Show SCANNING THE WEEK'S NEWS 0 Main Street and the World OPS Orders New Beef Price Control Plan Calling for 10 Cent Rollback BEEF PRICE CONTROLS In ne order that will touch nearly every family in the home towns of America as well as meat retailers and slaughterers and other meat the OPS put into force a new beef price program calling for almost a dime-a-pound roll-back at the butcher shop by October The order Is expected to save the housewife million in the butcher Housewives cannot expect retail prices of beef to drop because the program provides for progressively reducing ceiling over a period of time that will allow livestock producers to unload their high cost Livestock men have balked at controls over cattle prices and warned they would result in less meat Michael V. OPS will likely be severely criticized by the new beef A 10 per cent cut In prices which slaughterers may pay the farmer for This goes into effect for accounting periods beginning on or after May 20 Dollar and cents ceilings are fixed for wholesaler and retailers for the first The wholesaler ceilings go Into effect May on may Butcher shops must post Editors Meet retail ceiling price by grade and by Juno S. friendly retiring prest- 4 dent o American newspaper pub- Prices slaughterers may lishers hands over his l gat el i J for cattle to be Pay are rc- 1 b xi r 1 in t lo his Charles F. The 1 an additional four and tailors held their annual contention one-half cent on August per recently in Sew 1 and by same amount on October On the same August 1 and October 1 retail beef prices cuts of from four to five cents a pound will go into MORE CONTROLS Main Street may feel a greater degree of the control pinch if President Truman's proposed legislation gets through He has called for with some of virtually everything in the defense production act of In view of Truman's recent it is doubtful If his suggestions will be accepted without considerable He Fixing the parity price for each farm commodity as of the beginning of its marketing season for price control to cover the entire Establishing effective rent controls for both residential and commercial properties needed to stabilize the cost of living and the cost of doing Strengthening machinery for the enforcement of price control Authorizing the government build and operate defense to produce essential materials and Providing for controls over credit In the sale of existing Regulating speculative trading on commodity THINGS TO COME If the man on Main Street thinks the controversy Is going to he is badly The battle is just about to This was indicated in a long and extemporaneous speech by Robert Taft In which he attacked tha U.S. joint chiefs of staff and demanded that the U.S. go in The senator said that he was willing to follow the MacArthur proposals for bombing military objectives in Communist China and for giving logistical meaning transport and to Nationalist attack on China The senator's speech made it clear that the Republican plan to use the forthcoming investigations of the MacArthur dismissal to force an overturning of present far east A WARNING TO AMERICA Robert A. pale and nervous was released from a Hungarian prison after 17 months He had a message for the Main Street of want to warn every Individual American that what happened to me can happen to them if we don't band together to destroy these enemies of Individual he told newsmen after his have a message for America an important must be made aware of what can happen to human rights right of a person to go where he wants and say what he wants or the right to be able to go to bed and not be afraid of being taken away from his family to prison In the middle of the RETURN OF LABOR With the return of organized labor to aU defense-mobilization the man on Main Street can expect the unions to exert a greater influence over the administration's future defense It was evident by labor's return to the defense agencies that the administration had surrendered on many points of conflict and li now willing to listen to the united labor policy Union leaders mude known Immediately their first As one expressed will now turn the heat on congress by undertaking a new campaign for tighter price-control laws and other legislation to insure equality of sacrifice in the defense Chinese Attack South of Parallel A lank battalion lumbers into a defense position north ol prepared lo lake a heavy loll of advancing Chinese Communist SPRING IN KOREA It is spring in But there is no peace and tranquility in the warm The song birds can not be heard for the constant roar of The sprigs of grass and shrubs are t trampled beneath the boots of Invading Chinese and defending United j Nations It Is time for war in But the great Communist I pring offensive is not doing so And the in the home towns of who are thinking of their sons and and husbands have confidence from reports of allied j The Reds approached iut caine to a dead stop after allied j air and artillery On other fronts the fighting had died down for the time But as long as it Is spring in the Communists will This they are running Into a grinder of fire |