The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1944, Page 6

PAGE SIX BASKETBALL SEASON OPENS FRIDAY NIGHT WITH TWO CONTESTS Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, in the High School gymnasium, the basketball season in Juneau offi- cially opens, with two games sched~ uled that evening. The Signacs versus the High School Crimson Bears is the main event, with the Bears already con- ceded winners after the poor show- ing “the Signacs made in Douglas the other night, losing a non-con- ference game with Douglas High (Huskies), 28 to 19. On the other hand, the Crimson |Bears may, or may not, be as |strong as they were in the two | games with the Alumni, as Mead |and Hogins, two veteran players, have been suspended from the team for the quarter for infraction of training rules, Coach Barney Anderson announced. The opening game is between the Beavers and the Suk-port. MARTHA SOCIETY WILL HOLD BAZAAR NOV. 17 A bazaar, sponsored by the Martha Society, will be held Friday, November 17, in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church. The affair, which is sched- uled to begin at 7:15 p. m, wil feature not only needlework but homemade pies, cookies and candy. et Empire Want-ads bring results! November 7th, 1944 Juneau, Alaska, Mrs. Mildred R. Hermann, Director, Office of Price Administration, Juneau, Alaska. Dear Mrs. Hermann The undersigned meat dealers of Juneau received from you Fri- afternoon a new schedule of beef prices, fresh, cured and froz- en, with the statement that these prices would be in effect today, November 7th. This notice allowed us no time for discussion of the new prices which your office had ordered as we could not be absent from our places of business on Saturday, your offices were closed on Sun- day, and the first opportunity we had for a conference with you was Monday, November 6th, the day before the new prices were ordered to go into effect. We had a meeting with you Monday and presented our rea- sons why we could not sell beef cuts at the prices scheduled to go into effect today. In order to make a record of our objections, we submit the following: The new price schedules have divided the cuttings of beef into four sections or groups, as fol- lows: Group I Stews Group II Roasts Group III Steaks Group IV Miscellaneous Items Many of the cuts listed in your schedule are not sold, and there are a few which we do sell which are not listed, as for instance, tenderloin steak. In Group I we do not sell in Junegu the following items: Brisket (bore-in) Flank meat Neck (bone in) Heel of round (boneless) Shank (boneless, hind and fore) There are eleven items in Group 1, only six of which we sell. In Group II we do not sell the following items: Rib standing (Chine bone- in 10-inch cut) Rump (boneless) English cut Chuck or Shoulder (bone- less) There are eight items in Group 11, only four of which we sell. In Group III we do not sell the following items: Porterhouse Club; Pin Bone Rib 10-inch cut Round (boneless—top and bottom) Chuck blade (bone-in); chuck arm ‘There are nine items in Group III, only four of which we sell. For instance, porterhouse steak 15 not sold, but we do s€Tl T-Bone- steaks. The second item in Group I includes three different cuts at the same price. We do not sell Club steak as that is a restaurant name only, and we do not sell 10- inch rib steak, so that there are five items in Group IIT that we do not handle. Group IV. We do not sell ground beef (hamburger) but do handle ground round steak. There are practically no sales for soup bones and suet on which you allow 4c and 6c a pound re- spectively. Most soup bones have to be given away, and some suet can be sold at 3¢ a pound, but there is no sale for it at 6c. These items which we have Respectfully submitted, ALASKA MEAT CO. 20TH CENTURY MEAT MARKET FEUSI & JENSEN, INC. JIM ELLEN CABH GROCERY ——————————————————————————— STATEMENT listed should be taken into con- sideration in fixing the prices of the other cuts which we do sell, and the prices of those cuts which are sold in Juneau must be high- er than the prices listed for sev- eral reasons, one of which is that there are so many of your items listed which are not handled. We have carefully gone over these items and the prices al- lowed and find that it is out of the question to sell them or to market beef as you have ordered, except at a loss, and we