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Show RATION NEWS Washing machines and ironers will begin to appear in stores this fall and winter at pre-war i prices, the OPA announces in a j statement of reconversion pricing pric-ing rules for manufacturers, distributors dis-tributors and dealers. To make sure that inexpensive manchines are available to families with limited incomes, the OPA is en- couraging manufacturers to make I the same proportion of low-pric-: ed models that they produced I before the war. Every machine : will be tagged with its retail dollar-and-cent ceiling and the tag must stay on the machine until it is delivered into the buyers home. In Utah prices will range from $39.95 to $199 95. Shoe rationing must continue until production more nearly equals unrestricted demand according ac-cording to a joint announcement by the OPA and the war production produc-tion board. The agencies explain that production of rationed-type shoes is not expected to exceed 23,000,000 pairs for the month considerably less than had been anticipated, and much below consumer demand. Answering rumors that rationing will be lifted in October, the agencies said that the low inventories in dealers stocks do not warrant lifting the restrictions now. Now that wartime restrictions on style and yardage have been lifted from men's and boys' shirts and pajamas, these items will be sold at March, 1942, prices, the OPA announces. Fabric saving methods such as eliminating pleats and limiting length no longer will be required. O |