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Show RATION NEWS Beginning M iv 1 all users of E and R gasoline coupons, except ex-cept those using ten gallons or less a month, will receive a delivery de-livery record from their war price and rationing board on which their supplier will fill in the amounts of gasoline purchased purchas-ed with the coupons The new pistil Will" help the boards keep ,i close check on the amount of gasoline being used by farmers, loggers, miners, contractors and others using non-highway gasoline. gaso-line. The new plan is a move on tin part of OPA to find ways of decreasing the amount of gasoline gaso-line lost under the existing non-highway non-highway rationing system The ceiling price for onions r.rovvn in Texas has been increased increas-ed from $2.05 to $2 70 pT 50 pound sack f ob. country ship-i ship-i per, during the April 16 to May j 15 period because af adverse I growing conditions. Retail ceiling price will advance about a quar-I quar-I ter of a cent per pound as a rf-I rf-I suit of the action. Home canners are asked to i mail their applications for can-j can-j ning sugar to the war price and ! rationing boards this year instead in-stead of bringing them in per-j per-j son. Spare stamp 13, one for each i member of the family, must be i attached to the application. The I boards request that the stamps ; be pinned or clipped to the form, not pasted. Issuance of the sugar certificates will begin May 7 and I continue through May 1!) After I that date, no canning sugar cer-I cer-I tificates will be issued until June j 15. Buy your next winter's coal 1 now, is the warning sent out jointly joint-ly by the local producers and the OPA Already government contractors are in Utah buying! coal for shipment to the north-1 west in July, and unless consumers consum-ers stock their coal bins now, they may find it extremely diffi- j cult to purchase coal when win-; ter sets in. Government orders must be filled before any others. Lack of manpower, trucks, and storage space are handicapping ! the coal industry. So be wise. Buy your coal today. j Beginning April 2K, manufacturers manufac-turers of pillows and cushions; filled with feathers will have to 1 place dollar-and-COSl ceiling price tags on their merchandise, the I OPA announces. Wholesalers and I retailers will have 60 days to dispose dis-pose of their present stocks, but after June 27, they will be required re-quired to re-price and tag any remaining pillows and cushions m stock with the new ceiling prices. The new prices will cut the price approximately one-third one-third to consumers. A total of $1503.54 was return- j ed to consumers in March by ac- ! tion of the price panels when overcharges ov-ercharges on various types of j merchandise were disclosed, the this sum, $516.92 was paid to the United States treasury when the actual consumer could not be located. lo-cated. April 20 was the last date re-i re-i tailers of wearing apparel and household furnishings coming un-' un-' der the new joint WPB-OPA clothing program had to file their charts with the OPA. Deal-, era who have delayed sending 1 their charts to the district office, face possible injunction suits, after af-ter May 4, restraining them from selling articles coming under the regulation |