The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1945-04-13
No Applications For Home
Canning Sugar Before 18th

Local War Price and Rationing
Boards will not be able to accept appli-
cations for homecoming sugar be-
fore April Is, it was announced today
by John E. Robinson, Jr., Cincinnati
OPA District Director, as he appeal
ed to the public to be patient and not
to call the local boards.
Reports from local War Price and
Rationing Boards indicated that they
were being deluged with calls from
consumers inquiring about canning
sugar applications and from local coal
dealers interested in obtaining the
consumer declarations for obtaining
next winters coal supply.
There has been delay in printing
the forms for coal dealers, Director
Robinson was advised, and they will
be forwarded as soon as they are
printed OPA has no function in con-
nection with the coal program except
to distribute the forms to the dealers
in each community. They will call for
the forms at the board and get them to
their customers to encourage early
buying of coal for next winter.
An all day OPA Consumers Con-
ference will be held in Cincinnati at
the Gibson Hotel under the auspices
of the Consumers Advisory Commit
tee of the Cincinnati District, April
80.
DR.. Esther Cole Franklin, Chairman
of the National OPA Consumers Ad-
visory Committee will be the chief
speaker for the conference. Various
phases of the program including ra-
tioning, rent control and price con-
troll will be discussed.
Methods to be used by retailers in
preparing their pricing charts under
the new retail regulation have been
revised to eliminate the use of mark
down prices that may have been Of
fered to customers on the base day,
the Office of Price Administration an
nounced today. The regulation COW
ers retailers of most textiles, apparel,
furniture and house furnishings.
The regulation (Maximum Price
Regulation 5SO), originally issued on
March 20, 1915, requires retailers to
list on the charts their prices for
goods offered for sale on the base
day, March 10. Each offering price
is to be listed opposite the net cost
at which the retailer purchased the
article from his supplier. On and
after April 20, 1945, the deadline for
filing pricing charts with OPA Dis
trict Office, the retailer prices each
piece of merchandise according to
mark-ups derived from his chart. This
has the effect of freezing his mark
ups as of March 10.
An amendment issued today permits
the seller, in preparing the chart, to
substitute his original offering prices
for any markdown prices at which he
was offering items on March 10. The
seller must, however, indicate on his
chart, by the letter "M", original Of
fering prices that have been substitut-
ed for offering prices of March 19.
The amendment also privides that if a
seller is unable to ascertain the origi-
nal offering price for an item he has
marked down, he may ignore the item
in preparing the chart. Of course,
even though such an item is ignored
in preparing the chart, it's ceiling price
must be determined under the chart
after April 20.
The action is being taken, OPA ex-
planned, to prevent discrimination
against particular sellers that might
arise from the provisions of the regu-
lation as they now stand.