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Show Food Ceilings Explained Most of the nation's major loods. and a great many other ft items in the family market bas. ' kec i re now under precise, simple sim-ple ni.d easily understandable dol-l.:rs-and-cents ceiling prices, O. Guy Cardon, member cf the war price and rationing board of Cache county, announced today. "Dollar - and - cents community ceiling prices are now in use in approximately 564,000 retail food stores serving about ' 126,000,000 persons," he said. This represents 94 rtr cent of the nation's food stores and about 96 per cent of lists cover about 700 food items. Fresh fruits and vegetables are among the more recent additions- v to the lists of OPA community ceiling prices. The program will soon be extended to provide specific spe-cific retail prices on a countrywide country-wide basis for string beans, green beans, cucumbers spinach, carrots, car-rots, onions, potatoes, cabbage, lettuce, apples, . bananas, table; grapes and citrus fiuits. "Tluse communliy ceiling prrces Chester Bowles, OI'A administrator administra-tor said, are essential part of OPAs policy of making price control con-trol as simple and easy to understand under-stand as possible for both buyers and sulci's. Growers, as well as shoppers, have fouuu this kind of community dollar and cents pricing pric-ing easy to handle because it does away with much of the retailer's re-tailer's work in computing ceiling ceil-ing prices." |