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Show 'Restaurant Meals OPA-Controlled Authority to control prices of ! meals in commercial eating places, 1 ; based on prices charged during the period April 4 through April 10, was issued this week to region-1 al offices for the first time. j All restaurants, cafeterias, ho. 1 tels, and other eating and drink- ' ing establishments in the area must file with the local board by May 1 copies of menus or price lists showing prices charged during dur-ing the base period, April 4 to April 10. : Attention also was called to the ' 14 and 50 percent point value re-! ductions for sausage, including weiners, bologna, pork sausage, I scrapple, chitterlings, pork neck i and backbones, which became effective ef-fective this week. The reason for the reduction in point values of these commodities is the slow rate at which some of them have been moving from butchers' shelves. Farmers who sell butter, lard, or any other food rationed under the meats and fats program to retailers re-tailers and restaurants were reminded re-minded that they must collect ration ra-tion points for all such sales since April 11 just as they have been collecting points for sales- to consumers con-sumers since the .rationing program pro-gram went into effect March 29. "Consumers as well as retailers who buy from farmers surrender stamps at current point values just as they do when they buy from any other source. Eight points per pound for butter and five points per pound for lard sold in units of less than five pounds must be surrendered. Where the unit of sale is greater than five pounds, the trade point values of 7.9 points per pound for butter and 4.9 points per pound for lard will apply." Attention is also called to an extension for an indefinite period : of price regulation No. 329 which j (Continued on last page) ' V I ; Restaurant Meals j (Continued from first page) I - froze the farm price of fluid milk at January 1943 levels. The order, which would otherwise have expired ex-pired on April 9, is designated to stabilize the price of milk at the source. In important price actions recently re-cently taken by the OP A, pack-1 ers maximum prices for the 19431 pack of peas, tomatoes, coin and j beans were set on a "cent-per-dozen-cans" basis. As a result of . these, the cost of canned goods to I the consumer will remain substan-! tially at present levels though 1 the farmers raising the product will .get a higher price for the raw product because of the Depart-1 ment of Agriculture's "support 1 price" program. j V |