Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10
Canned Fish 10 Join
Pork on Ration List
Beginning Sunday
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Utility grade lamb will become
ration-free Sunday along with
beefsteaks and roaSts of the
same grade, while point values
will be restored not only to pork
loins and hams but to canned
FISH.
The ONCE of Price Administration
announcing this today, also boosted
ration values on all cheeses two to
four points a pound and increased
point values on farm and process
butter in line with the hike to 16
points pound ordered for creamery
butter, effective July 23
The new point charts will be
In effect from Sunday through Sep
TENDER 2, only half the regular
period because of delay in dis
tributing the August tables.
OPA stated last week that utility
grade beefstakes and roasts would
be removed from rationirS because
of heavy movement to market of
cattle of that grade. 1t said at the
same time that restoration of point
values to pork loins and hams was
necessary as result of seasonal
decrease in hog marketing.
Utility grade lamb is being given
szero rating. the agency explained,
to prevent slow movement into con-
sumption.
New Point Values on Pork.
New values assigned for pork loins
range from four points pound for
end cuts to eight points for center
cuts. Whole loins will cost five
points pound.
Hams, smoked as we'll as fresh,
also get value of five points a
pound, with shank ends two points
and slices nine points The value
on ready-to-eat ham is two points
higher pound than on the un-
cooked variety.
Canned fish goes back under
rationing because of "a definite
scarcity in nearly all sections of the
country" OPA said. The more
popular kinds. including salmon,
tuna and shrimp, will require six
points pound Mackerel and sar-
dimes will be four points a pound.
while canned oysters and miscellane-
Gus fish products get value of 2
points pound.
To compensate for more red point
food being restored to the ration
list than is being taken off, new
red stamp-D-5 in ration book four
will become valid Sunday and be
good indefinitely. OPA announced,
however, that hereafter red stamps
will be validated at the start of
each monthly ration period rather
than every fourth Sunday. The
number of points provided will be
80 or 40, depending on the length
OF the ration period.
Under this policy. new set of
stamps. probably three good for a
total of 30 points. will be validated
September 2, rather than August
u.
Meat Supply OFF.
Price Administrator BoWles said
the removal of utility beef and lamb
from rationing should not be taken
as an indication of large supplies
of meat. Civilian supply for August,
he said. is actually down 100000
pounds weekly from the 292 600 900
pounds available each week in July.
Except for cheaper cuts that have
been point free since May 4. the
three top grades of beef and lamb
choice, good and commercial-re-
main on the ration list.
The new charts list farm or coun-
try butter at IL points pound up
from eight points. and process but
ter at six points, two-point hike
Such cheeSes as cheddar and
colby are raised two points pound
to new value of IL points. Cream,
neufchatel and creamed cottage
cheese go to six points pound
from four, while Swiss. Italian
munster and limburger are assigned
a new value of eight points a
pound. up from four.
The increases for cheese were
necessary to slow down too rapid
movement into consumtion. OPA
said