Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 17, DeMotte, Jasper County, 21 March 1947 — SUGAR RATIONING EXTENSION URGED [ARTICLE]

SUGAR RATIONING EXTENSION URGED

Washington, March 10 The House banking and currency committee declared today that termination of sugar rationing and price control at this time “might result in excessive price increased” . In a report to the House, the committee recommended that both he continued until . Oct. 31, 1047, under the administration of the secretary of agriculture, instead of the OP A. - In urging enactment of an extension bill, the committee said that if controls ended now "the housewife would be |it a disadvantage of having to bid against the industrial user for the available short supply.” The bill is slated to be taken lip by the House Friday. It also Authorizes the secretary of agriculture to exorcism inventory controls until March 31, PUS. Under existing law, the allocatirin of sugar wound end March 31, while price control would terminate .June 30.