Show ceilings placed on price of meals in eating places authority to control prices of meals in commercial eating places based on prices charged during the period april 4 through april 10 was issued this week to regional 0 P A offices for the first time it was stated by the chairman of the local war price and rationing board all restaurants cafeterias hotels and other eating and drinking establishments in the area must file with the local board by may 1 copies of menus or price lists showing prices charged during the base period april 4 to april 10 the chairman also called attention to the 14 to 50 per cent point value reductions for sausage including Inc wel ners bologna pork sausage scrapple chitterlings lings pork neck and backbones which became effective 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 and restaurants tau rants were reminded that they must collect ration points for foi all such sales since april 11 just as they h have ave been collecting points for sates sales to consumers c on since the rationing program went into effect march 29 in his statement the local chairman also called attention to an extension for an indefinite period of price regulation no which froze the farm price of fluid milk at fan an y 1943 levels the would otherwise have expired on april 9 Is designed to stabilize the price of milk at the source |