Millard County Chronicle | 1943-05-20 | Page 5 | Maximum Ceilings Set on Market-Basket Foods

MAXIMUM CEILINGS SET SETON SETON SETON ON MARKET-BASKET MARKET FOODS Maximum dollars and cents prices are being established by the theOPA theOPA theOPA OPA for the market areas of metropolitan metropolitan me me- centers throughout the United States and are expected to cover 80 per cent of the foods in inthe inthe inthe the family market-basket market by June 1 In Utah maximum pric prices s are being established at once for or the Salt Lake Ogden and Provo area which includes most of the territory between Provo and north Weber county limits at Hot Springs It extends extends extends ex ex- tends west to Tooele and east to Park City This will be enlarged as rapidly as possible with Price Utah area the next to be included according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to H. H Grant Ivins Utah state OPA director The community wide top lop prices are intended to simplify simplify simplify sim sim- regulations for the storekeeper er and the housewife and to make the consumer a partner in the enforcement enforcement enforcement en en- of wartime price ceil ceil- ings