El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-09
60 AFTER FOOD
RULE VIOLATORS
Merchants Must Obey $3.50
Regulations on Flour or
Lose Supply.

Lose supply.
Local merchants who have not been
observing the rule requiring the sac
Of an equal amount OF flour substi-
tutes with every sale Of wheat flour
will be required to obey the regula-
ton in the future, or else have their
source Of supply cut off, according TO
telegram received Friday afternoon
by the FL Paso price interpreting com
mittee and read at the regular meet
ing.
! The warning was IN response 20 a
1 telegram sent z. A Peden by the
committee stating that some FL Paso
MERCHANTS were not complying with
4he socaIled 5000" regulations, and
asking how the violations could 9e
handled. Mr.. Peden Immediately
wired back that any merchant not
/ following the pound for pound RUE
would have his source OF supply IN
mediately shut off
VIII Notify Merchants.
In order to enforce the rule prop
erly, notices both in Spanish ana
English VIII be sent 20 an ne Ill =,
George Il. Clements district 1000 al
ministrator, stated at the meeting
He said that he would wire tmmeol-
ately to Mr.. Peden, asking him 10
send such notices.
The question Of whether beans anc
potatoes can still be used as substi-
tutes was also brought up At Hons-
ton they have been taken from the hst
! of flour substitutes, but there was
| some doubt as to whether this applea
/ to FL Paso. Mr.. Clements's wire VIII
settle the matter.
Merely Set Limits.
A circular of the food administra-
IL -s-f~-r the mint that nrlcE
/ inter-, citing committees have no pow
er to fix prices. but that they merely
I set the limits beyond which mer-
chant should not go, was Drougnt
/ before the meeting. Only food ao-
| rninistrators have the power to COM
Del compliance with regulations an
nounced by the food commission
Few Changes Made.
Not many changes were made IN the
scale OF prices on staple food products
A scale of from nine to ten cents 1or
suear. retail, was fixed. the former
prices being ten cents Tor sugar N
/ less than five pound lots ana nine
cents in five pound lots.
CorumeaI Is Raised.
Regular cornmeal was raised from
IS cents for 81 pound sacks TO 60
cents and from 45 to 80 cents. looDers
/ nrice. GRADUATED cornmeal was
] raised from s Is cents TO to 10 cents
I retain ana LIQA4 . ~ - ~-----
wholesale The same raises were
made on hominy grits-
Cold storage butter was cut out
/ The range of the wholesale price on
! creamery butter was raised from 50
/ to 81 cents to So to So cents Lard
| COMPOUND was raised from S2-55 re-
tail to $3.50 for No 10 pals. and the
wholesale price from s2.16 % To S2,zl
per No. 10 pals.
Prices for Next Week.
The prices for the coming week going
into effect February II. are as follows;
Max. JObbsrs
retail price
csuulated sugar ..-.....0sG1o as
q pound sacks. SIs.s5a1-ss '1-45el-s'
Full head in bulk. ib..-.1sss -osz
! Broken rice IN bulk. DDS IL 81
Potatoes
Irish, per 100 lbs. -s2.seSs.25 s22sa2.7S
Irish. per DOunSa o.. No. a5s. ioS a
Regular So ID. sacis-..... 60 50
Graduated pearl p 10. .os9lo va
Creamery. fresh. fancy ID. 80 -sSGs5
HOminy bulk per pound. ..sG1o .osz
0leomargarine.
Uncolored. pound --.--..----So =
With coloring. Ib-....;.-----4S %
Pure leaf No. 10 ?. sass s2ssz e272
Lard. compound, No 10 p.s2.60 vi
Bread
1s o.. loat.--..-- ;..-..-.----1o -oS
Loughorn. per Ib-..-----.-..to -seb
SKINNED. per ib--.----.----s5 -
Beans
! California Pink. lb..-.,-.--.l2 ~
| These prices are subject to changes
from food administration at Washington
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