Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1950-09-29
BIS Statistics Shows
Food Prices Increasing

COLUMBUS, OHIO - Food prices in Columbus continued
IN increase during September according to the average retail
prices as compiled by the Ohio Department of Industrial Rela.
tions acting in cooperation with the United States Bureau of
Housewives paid higher prices for % out of 40 foods dur
ing mid September, according to preliminary averages released
today by Albert A. Woldman, state Director OF Industrial Reia-
Largest increase was noted in pink salmon that went up s8
cents, to an average of 5l2 cents. Other noticeable jumps in the
costs of foods were: Fresh green beans, up 80 cents to an average
of 1873 cents per pound; leg of lamb went up ~ cents u an
Other increases are: pork chops, up "a cents to an average
of 81 cents per pound; oranges, size 200, up "a cents to an aver
age of 4S7 cents per pound; coffee, up 2s cents to n average OF
848 cents per pound; salt pork, up 81 cents to an average OF 366
cents per pound and rib roast, up 2 cents to an average Oh ~
Fresh eggs which showed the largest increase during mid
August rose less than a cent in the mid September prcings. Pink
salmon and coffee both rose noticeably in the mid-September
averages as they did during August.
Four items remained unchanged In the latest tabulauons,
corn meal, rolled oats, delivered milk and dried navy beens.
In the August pricings dropped 2 cents during mid September.
Seventeen food items decreased in the mid-september re-.
port, the same number that dropped in mid-August. Fourteen OF
the IT items dropped less than Ia cents.
Largest decrease was in fresh potatoes, going down 14s
cents In the mid August report potatoes dropped over ID cents.
Four out of six dairy products checked, increased during the
cent in the averages, and fresh delivered milk remained without
change. Butter was up / cent; cheese rose IL cents; evaporated
milk, up a cent, and fresh eggs up 8 cent.
pineapple, up l cent; corn, up 9 cent; peas, up 5 cent and tomatoes
In the fresh fruit and vegetable group, eight items dropped
and three rose, as compared to mid-August when nine decreased
and only two items rose. Increases were found in green beans,
up 80 cents, oranges, up "a cents and carrots by the bunch up
3 cent.
showed increases and five dropped during mid-september. Rises
were found in rib and chuck roasts, pork chops, sliced bacon
salt pork, leg of lamb and pink salmon.
Average prices dropped for round steak, down cent; ham
burger. down IL cents; veal outlets, down i cent; whole ham,
down 2 cent; and fryers, dressed and drawn, down 20 cents.
Sugar dropped 2 cent in the mid-September report refecting
a considerable change from mid-August when it rose 80 cents.
This may be accounted for by the intensive efforts of national
business, labor, and governmental leaders to encourage house
wives 10 stop buying food in large quantities.
In charge of the Columbus tabulations for the BIS is Robert
X. Pnschmidt, chief of the Division of Labor Statistics of the
Ohio Department of Industrial Relations.
Pinschmidt pointed out that the state tabulated prices are
preliminary, and that final price tabulations are published and
released by the BIS in its monthly publication, "Retail Food
Prices by Cities" copies Of which may be obtained from Adoph
o. Berger, Director, Chicago Regional Office, u. S. Bureau Of
Labor Statistics, Chicago, Illinois.
The food prices are collected by trained field agents of the
u. S Bureau of Labor Statistics from a sample of the retail food
stores of Columbus. The Bureaus agents use standard descrip-
tons for the quality and size of each food for which prices are
obtained.