If requested by Commodity Credit Corporation to strap certain lots of canned salmon with three or four straps per case or if asked to transfer salmon from V-3 or 100 point or 90 point solid fibre or commercial cases into V-2 cases, members of the salmon industry should request that their contracts be amended before performing these services. from this Supplement follow: Offer of Sale Form FSC-1873 is hereby supplemented as follows: Excerpts To insert in paragraph (a) Section 1, Prices, in connection with strapping, the following: If the Commodity Credit Corporation requires triple or quadruple strapping, a differential of $0.08 a case for triple strapping and $0.10 a case for To insert as paragraph (d) in Section 1, Prices: (a) If ordered by CCC to recase Canned Salmon into V-2 cases, the applicable above. WFA ANNOUNCES SPECIFICATIONS FOR TOLIATO SAUCE FOR CANNING PILCHARDS Through an oversight, specifications for tomato sauce to be used in packing pilchards were omitted from Announcement AWD-135, the WFA announced on August 11 in issuing Supplement 2 to that announcement. The specifications listed in Supplement 2 are identical with the specifications used for the 1943 pack and are as follows: "When tomato sauce is used, No. 1 oval and No. 300 (300 x 407) cans shall have added at the time of packing not less than 1 oz. of tomato sauce having a specific gravity of not less than 1.06 before the addition of salt and spices, except that tomato sauce of a lower specific gravity may be used provided sufficient additional sauce is added so that the total amount of tomato solids of the lower specific gravity of tomato sauce shall be equal to the total amount of tomato solids in 1 oz. of tomato sauce having a specific gravity of 1.06 before the addition of salt and spices. "There shall be added to a smaller or larger size container an amount of tomato sauce proportionate to that added to the No. 1 size can. "Tomato sauce shall be made from whole ripe tomatoes and may have added salt and spices but no sugar, and must comply with the applicable requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as amended. At time of cut-out tomato sauce shall be of good consistency and not excessively oily." OPA REVISES PROCEDURE FOR BUILDING DEALER'S STOCKS OF CANNED FISH A revised procedure under which wholesalers and retailers may obtain loans of red ration points for buying supplies of canned fish during the height of the canning season was announced on August 31 by the Office of Price Administration. Principal changes in the procedure are these: 1. Effective August 30, 1944, point loans will be granted only to wholesalers and retailers 2. Loans of points will be granted in an amount that will permit the qualified wholesaler or 3. Reporting requirements are greatly simplified. Previously--between May 4 and August 13, 1944--canned fish were ration free, and thus no points were required in acquisition of stocks. Before that, point loans were granted by the OPA National office in Washington for stocking canned fish, but reporting requirements under the procedure were so strict that even though any wholesaler or retailer could apply for a loan, it was difficult for most of them to meet the requirements. Under new simplified reporting requirements, applicants for loans no longer will be required to detail point gains and losses since the start of rationing. The petitioner for a loan now is asked to supply on the following trade information: 1. Total number of pounds of rationed canned fish acquired from all suppliers from May 1, 1942, through April 30, 1943. 2. Total number of pounds of rationed canned fish acquired directly from canners and packers or their established brokers or representatives during the May 1942-April 1943 period, together with the names and addresses of the supplier and the number of pounds acquired from each. The new loan procedure, OPA pointed out, will permit wholesalers and retailers to acquire their yearly purchases of canned fish supplies in the same manner as was industry practice before rationing. The revised procedure is contained in instructions forwarded by the OPA to its local War Price and Rationing Boards. These instructions became effective August 30, 1944. CANNED FISH POINT VALUES RESTORED BY OPA Effective August 13, the OPA placed trade point values on canned fish and shellfish as Consumers will pay an average of 10 cents a pound above current ceiling prices for most popular cured and smoked fresh-water and salt-water fish as a result of new specific dollars-and-cents ceilings fixed at the processor's level for these items, the OPA announced on August 16. The commodities so priced are smoked mild-cured salmon (lox), smoked sablefish, smoked kippered salmon and smoked whitefish. Unsmoked mild-cured salmon, which is not sold at retail, is also priced in the action. This is sold only for further processing. The