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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1943
Page
8
Wartime food rules define home canned items as those prepared in kitchens or separate farm outbuildings with approval from the local ration board. New meat rules let farmers and their households use farm meat without ration points if they live on the farm, with changes for nonresidents. Also clarified are employee meals in bunkhouses and APO mail procedures for soldier packages.
Sugar for home canning is limited to one pound per four quarts and up to 25 pounds per person. Families may apply for sugar for jams, jellies, and preserves at five pounds per person. Farm butter may have lower point value under OPA meat fats rules due to perishability. Overseas parcel post returns, freight rates cut, and other wartime measures accompany fuel, textile, and agricultural guidance.
OPA investigators head to major shipping centers and about 30 principal terminal markets to stamp out black market potato activity. Early crop country shipper prices range from 2.40 to 2.50 a hundredweight in the South and Southwest, with Florida set at 3.10. Some arrests have already been made.
Selective Service headquarters warned registrants who were 18 on or before November 13, 1942 to carry both their local board Form 57 classification card and Form 2 registration certificate after May 13. Men lacking either card face fines and imprisonment.
The Office of Price Administration reduces maximum prices for processed hams and picnic hams, allows one third of a ham to be sold in slices, and adjusts food rationing. New gas ration hearings discuss local rules. WPB notes ribbon spool shortages and substitute materials. Eastern Missouri to receive fuel oil ration coupons by mail with a simplified form and phased summer tank filling. Rationing to continue in winter states with no stated expansion beyond them.
The U S Department of Agriculture urges livestock and poultry raisers to conserve feeds, especially high protein varieties, as feed manufacturers voluntarily limit production and distribution to manage supplies.
Price and rationing boards will conduct hearings to revoke gasoline rations if a motorist is charged with speeding over 35 miles an hour or abuse of tires. Also if an applicant for a new ration is believed guilty of a prior violation or a ration holder charged with a violation requests the return of his book before notice of hearing.
Beginning late May or early June Bryan said, each household, apartment houses, hotels and all heating oil users will receive renewal application forms to be returned at once for June mail rations. Emergency fuel oil rations of 50 gallons are no longer available after April 30.
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