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Show ROUND-UP ... As a result of recent OPA actions ac-tions glass jars of apples, applesauce, apple-sauce, apple juice and sweet cider will sell at retail for approximately approximate-ly two cents more than the same-sized same-sized tin cans . . . 10,000 new passenger pas-senger automobiles and 7,500 new bicycles will be available under rationing to civilians in March ... Ration point values for country ' butter will be lowered In areas ; where necessary to move it faster l" and prevent spoilage . . . Effective June 1, the country shipper may add $1 a hundredweight to his ceil- ing price for sales to the ultimate consumer when he makes such sales in amounts up to 800 lbs. . . . reductions are expected in some lines of lamps and lamp shades which have been selling at excessive exces-sive prices . . . lard is temporarily removed from rationing . . . Temporarily Tem-porarily maximum prices for the 1944 crop of sweet potatoes will remain at levels at which they were frozen last December, except for sales to dehydrators . . . WFA has announced that the price of feed wheat has been increased one cent per bushel and feel wheat will be sold through grain distributors distri-butors to carlot buyers at established estab-lished county prices without merchandising mer-chandising charges . . . Canners have been notified to increase their set-aside of canned grapefruit grape-fruit juice for war purposes from 32 to 38 per cent . . . Over 3,500,-000 3,500,-000 pounds of dried apples and nearly a 1,000,000 pounds of (Zante) currants will be released for civilians . . . 50,000,000 pounds of lard have been released for soap-making in March . . . WPB says that Repairmen may use up to $25 worth of authorized material materi-al for installing cooking, plumbing, heating or used air-conditioning or refrigeration equipment units and he may use up to $250 worth of material for an authorized new air-conditioning air-conditioning or refrigeration system sys-tem . . . Vitamin A, "Anti-infection" vitamin, has been placed under un-der allocation for the first time to insure equitable distribution in face of mounting demand . . . Agricultural Ag-ricultural discs for plows, harrows, and other farming implements are expected to be produced in suffi- , cient quantity to balance the first half year's program for 1944 ... Old used collapsible tubes should be turned in at once to drug, retail, re-tail, and chain stores so that needed need-ed tin can be salvaged ... To save travel, Churchill Downs plans to confine attendance at the 1944 Kentucky Derby to residents of Louisville, Ky., and vicinity, ODT says . . . OPA says rear tractor tires are scarce because materials and equipment are being used In manufacture of airplane tires and urge farmers to repair or recap . . . February airplane production averaged aver-aged 350 per day, a new high according ac-cording to the Aircraft Production Board. |