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Show Community Sen ice Release Authority to control prices of meals in commercial eating plac-ea plac-ea based on prices charged during dur-ing the period April 4 through April 10 was issued this ween to regional OPA offices for the first time, it was stated by Haraer S. Culp chairman of the Salt Lake City 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. Culp also called attention to the 14 to 50 percent point value reduction for sausage including weiners, bolona, pork sausage, scrapple, chitterlings, pork neck and backbones which become effective ef-fective this week. The reason for the reduction in point values of these commodies is the slow rate at which some of them have been moving from butchers' helves. Farmers who sell butter, lard, or any other food rationed under the meats and fats program to retailers and restaurants were reminded re-minded that must collect ration points for all such sales since April Ap-ril 11 just as they have been collecting col-lecting points for sales to consumers consum-ers since the rationing program went into effect March29. "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 pel pound for butter and 5 points per pound for lard sold in units of lesg than five pounds must be surrended. Where 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 extention for an indefinite period per-iod of price regulation No. 329 which froze the farm Iprice o fluid milk to 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. In important price actions re-, cently taken by. the OPA, packers pack-ers maximum prices for the 1943 pack of peas, tomatoes, corn, and beans were set on a cents-per-dozen-cans basis, the chairman said. As a resultof these, the cost of canned goods to the consumer will remain substantially at present pres-ent levels through the farmers raising the product will get a higher high-er price for the raw product because be-cause of the Department of Agriculture's Ag-riculture's " support price" program. |