The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-01-21
FOOD STORES OPEN TO-
DAY; CANDY NOT FOOD
Various Rulings Received from National
Feul Administrator and Others
Made By State Admins
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State Fuel Administrator III. j. NJ
Jones received telegram from the fed
erai fuel administrator stating that foi
to-day, Jan. 2l. food stores would be per
mitted to remain open all day. The tele.
gram read as follows; "As result of in.
formation furnished by the United States
food administration to the effect that
confusion exists in the minds of the pub
lie as to the closing of food distributing
stores Monday afternoon the order of
the u. s. fuel administration of Jan. IL
has been suspended insofar as it provides
for closing such food distributing stores
on Monday, Jan. u. This will permit
food stores to remain open for the entire
day on Monday the 2lst'
II may be that the ruling in this tele-
gram win be changed for the following
Mondays; but a definite ruling will ap-
pear in the papers before that time
Mr.. Jones also received another tele-
gram as follows: Candy not to be con
sidered food"
Mr.. Jones sent the following telegram
to the federal administrator Saturday
Can plants run which use their own,
waste for heating and use water for pow
er?" To this he received the following
reply, Answering wire, manufacturers
using shavings for heat for plant may
run sufficiently to produce enough shaw
ings for heating plant to prevent freez-
ing"
Another order was received Sunday
morning relative to the handling of bust
ness-"You may authorize any power
necessary for loading and unloading
cars" which changes the previous order
and will help materially.
Another order reads, Print paper mills
exempt from ruling Jan. Is, 10 20, %,
but not on Monday" Another order
changes the opening from Monday to
Tuesday on movies 1t reads: pool |
rooms and toher places of amusement |
may keep open Mondays but must close
Tuesdays"
Relative to demurrage rules, Mr.. Jones |
desires to call attention to the fact that |
regulations governing demurrage are still I
IN effect, and that demurrage will be col
ected for delay in loading and unloading
,ars.
Mr. jones has received message that Il
manufacturing plants working upon war
munitions or other government work
must be approved by the secretary of
var or navy or member of cabinet from
which the contract was placed in order
o secure exemption. +
Mr.. Jones has expressed the following: Is
According to the spirit of the order of /
an. II, all mercantile establishments |
nd shops should close ON each Monday, !
nfrrn Inn to nOI.t Itttfr IN
farch 25; all shops and mercantile es~ \
Adjustments excepting those specifically a
xempted should reduce the consumption
fuel TO a degree sufficient to prevent t
amage to property and in accordance a
18th the spirit of the order it is urged j
nat all such shops and establishments i
ose on Mondays specified in the order a
arfeld Urges That Employees Be Paid. !,
The following telegram was received L d
aturday afternoon from Federal Fuel n
Ell. A. Garfield and released q
n publication; 0
"Will you kindly give public expression o
my appreciation of the public spirited ii
Id patriotic action of employers in the c,
ate who may determine to pay the "
ages Of their employees during the sus W
,nsion period specified in the regulation el
Jan. II? They are bearing their share Il
the sacrifice which we are all called q
ION to make for the common good. IC
II. A. Garfield" ai
Sunday was hardly any different from RI
e three preceding days in the fuel ad II
inistrator's office Mr.. Stone went
ere in the morning to clean up a little m
all and routine business which could h,
It be touched in the last few days and al
d no more than arrived in the office re
nen people commenced to call him rela 81
te to whether they could operate their q
da fountain rprint paper plant, what -
ey could or could not do, and a number ~
other problems which were troubling Fl
EN-. pr
One man called the office Saturday ri
Lernoon relative to whether his black pr
18th shop was under the regulation dl
was, and, therefore, to-day he is not re
Grating the plant. During the same OF
.ernoon delegate from the granite
lustry in Groton visited the Office and Tn
imed that in his town it had been OF
ed that the granite industry must be eli
1t down, while in South Ryegate they wa
operating. He was advised that the ial
nts could not be heated more than OF
,ugh to keep the pipes from freezing iu
that the Barre plants are shut down nl'
N to the switches being pulled in some ma =
tho noxver eomnany aft