Evening star., 1943-03-31
New Maximum Prices
For Veal Wholesalers
Prescribed by 0PA
Standardized Costs
For Pork to Become
Effective Tomorrow
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Office of Price Administration
has prescribed new packer wholesale
maximum prices for veal, prepara-
tory to setting up a new system of
retail prices.
Within a week or two, the agency
expects to issue uniform retail prices
on beef, veal, lamb and mutton,
similar to the standardized prices
on pork effective tomorrow. Under
this pricing system, maximum prices
on meat will be the same in all
stores of the same type in the same
area. instead of each stores having
different legal maximum as at
present.
Because of the task of posting ra-
ton point values on meat, butchers
need not post ceiling prices on pork
cuts, OPA said today.
Butchers were required to post on
each tray of cuts not only the selling
price but also the ceiling price. OPA
said the ceiling price now may be
dropped because the customary cell
luloid markers used on meat coun-
tiers will be filled up with the selling
price and the ration point value.
Preparatory to the uniform pricing
system, however, OPA has been try
ing to standardize packer and whole
sale prices. Price regulations have
been issued previously on packer
wholesale sales of pork, beef, lamb
and mutton.
Same Zones Are Used.
The new veal wholesale ceilings
will 60 into effect Saturday, and gen
orally are similar to the beef regula-
tions. The same 10 zones and other
general methods of control in the
beef regulation are used. Also, the
maximum prices for the Chicago
market are the same on veal as they
are on beef.
However, OPA said yesterday that
the new veal prices are slightly high
er than current prices charged by
packers and wholesalers. This in
crease will not be reflected immedi-
ately in retail prices, but may show
up in the retail veal ceilings sched-
uled in week or two.
The new wholesale veal ceilings" "
OPA said, ultimately may prove of
material benefit to low income fami-
lies. Maximums price maximums)
will be increased somewhat on the
best grades. However, ceilings on the
lower grades-which still are good
edible meat and used largely by fam
lilies with tight budgets-will repre-
sent reduction from present levels.
Such savings may be passed on to
the consumer when the new retail
ceilings on veal are announced.
Prices Are Higher.
The agency said that farmers in
January received an average of $3.50
a hundredweight for veal calves.
equivalent to 1913 per cent of parity.
The new prices. OPA continued,
will reflect back to producers prices
AS high as any received between
January l, 1912, and September Is,
1912, and thus be more than suffi-
cient to meet the pricing require
ments for raw agricultural commodi-
ties under the Emergency Price Con-
troll Act"
Price Administrator Brown also
commented that the new price regu-
lations will do much to wipe out
the black market operations. which
are particularly fragrant in veal"
He said that at present some
packers are permitted to charge %
cents pound for veal carcasses,
while other packers may charge 80
cents. Retailers having to pay the
higher prices, Mr.. Brown said. often
became black market operators and
forced consumers to pay the addi-
tional costs"