The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-07
WATERBURY DEMOCRAT WATERBURY CONN. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER o6
OPA Raises Retail Meot 3 3-4-o-Pound
 Price Ceilings
 To Go in Effect
 On Tuesday

'OP.A. announced new retail meat ceilings averaging 3% cents pound higher than those of June 30.
 The new ceilings will go into ef- feet Tuesday, instead of Monday as previously planned. This will give O.P.A. another day to distribute new meat price posters to butchers. There has not been any price control on meat since June 30.
 The average increase on those cuts of beef for which prices were raised is eight cents pound.
 Lamb Cuts Up Highest
 O.P.A. increased the price of 95 percent of all retail lamb and mutt ton cuts. The new lamb prices av- craze 10 cents pound higher than June 30 prices. Mutton is about four cents pound higher.
 Increases on the better pork cuts average seven to eight cents 8 pound higher. Here again, not all pork is increased, so that O.PA. placed the average increase for all pork at about four cents.
 Retail ceilings on lard will be 5h cents pound higher than the June 30 ceilings.
 Veal cuts and sausages are return ed to June 30 ceilings.
 O.P.A. said that the new ceilings on canned meat, lard and shorten ing will go into effect Monday, as planned.
 Choice Cuts Higher
 In general, the meat price in- creases are higher on the choicer cuts. Most of the increases in beef prices were for the two top grades, A and A.
 Using Chicago ceilings as an ex- ample, O.P.A. listed the following new retail prices:
 Porterhouse steak, 63 cents a pound;
 Round steak, 54 centY
 Rib Roast, 46 cents;
 Chuck roast, 38 cents;
 Stew beef, 40 cents.
 LAMB:
 Loin chops, IT cents;
 Shoulder chops, 53 cents;
 Leg of lamb, 53 cents.
 PORK:
 Loin chops, 45 cents;
 Canadian bacon, 81 centsS
 Sliced bacon, 46 cents;
 Spare ribs, 28 cents;
 Fatback, g cents.
 Prices at New York and San Fran cisco generally are two to three cents higher than at Chicago.
 The higher retail price ceilings re. suit from an Aug. 28 directive by Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson begging Chicago livestock ceilings at $20.25 hundred pounds on cattle and $16.25 on hogs.
 He also ordered a ceiling that would reflect $19 top on dressed lambs.
 Two Ceilings In Effect
 These ceilings were $40 higher a hundred pounds on hogs and $2 25 higher on cattle than the June 30 ceilings.
 The livestock and packers ceilings went into effect Sept. l. Wholesale ceilings went into effect Thursday. They are 9 cents a hundredweight higher across the board than the June 90 ceilings.
 O.P.A. is printing price lists of the new ceilings, which it hopes to have In the hands of retail butchers by Monday. It now appears, however. that one more day is needed to com plete distribution to all meat count CTS of the country, O.P.A. said.
 For that reason the new meat prices go into effect Tuesday rather than Monday.
 Meat Supply Dwindles
 The new meat ceilings were an- nounced as government and industry spokesman predicted that the live. stock supply will be very low for the next two months. The National Livestock Association warned that the supply will be practically dried up" for the next 60 days.
 An O.P.A. spokesman said there VIII be shortage of cattle in Sep- tember and October because virtual ly all the feeder cattle already have been marketed by feeders taking ad- vantage of high prices while controls were not in effect.
 O.P.A. hopes to distribute the snort supply of meat as equitably as possible. It has put quotas on both Federally-inspected and non-Feder- ally-1nspected slaughterers. These quotas are designed to spread the supply more evenly over the coun- try. The quotas are 90 percent of the 1914 kill on cattle and calves and 70 percent on hogs.
 The O.P.A. also detailed 2,5OO in- spectors to combat the return of the black market. They have discovered big supplies of meat in New York, Chicago, and other cities apparent ly being held for sale at fancy prices