Show RATION NEWS items hems worth reading from the office of price aft adm ration lineup line up for this week RE HED D STAMPS ea through ja good until june 30 xa through pa good until july 31 qa through ua good until august 31 va through za good until september 30 tor for meats fats cheese butter and canned milk BLUE STAMPS na through sa good until june 30 ta through xa good until july 31 ya through cl 01 good until august 31 dl through III HI good until september 30 tor for all processed fruits and vegetables SUGAR STAMPS sugar stamp 36 good until august 31 for five pounds of sugar spare stamp 13 good tor for ten pounds maximum canning sugar SHOE STAMPS airplane stamps 1 2 and 3 ration ratio n book three good indefinitely for one pair of shoes each GASOLINE STAMPS A 15 good for four gallons of gasoline until june 21 after a weeks suspension local war price and rationing boards were authorized to resume issuance of canning sugar an gar certificates to ease the critical situation in supply and demand board quotas have been limited to 70 per cent of the 1944 season supply necessitating a cut from 15 to 10 pounds of canning sugar per person if applications are carefully scrutinized and certificates isred only to legitimate users an additional allotment may be available later to those now limited to 10 pound value of sugar certificates already Is sued will not be affected by this r hangs change A fair distribution plan instituted by the office of price administration which requires all commercial slaughterers slaughter ers to resume the same pattern of meat distribution they followed in the first three conlis of 1944 will not assure each city town or county the amount of meat it had in 1944 but will correct to continued on page tour four wll TA A A itta A T A AA rw AA A AAA AAA AA A A ration news continued from page 1 r a large extent the present faulty distribution of meat an example of what happens when price controls are removed is illustrated in what has happened to the lowly cabbage until a few days ago cabbage was selling for approximately tour four cents a pound all over the rocky mountain ardai one state now reports leports the price has jumped to 10 and 12 cents a pound unless citizens till fill their coal bins early this summer they may find themselves burning wood for warmth OPA officials warned this week government contracts tor for coal begin july I 1 and military demands will be greater in this section this year due to concentration concen ration in the pa cefic war theater coal Is moving from mounds to coal yards and is piling up there dealers say and manpower will not be sufficient to accommodate a tall fall rush of coal orders one thousand additional grade one passenger tires will be available for utah motorists to augment the june quota of the new allotment represents an increase of tires over the may quota and means that 13 and C card drivers with preference ratings ol of two or three may have a chance ot of getting a new tiro tire in areas where the backlog of first preference rating applications can be tilled filled OPA said an increase ot of 3 18 cents a bushel in producers ceilings for the 1945 wheat crop Is calculated to reflect parity and Is required by law OPA announces effective may 30 tile the revision is aimed at providing uniformity between the wheat and othet grain regulations and incle includes ea a reduction ot of two cents a bushel in the discount tor for sample grade wheat refunds to tenants during may totaling tor for over charges on rent glen D reese OPA district rent said tills this week four hotels voluntarily contributed to the U S treasury for overcharges over uve charges to guests who left no forwarding addresses low and medium priced clothing which has virtually disappeared from retail counters will return to the market in greater quantities toward late summer russell L humpherys Humph orys OPA price specialist said this weep the cloth lna may be identified by a tag bearing the yar production board order under which it was manufactured the lot number and the OPA ceiling price manufacturers place tho the tickets in items classed as essential and retailers ret aHers who change or remove ru eye the ticket are in violation retail and wholesale inventories of rationed shoes were reduced approximately 26 per cent between january 1 1944 and january 1 1945 OPA announces noun Roun ces reports indicate there were a pairs ol of rationed shoes in stock at the beginning finning ot of 1944 and pairs at the beginning of this year in 1943 consumers used more pairs of rationed shoes than were produced prodoc ed luring during those twelve months |