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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1943
Page
3
Beef prices push to new peak as wholesale demand strengthens and cattle supply tightens. Market observers note sustained appetite from processors and retailers, signaling continued pressure on consumer meat costs through the season.
Hogs and beef cattle move to markets in greater volume but this does not signal larger civilian meat rations. Western cattle feed choices depend on cattle prices and feed costs, with expectations of more cattle going to midwestern feedlots. Hog slaughter likely to rise in fall, tied to spring pig crop, while storage capacity could limit civilian rations. War needs and reserves also influence meat availability this year.
The Ware Production Board halts individually boxed cereals as supply runs low, shifting families to larger boxes. Other items such as candy hosiery and knit wear face packaging limits, while the Army adopts lighter boxes to save materials. New bedsprings may drop in price and wooden strollers appear. glycerine access resumes October 1 with continued need for waste fats, and home front pledges rise as vigilance against price violations grows.
In Sausalito Marinship Yard workers displayed painting prowess beyond ship plates while a representative group of canvases gathered at the San Francisco Museum of Art. In Williamsport Lycoming County district attorney Charles Scott Williams responded to a quiz answer praising Francis Scott Key.
William H. White, an expeditor at the Fisher Body bomber plant, lost an arm but keeps a full time war job and farms 54 acres. He handles planting, plowing, harvesting and cares for two cows, two horses and 150 chickens without help.
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