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Show OPA Pleased With Distribution Of Ration Books The OPA is highly pleased with the successful distribution of War Ration Book Two in Cache coun-Ay coun-Ay and throughout the state, according ac-cording to word sent by H. Grant Ivns, OPA state director, to O. Guy Cardon, chairman of the Cache county War Price and Rationing Ra-tioning Board. Mr. Ivins' statement emphasized particularly the great value of the service given by thousands of patriotic volunteers throughout the .state, including school teachers who carried on the registration after af-ter completing their regular day's work. It emphasized also the splendid cooperation given by the press in printing the consumer's declaration form and in carrying educational information to assist the public to understand the point rationing system. Consumers were cautioned to use their point stamps carefully now that the program is actually underway. un-derway. It was pointed out that the 48 points allowed each person must last a full thirty-one days and since point values are necessarily neces-sarily high, housewives may unwittingly un-wittingly use up their points at a faster rate than they realize. The result of this "overspending" would be to create a family shortage toward the end of the month insofar as ability to buy rationed foods is concerned. It was pointed out, also, that (the recent price ceilings placed on eight fresh vegetables including tomatoes, peas, carrots, cabbage, wax and green beans, lettuce and spinach, will be very helpful to the housewife as it will insure against run-away prices on these commodities on which the housewife house-wife must necessarily depend since the use of canned vegetables is greatly curtailed. The local board chairman called call-ed attention to the fact that recent re-cent changes in the tire rationing regulations make it unnecessary for individuals who wish to have their tires recapped to make application applica-tion to the board. All that is necessary nec-essary now is to go to the recap-per recap-per and arrange for the service. A change in the shoe rationing regulations removes a limited group of 'play shoes," along with certain types not generally used for street wear, from the rationing ration-ing regulations. Excluded from rationing ra-tioning are current stocks of ski shoes, skate shoes, rubber-soled shoes with fabric uppers. In commenting on this change, Mr. Cardon urged consumers to buy these non-rationed shoes only if they really need them and suggested sug-gested that dealers in the area limit sales to one pai rto a customer cus-tomer , in order to avoid stocking of idle shoes in consumer's closets. |