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Show RATION NOTES s, . Remember that after February 27 storekeepers will begin using ration change. Help your local merchant by knowing how the plan works. , Just keep in mind that all red and all blue stamps in Ration Book Four - will have a value of ten points each, regardless re-gardless of the value printed on them. Don't throw your book down on the counter for your overworked over-worked merchant to wrestle with. Tear out the required stamps Horizontally, not vertically as formerly. If -you make meat purchases pur-chases totaling 13 ,.. points, tear out two red stamps valued at 20 cents. In turn, your merchant will give you for change seven red ration tokens each worth one point. Blue tokens will be given as change for blue stamps in the purchase of processed foods. Tokens have no expiration date. OPA regulations require that every food store post community commun-ity price ceiling lists and the store's groupings. Compare the prices you are charged with the top legal prices on the official, list. Without public cooperation, price control cannot be effective and inflation avoided. You cannot protect a public that will not work to protect -itself.,. Good citizenship citi-zenship requires that shoppers act for their own self-interest. OPA denies that only one more shoe ration stamp will be made valid for rationed shoes this year. No substantial change in the shoe-rationing program is anticipated. Although it is still too early to state definitely how many pairs of shoes will be available for civilians in 1944, indications in-dications now are that the present pres-ent ration rate a new stamp approximately every six month will be maintained. Thirty days notice will be given if cancellation cancel-lation of either of the two valid |