Evening star., 1943-03-29

uelleVe the meaJ-fdulOn1ng program
would impair the health of the
country. He pointed out that in
England, where for three years the
average food allotment per person
has been only half the average
allowance of foods now under con-
troll here, the health of the people
had actually improved.
In this country" he said, "Wheth-
er we eat at home or in public
eating places, we may not get the
preferred meat cuts that we would
like, but we will get meat and we
can fill in with poultry, fresh fish,
products made from grains, fresh
fruit and vegetables and other un-
rationed foodstuffs. Under war;
time rationing there will be ade-
quate food to meet nutritional
needs"
Only the red A stamps were valid
today, but they will remain good
through April 80. Red B stamps
will become valid next Sunday, c
stamps on April II, D stamps on
April 18 and E stamps on April 25.
All but the E stamps will expire on
April 30. No expiration date has
been announced for E coupons.
The o Street Market was slmi-
larly abandoned. There was little
meat on hand, almost no customers.
All of the shops at the Arcade
Market, Fourteenth street and Park
road NV, had meat to sell today,
but few people showed up to buy it.
George w. Hunt, manager of the
P. F.. Casey stand, said he normally
does business of 500 an hour on
weekday and 5000 an hour on
Saturday. During the first hour
and quarter this morning, he had
sold $252 worth of meat.
Butchers Buy Cautiously.
None of the butchers stocked up
too heavily for fear they would find
their showcases full of meat they
couldn't get rid of during the week.
Mr.. Hunt said he does not expect to
sell as much meat all week as he
sold last Friday and Saturday.
All the stands at the Arcade COM
bined had about Is customers during
the first hour of business today.
Some of the proprietors, who have
been bothered with manpower prob
lens up to now, said that if things
don't improve, they will have to let
some of their help CO. Most of them
expected sales would be, cut per-
manently about 40 or so per cent as
the result of rationing.
Harold Haraway, manager of the
E. T. Goodman stand at the Arcade.
had not made a single sale during
the first three-quarters of an hour,
although he had plenty of beef
prominently displayed. He said the
last few days of last week had been
like bad dream" and he didn't
mind getting a chance to rest for a
little while.
Some Welcome Respite.
Most of the meat dealers felt ra-
tioning would be godsend for a few
days at least-until they had
chance to recover from the unnerv-
ing effects of last weeks rush. One
butcher, who had been at the same
stand during the last war, said he
could recall no similar panic" in
meat-buying at any time during
l917-18 Meat shortages then never
became serious enough to warrant
rationing.
Although there was meat in most
showcases at the Arcade today, the
large storage refrigerators were
practically empty and butchers took
advantage of the opportunity to de-
frost them.
New York Gets New Supply.
The emergency shipment of 1,250,-
600 pounds of meat for the New
York area began to arrive today.
Sylvan Joseph, OPA's regional di-
rector, said the first loo, 600 pounds
of the emergency allotment had en-
tered the city. Many Of New York's
retailers have been without meat
for . week. Many Of them waited
for Is long as seven hours this morn
ing to get at the first shipments Of
the promised meat.
Cleveland likewise was out 81 beet.