Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-04
ALL FLOUR In CITY
MUST BE REGISTERED
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for thirty days, must be enumerated
on the flour cards. The card also
contains an agreement on the part
of the householder to hold excess
flour on hand for the use of the gov
ernment.
Subject to Seizure
Donald Mccormick, food admin
istrator here, said he does not think
the order to register all wheat flour
in the city is an intimation that the
excess flour will be commandeered
by the government. This may come
later, he said, but he has no notif-
cation of anv intention on the part
of the food administration that such
procedure is contemplated. Rather
the move is a concerted effort on the
part OF all local food administrators
to give the Federal and State Food
Commissions a comprehensive idea
of the actual wheat situation in the
country.
1t is also likely that the registra-
ton will pave the way to the
national distribution of wheat to
suit the requirements of the COM
munities. for the registration will
inform the various local administra-
tors, and the National Food Admin
istration, just how much wheat is
actually required in each commun-
ity.
Heavy Penalties
A penalty of $4,000 with no less
than two years Imprisonment will be
meted out to those who fail to reg
lister. Where cards do not return
to the county food administration
promptly, actual search of the
households, and prosecutions, are
likely to follow.
The requirement that householders
may have no more than thirty days
supply of flour on hand. or purchase
more than 49 pounds, has confused
householders considerably. The rul-
ing means that if a households re-
quirements for thirty days are less
than forty-nine pounds, they may
not buy forty-nine pounds at one
time but only a thirty days supply.
On the ether hand. if the thirty
days supply for a household is
more than forty-nlne pounds, only
forty nine pounds may be purchased
at one time, regardless of what the
household may require for thirty
days.
The official text of the food flour
registration card fellows:
No householder is permitted to
purchase over forty-nine pounds of
wheat flour nor to have more than
thirty days supply. Every house
holder must report Immediately Con
this form) to the County Food Ad-
ministrator Make report of all
wheat flour on hand whether it is
excess or not and urge on your
neighbors the necessity and import
ance of making this report prompt
ly.
Number in household ........
adults, .. children under II.
Wheat -four on hand Gall -four con-
tanning any wheaO ...,..,.' lbs.
Thirty days requirements (when
used with substitutes to $3.50 regu-
lations) ........ lbs.
1 agree to hold my excess subject
to the order of the United States
Food Administration.
Name .............. ..............
Post Office .,................
st. and No. or r. f. d. ...
Maximum penalty for boarding is
$1,000 fine and two years imprison-
ment. The blanks will not be dis
tributed. You must fill in your own
blank and mail or deliver it to your
County Food Administrator An i'm
mediate report will avoid possibility
of search and prosecution.
HOWARD HEINZ,
Federal Food Administrator of Penn
sylvania.
Send report to Dauphin County
Food Administration, Chamber of
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