Show I RATION NEWS I Items Worth Reading From the Office of Price Adm Ration nation lint ion Line Up for This Week eek RED nED STAMPS Meats fats cheese butter butler and canned milk through expire March l 31 through expire April 28 through expire June 2 through expire June BLUE STAMPS STA For all processed processed processed pro pro- fruits and vegetables through expire March 31 through expire April 28 through l e expire pire June 2 through expire June 30 SUGAR STAMPS Sugar stamp 35 good for five pounds expires June 2 New stamp will become valid alid May 1 1 SHOE STAMPS S Airplane 1 I 2 and 3 3 g good d for fo foone one pair of of shoes each each- good indefinitely GASOLINE STAMPS A 14 good for four gallons e expires March 21 and supplemental supplemental supplemental supple supple- mental rations now being issued Moving to halt traffic In counterfeit counterfeit count count- sugar stamps OPA t no provides that a retailer who gives invalid sugar ration stamps to a wholesaler for a supply of sugar may not nol get any more sugar until he makes good the invalid stamps Thomas Emerson Emer Emer- son OPA deputy deput administrator for enforcement said We are determined to bring to speedy justice these criminals who by diverting large quantities of sugar from legitimate uses to threaten our sugar rationing program as these counterfeit racketeers are doing Beer Deer prices will have to be posted the saine same sam as restaurant prices after April 16 the the OPA says Posters will be placed In plain sight and will list the tho beer by brand name size of gla glass and price No new brand can be added added added ad ad- ded until they have been filed with the local war price and rationing ra- ra board Posters will go out to all eating and drinking establishments serving beer for consumption on the early In April To prevent undo hardship which might right result to some in- in ul slaughterers by rigid rIgl l application of the maximum slaughter percentages established establish establish- ed for good and choice grades of cattle the OPA that orders may be bo issued to individual ual slaughterers which permit slaughtering of a higher percentage percentage percentage per per- of these grades Tho The country Is divided into zones and percentages applicable to Zone A or the Western states were fixed at 75 per cent for each of the two accounting periods ending ending ending end end- ing February 28 1945 and on onor onor onor or about March 31 1945 Slaughterers must meet certain I conditions laid down by the OP OPA A Ato I to gain this advantage A copy i of the instructions may be had I at the tho local war price and rationing rationing rationing ra ra- ra- ra board During the month of February February r ary ry the Rent division of or the OPA collected In rent re refunds refunds re- re funds for tenants One hotel re- re Continued on page age four RATION NEWS Continued from page 1 fused the money going to the U. U S. S Treasury when the orIginal original original or or- tenants overcharged could not be located Persons such as farmers CarOlers and growers who feed laborers brought Into the United States by a government agency may apply for Cor allotments of rationed ration ration- ed foods for these workers This provision becomes effective on March 15 and amI is being made because because because be be- cause War Ration Book Foucan Four Fou r can no longer be issued to these workers Applications should be made mado to the local boards Institutional Institutional Institutional users will be limited toa to toa toa a period of approximately two months If It the imported workers are hired for Cor more than one allotment al allotment al- al period additional applications applications may be made for each h period the imported workers are employed A new new ew regulation has been proposed which will set dollar- dollar cent and-cent ceiling prices for Cor new steel drums pails palls and containers replacing the o 0 1 l Id I'd d freeze Country shippers of white potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- po- po and onions who make carlot carlot car- car carlot lot deli deliveries cries to dehydrating plants may add 14 cents a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred pounds to their ceiling pric pric- es for services required in n carlot carlot carlot car- car lot dl distribution This action actton will not change tho the price of the potatoes potatoes potatoes po po- or onions to the consumer er er but will make it easier for dehydrating plants to obtain supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies of white potatoes from nearby country shippers It Is also expected to free Cree freight facilities facilities fa facilities fa- fa for Cor other important uses Statewide check of oC retail food stores shows approximately 96 G per cent of or stores complying to OP OPA A regulations Eight hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred and twenty-six twenty stores are in full tull compliance and only items out of In price vio vio- lation Lunch meats and pork chops lead price violations while carrots canned peaches pea canned canned canned can can- ned corn corn syrup soap and cheese lead dry grocery vegetable vegetable vegetable vege vege- table list Only stores found in violation on posting regulation regulation regulation regula regula- tion out of a total of 1286 checked |