have, therefore, had to discontinue all sales of beef commencing today, and as beef constitutes such a large part of our merchandise, we cannot continue to operate very long by confining our sales to other forms of meat. At the time prices were fixed two years ago, they were fixed on a percentage mark-up basis, and your office admitted at that time that a 30% mark-up over the cost price was a fair margin The cost of doing business in the Juneau markets runs from 19% to approximately 24%, with per- haps an average of 22% or 237%. Our invoices showing our cost prices are always available for your inspection, but, as pointed out to.you yesterday, there is a greater demand for some cuts of meat in Juneau than others, and there are certain items that we cannot sell. We cannot buy just the cuts for which there is the greatest demand, but we must buy the whole beef, both front and hind quarters together. The wholesale cost is 28'%c a pound on beef laid- ifh.© This 'has not changed since our prices’ were last fixed, al- though the cost of doing business has increased considerably, and you can readily see that if we pay an average of 28%c a pound for all beef, including everything, front and hind quarters, and some person comes in and wants a choice cut, such as 5-lb. rump roast, we cannot afford to cut it out and sell it for 34c a pound, which is the price listed on your latest price list. You understand that a mark- up includes’ freight, insurance, handling charges, cold storage, drayage, rent,’ help, taxes, etc., and the only fair way to sell meat, under the circumstances, considering the cost to us and considering the fact that we must buy the whole carcass, is on a percentage mark-up and not a flat ceiling price per cut. You have reduced the mark-up by these prices 27% on some cuts, and the average reduction is about 20% over all, where the mark-up on which we had been operating was only 29.5% here- tofore. . One of the difficulties with your schedule prices is that we do not cut beef in the manner which would be called for if we had to adhere to those prices as we have hereinabove pointed out. Two years ago when the prices were fixed, we made a cutting test and the prices were based on that test. The wholesale price remains the same as it was then, while the overhead and freight charges and insurance have ad- vanced very considerably. In some, if not all of the items, we understood from our confer- ence with you yesterday that the difference between the Juneau price and the Seattle price was 2c a pound, but we call your at- SARITARY MEAT CO. HUTCHINGS ECONOMY MARKET AMERICAN MEAT CO. CALIFORNIA MEAT MARKET THIBODEAU CASH AND CARRY 'NOTES FOR THE PUBLIC..... The meat dealers of Juneau met with Mrs. Hermann, OPA Director, on Monday to discuss the new schedule of beef prices which had been submitted and.which they had been ordered to put into effect on Tuesday, the Tth. Mrs. Hermann informed us that the price schedule could not be changed in Juneau, but had been fixed in Washington and published Register. dealers. The dealers also complained that the time The foregoing letter was sub- mitted to Mrs. Hermann by all the meat dealers of Juneau on November 7th, and it is pointed out to the public that the OPA official who worked on the new schedule of prices had refused to make the cutting test which had been suggested by the price schedule in the Federal of Juneav. The Juneau schedules had [UESSES————— - between the receipt of notice of the new into effect was so short that they had little time for discussion with the OPA officials and no time in which to inform the public of the facts. The OPA Director has been petitioned for relief and until that relief is obtained, there can be no further sales of beef, either retail or wholesale, by the meat dealers towns in Alaska, with varying prices de- pending on the location of the town, and that according to their information, pro- tests had also been received by the OPA from most, if not all, of these other towns. tention to the fact that if the official who worked out the pres- ent schedule had taken every- thing into consideration, he would readily have seen that the per pound differential between the retail meat prices in Seattle and those in Juneau would not be fair. In the first place our meat must all be shipped to us frozen and under the regulations of the || | War Shipping