items priced represent a sizable percentage of the smoked fish sold in this country. Other types of smoked fish also will be given specific dollars-and-cents ceiling prices at the processor level, OPA said. The increases on the popular smoked fish items were found to be necessary to remove the "squeeze" in which processors found themselves as a result of increased raw material costs. Since retailers figure their maximum prices under a fixed mark-up, the increases will be passed on to the consumer, the price control agency said. Prior to the new prices, effective August 21, 1944, all cured and smoked fish items were priced under the provisions of the General Maximum Price Regulation. This fixed a processor's price for any smoked fish item, sold to any class of buyer, at the highest price he charged a buyer (of that class) for such an item during March 1942. These processor's "freeze" prices were based on the 1941 pack of both fresh-water and salt-water fish. The "squeeze" on the processor came as a result of the advance in price of fish subsequent to 1941. This advance was halted by the new ceiling prices that OPA established on both fresh-water and salt-water fish, based on 1942 average prices. Since the processor's individual ceiling prices were in many cases based on 1941 raw material procurement costs, these processors were placed in a squeeze, This action attempts to correct the situation. OPA at present is revising its control over smoked fish at retail and an announcement of the action to be taken at this level will shortly be made. The eventual retail prices of smoked salmon, whitefish, sablefish, and similar items will probably be higher than they were in 1942 for the reasons given above. The regulation, at the processor's level, fixes a base price for each smoked fish item and for mild-cured salmon at a basing point city. The basing point selected for each species is the city where the bulk of the raw material is bought. The processor determines his maximum price for each item by adding a fixed transportation allowance to the base price. The transportation allowance is the per pound transportation cost of the raw material from the basing point city to the processor's plant or warehouse, multiplied by a transportation factor based on the per pound gross transportation cost of smoked fish, which will compensate the processor for shrinkage of the fish in processing. If the processor customarily buys direct from the basing point city, he adds only the transportation cost from that city to his plant. If he does not customarily buy direct from the basing point city, he adds the transportation cost from the basing point to his supplier's shipping point, plus the transportation cost from his supplier's shipping point to the processor's plant or warehouse. Duty may be added in the case of whitefish. The price thus determined is the maximum price f.o.b. processor's plant or warehouse for all his sales of items covered, except sales at retail and sales to retailers. The base price per pound for each smoked fish item and for mild-cured salmon, the basing point city and the transportation factors are as follows: To these prices a processor may add a mark-up of 5 cents per pound when selling direct to a retailer. When selling direct to the consumer he must use the mark-ups provided for such sales in MPR-422 (Ceiling Prices of Certain Foods Sold at Retail in Group 3 and 4 Stores). In the case of shipment by contract or common carrier, the processor may add as a container allowance to his price on any class of sale the actual cost of containers and special refrigerant in which the smoked mild-cured salmon is packed. However, he must bill such cost separately on an invoice to the purchaser. The regulation also contains authorization to regional OPA administrators to fix transportation and container allowances in their areas. There are also definitions of each smoked fish item, and a "records and reports" provision as well as a provision for "adjustable pricing." In 1940, smoked mild-cured salmon (lox) production amounted to close to 8 million pounds with a value of about $1,500,000. This amounted to about 25 percent of the value and quantity of all smoked fish items processed that year, OPA said. Smoked whitefish amounted to 12 percent of the value and 8 percent of the production. Kippered salmon amounted to 10 percent of the value and 8 percent of the production. Smoked sablefish (black cod), including that designated as kippered, amounted to 4 percent of the value and 4 percent of the production. MPR-550--Cured and Smoked Fish--became effective August 21, 1944. Excerpts follow: ARTICLE I-GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 1.1. What this regulation does. This regulation fixes the maximum prices at which any person may sell mildcured salmon. It further fixes the maximum prices at which any processor may sell cured and