BOSTON, September 30--A Congressional committee today heard dozens of suggestions for methods to end the meat shortage, including proposals for restoration of consumer rationing, and contradictory urgings to strengthen price control or remove them altogether.
The proposals for restoration of consumer rationing came from Mrs. Maurice Sagoff, chairman of the Massachusetts Consumers' Advisory Committee to the OPA, and from George C. Kern, a Portland, Maine, meat packer, and spokesman for the National Association of Indepent Meat Packers.
The Massachusetts CIO Council, represented by Legislative Agent George F. Markham, asked for strengthening of controls on prices, and suggested that President Truman be importuned to seize the meat packing industry.
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