Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1943 — Page 3
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EVERYONE BETS.
STAMP-GROGEY |
I's a Big Job for "Local
- Grocers to Keep Up On
Ration Records.
By HELEN RUEGAMER Red stamps, white stamps, blue stamps—they're the OPA’s brain‘child, the housewife’s treasure, and ‘the grocer’s nightmare. Almost overnight the ration stamps took away the alnfighty dolllar’s long-standing prestige, and bearing the ‘brunt of the complicated transition are the nation’s ' grocers. 2 Local grocers now are handling thousands of the red, white and blue pieces of paper daily in addition to dollars and cents. When it comes to sorting and counting the new money, the figures are staggering. In a ration period of one month, Indianapolis’ 1000 grocery stores do a business of around 57,860,000 points and handle practically 15,500,000 stamps. *
Some Use Baskets
To provide for their daily intake of ration coupons, the grocers are. using everything from paper bags to bushel baskets. Some sort. the stamps according to color and point value as they go, using partitioned cigar ' boxes. Others resignedly dump them in g bushel basket and wait for a day of reckoning later in the week. One man just shoves his under the counter and spends -several hours each night counting and figuring, while another takes ‘his home and with his wife and two boys spends Saturday nights on the job. In some larger stores, one or two employees do nothing but take care of the coupons. Delivery truck drivers, running two and three hours behind schedule, come in with their pockets stuffed.
Deposited in Bank
And after the grocer finishes his part of the job the bundles of stamps go to the wholesaler or to the bank to be deposited in his ration-bank account. There, after 30 days, the coupons are “destroyed. When asked about his method, one
Post- War LC Days: Promise’, - Big Boom in Television
By BETTY MaéDONALD Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, April 16. —Peeking around .the corner into a peaceful post-war world, WPB experts see production of teleck ty radio sets duplicating the spectacular growth of the auto business after world war I. They figure vision table models will sell at $300, de-luxe sets at $600. W; e research for the army is aiding television possibilities. The WPB ruling affecting manufacture of insignia doesn’t apply to that: college - institution, the fraternity pin. Metal experts at WPB say that most of the pins are made of gold, and gold isn’t limited. So the Greek-letter boys and girls will have their pins the same as before. ° » ” : # . Cockerel Campaign : Department of agriculture men are sponsoring a victory Leghorn cockerel | campaign among backyard poultry enthusiasts. They urge chicken raisers to keep : : Be their roosters for broilers. Commercial firms" use the heavier breeds such as Rhode Island Reds, for meaf, but Leghorn cock-
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Home of Tomorrow
Architects are, dreaming, already, of postu homes as produced, with moth-resistant rugs, termite-resistant wood, nylon screens that don’t rust, ‘plywood bathtubs, flame-proofed drapes, and of course, air conditioning. Time will come, they claim, when you can buy | a new room, at around $500, just like you buy a new "ear. » 8 ® : » ” 8
House Care
- Quick-drying varnishes, shellac and enamels for doing over your kitchen or porch won't be available any more, so take good care of your home. Paint brushes, too, are a war casualty, because the good Chinese pig bristles aren’t arriving any more, and you'll have to make the best of whatever you have on hand. 2 8 = : * x = Odds 'N Ends : ; Snake skin, gold and silver-colored leather are unfrozen for shoe manufacture. . . . If you're ill and need extra ration points, have your physician sign an application for you. ... C stamps are good through April for rationed foods. . . . An additional 75,000,000 pounds of wool is available for civilians this year.
erels, though smaller, are tine for wartime menus on the home
propriation bill.
it,” while a cheerful gentleman reported that it wasn’t so bad “if you know how.” But he wouldn't divulge his method. Unable to weather the OPAbrewed storm of ration stamps, about
requested “Let’s just not talk about
10 per cent of the local grocers, in-
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U.S. ‘Food: Officials Call on . All Consumers to Join ~ Battle.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Special Writer : ‘WASHINGTON, April 16. — The
tee has voted to kill the FSA. Spokesmen for the “emergency committee for food production” today
test of President Roosevelt's “hold- | that-lne” policy, and called on con- | - sumers everywhere to join the battle | against, further inflation of food prices. "Charges by some of its opponents that FSA’is “communistic” were denied by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. L. G. Ligutti, executive. secretary of the National Catholic Rural Life conference and a member of the emergency committee.
Attend Farm Bureau
At a press confrence presided over by Msgr. Ligutti and Courtenay; Dinwiddie of the nations} child labor committee, who is secretary of the emergency committee, the American Farm Bureau federation was. assailed for efforts to raise farm prices. Meantime, on Capitol Hill, the house rules committee twice rejected attempts by the appropriations committee to obtain a rule which wquld have prevented challenge from the house floor of the proposal to shift certain FSA fungtions to the farm credit administration and abolish the remainder of FSA by refusing funds for its operation. . The rules committee insisted that such a proposal is “legislative” and hence vulnerable to a point of order against its inclusion in an ap-
Senate May Investigate
It was considered likely today that, the land purchase program of FSA ‘would be retained in the house, despite the =fforts of the Farm Bureau federation and the appropriations committee to kill it. A fight would then made in the senate to restore the FSA rehabilitationloan and supervisory funds. So intense has pressure become that there is talk of a senate investigation of Farm Bureau tactics,
tivities of President Edward A. O'Neal, _Rep. Malcolm C. Tarver (D. Ga.) lof the appropriations committee, denounced the effort to abolish FSA in an appropriation. He told the house: “I am not willing, as far as I am concerned, to let the Farm Bureau federation write this bill for me. Yet I am frank to say that the Farm Bureau federation, with -re-
‘versial items, has been all-powerful in the consideration of the pending bill.”
Charges O'Neal Not Representative
At the emergency committee press conference, Msgr. Ligutti charged that the Farm Bureau federation, under Mr. O'Neal's leadership, was not representing the rank and file of its own membership. “Many state farm bureaus are for FSA,” he said, “and certainly the farmers, who fear inflation as much as do city residents, do not want to join in this move to bring it about.” One of the state bureaus to which Msgr. Ligutti might have been referring is Indiana’s. Hassil E. Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, Inc., told The Indianapolis Times on Tuesday that he had found little wrong with the administration of FSA in Indiana. Mr. Dinwiddie said large landowners wanted to drive FSA-aided farmers back into the class of tenants and hired hands. He said this would retard production of the most-needed wartime foods.
Rationing Dates
Sugar Coupon 12 good for five pounds through May 31. Gasoline . ‘A book—coupon 5 good through
May 21. Fuel Oil
Coupon 5 must last until Sept. 30 for heat and hot water.
Canned Goods Blue Stamps D, E and F good through April 30. ;
Shoes
Coupon 4) good for one pair through June 15.
Meat Z
Red stamps A, B and C good; D
becomes good April 18. These expire April 30. Red stamp E be- | comes good April 25. . Coffee : Stamp 26 good for 1 pound: through April 25. : . Tires Second inspection deadline: A book vehicles by Sept. 30; Bs by June 30; Cs by May 31; cdbmmercial vehicles every 60 days or 5000 miles, whichever is first. ~ .
C. I. 0. TO BARGAIN
AT NGERSOLL STEEL
NEW CASTLE, fad April 16 (U. P.). ~The CIO will be the bargaining ‘agent for the Ingersoll | steel and disc division of the BorgEe ound
said retention of the FSA was the
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