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Show HOME FRONT PLEDGE DRIVE IS PROGRESSING The house-to-house distribution of pledges, pledge symbols, and OPA community price lists, part of the national Home Front Pledge Campaign being sponsored sponsor-ed by the local war price and rationing board, will be completed complet-ed in Bingham district by Saturday, Satur-day, Mrs ,J. Dewey Knudsen, who is in charge of Bingham district dis-trict minute Women said yesterday. yester-day. The campaign which is designed design-ed to give every consumer an opportunity to join with her merchants, her government and her neighbors in the home front fight against black markets and higher prices has been enthusiastically enthusi-astically received by local citizens. citi-zens. "While the house-to-house distribution dis-tribution of the campaign materials ma-terials will be completed shortly, short-ly, the remaining features of the campaign will continue for many weeks," the community service member said. "We are planning an extensive speaking program before various local organizations during the remainder of the summer sum-mer and fall which will emphasize empha-size the individual citizen's responsibility re-sponsibility for winning the home front battle against inflation." The board member emphasized that the really important part of the campaign begins after the pledge to "pay no more than top legal prices" and "accept no rationed ra-tioned goods without giving up ration stamps" has been signed and consumers and merchants conscientiously live up to that were reminded that they should keep the price list handy for reference and to use it while they shop. They, were urged to discuss with their merchants mer-chants any selling prices higher than those shown on the list. If the matter is not settled by such a friendly discussion, they were urged to advise the local price control panel which will call the merchant in for a hearing of the complaint giving him full opportunity op-portunity to present his position in the case. |