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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1943
Page
2
A compact guide listing point values for processed foods. Effective June 6 1943 and valid through June 7 with included periods into July 7. Includes popular size classifications and point assignments for consumer use.
Warning note explains surrender requirements for Blue Stamps Area and War Ration Book Two Spinach and other colored greens to tomato juice and fruit nectars in No 2 can may fail in 14.02 column. Advises checking label weight and labels for accuracy.
The CPA released a revised official list of point values for processed foods effective Sunday. Tomato juice drops from four to two points per pound, while meat point values rise to four points for beef cuts. Other changes include revised corn and noodle classifications and new starred indicators for updated items.
The summer symphony at Arneson River Theater opens at 2 30 PM Friday conducted by Max Rieter. Program includes Rossi William Tell Overture Mendelssohn Andante and Finale with soloist Jor tsep Gallo plus Malaguena and selections from The Merry Widow.
London June 4 The Spanish destroyer Melita returned to its base at El Ferro after a fruitless 24 hour search for possible survivors from the Spanish airliner shot down over the Bay of Biscay Nearly a half million people will be asked in a Want Ad message placed in the Chronicle before them if they plate at inn Among the 17 persons aboard the ill fated passenger list was actor PITH for ad writer Producer Leslie Honarst
The San Antonio Post War Planning Group elected permanent chairman James J. Jordan vice chairman J Tiner secretary Bb Téchirc hart and assistant secretary Frank Brady at a Friday meeting in the city council chamber. The group will work on post war projects with the San Antonio Manufacturers Association and the chamber of commerce. A member said other cities have mapped projects and San Antonio is slow to act.
War production controls end the old can while pork and beans return to shelves in a new glass package. Heinz of Pittsburgh cites WPB limits on tinplate, noting baked beans paused though British factory expanded. He argues beans are cheap, nutritious, and widely bought by working people amid federal restrictions.
Washington reports the OPA scrapped a six page memo that regulated desk space from stenographers to top executives fearing public misunderstanding and ridicule. The memo would have labeled each drawer with specialized names and functions and prescribed compartmental use. Workers sought copies as souvenirs amid the reversal and a magazine promo appears in the American Weekly.
War department reports two more San Antonians held by Japanese forces Pfc. Elmer Bowers and Pfc. Henry Dominguez, both listed as prisoners. Cpl. Faustino Betancourt also cited as a prisoner with Mrs. Gertrude Guerrero of Durango street. Pfc. Frank Pastel of Mercedes listed wounded in North Africa. Also six San Antonians named Thursday as German prisoners in Jap internment, with names including Herbert Childs and Albert L. Taylor.
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