The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-04-23
SUGAR RATION WILL BE
HALF POUND EACH WEEK
Eight Weeks Limit Has Been
Fixed BY Office of Price Ad-
ministrtiOn In Washington

ministrtiOn In Washington
Sugar will be rationed at the rate
of one-half pound per person per
week for the first eight weeks of the
rationing program, it was announced
by the Office of Price Administration
in Washington.
OPA officials emphasized that
changes may be made from time to
time to meet possible variations in
supplies, either up or down.
Disclosing other details of the CON
sumner registration from May to 7
and the rationing program itself, the
OPA stated that ration books will
not be issued, at the start, to persons
or family units whose supply of sugar
on hand amounts to more than six
pounds per individual.
2-POund Allowance
In issuing ration books to consum-
crs, it was explained, the registrars
will be guided by the amount re-
ported by each registrant. In cases
where the supply is not greater than
two pounds per individual, ration
book will be issued complete with all
twenty-eight stamps
If the supply reported amounts, for
example, to five pounds per person,
the registrar will tear out three
stamps; one for each pound over the
two-pound allowance. For a siX-pound
supply, four stamps will be removed
But if it amounts to more than six
pounds per individual, the registrar
simply will issue no ration book at all
Persons in this category it was midi
Gated, will be given ration books at
some later date, but not until their
supply has been exhausted.
Points about the rationing proceed
ure are discussed in d booklet titled
'"Thc Plan for Distribution War Ra-
ton, Book l." Some 100000 copies
are being sent out for the use Of
State and county rationing adminis-
traitors, local rationing boards, city
and county school upcrintendents,
school site administrators and regis
trars.
Plan for individuals
1t deals with the ration,ng plan for
individual consumers, and not with
the registration of wholesalers and
retailers, commercial users and insti-
tutions, which will register at public
high schools April y and % for their
initial ALLEGATIONS.
The consumer registration, which
will cover most of the 100000, 600 in
dividuals in America, is to be con-
Quoted at public elementary schools.
As a preliminary to rationmg, no
sugar will be sold at retail during the
week beginning April % sales are to
be cut off in order that dealers will
be assured of sufficient supplies to
start the rationing program.
Points in Booklet
In discussing the sugar shortage
and the need for rationing, the OPA's
booklet sets forth these principal
points:
In normal times twenty-scvcn per
cent of this country's sugar comes
from the Philippine Islands and
Hawaii. Today none is coming from
the Philippines and very little" from
Hawaii.
Thirty-five per cent normally
comes from the West Indies Today
the ships and tankers that usually
carry it are needed to transport vital
war materials to the United States
and its Allies and to the American
armed forces outside of the United
States.
Sugar is required in large amounts
for the men in the armed forces and
for the manufacture of explosives.
Many short-sighted persons, "think-
ing only Of themselves have been
boarding sugar.
Anyone who fails to register dur
ing the May Al period will have to
wait two weeks before applying to his
local rationing board for ration
book.
Each stamp will cover a period of
two weeks, according to present
plans 1t will be good only for a spcci-
fic period.
Locally the county rationing board
has requested information from teach
crs concerning the estimated number
of merchants and individuals in the
community so that the board will be
sure to send sufficient blanks and war
ration books to each school to take
care Of everyone who applies.
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