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Show Sugar Supply Not "Plentiful" Before taking stocs in rumors that sugar warehouses are full to overflowing while the OP A maintains main-tains control on a "plentiful" commodity, com-modity, thereby letting fruit rot on the trees, get a clear picture of the sugar situation, advised O. Guy Cardon, chairman ' of the Cache war price and rationing board. "Beet sugar manufacturers make a year's supply of sugar in two to four months, and at the end of the 'campaign' their warehouses warehous-es are full, but this supply is controlled con-trolled and sold gradually during the entire year, instead of being distributed all at once," the chairman chair-man said, pointing out that cane sugar manufacturers bring in raw sugar the year round, and by comparison their warehouses are much smaller. Sugar manufactured in, this area is distributed mainly in the western west-ern half of the nation, and since (many cane sugar distributors in ! the middle west have been obliged ! to turn to beet sugar, there has been a demand far greater than manufacturers could meet, the chairman said. "Sugar is needed for purposes other than canning, and if all the fruit growers' and canners' demands de-mands for sugar were met, other industrial, institutional and household house-hold users would have to go without," with-out," he said. Householders who applied late for home-canning sugar will receive re-ceive coupons in the mail this week according to word from the district office, he added. |