Evening star., 1944-12-25
0PA 10 Invoke
Tighter Rules
On Food Tonight
Canned Vegetables
Are Rotioned Again;
Butter Up a Points
fTGbleS on neU point D1lues
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Ey the Associated Press.
Faced with declining meat
supplies, and with the civilian
supply of sugar, butter and COM
mercially canned fruits and veg
etables at the lowest point since
the war began, the Office of Price
Administration was preparing
today to inaugurate. a new food
distribution program tonight at
midnight, when canned vege-
tables 60 back on the rationing
list.
Butter and sugar also will be
under tighter restrictions and meats
heretofore excepted will be put
back under rationing regulations
Sunday,
The OPA, announcing the pro-
gram last night, said that no civilian
food crisis exists-that there is
ample food for all" OPA Admin
istrator Bowles explained that the
move was designed to insure every
one a fair share of scarce items.
Butter Jumps to "a Points.
Things that the housewife will
want to remember about these latest
changes affecting her shopping day
are:
A rise in red point value of butter
from 20 to "a points a pound.
| That about IS per cent of all
meats will be placed under ration
ing beginning next Sunday.
| That canned vegetables which
will require points are peas, corn,
green and wax beans, asparagus and
spinach, in addition to tomatoes,
which already are on the ration
| list.
That all red and blue stamps
which became good before Decem-
Der l and all sugar stamps and
homecoming certificates except
No. "a are Cancelled.
Five new red stamps-T5 through
X5-and five blue-C2 through ca
will be validated next SUNDAY.
Values in both cases viii remain
at 10 points each. No new sugar
stamps will be validated until Feb
ruary l.
Sugar Cut to Be Felt.
Restaurants, hotels, boarding
houses and institutions will feel the
cut in the use of sugar, effective
next Monday.
The reduction will be 10 per cent
for users who do their own baking
and Is per cent for those who do
not. A reduced allowance for in
dustrial users was announced ear
lier.
The four-week point allowance In
meat will be cut from go to so per
person, while the sugar quota of 5
pounds per person will be stretched
from 10 weeks to three months.
The blue point quota of so per per-
son will continue through January.
Meat stamps worth total of so
points per person will be validated
in January, compared with 80 in
December because about IS per cent
of the civilian meat supply will be
rationed compared to about 81 per
cent now
Explaining why broadened meat
ratloning is necessary, the OPA said
1t is estimated consumers, at pres
ent high-income levels. would buy
160 to ITO pounds of meat per person,
If available, during 1945, compared
to the 126 pounds per person they
consumed on the average in the
1859 period"
127 Pounds Per Person.
The prospect now is that only
about l27 pounds per person will be
available in 1945.
The statement also said that:
| Butter supplies for civilians re-
Gently have been at the lowest point
| during the war-will be less in 1945
than in 1914.
Sugar stocks are low in manv
places-it is estimated there will
be no more than 100000 tons avail
with about 100000 tons consumed
in 1914.
Ration coupons for no more than
/ 100000 tons of sugar can be
issued for home SCANNING in the ie45
season, compared with ration stamps
and coupons issued for 1,150.o0 tons
/ in 1914
!! Values established for vegetables:
Asparagus, No. 2 can, 10 blue points;
green or wax beans, No. 2, 10: vac
uum-packed whole kernel corn, I2-
ounce can, 20: all corn. except vac