Administration, | and there is a very considerable || loss when it is cut and thawed, || as you know. There must be 1 separate percentages of mark-up on the different varieties of meat | sold, and we submit that the fair |/ way is to allow a certain percent- age mark-up after having made what is known as a cutting test, where a demonstration can be made of the way in which a car- cass must be cut, weighed, han- dled and sold in Alaska. We have offered to submit to this cutting test and to abide by the results and to sell beef on the percentage mark-up which you say we are entitled to be allowed and which you say is allowed in the new schedule. If you will allow us the mark-up which you admit is fair, then there is no reason why you should not sub- mit to the cutting test where we will cut up a whole side of beef in your presence, or in the pres- ence of any experts in your of- fice, or if you have none, in the presence of any distinguished meat cutters in the country, and we understand there are at least from eight to twelve men avail- able in Juneau who would under- stand the cutting test. Our invoices showing our costs are always available, and we will gladly submit them to you at any time. There is another very serious objection to the new schedule, and that is this: Practically all markets in Juneau make consid- erable sales to fishing boats ard those who use large quantities of meat, and the sales are made at a 10% discount on account of their volume. Under the OPA regulations, discounts which were allowed prior to October 1942 must be kept in effect, and it is a violation of OPA regulations to refuse the same discounts as were given twc years ago, biit where prices are cut so very drastically, indeed even so far as to wipe out all margin of profit, we could not very well stand, in addition to the loss which will be incurred through the general reduction, a further reduction of 10% to those who purchase in large quantities. We respectfully request that the prices be restored to those which were fixed two years ago and under which we have been operating during the intervening period, so that we may be allowed a sufficient mark-up to pay all of our overhead, costs of shipment, storage, handling, and make a sufficient margin in order to al- low us’to continue in business. In order to show that the pricés which have prevailed in the past two years are on a fair basts, we request you to arrange for a cutting test of a whole side of beef, and we will abide by the results you obtain, allowing us the same mark-up we have had or the mark-up which you say is fair, namely 30%, to cover the cost of shipment, storage, insur- ance, taxes, labor and handling charges. { and the day it was ordered dealers also state that new been sent to all the other |capitol Hill 'COCHRAN SECOND IN her final ELECTORAL " VOTEHIGH: ISNOW 418 jority in House - Main- fain Lead in Senafe (Continued from Page One) | | s | |approve the pease treaties by a two-thirds vote. The Republicans added 11 to their 24 hold-overs, Republicans Unseated Late returns show the Democrats unseated Republican governors in Ohio, Massachusetts, Missouri, |1daho and Washington, while the Republicans captured the guberna- |torial chairs in Indiana and North Dakota from the opposition. Utah Is Doubtful The Utah governorship was left in doubt, possibly until next week, when all the states’ service vote will be counted. So far, it is a neck-and-neck race between the Democratic incumbent, Herbert Maw, and the Republican, Ubliin J. Backen Lee. Dewey To Vacation { Dewey made plans to vacation| in the state of Georgia, which al- | most doubled its Republican vote | over that of 1940. ! In all, the Southern Republican | vote increased sufficiently to start New Orleans partisans talking of | a strong two-party system in.Lou- | isiana. There was no_ bitterness nor | any sign of sullenness on the part | of Dewey, who said farewell to the reporters who traveled with him | over the country. 