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Show August 4. It is ho'ied the second issuance will begin August 15. License warning notices have been served on 19 Utah service station operators found in violation viola-tion of OPA regulations requir- j ing gasoline sold as premium ' quality to have at least 75 octane I content. The ?"ot check which j brought the violations to light in-, dicated that the practice of up-: ! grading gasoline is prevalent i throughout the state and nation, j j License suspension suits will , : follow the warning letters if vio- j i lation continues, OPA officials j said. Inflation in Greece has reached reach-ed such a point it is impossible t give the equivalent in Tr. S. dollars the value changes too fast to keep up. Latest reports I available show that in the sum- f mer of 1944 potatoes, formerly j priced at 12 drachmas now cost ; I 28,000. Sugar, formerly 19 drach-1 j mas, now 4 to 7 million. Milk, formerly 10 drachmas, now i j 800,000 to one million. Men's suits, formerly worth 2000 drach-i drach-i mas now sell for about 2.82 pounds of wheat, 2.11 pounds of olive oil or 5 to 10 gold sovereigns. sover-eigns. Shoe soles cost 10 million drachmas. O RATION NEWS Provisions covering the issuance issu-ance of extra food rations for medical reasons have been broadened by the OPA Regional and district OPA offices, on the advice of a medical committee, i may delegate authority to local ' war price and rationing boards to issue rations for illnesses which formerly required handling hand-ling and review bv the medical committee. The change will facilitate fa-cilitate issuance of additional rations ra-tions fo persons returning from : overseas and suffering from dietary deficiencies. Each board will be guided by charts prepared prepar-ed by the National Research Council listing illness, the kinds of foods recommended, and the amounts of each type of food in pounds or quarts. Passenger car owners who have been granted special gasoline gaso-line rations for a bona fide change of residence are now eligible for grade one tire purchase pur-chase certificates, OPA announces. announc-es. The extension of eligibility applies to war workers moving from one city to another, members mem-bers of the armed forces moving to a new post, and discharged war veterans returning home or moving to another city to accept employment. No additional apnlication for canning sugar need be sent to the war price and rationing boards in order for housewives whose allo'tments were cut on June 15 to receive additional coupons, OPA announces. As soon as determination is made of the amount of sugar available, the issuance of coupons automatically auto-matically will be made to housewives house-wives whose applications were segregated from those who received re-ceived the full allotment of 15 pounds. Deadline for filing applications ap-plications for canning sugar is |