The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-18
MUST OBEY 80 So RULE
CRlCCS.
WARNS
STORES

II Monday noon by Herbert
Griggs, local food administra-
tor, to all grOcers that they
must comply with the new
/ "5O-5O" wheat flour rule.
| He had been informed, he
said, that In many cases il Is
being ignored.
He asked all loyal Taco
mans to report to him any
infractions they might OBJ
serve.
The new rules are embOd-
led i'm the following statement
from CHARLES Iiebberd, state
administrator:
| To All Dealers in Flour:
Effective Friday, March Is,
1918, the following flour sale
rules are announced:
Official Substitutes.
No retailer of wheat flour is
| permitted to sell or deliver any
wheat flour (including so-called
War flour unless he at the
! same time sells and delivers an
equal weight pound for pound of
any or all of the following wheat
flour substitutes:
Hominy mot canned), rice
flour, edible corn starch, soya
bean flour, rice, corn flour, sweet
potato flour, oatmeal, corn meal,
potato flour, rolled oats, corn
grits, buckwheat' flour, barley
flour, feterita flour and meals.
Whole wheat and graham
I flours are subject to the same
| rules as other wheat flour, ex-
cept that in selling whole wheat
or graham flour containing at
least 50 per cent of the entire
wheat, six tenths of a pound of
substitutes, must be sold with
every pound of whole wheat or
graham flour.
However, in this market no
whole wheat, at the present time,
does carry ninety-five (95) per
cent of the whole grain, and all
graham flours do carry that
proportion. Therefore, for the
present. one pound of substitutes
must be purchased against one
pound of whole wheat flour and
six-tenths (6-10) of a pound must
be purchased against each pound
of graham flour.
Rye Flour.
II Rye is not an authorized wheat
flour substitute.
Pancake and Other Mixed FlOurs.
Dealers in mixed flour shall
not, without the written permits
sion of the United States food
administrator, sell mixed flour
containing more than so per cent
OF wheat flour to any person, un-
less such person purchases from
him at the same time an amount
of wheat flour substitutes suffi-
cient to make the total amount of
such substitutes, including substi-
tutes in the mixed flour, equal to
the total amount of wheat flour in
such mixed flour.
Potatoes.
Temporarily, in localities where
official substitutes are not avail
able, potatoes may be used as a
substitute for wheat flour ON basis
of four pounds potatoes for one
pound wheat substitute. In
Pierce county potatoes may be
used as substitutes as above until
March 81.
II CertificatiOn.
4 No certification of wheat flour
Substitutes in the hands of con-
lsumers will be permitted, except
in special cases which must be
passed upon individually by the
county food administrators. Where
permission is granted by the coun-
ty food administrator, it must be
in writing, and in no case shall
exceed more than one-eighth bar
rel of flour.
No consumer will be permitted
to certify twice under any circum-
stances.
! Limitations.
Retailers of flour shall not sell
more than one-quarter barrel of
| flour to local consumers nor
more than one-half barrel to rural
CONSUMERS.
| No Exemption.
There shall be no exemption to
the above rules. Hospitals, city,
county and state institutions must
buy. pound for pound just as in
the case of other consumers.
| Licensed bakers, which includes
hotels, restaurants and institu-
tions holding bakers licenses, may
purchase for baking purposes only
in the ratio of four pounds of