1 Truman's Geal Senator Harry S. Truman, who! becomes Vice-president next Janu- | ary 20, said he has set as his goal | the development of a warm Iriend-; ship between the White House and | | i (USHION BILLIARDS, KANSAS .CITY, Nov. 9—Welker Cochran of San “Francisco was | second in the block of 1500 points for the world’s championship, in the three-cushion billiard ‘match. | Willie Hoppe of New York, the| challenger, had a winning score of 50 to 45. Each had high runs of five. — HICKOK BACK Earl Hickok is back in Juneau from Anchorage. He is with the CAA and is making his stay in jtown at the Hotel Juneau. i i g CHOIR PRACTICE TONIGHT The Holy Trinity Cathedral Choir will rehearse this evening in the church, and all members are urged to attend. Anyone interested is also (invited to go and sing. ———— PASTOR EMERY LEAVES Pastor S. H. Emery of Klawock, after spending a few days in Ju- neau assisting Mrs. H. L. Wood in preparations to leave, left today and will spend a few days in Ketchikan before returning to his home. e STONE ON BUSINESS TRIP. James H. Stone, senior sanitarian with the Territorial Department of Health, left Juneau today for Ket- chikan where he expects to spend | several weeks on Health Depart- ment business. - APPLY FOR LICENSE Ralph Leland Becker, merchant marine, of Olympia, Washington, and Lorraine Blanchard of Juneau, have applied to Commissioner Felix Gray for a marriage license, ———.e —— SUITS FILED Divorce actions, charging deser- tion, have been filed in Federal Court by Fred B. Johnson vs. Minnie C. Johnson, and Esther Bavard vs. George D. Bavard. A damage suit has also been filed by Cecil W. Hubbard, as plaintiff, against defendants Horace and Winifred Leach. —_——————— WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Interior, told the newsmen at a conference, that he has submitted his resignation to Roosevelt, as he has done after previous elections. Asked if he had any reason to believe his resignation would be ac- cepted, Ickes smiled and replied: “I don’'t know,” then as aside, said, “This man Dewey said he was com- ing down here te fire me anyway.” Simple Test Aids Thousands Who Are Hard of Hearing Thanks to an easy no-risk hearing test, many thousands who have been temporatily Jeafened mow say. they hear well again, If You are bofhered by ringing, buzzing head Joises due to hardened or cmgulated wax {cerumen), try the Ourine Home Method 155t You must hear better after making this ble test or you get yeur money back at e, Ask aboup Qurine Ear Drops today a6 Your Rexall Store Butler Mauro Drug Co, Strengthened Demo Ma-‘ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1944 | ‘organization on the Scout Council., e LETHE |Guild Makes Plans | s wore” o or” e For Bazaar, Scouts Charles E. Rice, the Rev. and Mrs, | | | Mrs, John E. Bentley, which will i W. Robert Webb and Bishop and | : L take place on Friday evening, No-| St. Margaret’s Guild of Holy | yopper 19, between the hours of | | Trinity Cathedral met at the home 8 and 10 p. m. The public is cor- |of Miss Lee Oakes Wednesday eve- | y;a)y ynyited to attend. |ning, with Mrs. Verna Buckley as- | poiowing the business session of | R the guild, the remainder of the| Date of the second annual Doll €Vening was spent in completing “ “Bflzaar was set for November 29 Preparations for the bazaar. !at the Parish Hall. The sale will| e — }’open at 10 a. m, and during the; PATRICIA FROM HAINES {noon hour, a completely furnished | COFFEE | noon, hour, & completely fumished | 1y pyyici arsived back in Ju- &mel/zmy you can count on— Ea‘ward wil* e 'on displavls('zvcral neau early this morning with the | s A { following passengers from Haines: | cr lny avor |days before the sale in the win-| p.. g~ Hickok, Paul E. Phillips, | |dows of Parsons Electric Store. | James King, Mrs. Mildred Sparks, | ; I'L oo decided that St. Mar-| 1 ayry Hotch, Mrs. J. J. Thlunaut, | garet’s Guild will sponsor & troop | john M. Thlunaut, Mr. and Mrs. | |of Intermediate Girl Scouts. Mrs.|jack David, Wesley Willard, Mrs. |Burr Johnson will be the leader,| James King and Leo Jacobs. with Mrs. E. L. Bartlett and Miss! S e Alice Brandebury representing the Emgpire Want-ads bring results! GEORGE BROTHER Schilling | | BUY WAR BONDS Phone 2 95 |[SUPER MARKET)] SAVE § 9 onPurchase of $20 Coupon Books for $ 1 & COFFEE--Schillings 3 5@ Our Ceiling 39c. We reserve the right to limit! Friday Special 80° 85° CANDY BARS e - 26 Varieties! Friday --- 24 Bars to Carton - = 16°€ 16° MUSHROOMS 8 oz. Sliced Buttons Friday Special SALAD DRESSING Happy Home Friday Special - Quart SALAD DRESSING Happy Home Friday Special == Pint RHUBARB Birds Eye. . . Fresh Frozen Package POTATO CHIPS Tweo Packages SOUP MIX Regular price 2 for 45c . . . 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