The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-03-30
Michigan in
Washington
BY Esther Van Wagner fluffy

BY Esther Van Wagner Tufty
When OPA took over a local SUI
per-market for a preview OF "meat
by the point" for the Washington
press. Administrator Prentiss NJ
Brown was unable to be present
But Michigan carried on anyway
A former Holland butcher, Leon
Bosch, the man who set up the point
values for meat, stole the show!
He, along with other OPA officials.
donned butchers aprons and per
sonally weighed, wrapped and sold
bacon, hamburger and pot roasts TO
the press corps.
He did a good job, too. BEST
butcher OF them ALL was the way
the press put it. But Bosch, looking
ruefully at his hands, admitted
"It's been % years since I've been
behind a meat counter. That was
back in my Holland Christian High
School days when ! was working
at the East End Market" he ex-
planned.
Since his graduation from the
East End Market, Mr.. Bosch has
had considerable experience in the
meat industry and was so drafted
TO head up the points control and
developing section OF OPA. From
this post he and his staff became
the meat "czars" in determining
that Americans would surrender
five points for pound Of hambur-
ger. nine points for a choice sir
loin and so on.
Wasn't it a tough job?' asked
the press.
Not so bad" explained Bosch,
adding, the system was set up on
such factors as: the relation OF the
amount of lean and fat in meat, the
popularity of certain types of meat,
and the spoilage degree of meat.
on cuts with great bone and fat
wastage, points had to be set high
explained Bosch. This is TO insure
the retailer sufficient points to buy
primal cuts. In other instances,
he pointed out, points were set in
tionally how to urge consumers to
purchase less popular cuts.
For. example, sweetbreads, al
though considered a delicacy, don't
ordinarily move fast" through
butcher shop. Liver, a popular dish,
is among the best sellers. Conse-
.quentlv 5 points are required for z
pound OF calf's liver but only z
point for a pound OF sweetbreads.
This will prevent the industry from
storing up a wasteful backlog of
sweetbreads which the industry
can't afford, explained Bosch.
lis meat rationing a good thing
The former Holland butcher thinks
so. After this war consumers VIII
know more about meat, how to pur-
chase and prepare it, than ever be-
fore in history, he predicted.
Between the East End Market and
OPA days. Mr.. Bosch managed to
collect several degrees beginning at
Hope College in Holland, from.
where he continued his studies at
the University of Illinois and fin
ished the circuit with his Phi. ID.
in marketing from Northwestern
Business Administration School.
The OPA official is the son OF
John S, Bosch, A East 10th St,
Holland.
Congressman George 4. Dondero
has introduced a bill, approved
unanimously by the House Rivers
and Harbors Committee, to re-
christen the old Weitzel lock at
Sault ste. Marie the Macarthur
Lock" in honor OF the famed gen
eral.
The bill would also name the
fourth lock, now under construc-
ton. the Sabine" in tribute TO
Colonel l.. C. Sabine, vice presi-
dent of the Great Lakes Carriers
Association.
Detrolt's Mayor Edward Jeffries
recently had a busy two-day visit
TO Washington, escorted about by
Senator Homer Ferguson. with
whom he mad interviews with Presi-