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Show Ration Board Fixes Prices For Meals Here Authority to control prices of avals in commercial eating places plac-es based on prices charged during dur-ing the period April 4 through April 10 was issued this week to regional OPA offices for the first ti me, it was stated hy Klvin Thorne chairman of the local war price and rationing board. All restaurants, cafeterias, hotels, ho-tels, and other eating and drinking drink-ing establishments in the area must' file with the local board by May 1 copies of menus or price lists showing prices charged during dur-ing the base period, April 4 to April 10. Mr. Thorne also called attention atten-tion to the 14 to 50 percent point value reductions for sausage including in-cluding weiners, bologna, pork sausage, schapple, chitterlings, pork neck and backbones which became effective this week. The reason for the reduction in point values of these commodities is the slow rate at which some of them have been moving from butchers' shelves. Formers who sell butter, lard, or any other food rationed under the meats and fats program to retailers and restaurants were reminded that they must collect ration points for all such sales since April 11 just as they have been collecting points for sales to consumers since the rationing program went into effect March 29. "Consumers as well as retailers who buy from farmers surrender stamps at current point values just as they do when they buy from any other source, the chairman chair-man emphasized. 8 points per pound for butter and 5 points per pound for lard sold in units of less than five pounds must be surrendered. When the unit of sale is greater than five pounds, the trade point values of 7.9 points per pound for butter and 4.9 points per pound for lard will apply." In his statement, the local chairman also called attention to an extension for an indefinite period of price regulation No. 329 which froze the farm" price of fluid milk at January 1943 levels. The order which would otherwise have expired on April 9 is designed design-ed to stabilize the price of milk at the source. |