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Show Ration Tokens Go Into Use February 27 Women's Shoes of Less Than $3 Can Be Bought Stamp Free Ian. 17 to 29 Rationing of foods and shoes will be affected by new procedures being be-ing put into effect soon by OPA in the interest of economy and efficiency. ef-ficiency. When the new ration tokens go into use on February 27 in order to conserve time of the housewife and save an estimated $35,000,000 annually for the retailer, the consumer's con-sumer's share of foods will not be reduced. By changing the value of all stamps of whatever denomination denomina-tion to ten points each, the total number of meats-fats points will be lowered by four points a month while that for processed foods will be raised two points a month. "But," the chairman said, "there will be no loss or gain in the buying buy-ing power of the two types of stamps because OPA will slightly lower the point-values of meats and slightly increase the point-values point-values of processed foods." Women's shoes not costing over $3 a pair can be bought without stamps from January 17 to 29, the chairman said. OPA has relaxed shoe-rationing regulations temporarily tempor-arily so that dealers can hold their usual January clearance sales of merchandise, on which the public has been reluctant to expend its precious coupons. Dealers can thus sell shoes which otherwise would remain idle on their shelves and customers get the advantage of extra ex-tra shoe mileage. , |