smoked fish covered in the SEC. 1.2. Relation to other regulations. to sales and deliveries by processors of cured or smoked fish. (b) The maximum price at which a person may export cured or smoked fish shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Second Revised Maximum Export Price Regulation is > sued by the Office of Price Administration. (c) Maximum Price Regulations Nos. 421, 422 and 423 apply to sales by wholesalers and retailers, as defined in those regulations, who are not processors. SEC. 1.3 Where this regulation applies. The provisions of this regulation shall apply to the forty-eight states of the United States, to the District of Columbia, and with respect to mild-cured salmon to the Territory of Alaska. SEC. 1.4. Sales to which this regulation does not apply. The provisions of this regulation shall not be applicable to sales or deliveries of cured or smoked fish if, prior to August 21, 1944, such cured or smoked fish has been received by a carrier other than a carrier owned or controlled by the seller, for shipment to the purchaser. SEC. 1.9. Brokers. In accordance with trade custom every broker shall be considered the agent of the seller and not the agent of the buyer. In each case, the amount paid by the buyer to the seller plus any amount paid by the buyer to the broker shall not exceed the seller's maximum price, including allowable transportation costs actually paid by the seller or by the broker. In other words, the seller may not collect from the buyer any more than his maximum price, including allowable transportation costs so paid, less the amount which the buyer pays the broker. SEC. 1.10. Notification to wholesalers and retailers. With the first delivery after August 21, 1944, of any item of cured or smoked fish covered by this regulation, the processor shall supply each wholesaler and retailer who purchases from him with the following written notice: NOTICE TO WHOLESALERS AND RETAILERS Our OPA ceiling price for (describe item) has been changed under the provisions of Maximum Price Regulation No. We are authorized to inform you that if you are a wholesaler or retailer pricing this item under Maximum Price Regulation No. 421, 422 or 423, and if we are your customary type of supplier, you must refigure your ceiling price for the item in accordance with the applicable pricing provisions of those regulations (see section 6 in each case). You must refigure your ceiling price on the first delivery of this item to you on and after For a period of 90 days after August 21, 1944, and with the first shipment after the 90-day period to each person who has not made a purchase within that time, the processor shall include in each box, carton or case containing the item the written notice set forth above. SEC. 1.11 Records and reports. (a) Every person making a sale subject to this regulation and every person in the course of trade or business making a purchase of cured or smoked fish subject to this regulation, or otherwise dealing therein, after August 21, 1944, shall keep for inspection by the Office of Price Administration, for so long as the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, remains in effect, accurate records of each such purchase or sale, showing the date thereof, the name and address of the buyer and of the seller, the price contracted for or received for each item of cured or smoked fish sold and the container and wrapping allowance, if any. (b) Such person shall, subject to the approval of the Bureau of the Budget in accordance with the Federal Reports Act of 1942, submit such reports to the Office of Price Administration and keep such other records in addition to or in place of the records required in paragraph (a) of this section as the Office of Price Administration may from time to time require. (c) Every person making a sale of any cured or smoked fish subject to this regulation shall furnish to the purchaser at the time of delivery a written statement setting forth the date; the name and address of the buyer and seller; the price for each item of cured or smoked fish sold, including separate statements of the container and wrapping allowance, if any. SEC. 1.14. Authorization to regional offices to fix the transportation allowance. Any regional office of the Office of Price Administration and such other offices as may be authorized by the appropriate regional office may by order determine and fix for any area or locality within its jurisdiction the transportation allowance or "freight rate" which the processor may add in determining his maximum price for any particular species of cured or smoked fish subject to this regulation. The transportation allowance shall be ascertained by reference to the principal source or sources from which the particular species is shipped to the area or locality and the method of transportation generally used. The transportation allowance thus