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Show Tire Quotas Dropped by OPA November quotas of tires for trucks will be 30 per cent lower than in October, and 14 per cent power for passenger oars, the Cache price and rationing board, reported today. The extent of the drop in available new tires is indicated in-dicated by the November quota of 290,245 truck tires as compared with 416,613 for October. The new passenger tire quota, the chairman said, was reduced from 645,050 in October to 553,688 in November. However, more used or recapped passenger tires, said the chairman, will be available, the quota for November having been increased from 648,000 in October to 829,650 in November. "The nation is confronted with a serious rubber shortage," said the board chairman, "and motorists will have to use all their Ingenuity and care to avert a serious mass transportation breakdown." In another effort to push the cost of living back to levels of September 15, 1942, the office of price administration has reduced the cost of peanut butter from 7V6 to 7 cents a pound, effective after November 1. The cut in this price will be offset by a payment made by the Commodity Credit Corporation to processors. The new November food cnart lists a number of changes in ration ra-tion values. Fruit spreads, for the first time, are rationed with a value of six points per pound for jams, preserves and non-citrus marmalades, while jellies and fruit butters have a ration value of four points a pound. Twelve point changes were made in the ration value of processed foods, nine up, and three down. The ration cost of creamery butter will remain at 16 points during November. Farm and country coun-try butter were raised to 12 points per pound. Forty-two pork, veal, lamb and mutton items were reduced, re-duced, one and two points. Cheeses in the cream groups were raised two points. |