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Show lease any great number of shoes, but will permit the manufacturer manufactur-er of non-rationed type to place ! rubber soles on the shoes. This change is coordinated with recent re-cent actions by the WPB and the Office of Rubber Director to relax control of rubber for shoes. Now that the supply of reclaimed and of synthetic rubber rub-ber has increased substantially, rubber soles are readily available avail-able for all types of shoes. A housewife or club group which sells home fruit preserves, jellies, or home canned vegetables, veget-ables, need no longer collect ration ra-tion points- Points must still be collected on sales of canned fruits or fruit juices, catsup and chili sauce. No points are required re-quired for home canned tomatoes, toma-toes, although this vegetable is still on the ration list. Cabbage ceilings have been suspended until September 30. When adverse weather conditions condi-tions reduce the yield of any i fresh fruit or vegetable under price control, the OPA is required re-quired to make an adjustment. This is being done in the case of cabbage. New prices will be announced later. Recent statements of Chester Bowles, administrator of OPA, show that he is well aware that the number one problem of post war agriculture will bo to preserve pre-serve the present favorable bal- ance between prices and costs. I He is keeping this constantly in mind while developing reconversion reconver-sion price policies of his agency. Why does your new "A" gaso-i gaso-i line ration book have a serial number which is repeated on every one of your coupons? To help spot stolen gasoline coupons cou-pons is the main reason. Without serial numbers, all coupons look alike, but serially numbered coupons can be traced by its number from start to finish. Another blow to counterfeiters counterfeit-ers and others in the black market mar-ket is the esablishment of a currency cur-rency protection branch of the OPA. The first to find out about the new unit were four men in New York who had a press and equipment ready to print 5,000,-000 5,000,-000 counterfeit coupons. These bogus coupons could have been used to drain 25,000,000 gallons of gasoline from our critically-short critically-short war supply. The special agents of OPA's new branch are authorized to make arrests, an exceptional power not given to other OPA investigators. There is an OPA ceiling price on used sewing machines when sold by a dealer. If in good working work-ing condition, used sewing machines ma-chines may not sell for more than 75 per cent of the cost when new. If in poor condition, they may not sell for more than one-third one-third of the original cost. The price clerk at your local war price and ration in" board can give you further information. ration Merchant marines can't get furlough gasoline. Because they are considered civilians, members mem-bers of the Merchant marine are not entitled to furlough gasoline I according to the Automotive Supply Rationing Division in ! Washington, D.C. The Merchant marine is a civilian organization and its members are civilians at all times. The men sign up for a trip and are discharged at the j end of the trip. They may or may I not sign up again as they wish. Time between trips varies and is not considered a leave. Under I these circumstances it would not be possible to interpret the merchant mer-chant seamen as eligible for furlough fur-lough gasoline. " "B-3" and "C-3" gasoline ration ra-tion coupons will be invalid for motorists after September 30. At the same time "T" coupons I marked "3rd Quarter" will ex-j ex-j pire for commercial motor ve-, ve-, hide operators. Filling station : operators will have until Octo-j Octo-j ber 10 to tuili them in to their I supplier for gasoline or exchange them at their local war price and rationing board for ration checks. Distributors have until October 20 to deposit these coupons in their ration bank accounts. Non-leather shoes made with rubber soles will be freed from rationing, beginning September 25. All shoes containing any leather will remain on the ration ra-tion list. The action will not re- |