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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1943
Page
3
The article explains new community ceiling prices for groceries in over 130 marketing areas under OPA rules. It urges housewives to clip city lists, track weekly costs, and report overcharges to the War Price and Rationing Board by writing with dealer details.
OPA guidance explains ceiling prices for groceries vary by marketing area based on wholesale costs and competition. Meat ceilings will soon cover beef veal lamb and mutton to curb black markets while pork ceilings are in effect. Officials urge housewives to report ceiling price violations and embrace Victory Foods like carrots peas and cabbage to ensure affordable nutrition amid surpluses and rising egg market scrutiny.
Guilford County transfers list multiple High Point parcels and nearby townships. Transfers include L A Pegg to B L Haney on Chandler Street and D Kennedy to Dr A A York at 300 Oak Avenue. City of High Point to Gertrude Hughes English with 13 lots in Fannie Englie n plat. Additional deeds feature J W Johnson to B F Johnson four lots, J Hice to Bernard D Sutton, Lena Mae Moffitt to W R Scearce adjoining Elder, and Pomona Heights lots in Morehead Township. Roy Burger et al to Colon A Hill on Pinecroft Road. S G Pearman to J W Bennett, cemetery area near Mt Pisgah church. Annis Edwards to Albert S McAdoo adjoining Arthur Horner proximity works.
In 1942 WPB cut frills across products from hairpins to industrial power trucks saving 600000 tons of steel 17000 tons of copper and enough man hours to build 23 Liberty ships. Brass ferrules disappeared from pencils freeing copper for 126000 machine gun cartridges as German auto repairers mix parts from multiple makes in assembling a two car.
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