Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-02-11
PERMIT
PLAN GOES IN
EFFECT TO-DAY
COUNTY FOOD ADMINISTRATION
RECEIVES CARDS WHICH WILL
BE ISSUED TO FARMERS UNDER
CERTAIN CONDITIONS.

County food Administrator Franc
Mangum has receive dfull instruc-
ton from DR.. A. M. Soule, the state
administrator, regarding the new -four
rule for farmers.
This rule will permit a farmer, or
farm employe, upon making the prop
er showing, to receive certificate
that will authorize any grocer to sell
him stipulated amount of flour. In
no circumstance may the permit be
issued for more than barreb and
then il must be shown that this is
normal sixty-day supply and that
the applicant has that much other
cereals on hand.
The Sumter food administrations
offices are on the second floor, above
The Times Recorder, The Telephone
number is 80.
However, Mr. Mangum has appointed
deputies throughout the county, and
these deputies will be delegated to
issue permits, previously counter
signed by them. These deputies are:
De Soto-W. c. Herring.
Leslie. @. Jones.
Plains--C. G. Lunsford.
Huntington. T. Price.
Andersonville-Jo S. Johnson.
Cobb-A. G.. Howard.
The card permit reads as follows.
United States Food Administra-
ton Authority for purchase OF
flour without wheat substitutes.
A producer of cereals is au-
tborized to purchase - pounds or
wheat -four without the purchase of
wheat flour substitutes, upon the sur
render of this card to any merchant,
the producer having satisfactorily
shown that he has on hand as much
o. more wheat flour substitutes as tne
quantity of -four herein specified, and
having agreed to abide by the rules
and regulations Of the. United States
food administration.
God only when countersigned by
the county food administrator or his
agent.
"(Signed) Andrew M. Soule, Federal
Food Administrator for Georgia.
"Countersigned -, County Food
Administrator for county.
, Agent for county admins
traitor.
r 'This card to be delivered by the re-
tail dealer of whom such dealer pur-
chases flour, to the merchant miller
in order to procure like quantity
Of -four without wheat flour substi-
tutes."
In order that there may be the bese
possible facility in handling these per-
mits and because of the fact that in
some instances the county food ad-
n.inistrator cannot be easily accessi-
BILE to all the important poitns in his
county, DIR. Soule has directed that
each county administrator appoint an
agent to represent him in handling
card permits to the farmer in each i'm
portant trading center in the county
and give the widest possible notice of
such appointments so that the in
formation may Immediately go to all
parts of his county.
In the handling of the permits to
carry out the purpose of the plan as
devised for the relief of those people
who grow wheat -four substitutes and
at the same time preserve the very
necessary purpose of the United States
food administration to limit the con-
sumption of wheat -four to seventy
per cent of the normal requirements
the modification of the originally pro-
mulgated order will require rigid OBJ
servances of the spirit of the permit
plan, that is there can be no semb-
lance of abuse by the merchants or
the individual purchaser will have to
be vigorously dealt with.
The administration does not antiei-
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