Show Ceiling Price Pace On Meat Announced By Local Board In two Important price orders OPA dollars-and-cents dollars this week established ceiling prices on beef beer veal Xeal lamb lambs am and d mutton at retail arid and placed price cell cell- Ings on used trucks for the first time according c to the Park City War Price nd Rationing Board Tho The retail meat price order which also requires that meat be sold according to grade coming as it does on the heels beels of or the pork ceiling price order last week I gram completes t to cap protect OPAs OPA's consumers retail meat Land and price cat at pro program prOgram P the the he same tImo time deal a fatal blow to meat black markets the chairman said Re Hei i tall sales above ceiling prices arc are the tho most obvious Identifying mark of ot a 0 black market According to the regulation which be becomes be- be becomes becomes comes effective April 15 retail butchers may not charge more moro for the cuts of ot beef veal lamb and mutton in five officially established grades of at beef bee and I Iveal veal four grades of ot lamb and three grades of mutton than the caning prices named on the official OPA price charts which must be posted in the store As In the case of ot the th pork ceiling price order the new regulation sets one price for tor Independent stores doing an annual volume of ot business under and another one cent ent to three cents lower I for all other stores Following arc are prices of ot typical popular grade A cuts of 01 meat Leg of ot lamb lamb 42 42 or 40 cents per pound Veal cutlet cutlet 52 52 or 50 cents per pound Porterhouse steak steak 62 62 or 60 cents per pound Hamburger 32 32 or 31 cents per pound In the other price regulation cited by the board ceilings are placed on prices of ot used trucks According to the regula regula- regulation regulation tion a used truck may not be sold for tor tormore more than a specified percentage of at its sale price when new the percentage al al- al allowed allowed lowed depending on the age of ot the truck For trucks sold on an as Is basis without guarantee these percentages range from 90 per cent of ot original sale sale price for tor trucks less than six months old to 53 per cent for tor trucks 30 to 36 months old and 26 per cent for tor trucks more than 72 months old In order to encourage dealers to re recondition re- re recondition ren condition n old trucks trucks' ti R k and a 1 make them available for tor use premium prices above tho as is ceilings may be charged barged where the truck is Is' Is guaranteed for tor 30 days or 1000 miles mlle In this case ase 5 percent per percent cent may be added plus the cost of ot parts labor and material used in the recon reCOn- Even when this Is s done however how how- however however ever certain percentages of ot the original sale price may not be exceeded These i percentages known as absolute cell- cell j lIngs Ings range from 97 per cent for tor a truck 6 months old or less to 75 per cent for tor forone forone lone one 30 to 36 months old and 68 per cent I for one more than 60 months old It is expected that two purposes will be achieved by the used truCk price I ceilings the local board said Activities of ot speculators who have been boosting prices rices in some instances to over per I cent of ot their normal value will be stop- stop stopped stopped stopped ped and the order will result in the I release of ot many used vehicles that have I i been withheld from sale In anticipation lot I of exorbitant prices and profits |