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Show New Ceilings On Various Items The Office of Price Administration Administra-tion recently established price ceilings ceil-ings on several items. For consumers, consum-ers, a reduction on Virginia type dried pork products 5 to 6 cents a pound on whole or half hams; 6 to 7 cents a pound on sliced ham; 4 to 5 cents on bacon; 3 to 4 cents on sides; 2 cents on jowls, and 5 cents on shoulders. New ceilings ceil-ings on goat meat represent moderate mod-erate reduction set by geographic zones. Highest-priced goat meat under the new order is "Cabrito" which sells for 30 cents a pound at retail. Soybeans of the 1943 crop to be processed for oil are $1.86 a bushel for base grade and $1.92 a bushel for highest quality. Prices for the 1943 fruit and vegetable vege-table pack will apply to this year's pack until a 1944 price is set. Yellow Yel-low cypress lumber was increased $3 to $4 per 1,000 board feet for producers to be passed on to consumers. con-sumers. A 20-cent per pound producers' pro-ducers' ceiling was set on all round Chinook salmon and 24 cents on drawn Chinook, on catches in California, Cal-ifornia, Oregon, and Washington (except Sacramento river catch) effective through March. New prices on alfalfa hay products mean an increase of about 15 to 20 cents per ton of feed consumption consump-tion for all States except California, Califor-nia, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Idaho. |