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Show RATIONNEWS Farmers who sell beef carcass- eg must collect 4.7 red points per pound. Francis J. Quinn. chairman chair-man of the Binjjham district war price and rationing iard announced an-nounced today. I'oints collected must bo sum nderec to trie local board or the district OP A office, Salt Lake City. I "The War hood Administration no longer requires slaughterers' ! permits of farmers who kill less ' than 10.0DO pounds per month," I said the chairman. "However, there is no change in the requirements require-ments for the surrender of point3 under the rationing program. Red points must still be collected for portions of beer tnal contain ! both rationed and unrationed meat. A chart showing the point ' values can be secured from the local war price and rationing board." The chairman stated that until further notice points are not required re-quired on the transfer of pork, veal, ham, or mutton, since these meats now carry a zero point value. Utah food stores scored an average av-erage of 96.93 per cent compliance compli-ance to OPA price ceilings as result re-sult of the May statewide survey, ! Francis J. Quinn, chairman of the Bingham district war price and rationing board said today. The compliance average for March was 9G.2 per cent. Figures compiled by Irvine L. Miller, OPA field price supervisor, super-visor, reported that 97.3 per cent of all stores as compared with 91.2 per cent in March, had the proper OPA signs and price lists posted. Stores in full compliance totaled 49.4 per cent as compar ed with 29 per cent in March. The May survey involved the checking of 30 food items as compared com-pared with 19 in March. Automobile quotas for Utah for the month of June are down ten per cent. Only 65 cars were alloted to this state this month. Bicycle quotas were raised to 175 this month. Passenger car, Grade One, tires were upped from 4216 in May to 6610 for June. Truck tires, 750 or smaller, were set at 2093, and the 825 or larger tires at 1030 for June. Front tires for tractors were placed at 129 and rear tires at 41. There is no quota quo-ta on tubes for May, but certificates certifi-cates are required from trie boards. "Submit your application for gasoline rations at least two weeks before you run out of gasoline" gas-oline" is the warning issued by the OPA. It sometimes takes from two to ten days to pass on an application, and unless you allow yourself plenty of time, you may find yourself afoot. More than half the population of America lives in rented houses The annual rent bills of tenants tonus to something like a tidy 1 e "n billion dollars. If rents for ! homes had been permitted to rise I in this war as they did in the last World War period American I tenants would have paid, in 1943, Imore than eight billion dollars. ! That potential increase amounts I to about one billion dollars. In ' other words on rents alone we re saving more than six times the 1943 budget for the whole OPA. A program to strengthen price control on apparel and yard goods i prepared by the OPA consumer advisory committee 77 to stop price inflatL" k and textiles, to eft"1 tenoration and tn k, low priced goods Jg Some typeToTchL y strong ones which the opening (,f all for consuming hsv k : under dollarS' prices at all level ev0 We mean those good Sft er, munster and brL d: is estimated that thk 2S save, the consumine proximately one Lm mil ion dollar. T,?na Ok under a fixed peS k up at retail, so thTn d8en should be reflected liS? ces-to the consume? A trans-Atlantic editi, London Daily Mail ted Drices prevailing j?2 at this time. The ren find no pineappl. orT" ' did find one l(me rgg nestling cosily U)on a tray and priced at ii . ' gus had dropped to ; . mushrooms were S1? a L peas, $2J0 a uound "antt very small Allone ciEa cod at $62, and Coff cod at $5 each, fi Mexico, you pay $2 fr of ordinary house nails, aV for a tire for your Forth. We may not like pric V but inflation would er"t Sf worse. laUi!i |