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Show Ration Line-Up , For This Week ! Following the home canning sugar su-gar application deadline August 4, total issuance figures of the local j war price and rationing board were j forwarded to the distrcit office at Salt Lake City. When it is determined de-termined how much of Utah's quota remains unaDocated, boards will be given authority to make a j second issuance to householders whose requests were curtailed after June 15. -- I Discharged servicemen will be given special gasoline rations for attending to personal affairs arid making adjustments to civilian life, OPA announces. Local war price and rationing boards have been authorized to issue rations according- to the needs of the veteran, up to a maximum of 30 gallons. Previously only officers, who are given terminal leave, were provide ed with gasoline at thD time of their dischaige. The new rations will give enlisted men the same advant3ge. Five times as many tire applications appli-cations are received by OPA during dur-ing hot weather as during cold, Lewis A. Clark, tire rationing representative; rep-resentative; reports. In announcing Utah's August quota of 13,250 grade one passenger tires, he stressed that motorists observe a 35 mile per hour speed limit in order to avoid tire failures caused from heat building up inside the tire. - The civilian jeep the peacetime peace-time counterpart of the military jeep built for the armed forces has been provided with a retail ceiling price of $1090 f.o.b. Toledo, Tol-edo, Ohio, and it is expected that it will be on the market in the near future. With four-wheel-drive, the versatile jeep may be used for hauling other vehicles or farm machinery, ma-chinery, as a power plant in hoisting hoist-ing operations ,and a variety of other uses, OPA reports. - A ceiling price has been established estab-lished for the grading of beef, veal,. I lamb and mutton by commercial freezers or locker plants for farm slaughterers, the OPA states. The ceiling, effective July 30, is twel- jve and a half cents per hundred pounds of meat graded, computed ' to the next highest multiple of fvie cents. Country elevators, performing grain storage and terminal service. ! and terminal and sub-terminal ' grain elevators will be given until 1 November 15 to file statements of their maximum charges, rates and pricing methods at the office of price administration, according to 1 Richard A. Paradis, OPA price speciaust. All fishing tackle except rods, reels and non-metallic lines and nets, are exempt from price control. con-trol. Sales of other tackle items have little effect upon the cost of living and the administrative and enforcement difficulties of maintaining main-taining controls out-weigh the importance im-portance of holding prices at prewar pre-war levels, OPA officilas say. |