fixed shall be used by all processors in lieu of the transportation allowance or "freight rate" provided in any other section of this regulation in determining their maximum price for the sale, in the area or locality, of the designated species of cured or smoked fish. The transportation allowance may be made effective for such time as the appropriate office finds proper, and may be changed from time to time to reflect changes in the principal sources of designated species of fish or methods of shipment which occur in the regular course of business. In determining the maximum prices for sales of cured or smoked fish in any area or locality for which a transportation allowance is not established, processors shall add the transportation allowance or "freight rate" as provided in the appropriate section of this regulation. Any transportation allowances established pursuant to the provisions of this section shall have the same force and effect as if specifically established in this regulation. SEC. 1.15 Authorization to regional offices to fix the container allowance. Any regional office of the Office of Price Administration and such other offices as may be authorized by the appropriate regional office may by order determine and fix for any area or locality within its jurisdiction the container allowance; including the allowance for special refrigerant, which the processor may add in determining his maximum price for any particular species of cured or smoked fish subject to this regulation when such cured or smoked fish is shipped by common or contract carrier. The container allowance shall be ascertained by reference to the container costs prevailing in such area or locality for such types of shipment. The container allowance thus fixed shall be used by all processors in lieu of the container allowance provided in any other section of this regulation in determining their maximum price for the sale, in the area or locality, of the designated species of cured or smoked fish. The container allowance may be made effective for such time as the appropriate cffice finds proper and may be changed from time to time to reflect changes in the prevailing costs for such containers. In determining the maximum prices for sales of cured or smoked fish in any area or locality for which a container allowance is not established, processors shall add the container allowance as provided in the appropriate section of this regulation.. Any container allowance established pursuant to the provisions of this section shall have the same force and effect as if specifically established in this regulation. SEC. 1.16. Definitions. (a) “Cured or smoked fish" includes salted, pickled, smoked and dried fish. (b) A "sale at retail" is a sale to an ultimate consumer, other than a commercial, industrial or institutional user. (c) A "retailer" means a person the larger volume of whose food business is the purchase and resale of food products, without materially changing their form, to ultimate consumers other than commercial, industrial and institutional users. (d) "Smoked fish" is fish which has been subjected to a curing process by the application of heat and smoke over an open fire or in an oven and has not been packed in a hermetically sealed container. SEC. 1.17. General pricing instruction; fractions. If the maximum price for an item of smoked fish computed in accordance with the rules provided in this regulation results in a fraction of a cent, the result will be rounded out to the nearest cent. (Note that this rule does not apply to mild-cured salmon). ARTICLE II-MILE-CURED SALMON SEC. 2.1 Maximum prices. (a) The maximum price at which any person may sell selected mild-cured salmon is: (1) 311⁄2 cents per pound ex plant or warehouse located in the United States except Alaska or f. o. b. shipping point nearest such plant or warehouse plus the per pound rail carload freight charge for mild-cured salmon from Seattle, Washington to such point. (2) 312 cents per pounds ex plant or warehouse located in Alaska or f. o. b. shipping point nearest such plant or warehouse minus the per pound common carrier freight charge for mild-cured salmon from such Alaskan point to Seattle, Washington. (3) Selected mild-cured salmon means mild-cured salmon slabs generally weighing at least six pounds each which have been specially selected and packed in a container so that ninety percent or more of the number of slabs so packed shall each weigh at least six pounds. (b) The maximum price at which any person may sell mild-cured salmon packed in such a manner that the pack fails to meet the requirements for selected mild-cured salmon shall be the price fixed in paragraph (a) (1) or paragraph (a) (2), whichever is applicable, minus 5 cents per pound. SEC. 2.2. Imported mild-cured salmon. No person in the course of trade or business shall import (buy, receive or in any manner pay for and