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Show COMMUNITY SERVICE The Office of Price Adminstration Adminstra-tion announced today the plan it it will follow in making stamps good for consumers use, and in taking them out of circulation after af-ter about four months use. Processed Foods Blue stamps: X5 thro B2 become valid December 1, expire March 31. Blue stamps: C2 thro G2 became valid January 1, expire April 28. Blue stamps: H2 thro M2, become valid February 1, expire June 2. Meats, Fats, Cheese, Etc. Red stamps: Q5 thro S5 became valid December 3, expire March 31. Red stamps: T5 thro X5 became valid December 31, expire April 28. Red stamps: Y5 thro D2, become valid January 28, expire Jun?) 2. Sugar Sugar stamp 34: Became valid November 16, expires February 28. Sugar stamp: 35: Becomes valid February 1, expires June 2. : CONSUMERS' GUIDE TOSTS No. 49 Slaughters, who handle more than 50,000 pounds of meat in an accountable month, may pay the following prices to ranchers and farmers for their cattle: Choice grade, , $15.50 to 17.00 a hundred-weight; Good grade, S14.-25 S14.-25 to . $15.75; Commercial grade, $11.50 to $13.00; Utility grade, $9.50 to" $11.00;-Cutters and Can-ners, Can-ners, $6.75 to $8.25, and Bolgna bulls, $8.00 to 9.50. For prices paid by slaughters handling :ess than 50,000 pounds, contact the OPA District Office, Salt Lake City or your local War Price and Rationing Board. Prices are f.o.b. North Salt Lake and Odgen. All firewood sold by farmers after February 13 has been given ceiling prices by the OPA. The prices are set at the highest charged for the same type of wood in March 1942. Those who did not sell in that period will have their prices determined by OPA. Where specific area ceiling ceil-ing prices have been issued by OPA, those prices will be applied. The new action has been taken to bring excessive prices back to base period levels and prevent future overcharges Housewives of Salt Lake City cannot complain of a meat short-age, short-age, according to .figures reieas-ed reieas-ed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Sta-tistics. While thirty-four percent of independent stores in large cities were without beef of any kind in January, Salt Lake reports re-ports indicate that beef of some quality t and kind was available in that city. Pork loins and hams were also On sale in two-thirds of the stores, while in New York or,Iv one half of these stores have . either and only twenty-five percent per-cent of the San Francisco ' stores had Salt Lake housewives ; found butter in all stores, al-. though they were sometimes lim-! lim-! ited to one to two quarters,1 while : New England housewives found only half the stores with butter a Special gasoline rations to aid war veterans and displaced civii-ian civii-ian workers were provided for by the OPA. These rations will be allowed to those who must use a passenger car to travel to a Job interview arranged for them by the ' United States Employment Service, a county agricultural agent, the Railroad Retirement Agricultural Extension Labor Office, or by union designated by the WAC to recruit labor. The amount of mileage, which will be allowed, is limited to 400 miles in any thirty day period, and it must be shown that there are no adequate alterative means ol available transportation. A veter-an veter-an or war worker applying to his local war price and rationing board must present a referral card obtained from the agencies listed above. The regulation goes into effect February 17. March 1 ie the last day gasoline gaso-line dealers or distributors may (Community Service Con. page 8) I (Community Service from pg. 1) crease in storage capacity before Dec. 4. The same deadline date to apply to those filling applications for replenishment date of shortages short-ages more than three and half months old, or for replacement of invalidated ration coupons more than three and a half months old. The "bail-ot" procedure applies to unwitting acceptance of counterfeits, coun-terfeits, invalid, of undorsed coupons. cou-pons. Applications must be accom. panied by evidence that the dealer deal-er or distributor did not know of the time limit on making applica-tions. |