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Show 'RATION RULES TO BE CHANGED BY " OPA FEBRUARY 27 Rationing of foods and shoes will be affected by new procedures being put into effect soon by OPA in the interest of economy and efficiency, Glenn Hansen, chairman chair-man of the city war price and rationing board, said today. When the new ration tokens go into use on Feb. 27 in order to conserve time of the housewife and save an estimated $35,000,000 annually for the retailer, the consumer's con-sumer's share of foods will not be reduced. By changing the value of all stamps of whatever denomination denom-ination to ten points each, the total number of meats-fats points will be lowered by four points a month while that for processed foods will be raised two points a month. "But," the chairman said, "there will be no loss or gain in the buying buy-ing power of the two types of stamps because OPA will slightly lower the point-values of meats and slightly increase the point-values point-values of processed foods.",. Women's shoes not costing oyer $3 a pair can be bought without stamps from Jan. .17 to 29, the chairman said. OPA has relaxed shoe-rationing regulations temporarily tem-porarily so that dealers can hold their usual January clearance sales of merchandise, on which the public has been reluctant to spend its precious coupons. Dealers Deal-ers can thus sell shoes which otherwise oth-erwise would remain idle on their shelves and customers gt th advantage ad-vantage of extra shoe mileage. |