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Show RATION NEWS Mining transportation committees, commit-tees, .which certify mileage rations, ra-tions, have been designated to certify miners eligible for supplemental sup-plemental food rations, S. Grover Rich, district rationing executive, OPA, announces. The government govern-ment program to provide extra meats-fats and sugar rations to workers employed in heavy industry in-dustry will apply only to those who do heavy muscular work requiring re-quiring an unusually high intake of calories and will be based on the number of days worked during dur-ing the month. Approximately 11,500 Utah miners will be eligible. elig-ible. Veterans of the present war who wish to become tire dealers will be given certificates for truck and passenger tires, OPA announces. Because of the acute shortage, the stock allowed veterans vet-erans will be small, but even a small stock will be valuable in a service station or garage. Retail ceiling price for apples of the 1945 crop will be 13 12 cents per pound during the period per-iod ending July 20, according to OPA price specialists, as a result of a "disaster" allowance increase of 60 cents a bushel. Fall and I winter apple ceilings will be I somewhat lower. A seasonal reduction in the wholesale ceiling prices for mel-I mel-I ons, except watermelons, will result re-sult in a retail price of approximately approxi-mately nine cents per pound after af-ter July 19, OPA announces. Shotguns, both old and new, declared surplus by the ordnance department of the army service forces have been given ceiling prices by OPA. These shotguns were bought for state guard units created after the national uard was called into federal service, and for civilians guarding government gov-ernment installations early in the war. Because of the appearance of increasing quantities of counterfeit counter-feit and other illegal kinds of tire rationing certificates, a nation-wide check on tire dealer compliance will be made between July 11 and 25, Lewis A. Clark, OPA tire rationin- representative, representa-tive, announces. The survey follows fol-lows a general registration between be-tween Julv 1 and 10 of all tire dealers in a program designed to tighten controls over illegal transfer of tires and use of stolen and counterfeit certificates. - |