Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 July 1944 — Page 14

PAGE 14 WARTIME LIVING—

~~ Dealers Seek Highest Price ~ For Mixed Quality Fruits

By ANNE

” Scripps-Héward Stat Writer WASHINGTON, July 13.—Calamity in the fruit market is being | predicted by both sides to a controversy going on in office of price admithistration. ;

Grass will be growing in the fruit stands, wholesale fruit sellers predict, unless they are allowed by OPA to make “tie-in”sales by which buyers are forced to take poorer quality fruit along with choice fruit.

If “tie-in” sales are legalized, you'll be paying top prices for poorest quality fruit, price enforcement will be impossible and it will be a beginning for the same wide - open policy on vegetables and other foods, protests OPA consumer advisory committee, made up of %. men representing the homefolks, and labor policy committee made up of labor representatives. The regulation being considered would legalize “tie-in” sales on apples, apricots, cherries, cantaloupes, citrus fruit, grapes, peaches, pears, plums, Italian prunes, and watermelons.

Midsummer is marked by & trees and shrubs.

when the northern witch-hazel appears with its show of yellow

with only the’ goldenrain tree (koelreuteria Paniculata) with showy panicles of golden yellow, and the sweet bay or swamp laurel (magnolia glauca) showing her fragrant cups of soft, creamy white. The late honeysuckle (lonicera maachii-podocarpa)-with its large snowy flowers, the shrubby cinquefoil (potentilla fruiticosa in variety) which freely produces strawberry-like flowers of ‘yellow or white, the golden St. Johnsworts (hypericum in variety), the purple flowering raspberry (rubus odoratus), the New Jersey tea (ceanothus americanus), a shadetolerant, low-growing shrub bearing clusters of white flowers, the blue flowered lead plant (amorpha canescens), wild senna (cassia marilandica), a shrubby perennial with bright yellow flowers, the false spireas (sorbaria in variety), the feathery-leaved, rosecolored tamarisks (tamarix in variety), the shrubby althea or rose of Sharon (hibiscus syriaous), with single, semi-double and double hollyhock-like flowers of

Mr. Pree

Wholesalers |it takes more sugar to put up unpoint out that they pay ceiling | peeled fruit, but canners feel the prices by the .carload to growers 'labor-saving is worth it.

YOUR VICTORY GARDEN—

Shrubs Provide Flowers That Withstand Dry Heat

By HENRY L. PREE Bcripps-Howard Staff Writer

However, flowering shrubs. will supplement or enhance the beauty of the flower border. Careful selection of material gives almost uninterrupted succession of bloom from the opening of the curious burnished gold flowers of cvernal witch-hazel in January and February, through to November

STEVICK

tor all sizes of fruit, but can’t get ceiling prices for low quality fruit |unless they “ration” it to buyers {with sales of better fruit. OPA pricers point out that fruit mark-ups were set high enough {for smaller sizes to be sold below | [ceiling without ruining the whole-| lsaler's carload profit. Wholesalers

f say it can't be done with present |

ricing methods. Outcome will {probably be that youll be buying |fruit as usual, with a compromise] ‘arrangement to avoid predicted | catastrophes. Infant's shoes, size 42 to 8, are going to get special attention in forthcoming production schedules |even if other shoe making has to be cut down. . . . You'll see more icans of whole unpeeled apricots this year. Packers are getting a special hand-out of sugar because

gradual cessation of bloom among

blue flowered chaste trees (vitex agnus-castus and V. negundo incisa), not trees at all but bushy gray-leaved shrubs to provide a delightful touch to the shrub border, Especially recommended too | are hypericum kalmianum and H. patulum heuryl, two glorious golden St. Johnsworts which will withstand considerable shade and | dry soil conditions and still con- { tinue to bloom throughout the | Summer. They bear large yellow flowers not unlike a single rose. |

July 13, 1944

DR. BRISCOE IS BACK

. Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. July 13.— Dr. Herman T. Briscoe, who has been serving the war manpower commission in Washington, has returned to his post at Indiana university as academic vice president. Dean Briscoe served as associate director of the manpower commission’s bureau of training, and as chief of the bureau's professional and technical division. Although he will devote his full time to the university, Dean Briscoe will remain as a consultant to the commission's training bureau.

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