War needs to take more canned fish ; Lard, fat situations eased

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Office of DistrilDution

Marketing Reports Division BULLETIN
821 Market Street, Room 700

Saix Francisco 3, California No, 25

' I WAR ITESDS TO TAKE

Vv < i'^KS CAlTil3D FISH

pesef^ SAN FF^'CISCO, June 20 Civilians will get 10 percent less canned

sardines, mackerel and herring from the 1944 pack than announced earlier

this year "by the ¥ar Food Administration, due to substantially increased mili'-

tary and other war demands.

The regional VJFA Office of Distri'bution said today that canners must set
aside 55 percent of the three types of fish for government use, instead of
the previous 45 percent. The ruling applies to all fish packed hetv.'een last
June 25 and Fe"bruary 28, 1945. It does not affect previous canning.-

Another provision reserves for governm.ent use 40 percent of all chum
salmon packed betv/een i-iarch 1, 1944 and February 28, 1945. Packers must
continue to set aside 60 percent of all other salmon varieties except steel-
head. Current estimates of the 1944 fish pack indicate the increased govern-
ment '^take" will amount to some 42 million pounds of all types of fish<»

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Lard, fat SITUATIOI^TS SASFD — Harking new gains in a series of improvements in
United States supplies of fats and oils, the ¥ar Food Administration has lifte
restrictions governing. the use of lard by: bakers, and the recovery of glycerin
by soap makers and other processors of f ats ■ and oils*

An amendment to I'/ar Food Order No. 1, announced today by the regional I'JFi
Office of Distribution, permits unlimited use by commercial bakers of all larc
delivered to them between May 15 and September 30, 1944. Use of lard in breac
had previously been lin:ited to three percent of the flour content.

War Food Order No. 33, reouiring recovery of glycerine from all fats
or oils made into soap or split into fatty acids, is now revoked. G-lycerine
supplies now on hand are considered, like lard, to be adeouate for present
military and civilian needs.

b- ! B R.A RY

GUe-R^NT SERSAl Rl€ORD.

■ AUG: -8 -1944