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Show if found excessive. Willis W. Hit ter is the Area Rent director of the OPA for Utah and his office is located in the Atlas building. 36M- West Second South street, j Salt Lake City. Among the problems under con- J sidsration are the extent to which stores should be allowed to reduce deliveries, to reject re- j i turns of merchandise, to restrict I free toll telephone service and telephone orders calling for the have some trouble with war workers and military personnel who, he said, may have a tendency ten-dency to regard the speed restriction res-triction "with considerable indifference." indif-ference." However, the police will be doing the country a service if they can "jolt these people out of that thoughtlessness and indifference.'' The War Department has an-nouncde an-nouncde that all Army passenger cars and trucks are now limited to a 35 mile and hour speed, except ex-cept when urgent military reasons rea-sons require higher speeds. PRICES AND RENTS The Office of Price administration administra-tion announced that landlords of newly opened housing accommodations accommo-dations in defese-retal areas may now set the the initial RENT without consulting the area rent office. However, the property must be registered within 30 days of the renting and the first rent charged may be rodered decreased ment, insecticides and fungicides, Leslie A. Miller, Denver regional WPB director, announces. It is no longer necessary for a farmer to fill out a special form to obtain these chemicals. He need only certify in writing to his supplier, that the chemicals he buys will be used for agricultural purposes. pur-poses. RETAILERS URGED TO ELIMINATE "FRILLS" The office of Price administra. tion has announced that a "retailer "re-tailer assistance" program is being be-ing formulated so that retailers may reduce deliveries and eliminate elim-inate "frills" from their operations opera-tions as a means of lowering the cost of doing business under OPA ceilings. Representatives of retailers are meeting in Washington to discuss dis-cuss the feasibility of curtailing j certain non-essential services. - MOUHTAIN : I STATES WAR FRONT t i (prepared by the Denver Re-1 Re-1 ponal Office of War Informa- tion) 1 With virtually every weekly and dafy newspaper in the Rocky .fountain region giving unstint-1 unstint-1 'jng cooperation salvage of scrap materials for war is reaching a victory Fao? in tlie intensified campaign which opened Septem-! Septem-! ber 2H and will continue through 1 October 17. l jlore than 80 per cent of the i nation's newspapers are participating partici-pating in the drive, according to reports received by the War Production Pro-duction board, which has backed the campaign as another step in the for-the -duration National Sal-1 vake program. 1 Reports that the people of the Rocky Mountain West have not waited for the opening gun of the drive, but already have stepped step-ped up their scrap-hunting have cached Denver regional WPB headquarters from all parts of the mountain area. j The War Frodction board will make honor awards to states and counties with the highest per capita rate of scrap collected when the drive closes, L. J. Todhunter, regional manager of the Conservation Division, announces. an-nounces. The three states which collect the most scrap per capita will receive honorary plaques from WPB Chairman Dnoald M. Nel-1 son for display in their state capitals, Mr. Todhunter said. Any county producing 100 pounds or more per capital will be awarded a "salvage victory j pennant" to fly from its courthouse court-house flagstaff, he said. ! "Scrap may well prove the deciding factor in this war.... for without it 0ur vaunted American Ameri-can production must slow down," Mr. Todhunter said. "If we do not' get in the scrap, our nation may taste defeat. And if we do not get in the scrap now, today, in these next few weeks we may be assured victory is long, hard years away. "Half of each ship is scrap. More than half of each tank was once junk. Yet, for lack of scrap some steel mills have had to close down furnaces and others are new shut-downs. "Let's fire up those steel mills again with scrap rom the homes and farms and businesses of the Rocky Mountain region." In each community, newspapers are working with local and county coun-ty salvage committees in staging the intensified campaign. Details of collection vary between towns, but the objectives of the drive are the same throughout the nation; na-tion; scrap metals, particularly . iron and steel, old rubber, rags, ' burlap, rope. Waste kitchen fats' go to the meat deealer, and old keys into the nearest "victory key pan.'' - Beginning October 5, the Rocky Mountain scrap drive will have added to it the weight and en-thusaism en-thusaism of thousands of school children. AH the school children of the nation become members of a Junior Salvage corps two million strong on Oct. 5 for a two.week house-to-house, blocjk-by-block and farm-by.farm hunt for junk. Details of each community's com-munity's cooperation in the school campaign have been worked work-ed out between state and local school officials and salvage committees. com-mittees. COPPER CHEMICALS RELEASED FOR USE BY FARMERS The War Production board has revised its orders to make available avail-able to farmers certain copper chemicals needed for soil treat- |