Evening star., 1943-06-06
Meat
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similar announcement regarding
coffee is awaited These are the
only food items on which rollbacks
financed by subsidies have been
planned so far. The butter subsidy
was placed in effect last week. but
the retail prices will not reflect the
scent a pound rollback until
Thursday.
An OPA price official estimated
the meat-reduction order would
cost between s25O,OOo,OOO and $780,
100000 annually.
The Government subsidy on
meats will be paid to slaughterers,
at the rate of approximately cents
a pound on dressed carcases. These
will start tomorrow and
will be made by the Defense Sup
plies Corp, subsidiary of the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. But
because of the time it will take
before subsidized meat flows
through the hands of packers,
wholesalers and retailers, the retail
prices will not be affected until
June 81 Or July 5.
Wide Range In Reductions.
While officials estimated the aver
age retail price reduction will be 3
cents a pound, on individual cuts.
some reductions will be less than 3
cents while others will range up to
8 cents per pound.
OPA cited as typical of the savings
to be effected on meat prices this
table for Zone North, which in
cludes Washington, Baltimore. Phila-
delphia, New York, Hartford, New
Haven and Boston:
hundredweisht. 4 stores.
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Round steak,
bone-ln, grade
"a 24.25 200 4sc 42c
"A" -" rib 26c5 ..3.;5 42c 36c
Chuck roast. bone
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Pork chops tcen-
ter cut tloms
under u lbsn 29O0 @6.5 44c SOC
grade "A 3o75 $3.50 66c soc
grade "A o525 300 sc 4sc
Bacon, grade "A"
sliced ~ $3.50 81 90 47c 42c
Estimated prices in Zone 9 South,
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Round st.ak,
AZ 49, e''N c4a5 ae.oo 4sc 42c
Rib roast +, s5ase 9's 1928 ea.7s .cc ssc
chas5 bobe.jn' Toas1; srsde
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Pork chops tcen-
ter CUT loins
under - lbs) 21.75 300 43c 3ac
Lamb ,se loln chops chops ,o-s a-.o a., eoc
Grade "A $3.50 $500 SC 4sc
Bacon, grade a.
sliced - 5000 81 so 4Sc 4oc
Eligibility Explained.
Any packing plant that slaughters
1000 pounds or more, live weight,
a month in any one abbatoir will
be eligible under the program.
Monthly reports on the live and
dressed weight of slaughtered live
stock will be required by the DISC.
With the packers subsidy in effect
tomorrow. the ceiling on fresh and
frozen meats will be reduced at
their level of June 49, The delay
between this and the effective date
June 21-at the retail level is de-
signed to meet inventory problems,
OPA pointed out.
The reduction in the price of
cured and processed pork. dried and
corned beef will be required at the
slaughter level on June % and for
the wholesaler and retailer July 5
This time lag, OPA explained. is
necessary to take care of quantities
already in process.
OPA said that the staggering
of dates provides for problems of
accumulated inventory and for
printing and distributing in the field
of the retail price schedules which
butcher shops and the meat de-
partments of other stores must dis
play.
Will Sustain Farmers.
The meat subsidy is supposed to
be sufficient to maintain prices
which farmers are getting for their
cattle. hogs and lamb.
Commenting on advertisements OF
the American Meat Institute asking
for delay in the subsidy, OPA Off
cials said. we know that that is
the sentiment of the meat industry,
but We have no reason to believe
that the subsidy will interfere with
the operations of the War Meat
Board. as claimed by the institute. y
The War Meat Board. a commit
tee of Government and industry
representatives, is scheduled to hold
its first meeting in Chicago toner
row.
OPA said it could not estimate
when the promised coffee subsidy
will start
. Meanwhile. the War Food Ad-
ministration announced that be-
ginning June II all slaughterers,
wholesalers. meat handlers and
professors will be restricted in their
frozen and cured beef and pork IN
ventories. This. VIA said, will
make meat produced above civilian
quotas more readily available to
Government channels. The order
replaces temporary controls which
have been in effect over federally in
spected slaughterers since April I.
In Chicago, an American Meat
Institute statement declared THE
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