LDS Canning Plan Gets OPA Support Activity Receives Praise as Aid in War Effort Full approval of the LDS church program of permitting groups of church members to utilize welfare program canneries during periods the facilities are not required for welfare work was voiced Saturday by H. Grant Ivins, Utah director for the office of price administration. No ration points will be collected from such community groups providing their own produce and doing their own work, and sugar will be available to them, Mr. Ivins said. Under the projected program, groups will be permitted to lease church owned tanneries during periods when they are not required for processing food directly for the church welfare program. The announcement followed a meeting of Mr. Ivins, Edward F. Richards, OPA state rationing attorney, and other officials with Harold B. Lee, member of the LDS council of twelve apostles and managing director of the church welfare program, and Robert L. Judd, vice chairman of the welfare committee and legal advisor. 27 Such Plants The church officials said there are 27 church owned plants in the intermountain states, in addition to the major plant at 851 West Seventh South street, and a subsidiary home canning plant now completed adjoining it. These facilities include buildings with scalders, work tables, sealers and cooking resorts. According to the scheduled plan, each group which will provide its own product, will pay a flat fee for the time it uses the equipment to pay for upkeep and supervision. This program, Mr. Ivins said, is entirely in line with the spirit as well as the letter of the OPA home canning regulations. It is the desire of our government war agencies to assure maximum preservation of food. Since the large commercial canning facilities will be operating at capacity, we realize that the principal way to increase our national production is through maximum use of home and semi commercial canning facilities such as those owned by the LDS church. Outlines Procedure In outlining the procedure to be followed by groups planning to use facilities for home canning outside of their own kitchens, Mr. Ivins said the first step would be to notify the local war price and rationing board of arrangements and make sure they are within the boundaries of the definitions on home canning. These include provisos that all members will contribute a share of materials or labor, that some member of the group grew the fruits and vegetables, and that the person who normally operates the plant will not do the processing, other than acting as supervisor. After permission is obtained, necessary sugar purchase certificates will be issued, up to the limit of 25 pounds per person, and when the canning is completed, each member may take home his share without surrendering ration points. The church officials also indicated that the wards and informal groups of church families will use pressure cookers for a large amount of home canning. Many of them are already owned by ward groups and others hope to obtain some of the 150,000 new cookers authorized by the war production board and being rationed through U S D A county war boards.