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Show INFORMATION ON POINT PLAN IS ANNOUNCED Rationing Of Many Foods To Go Into Effect At Midnight March 28 Red stamps from War Ration Book Two will be surrendered by consumers in Springville area and throughout the United States when they purchase meat, butter, other edible fats and oils, cheese, and canned fish after midnight of Sunday, Sun-day, March 28, according to Glenn Hansen, chairman of the war price and rationing board. Beginning Monday, March 29, these commodities commodi-ties will be rationed after the point system. During April, each holder of War Ration Book Two, regardless of age, will have a basic allotment of 16 points per week to "spend." As in the case of processed foods, one member of the family may shop with the books of all members. mem-bers. Red "A" stamps will become valid val-id on March 29, "B" stamps on April 4, and "C", "D", and "E" stamps will become valid on each succeeding Monday through April 25. All of these,, stamps may be used until April 30, when they become be-come invalid. The meats and fats rationing program will include fresh, frozen, cured, smoked, and canned meats and meat products derived from beef, veal, lamb, mutton, and pork, as well as variety meats (heart, tongue, etc.), and sausages. It will also include canned fish, most natural na-tural and processed cheeses, lard, butter, margarine, shortening, salad sal-ad and cooking oils. The program will not ration fresh, frozen, smoked or pickled fish, fish in containers con-tainers not hermetically sealed, poultry and game, whether fresh, frozen or canned, olive oil, salad dressing and mayonnaise. Soft or perishable cheese such as cream, cottage, neufchatel, pot, bakers, camembert, liederkranz, drie, and blue.- Cheese spreads and cheese products containing less than 30 (Continued on page ten) RATIONING . . . (Continued from page one) per cent of rationed cheese also are not rationed. Attention of the public was called to the first change in point values announced since the beginning of the processed food rationing program. pro-gram. Dried and dehydrated prunes and raisins have been cut from 20 points per pound to 12 points per pound, while dried peas, beans, and lentils have been cut from 8 to 4 points per pound. Dates and figs, other than those in hermetically sealed containers, have been removed entirely from the list of foods currently being rationed, it was stated. |