The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-07-15
Sets Up
County Meat
Committee
Reports Required Each
Week on Number of
Livestock Slaughtered.
GEORGE DAVIS, EUREKA
is CHAIRMAN

required OF all local SlduBHleIeis,
George Davis, chairman of the Lin
coin County War Meat Committee,
announced today
He said that a national war Meat
Board has been established with
Harry E. Rec, chief of the livestock
and meats branch of the Food Dis
tribution Administration as chair
man. The chief function of this
board will be to plan the distribu-
ton of the nations meat supply in
such a way that the government
services will be able to obtain their
requirements with as little disturb
ance to the trade as possible, and
SO that civilian consumers will be
able to obtain their fair share of the
supply.
Meat For Armed Forces
There will be very determined
effort on the part of the meat adj
ministraton from the meat board
down through the county War Meat
Committee to see that enough meat
goes to the men in the armed forces
of the country and that black mar
ket operations are stamped out,
Davis said
These reports on the numbers of
livestock slaughtered are to be sub
mitted to the county USDA War
Board chairman. This will apply to
all local slaughterers except those
which are federally-inspected.
Mr. Davis said that war meat
administration has been established
with a national War Meat Board, a
state meat marketing supervisor,
with field organization and War
Meat Committee in each county of
the state. r. r. Schoenborn of
Bozeman, formerly connected with
the crop insurance section of AAA,
has been appointed State Meat Mar
keting Supervisor by the State
USDA War Board. Schoenborn has
farm background, and besides 10
years of cattle buying, he has oper-
ated meat markets and a slaughter
house simultaneously, besides gain
ing experience in grocery stores and
restaurants During the drouth
years 1934-5 he successfully direct
ed the FERA cattle purchase pro-
gram for Montana. The county
War Meat Committee, appointed by
the County USDA War Board, is
as follows. George Davis, chairman;
n. Withycombe, George McGlenn,
Bert Roe, Father H. ]. Delaney, and
e. L. Benson, all of Eureka.
Not Enough Meat
The county meat program chair
man said it must be made clear to
each local butcher, each farmer and
each consumer that there isn't
enough meat to supply the demand
that has resulted from increased
pay checks And it must be made
clear, he said, that each individual
has responsibility to help stamp
out black market operations.
While regulations are irksome
and sometimes iniustices result
from the food order, the necessity
for them has been made imperative
to obtain enough meat for the mer
fighting for freedom and an equit-
able distribution to our civilian
population, Ire said.
Seven rules for farmers have
been outlined by the county USDA
War Board as follows
Seven Rules
l. He must have a slaughter per
nit in order to slaughter meat fol
sale.
2. He must place his permit mum
Der on each wholesale cut unless hi
sells his meat direct to the con
sumner, in which case tag will do
3. If he sells at wholesale, HI
should use the OPA wholesale
chart for the period in order to de
termine the number of points t.
collect.
a. If he sells at retail, he shouls
use the OPA retail point chart tt
determine the number of points t.
collect.
5. For each month during which