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Show " RATION NOTES . Take care of your ration books. Even after you have spent stamps Y and Z, keep Ration Book Three lor it may have an emergency use. But especially guard Ration "Book Pour. It will have to last two years if the need for rationing lasts that long. By giving Book Four a longer life, through the use of nation token change, the OPA will save Uncle Sam four and a Half million dollars. Children's clothing and adult's Jow-cost clothing have become scarce In stores. Both OPA and WPB are taking action to insure adequate production of essential civilian goods, particularly increased increas-ed supplies of infants' and children's child-ren's clothing, which should arrive ar-rive on retail counters during February and March. Chester Bowles, OPA Administrator, announces: an-nounces: "As tithe goes on we are determined that an increased percentage per-centage of these goods will carry , -easy-to-recognize dollar-and-cents prices marked on each article." "Know the Top Ceiling Prices" is going to be the OPA watchword watch-word this spring. Every store selling sell-ing rationed goods is required to keep a list of these maximum prices posted. Public libraries, community centers, consumer's leagues and women's organizations are participating vigorously in the campaign to help enforce ceiling prices. You should learn these ceiling ceil-ing prices and know them as well as your dealer. Food last year was a vital consideration con-sideration of the war program. This year, it will be even more important. War Food Administrator Marvin Jones announces the United States will need the largest larg-est crop of fruits and vegetables we have ever grown. Every seed you plant, every jar of fruit you put up will help. So don't forget to start planning your Victory Garden. Hound-Up Nearly 40 per cent of all vegetables vege-tables grown for fresh consumption consump-tion in the United States last year came from victory gardens, the War Food administration reported re-ported . . . WFA says that 52,000 Mexican Nationals will be needed to help relieve the farm labor shortage in the United States this year. Approximately 14,000 already are in this country . . . Living costs for city families decreased two-tenths of one per cent between be-tween mid-December and mid-January, the secretary of Labor reports. re-ports. Although services continued to increase in cost, both food and clothing cost declined . . . OPA has granted regional administration administra-tion authority to recommend that slaughterers who wilfully violate any OPA meat regulation be deprived de-prived in whole or in part of their subsidy payments . . . OPA suggests that retailers keep a reserve re-serve of one-point green and brown stamps on hand during the first week or two ration tokens are used, in case they have underestimated un-derestimated their token needs. OPA has ordered a reserve of 200 million tokens to be ready not later than April 7 ... A food producer who wishes to get electric elec-tric power extension for water to irrigate as much as five acres of land may apply to his county Agricultural Ag-ricultural Conservation committee, WPB has announced . . . WPB has authorized the manufacture of approximately half a million venameled cold pack canners with jar capacity of seven one-quarts, one-quarts, nine one-pints, or four half-gallons, to be available for this canning season |
