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Show RATION BOARD ANNOUNCES NEED OF SERVICE HELP The appointment of Mrs. Ruth Burress as community service member of the Bingham district war price and rationing board is announced by H. Grant Ivins, Salt Lake City, state director of the Office of Price Administration. Administra-tion. "The function of the community commu-nity service members on local 1 war price and rationing boards , is to assist the public in understanding under-standing the reasons for and the methods of price control and rationing ra-tioning employed by the Office of Price Administration." Mr. Ivins says. f "Because these problems are so new to the American people, we feel that the OPA has a grave responsibility to use every possible pos-sible means of keeping the public pub-lic informed of these programs which inevitably effect the war so vitally." Duties of community service members include the arranging of statements for use of local newspapers; distributing information infor-mation about the OPA; supplying supply-ing literature to interested persons per-sons and organizations. They must also engage in any activities activi-ties which would encourage the public to conserve our present stocks of consumer goods |