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Show NO SUGAR TO BE DELIVERED ON TELEPHONE ORDER AND BUYER MUST APPEAR IN PERSON AT STORE Through a now ruling of the food administration, purchasers of sugar hereafter will bo hold to strict regulations regula-tions In their buying so that sugar hoarding and waste may be effectively stopped, according to T. M. McGregor, McGreg-or, assistant to W. W. Armstrong, food administrator for Utah. Mr. McGregor McGreg-or Is In Ogden today, instructing grocers gro-cers In the new rules and making a grnrral Investigation of the sugar situation sit-uation In this city. Beginning Monday, August 5, no orders or-ders for sugar vtt So filled If taken over the telephone. Each buyer must appear In person at tho grocery storo and give his order. Ho must certify on his honor as Co the number of per- sons in his family and tho amount of tho purchase. Tho grocers aro considered distributing distrib-uting agents of the United States government gov-ernment and will be charged with the responsibility of enforcing tho regulations regula-tions honestly and strictly. Tho allotment of sugar has boon set by tho food administration at two pounds per capita per month and this rule will be adherod to rigorously In distributing sugar. ' Mr. McGregor said this morning that thefo are over a million pounds of i sugar held In the homes of Utah and that this condition was considered consid-ered of sufficient Importance to warrant war-rant tho enforcement of further measures meas-ures of economy. ' |