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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
8
The War Department announces soldiers can obtain National Service Life Insurance up to 10 000 dollars before midnight August 10. Beneficiaries receive payments in monthly installments.
The War Food Administration announced certificates of service for 3 500 000 workers on farms and in canning and other food processing plants. The certificates will be presented for patriotic service and bear signatures of Chester C. Davis, Paul V. McNutt, and the state director of agricultural extension in each state.
Poultry raisers must charge OPA maximums set for nearest city or town. Ceiling prices issued for 56 cities list broilers fryers roosters and light capons from 27.5 cents per pound in Chicago to 29.51 cents per pound in Miami Florida. New court actions number 88 target poultry racketeers.
Between April 15 and April 30 the OPA intensified its crackdown on poultry black markets. Of 88 actions, 72 were injunction suits and 16 criminal prosecutions, with 15 poultry sellers receiving statutory warnings as a precursor to possible license revocation.
Production will rise by about 220 million yards annually without extra facilities or raw materials. Fabrics will be lighter and less tightly woven yet serviceable for military and civilian needs during the war period.
The Communications Division of the Office of War Utilities says dry cell batteries are available for rural telephone service support. Distributors may obtain them by submitting Form PD IX to the Wholesale and Retail Trade Division of the War Production Board.
WPB orders drastic limits on luggage design and size with effect after July 1. All leather is banned for the duration, and substitutes like canvas cotton duck other fabrics and wood will be used.
United States soldiers overseas receive over 20,000,000 pieces of mail weekly, averaging fourteen pieces per soldier. This volume is four times the peak AEF mail. twenty percent of overseas mail is V-mail.
The War Food administration announces a new program under the Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase pasture and forage seeds including blue lupine white clover wild winter peas Kobe Lespedeza and Sericea Lespedeza for farmers.
Homeowners may obtain sewer connections by having the municipal authority issue a letter to WPB certifying proper authorization. The letter states underground work will cost under 1500 dollars and above ground construction under 500 dollars, and itself acts as authorization to connect.
Revised OPA rules will lower farmer costs through a new feed markup schedule from 5.50 to 10.00 per ton, replacing a flat 7.50. Wholesale ceilings fix sausage prices for bologna frankfurters and smoked varieties, about 60 percent of sausage sales, with retailer cents-per-pound prices to follow.
War work for women expands to hundreds of essential jobs in stores, restaurants, laundries, offices and hospitals. Butter and cheese allocations for May to July set for government use, with prior shares in place since February. The Office of Civilian Requirements, new in WPB, supersedes the Office of Civilian Supply to provide civilians with essential goods and services.
War Food Administration allows processors to put 25 percent chicory in consumer coffee packages due to rising demand amid rationing. Civilian hospitals program expands with 260 new or expanded facilities since 1942, adding 7,000 beds while civilian war-area shortages approach 14,000 beds.
Chester C. Davis states farm machinery and supply conditions are improving as WPB is urged to authorize 9530 more combines 4460 corn pickers and 2000 pickup balers for 1944. Agriculture plans include idle equipment revival and reallocations, with 1.80 soybeans price support and urgent bean marketing.
A vintage ad promotes DeLaval separators Zenith electric radios economy range stores roof paint lawn chairs and Armstrong and Congoleum felt base bugs. Customers are urged to buy heating items on lay away plans.
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