bring in, deliver or cause to be brought into or delivered into the United States) from Canada any mild-cured salmon at a price which will result in a total cost per pound of mildcured salmon delivered to the importer's place of business, which is greater than it would have been if the mild-cured salmon were purchased f. o. b. Seattle, Washington. SEC. 2.3. Definitions. (a) Mild-cured salmon is Chinook (King) or Silver salmon which has been eviscerated, beheaded, split and cured by salt treatment. (b) A slab is the lengthwise portion of mild-cured salmon derived from splitting the headless and eviscerated fish and removing the backbone. ARTICLE III-SMOKED MILD-CURED SALMON SEC. 3.1. Maximum price. (a) The maximum price for sales by a processor of smoked mild-cured salmon (lox) is 46 cents per pound ex processor's plant or warehouse or f. o. b. shipping point nearest processor's plant or warehouse, plus the "freight rate" as explained in section 3.2, plus the container allowance in section 3.5 where applicable. (b) The maximum price fixed by this section 3.1 does not apply to sales covered by sections 3.3, "Sales to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals", and 3.4, "Sales at retail." SEC. 3.2. Explanation of "freight rate". (a) If during the year prior to the effective date of this regulation a processor received at his processing plant the greater part of the mild-cured salmon he handled at that plant by direct shipment from Seattle, Washington, Canada and/or Alaska, he may add as the "freight rate" the per pound common carrier rate for mild-cured salmon from Seattle, Washington, to his processing plant, multiplied by 1.10. In determining this common carrier rate he shall use the type of shipment by which he received the greatest volume of mild-cured salmon at his processing plant. (b) If during the year prior to the effective date of this regulation a processor received at his processing plant the greater part of the mild-cured salmon he handled at that plant by shipment from a point or points other than Seattle, Washington, Canadian and/or Alaskan points, he may add as the "freight rate" the sum of the following two rates multiplied by 1.10: (1) The rail carload freight rate per pound for mild-cured salmon from Seattle, Washington, to his supplier's shipping point, plus (2) The per pound common carrier rate for mild-cured salmon from his supplier's shipping point to his processing plant for the type of shipment by which he received the greatest volume at his processing plant. (c) If no common carrier rate is available, actual transportation costs, excluding local trucking, hauling and handling charges may be used in determining the "freight rate" under paragraphs (a) and (b) above. SEC. 3.3. Sales to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals. The maximum price for sales of smoked mild-cured salmon by a processor to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals where delivery is made to the customer's place of business and the cost of the delivery is borne by the processor, is the price as determined in section 3.1 plus 5 cents per pound. SEC. 3.4. Sales at retail. The maximum price for sales of smoked mildcured salmon at retail by a processor is the price as determined in section 3.1 plus the mark-up for smoked fish ("fish, processed") set out in Maximum Price Regulation No. 422. SEC. 3.5. Container allowances. If a shipment of smoked mild-cured salmon involves transportation by contract or common carrier the processor may add as a container allowance the actual cost of containers and special refrigerant in which the smoked mild-cured salmon is packed, but only if he bills such cost separately on an invoice to the purchaser. SEC. 3.6. Definitions. (a) "Lox" means mild-cured salmon which has been cooked and smoked. ARTICLE IV-SMOKED KIPPERED SALMON SEC. 4.1. Maximum price. (a) The maximum price for sales by a processor of smoked kippered salmon is 44 cents per pound ex processor's plant or warehouse or f. o. b. shipping point nearest processor's plant or warehouse, plus the "freight rate" as explained in section 4.2, plus the container allowance in section 4.5 where applicable. (b) The maximum price fixed by this section 4.1 does not apply to sales covered by sections 4.3, "Sales to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals”, and 4.4, "Sales at retail." SEC. 4.2. Explanation of “freight rate”. (a) If during the year prior to the effective date of this regulation a processor received at his processing plant the greater part of the salmon he handled at that plant by direct shipment from Seattle, Washington, Canada and/or Alaska, he may add as the "freight rate" the per pound common carrier rate for frozen salmon from Seattle, Washington, to his processing plant, multiplied by 1.60. In determining this common carrier rate he shall use the type of shipment by which he received