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Show Application Cards Must Be Sent In Applications for War Ration Book 3, which have been delivered to residents throughout the country coun-try by the various post offices during the past two weeks, should be filled 0ut by the head of each family and returned by June 10, the chairman of the Milford war price and rationing board reminds residents of this area. At the same time he warned that many mistakes have been made on the applications so far returned to the OPA mailing center, and that errors will cause undue work and delay. Applicants Appli-cants are urged to read the instructions in-structions on the application and fill it in with care to speed up the tremendous task of distribution. Following these rules will cut errors er-rors to a minimum: Print or type your name and return address on application appli-cation form so it can be easily read. List names and birth dates of all members of the family unit on the same application. Sign the application in your own handwriting. Tear off the identification stub and save it. It is your receipt. Affix three cents postage, i Check form carefully to be sure there are no mistakes. Mail application before June 10. The local chairman also reminds consumers that expiring red and blue stamps should be destroyed by the consumers themselves im-mediately im-mediately after expiration to be j sure, they are not used to promote j black market activities. He ex- plains that while red. and blue stamps used for any one month expires at the end of the month so far as retail buying is concerned, concern-ed, they continue to be valid for purchases and sales in the trade channels for sometime afterwards. "In some cases, storekeepers have solicited the surrender of expired ex-pired stamps from their customers," custom-ers," the chairman said. "In other cases, consumers have been voluntarily surrendering their stamps as a friendly gesture. In either case, such surrender is illegal and in violation of the letter let-ter as well as the spirit of the whole rationing program." Referring to sugar for canning program, the local chairman reminds re-minds consumers that stamps 15 and 16 are now each valid for five pounds of canning sugar. "In making these stamps valid, OPA anticipates that the ten pounds thus made available will be sufficient to meet the needs of many families, thus making it unnecessary un-necessary for them to apply at the local board for any of the additional ad-ditional 15 pounds allowed," the chairman said. "In any case, the , sugar provided by the two special ! stamps is expected to be sufficient suffi-cient to take care of the canning! needs for the early fruits. I v I |