The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1943-03-11
NORTH CAROLINIANS TO AN
SWER ROLL CALL

NORTH CAROL1NIANS To AN
SWER ROLL CALL
On the farm production front,
lthe Department of Agriculture, in
"A roll call to be held from March
L to 20, will call on all North
Carolina rural women to pledge
every family to produce as much
~of the home food supply as pos
-Sible. A good part of farm people,
especially in "one-crop" areas,
either raise only a small part OF
their own garden supply, or do
not raise a sufficient variety OF
fresh vegetables to give a we'll
balanced diet. With canned
foods limited, it is essential to
Improve the diet and health OF
rural families through home gar
&dens.
HOW TO "SPEND" POINTS
Here's a way to spread your
point spending as evenly as
possible over the full month of
March, says the State ORA, so
you won't run short toward the
end of the month-divide March
into four shopping periods
March l through 8 eight days),
March 9 through Is (eight days,)
March II through q (seven
days., March "a through 81
'<eight days).
If the 48-point-per-person al
iotment is used evenly over these
periods, the rate of spending in
each period by families of from
two to eight persons works out in
12-point multiples. For two in
the family, spend "a points per
shopping period, for three, So
points, four 48, and so on.
DAVIS TO BROADCAST
Elmer Davis, Director of the
Office of War Information, will
begin a series of weekly 15-min-
ute broadcasts on Friday even
ing, March IL. The series will
be broadcast over NBC, CHS and
blue networks each Friday ev-
ening from 10:45 to HOO P. M,
Eastern War Time. They will
he re-broadcast each Saturday at
400 p. b. over the network of the
Mutual Broadcasting Company.
CEILING PRICES ON PORK
AFTER APRIL
On April l, 1913, ceiling prices
will be fixed on all retail sales of
fresh and processed pork. Bigger !
markups are allowed to indie
pendent stores doing less than |
$25O,OOO a year than are allowed
ito larger stores and chains. The
maximum prices for five pro-
ducts are: sliced bacon (derined,
Smoked) grade A, 48 and 46 cents
per pound; skinned, smoked ham,
center slices, 81 and So cents;
skinned, smoked whole ham, Al
and 40 cents; center cut pork
chops (fresh or frozen pork loins)
43 and Al cents; and salt pork
[dry salt bellies), fresh, cured or
-froGen, rs and "a cents per pound.
On and after April 1, retailer
may sell only-(D Pork cuts
gwen dollars and cents prices I'M
der OPA 1886, and (2) pork pro-
ducts whose prices are fixed I'M
der general maximum price reg
rlIfation, including-Pork sausage,
scanned pork, pork variety meats
or offal (including meat
outlets, brains, gatherings, liver,
plucks, kidneys, tongues, lips, |
SHOUTS, ears, hearts, cheek and |
head meat, stomachs, weasand
meat and heads), and quick fro
zen cuts which are delivered to
the retailer in individual pack
ages in which he sells them. Cell
ing prices on pork must be post
ed in each store beginning April
l, and, upon request, the retail
er must give A customer a receipt
showing the date. name and ad-
dress of retailer name ord weight
of each pork cut sold. and the
nricn paid for it.
COOKIE PRICES ON THE RISE
North Carolina housewives
will soon be paying for crack
ers, biscuits and cakes. The in
crease will be small in the case
Of cakes, but on crackers and
cookies, where flour is a larger
factor in production costs, the