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Show What's New Washing machines and ironers will begin to appear in stores this fall and winter at pre-war prices, the OPA announces in a statement of reconversion pricing rules for manufacturers, distributors and for dealers. To make sure that inex-pensive inex-pensive machines are available to families with limited incomes, the OPA is encouraging manufacturers to make the same proportion of low-priced models that they produced pro-duced before the war. Every machine ma-chine will be tagged with its retail re-tail dollar-and-cent ceilings, and the tag must stay on the machine until it is delivered into the buyers home. In Utah prices will range from S39.95 to S199.95. Shoe rationing must continue until un-til production more nearly equals unrestricted demand according to a joint announcement by the office of price administration and the war production board. The agencies explain ex-plain that production of rationed-tvpe rationed-tvpe hose is iot expected to exceed 23.0002000 pairs for the month considerably less than had been anticipated, and much below consumer con-sumer demand. Answering rumors that rationing will be lifted in October,- the agencies said that the low inventories in dealers stocks do not warrant lifting the restrictions restric-tions now. Prefabricated garages and prefabricated pre-fabricated farm buildings made predominately of metal have been added to the list of reconversion products for which ceiling prices have been set, OPA announces. No substantial increase in world production of sugar can be anticipated antici-pated before early 1947, according to Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, and it is expected that rationing of that commodity may last well into 1946, since A-merica A-merica depends to a large extent on world commodities. With the recent discovery of 1,600,000 tons of sugar in Java, the secretary said that governmental conrtols in 1946 may be limited to refineries and industrial users. Price control is conspicuous by its absence in smaller European countries coun-tries where it costs $250 American a day to live in a fair degree of comfort and decency. An average meal costs $60; cigarettes are $20 a pack, a simple cotton dress costs $2300 and other prices are inflated proportionately in former German-occupied German-occupied countries. Americans can avoid inflation by observing price ceilings and reporting all overcharges over-charges to local price control boards. Now that wartime restrictions on style and yardage have been lifted Erorrt men's and boy's shirts and pajamas, pa-jamas, these items will be sold at March. 1942 prices, the OPA announces. an-nounces. Fabric saving methods such as eliminating pleats and limiting lim-iting length no longer will be required. re-quired. The number of points paid for household fats has been increased from 2 to 4 per pound, according to an announcement by the OPA and department of agriculture, in Drder to encourage increased salvage sal-vage of used fats. The agencies point out that the end of the war did not reduce the need for industrial indust-rial fats, the supply of which in L945 will be millions of pounds short of the 1944 supply. Industrial fats are needed in the manufacture of soaps and other civilian goods. |