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Show UseofL.D.S. Church Owned Canneries Heartily Approved The recently announced plans whereby the L.D.S. church-owned canneries will be made available to groups for the production of ration-free canned goods have received the hearty approval of OPA, according to Hamer S. Culp, chairman of the war price and ration board. OPA's endorsement was given by H. Grant Ivins, state director, following a meeting at which church welfare officials stated that stake and ward canning plants will be made available for the use of groups of L.D.S. families fami-lies of church auxiliary members during times they are not being used for processing foods for the church, the board members stated. stat-ed. The sugar for home canning regulations this season make it possible to use church or privately private-ly owned facilities for community canning projects and consider the prrducts as horne-canned and. therefore, point-free, the local chairman said. In outlining the procedure to be followed for individuals wishing wish-ing to use community canning facilities for producing point-free products, the chairman outlined ' the following: A. Notify the local war price and rationing board so the arrangements ar-rangements can be checked to be sure they fall within the regulations. regula-tions. B All members of the group must contribute a share of labor and materials. Vegetables and fruits used have been grown by a member of the group. C. The sugar used must be contributed by the members of the group from their regular sugar su-gar for home canning allotment of 25 pounds, 15 pounds of which they may receive by applying individually in-dividually to the local board. The remaining 10 pounds may be acquired ac-quired with stamps, to be designated design-ated later, from War Ration Book One. D. The person who normally operates the plant will not do the processing other than acting as supervisor. The local board chairman pointed point-ed out that the definition of home canning was enlarged to include community projects, in order to encourage maximum production of processed foods. In doing this, the government recognized that large commercial canning facilities facili-ties will be operating to capacity and that the principal way to increase in-crease our national production is through the maximum use of home and semi-commercial canning can-ning facilities, such as those owned own-ed by the church. . |