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Show OP A Sets 4 'Dollars and Cents" Food Price Ceilings in Cache County Will Affect Several Hundred Items Purchased by The Average Consumer Community "dollar and cents" j-ceiling j-ceiling prices for all of Cache 1 county and most of Box Elder county to become effective Fn-! day were established today by OPA orders issued by the state ; office, H. Grant Ivins, state OPA director, announced. ' The new orders are in line with the expressed policy of OPA Administrator Prentiss M. Brown I of establishing ceiling prices on! foods in the simplest possible, terms so they may b2 understood by consumers and retailers alike, I Mr. Ivins explained. Similar or- j ders governing food prices throughout other areas in the state , are b:ing prepared for issuance 1 in the near future. j The orders setting community with annual gross sales of $250-000 $250-000 or more. The ceiling prices were arrived at on a basis of existing price regulations which allow percentage mark-ups to wholesalers and retailers, re-tailers, Mr. Ivins said. The order or-der provides ihat Class III and IV stores, which are buying goods directly from manufacturers rather rath-er than through wholesalers, must continue to price their goods according ac-cording to the formulas contained contain-ed in existing regulations rather than to take the community prices as their ceilings. I "Since the community price lists wre calculated on the basis of price regulations, which have been in existance for several months, they naturally will not represent a decrease in prices ex- ceiling prices in Cache and Box Elder counties are the fourth and fifth to be issued by the state office, prepared under the general direction of Mark H. Greene, OPA state price officer, and Joseph Jo-seph M. Bean, OPA food price specialist. Previous orders established estab-lished prices in the Salt Lake tree wholesale delivery area and ia Carbon county. In orders No. 4 and 5, . cents-per-pound or item prices are established es-tablished on several hundred grocery items commonly purchased purchas-ed by the average consumer. Order 5 applies to all .of Cache i county and to Deweyville, Collin-ston, Collin-ston, Elwood, Tremonton, Garlapd, Riverside, Fielding, Plymouth. Bothwell, Thatcher and Penrose in Box Elder county. The order sets separate ceiling Prices for each of four classes of food retailers which it defines. Class I stores are independents with annual gross sales of less Uiaa $50,000. Class II stores are independents with annual gross -'ales of $50,000 to $250,000. Class ni stores are units of a chain 4ing less than $250,000 annually. Class rv includes all retail stores cept in stores where price ceilings ceil-ings have not been fully observed," observ-ed," Mr. Ivins stated. "I would like to emphasize also that t he I community price lists being made public today do not represent any roll-back and that the lower prices which 'will result from the subsidy program currently being put into operation by the OPA, will reduce prices below those shown on the community price lists." Consumers are urged by Mr. Ivins to clip the price lists published pub-lished in the newspapers and to refer to them when shopping. In addition to establishing prices, orders Nos. 4 and 5 require merchants to post a sign prominently prom-inently in their establishment showing their OPA classification; to mark their sailing prices on items themselves or on the shelf, rack, or bin where the items are displayed; to post a list showing the community prices for that class of store so that customers may refer to the list at any time. Copies of the price lists may be obtained from the OPA state office, of-fice, Atlas Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
