Evening star., 1945-08-08
Farley Set 10 Seek
Relief for Restaurant
Meat and Butter Crisis

Some relief for hard pressed res
taurants operators who claim there
is plenty of meat and butter availa-
BILE but no red points, may be forth
coming as result of a meeting
planned later this week between
OPA officials and its Industry Ad-
visory Committee.
Mr.. Mccullough, OPA deputy di-
rector for rationing, agreed to a.
conference at the close of Senate
Small Business Subcommittee hear
ing yesterday. George r. LIE Sau-
wage, chairman of the OPA National
Restaurant Advisory Committee and
president of the National ReStau-
rant Association, said he would
summon a subcommittee for the
conference.
Restaurateurs from several States
testified yesterday hundreds Of eat
ing places throughout the country
would be forced to close in the COM
ing weeks or would go into the black
market.
Black Market Prices Given.
The hearing was enlivened by
testimony of Bayard Evans, operator
of Evans Coffee Shop in Arlington,
who listed prices being asked in the
black market here for foods.
Mr.. Evans listed these black mar
ket prices: Steak, $1.50 a pound:
turkey, 81 a pound; duck, rs cents
a pound; chicken, So cents to 81
pound; bluefish, so cents a pound;
mackerel, As cents a pound; oysters,
IS gallon, and tomatoes, So a
bushel.
"You mean these prices are being
asked in Washington" questioned
Senator Stewart.
Yes, and I can give you the
phone numbers II you want 'them,"
Mr.. Evans replied.
Mr.. Evans said the 20 per cent cut
In ration points ordered by the OPA
on July /, in some cases, actually
amounted to as much as 40 per cent.
'If we continue the way we are, we
will have to close or 60 into the
black market" he added.
Points at $50 per 10000.
Mr.. LIE Savage, who testified that
red points were being offered the
trade at $50 per 10000, asked for
stricter enforcement to eliminate
black markets, simplification Of OPA
orders and q review by OPA of res
taurant rationing conditions.
Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of
Wyoming suggested that local
boards be permitted to grant relief
to restaurants instead of having to
refer the matter to Washington,
where, he said, 'it bogs down."
William Bradford, secretary of
the Southern California Restaurant
Association, said 832 of 5,058 res
taurants In that area had closed
A general black market situation
exists, he said, including fish and
poultry.
Belief that go per cent of the
II 900 restaurants in Wisconsin must
close or go into black-market opera
tions unless relief is provided before
the end of the month came from
Elmer Conforti, secretary of the
Wisconsin Restaurant Association.
Plenty Of butter and cheese as we'll
as meat" is available in the State,
he said.
Detroit Cafes Menaced.
Lynes D. Boomer of the Detroit
Board Of Commerce said surveys In
dicated eight out of every TO- res
taurants in that city would be forced
to close soon unless point allocations
are restored to the pre-July basis.
Nicholas Kostapolus, Portsmouth,
Va, estimated 200 of the 1000 res
taurants In the Portsmouth Norfolk
area are out Of red points.
Similar situations were described
by Boyd Morris, Greensborough,
N. c.; Elmer Hoelzle, secretary Of
Virginia Restaurant Association; c..
w. Glasgow, Nashville, Tenn; j. j..
Kramer, secretary of the Louisiana
Restaurant Association; Otto Young,
Charleston, w. Va, and Ray Fling,
secretary Of the Michigan Restau-
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