the greatest volume of salmon at his processing plant. (b) If during the year prior to the effective date of this regulation a processor received at his processing plant the greater part of the salmon he handled at that plant by shipment from a point or points other than Seattle, Washington, Canadian and/or Alaskan points, he may add as the "freight rate" the sum of the following two rates multiplied by 1.60: (1) The rail carload freight rate per pound for frozen salmon from Seattle, Washington, to his supplier's shipping point, plus (2) The per pound common carrier rate for frozen salmon from his supplier's shipping point to his processing plant for the type of shipment by which he received the greatest volume at his processing plant. (c) If no common carrier rate is available, actual transportation costs, excluding local trucking, hauling and handling charges may be used in determining the "freight rate" under paragraphs (a) and (b) above. SEC. 4.3. Sales to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals. The maximum price for sales of smoked kippered salmon by a processor to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals where delivery is made to the customer's place of business and the cost of the delivery is borne by the processor is the price as determined in section 4.1 plus 5 cents per pound. SEC. 4.4. Sales at retail. The maximum price for sales of smoked kippered salmon at retail by a processor is the price as determined in section 4.1 plus the mark-up for smoked fish ("fish, processed") set out in Maximum Price Regulation No. 422. SEC. 4.5. Container allowances. If & shipment of smoked kippered salmon involves transportation by contract or common carrier the processor may add as a container allowance the actual cost of containers and special refrigerant in which the smoked kippered salmon is packed, but only if he bills such cost separately on an invoice to the purchaser. SEC. 4.6. Definitions. (a) Smoked kippered salmon is Chinook or King salmon which has been beheaded, eviscerated and either chunked or chunked and split or otherwise cut into small portions and then brined and further cured by a heating and smoking process. ARTICLE V-SMOKED SABLEFISH SEC. 5.1. Maximum price, (a) The maximum price for sales by a processor of smoked sablefish is 39 cents per pound ex processor's plant or warehouse or f. o. b. shipping point nearest processor's plant or warehouse, plus the "freight rate" as explained in section 5.2 plus the container allowance in section 5.5 where applicable. (b) The maximum price fixed by this section 3.1 does not apply to sales covered by sections 3.3, "Sales to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals", and 3.4, "Sales at retail". SEC. 5.2. Explanation of "freight rate." (a) If during the year prior to the effective date of this regulation a processor received at his processing plant the greater part of the sablefish he handled at that plant by direct shipment from Seattle, Washington, Canada and/or Alaska, he may add as the "freight rate" the per pound common carrier rate for frozen sablefish from Seattle, Washington, to his processing plant, multiplied by 1.80. In determining this common carrier rate he shall use the type of shipment by which he received the greatest volume of sablefish at his processing plant. (b) If during the year prior to the effective date of this regulation a processor received at his processing plant the greater part of the sablefish he handled at that plant by shipment from a point or points other than Seattle, Washington, Canadian and/or Alaskan points, he may add as the "freight rate" the sum of the following two rates multiplied by 1.80: (1) The rail carload freight rate per pound for frozen sablefish from Seattle, Washington, to his supplier's shipping point, plus (2) The per pound common carrier rate for frozen sablefish from his supplier's shipping point to his processing plant for the type of shipment by which he received the greatest volume of sablefish at his processing plant. (c) If no common carrier rate is available, actual transportation costs, excluding local trucking, hauling and handling charges, may be used in determining the "freight rate" under paragraphs (a) and (b) above. SEC. 5.3 Sales to a retailer or to a pur- . veyor of meals. The maximum price for sales of smoked sablefish by a processor to a retailer or to a purveyor of meals where delivery is made to the customer's place of business and the cost of the delivery is borne by the processor is the price as determined in section 5.1 plus 5 cents per pound. SEC. 5.4 Sales at retail. The maximum price for sales of smoked sablefish at retail by a processor is the price as determined in section 5.1 plus the mark-up for smoked fish (“fish, processed") set out in Maximum Price Regulation No. 422. SEC. 5.5 Coníainer allowances. If a shipment of smoked sablefish involves |