Show Lower Food Prices in 1946 Official Predicts NEW YORK Retail food prices price may well drop 5 per cent below the trie 1945 average during the coming year Paul S. S Willis president of ot the Grocery Manufacturers of America said In a statement before a public hearing of the New York state Joint legislative committee on nutrition Willis said The over-all over cost of food has Increased 43 per cent since 1939 mainly in such classifications classifications as ns fresh fruits and vegetables vegetables bles r p dairy products and sea foods Basing his predictions on government government gov gay figures he estimated that I civilian food supplies would be sufficient sufficient suf sut- suf- suf in 1946 to give each man man woman and child 11 per cent more food than in the five prewar years ears Undoubtedly supplies of some foods will mill be short during the early part of the year but by summer ItIs it itis itis is believed only sugar and some fa fats ls and oils will be in short supply toan to toan torm an rm appreciable degree he added |