattle will follow. Meat rationing can be expected about the first of the year, he predicted, but explained that rationing would apply only to federally inspected meats and not to meat which farmers kill for their own use. "Price ceilings and rationing cannot be looked upon as war sacrifices, but as an intelligent move to prevent hoarding and unequal un-equal distribution. This plan will give low income consumers an equal chance at the meat counter," coun-ter," Mr. Schmutz said. "We must see that every American has the food he needs to keep him or her well and , strong. We must not let a lack of proper food defeat us," the chairman declared. Schools are granting students leave, to help in harvest on permit per-mit system in some counties. An urgent , need for tomato pickers is reported ' from Davis and Box Elder counties. Scrap is still urgently needed. Turn in any you many have, over to your government. According to President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's talk last Monday, there is probably to be price ceilings on most of our farm products. It will be well for us to keep informed in-formed as to just which products these ceilings will affect. If the much discussed food shortages do occur in areas of e United States, they will be largely animal and vegetable proteins. pro-teins. The cause of the shorties short-ies will not occur because farmers farm-ers failed to do their part, but because of huge war utilization aid exports to fill ' lend-lease orders. Farmers have been called to 'ead the fight against inflation, secretary Wickard is asking that the no per cent of parity provision pro-vision of the farm act be repealed. re-pealed. This does not mean that "e Secretary favors lower agri-cultural agri-cultural prices, nor that he has Vcn up his fight for farm par-"y- says Orville L. Lee, chairman chair-man of the Utah state USDA aVar Board. It does mean that Sriculture is moving to prevent "Jftrousinflation . |