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Show Round-Up . . . The War Production Board says Arsenical insecticides for the coming summer months should be bought early, because uncertain transportation and manpower and container shortages might delay last-minute orders and result in heavy crop damage... A water-resistant match, useful to service men in jungle areas, has been developed develop-ed by match manufacturers... An estimated 30,000 dozen household furnace scoops and 85,000 dozen snow shovels will be produced in 1944, and the first of them should be available to consumers by late Fall or early Winter. National headguarters of Selective Selec-tive Service announces that inductees in-ductees no longer will be earmarked ear-marked for either Army or the Navy after their preinduction phy-sicai phy-sicai examination, beginning July 1, but will be placed in the common com-mon pool to be drawn upon as the needs of the respective branches develop... Shoe dealers may sell limited 'quantities 'o f "odd lot shoes ration-free to consumers at specified price reductions July 10 through July 29, OPA says...WFA expects that shipping will be available avail-able to import six million bushels ' of corn from South America during dur-ing July to aid the war food and livestock feed situation in the United Un-ited States... U. S. Public Health Service reports that approximately 20,000' patients have been treated for syphilis and gonorrhea and new intensive methods in more than 50 rapid treatment of early syphilis... ' Home canners who have the use 1 of a pressure canner this summer 1 will do well to put up chickens ' when farmers are selling large ; numbers of hens that are not lay-' lay-' ing enough to be worth their keep, ' the Department of Agriculture ad-' ad-' vises. ' OPA announces that it may est-' est-' ablish ceilings on wage rates for ' independent contractors for ser-1 ser-1 vices rendered on farms, where ; the War Food Administration has established maximum wage rates of farm workers . . . Used car ra- 1 tioning is not planned at thie time ' or for the future, so far as OPA knows . . . Unused farmers Pr-19 certificates held by dealers have the same standing as new certif-1 certif-1 icates for the purchase of farm ; supplies, WPB says . . Passenger travel for the first quarter of this ' year was 25.5 percent over the traffic in the same quarter last year, OWI reports . . To insure travel facilities for disabled military, mili-tary, naval and merchant marine personnel, railroads may cancel I reservations, space assignments or tickets and if necessary must i cancel or discontinue passenger I train service and refuse permission of passengers other than disabled personnel or attendants to board - trains, ODT has announced. |