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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1943
Page
4
Betty MacDonald reports on rationing and point values amid wartime controls. The Wer Ration Board adjusts tomato juice and beet points, prompting families to change purchases and rely on coupons as experts analyze the system.
The April civilian consumption fell about 30 percent short of the desirable level prompting May point reductions to boost buying. OPA set June values at 2 points per pound as movement plans aim to spread supply. adjustments depend on overall civilian stock, upcoming movement, and actual buying. Six agencies subtract military needs from the total pack to estimate supply, accounting for weather, labor, and price factors.
NEA reporter Harlow Church describes the closing of relocation camps as the War Relocation Authority plans gradual liquidation. The piece notes segregation efforts, migration outside camps, and job placement with the U.S. Employment Service, plus agricultural, industrial, and training progress at Poston and Gila River centers in Arizona. Major entities include War Relocation Authority, Poston, Gila River camp, and FBI intake.
The article describes how the Office of Price Administration aggregates data from the Consumer Panel with 3000 American families, the Wartime Food Diary, and the National Food Brokers Association surveys plus wholesale stock reports. These figures inform point value changes as OPA begins analysis.
Washington AP reports the War Production Board orders newspapers to curb newsprint use. Papers must limit orders for August delivery and hold only an eighty day supply. The thirty to sixty day inventory cap applies across 26 states north of North Carolina and east of the Rocky Mountains.
A home maker and husband held an important job this year producing food to aid the armed forces and feed their family. The piece stresses home canning and storage, with drying and freezing as methods to ensure year round diets from home gardens. The FRA and Commodity Credit Corporation with state war boards promote this nationwide program.
Montgomery AP reports Ron Vansant of the Farm Security Administration announced the addition of 2,152 fine-blooded dairy cows from the Midwest to Alabama Georgia Florida and South Carolina to boost milk production for war industries and camps. An additional 1,752 milk cows helpers and calves in the region bring total head to 3,004 with most helpers sent to Georgia Alabama and South Carolina Piedmont areas. Cattle arrive under the dairy animal conservation program of the Department of Agriculture and were distributed to areas of acute milk shortage including Mobile and Atlanta.
A farmer testified that Judge and J Ewestring faced a foe named Sypaies in a dispute over hogs and harness. He said the parties promised to double their investments amid the conflict.
AP report describes anglers advised to use Upstickh bait coated with Lipstick in orange red for greyling or perch and pink for dee with plans to test primreee Jer i Teach later in the year.
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