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Show OFFICE OF Price Adminstration SALT LAKE CITY Consumers were reminded this week by Fred J. Keeler, 'Community 'Com-munity Service Member of the Sugar Su-gar House War Price and Rationing Ration-ing Board, that merchants may legally increase their ceiling price on eleven catagories of foods in line with Maximum Price Regulations Regula-tions No. 238 recently issued by the Office of Price Adminstration. Adminstra-tion. "Ceiling prices may be advanced advanc-ed on breakfast cereals, canned fish, cooking and salad oils, sugar, su-gar, canned vegetables, coffee, rice, hydrogenated shortening, other types of shortening, dried fruits, and lard according to specified spec-ified mark-ups on their wholesale whole-sale costs." Mr. Keeler ,said. Increased prices at retail of these commodies are necessitated by the fact while the original ceiling ceil-ing prices were placed on these commodies at the March 1942, price level, the costs to the manufacturers man-ufacturers between the 1941 and the 1942 growing and processing season were very materially increased. in-creased. Merchants may not make, tui, unlimited increase but only the, amount permitted by the OPA regulation according to the commodity com-modity being repriced and accoid-ing accoid-ing to to the kind of store repricing re-pricing its articles. Mr. Keeley, pointed out that merchants may make price adjustments ad-justments according to this formula for-mula until December 31, 1942 at which level the ceiling prices on these items ill be frozen and may not increase beyond that date. He added that consumers who wish to make a list of ceiling prices, on these items may check in the store on that date and be assured assur-ed that list compiled is a correct list of the ceiling , orices of that difte. ' ' -' He also stated "that several other recent ordrs issued by the OPA will affect the ceiling prices pric-es on a number" of additional foods and beverages. The manufactures of mincemeat, plum pudding, fig pudding, date pudding, Christmas cookies, fruit cake, holiday candy, chocolate covered cherries, glac-ed glac-ed or candied fruits and peels,, stuffed dried fruit, dried figs, WOMEN AT WAR Overalls, wrenches and drills replace fineries as these war workers in an Army Arsenal march to tank repair shops. Note the determination , on their faces. These women are typical of hundreds of thousands who are working in war factories and investing part of their earnings in War Bonds. I I i i j Iff V ),- pure surgnum syrup, pittea ana mecerated dates and date products pro-ducts have been permitted to increase in-crease their prices in order to compensate for increased costs of production over last year. According Accord-ing to Price Regulations No. 250, the merchant will be permitted to take a compensating price rise in order to keep the percentage of profits he had last year on these same items." In addition, Order No. 256 allows al-lows merchants to raise their prices pric-es on canned fruit, berries, and juices; frozen fruits, berries, and vegatbles; fruit preserves, jams, and jellies, apple butter, canned shrimps and domestic canned crab meat the same amount per can the manufacturers have been allowed to increase their prices. Some time ago, the condensed soup mamufactures were allowed to increase their prices in order to compensate for increased costs.. Merchants may increase their re-' tail price of the "new formula" soups only. In addition to the important items above, the consumer representative rep-resentative reminded consumers that the new federal tax law and higher costs will increase the consumers con-sumers of some tobacco products spirituous liquors, and beer. Mrs. Foosevelt (left) says women help men at front by buying War Bonds. At right is the lapel tag which volunteers will wear during Women At War Week, Nov. 22 to 28. - |