Show 4 P P intermountain war front f t the overall over all price ceiling cel ling officially fici ally la belled the general maximum price regulation went into effect throughout the united states toi for sales at retail last monday may 18 and merchants mei chants of the tha rocky mountain region legion have shown every indication ot of a sincere and add conscientious effort to put the of the regulation into operation according to clera clem W colllns collins regional leg lonal director of the office of price administration tho the price pi ice ceiling regulation 11 colllns collins said gald la is a most important part of 0 our battle against a rising of living and we must work together to insure its success in these first few weeks of 0 operation under the regul aaion the public must be patient and tolerant it it Is a physical impossibility for so vast a program tu to function smoothly overnight the general igene ial buying public will form 01 in a substantial service bybe by being patient while the businessmen of the nation and the government work out the inevitable last cnute problems of the program every american should be thoroughly familiar with the pro v visions iscol of the regulation and 11 of the should liou I 1 ha have v e f faith at th in the good will of our merchants mei chants and the ability of our government to enforce the regulation belling prices supersede state fair trade la anwa vs OPA administrator leon 11 hendel e n derson son has announced the ceilings e established s by the general ual mum price regulation will control retail prices ir in ease case of any conflict with state fair trade laws liams pair fair trade agreements cannot require a retailer retail ei to sell above his ceiling price henderson said victory shirt design Is proposed simplification measures too to produce more shirts out of less cloth were discussed at a meeting of the shirt manufacturers industry ad committee with clothing and textile officials the proposals calculated not to change materially the appearance of prewar shirts include shorter shirt tails no french cuffs no pockets shorter shelter collar points the I 1 he suggested changes would save millions of yards of cloth annually and make possible the production of several million additional shirts 4 antl anti I diceo nce S supply ul p ly 11 will ll lie be adequate Pro production luction of antifreeze anti freeze will i be placed upon a quota basis quotas haio not yet et been set but they the ai aie a expected to approximate 50 60 per pei cent of tho the amount ot of anti id breeze beeze sold by each producer in 1941 the production permitted however la Is expected to be sufficient to fill requirements of the lessened gumbei of autos which will be by b next winter softwood Soft Mood lumber production I 1 I 1 frozen the war wai production board has haa frozen froyen tor for a period of 60 days das all tales sales and de deliveries li veries by large producers of softwood construction lumber luin bei except to meet the needs of the army nay navy and maritime commission the order affects about 70 per cent of the nations so softwood lumber production v 1 1 ag 1 1 1 4 t y C 0 1 1 5 ta 1 1 c tf can move alove ahead federal state county and mu road load departments may go ahead with their spring and construction of e essential highways without individual authorization of each project the war wai production board ruled last week cek each department however must lie file a monthly report of materials used and ordered ana the director of industry ind operations way lua at any time order a project ended it if he determines debei mines the labor materials and equipment being used are more moie urgently needed elsewhere only materials which are aie erdl dalily nailly available callable aal lable locally sue such as sand gravel etc may be used under the new order older which provides that no steel shall be used except from tile stocks now in the hands ot of contractors tonti actors or highway departments no preference ratings will be issued for materials to be used in road load construction one A adm day postponed to june 1 effective date of a portion ot of a recent lecent office of defense trans por atlon tation order 01 dei restricting local delivery services has been postponed to june 1 the postponement applies to tile the section which eliminates special deliveries call backs and more moie than one delvery to the same person in one day by any powered or horse drawn rub ber bei tired vp vehicle bicle wool scraps requested or 01 red ked cross cros the WIB clothing section action suggests that tailors and clothing ktores turn over the the red cross old wool samples toi for which they no longer have bao use and all of their wool clips and scraps the red cross already Is collecting trouser cuff clips the scrap cloth is reprocessed processed le into ess essential civilian chilian garments gai ments and the proceeds help the rel cross carry cairy or on its valuable talu able wartime program Consel conca lc 0 sugar supplied OPA advises households which had excess decess amounts of sugar and were ft ere not issued war var ration lation books during the registration are advised by the office of price administration to police their own use of sugar in ili accordance accod dance with the designated consumer sugar allotments chocolate lio colato production Pio slashed 30 per cent the has curtailed the supply of cocoa products product si used in making such confections confect ions as chocolate candy chocolate coated foods powdered cocoa chocolate covered ice cream cocoa butter abil chocolate syrup Pro production luction Is cut about 30 per cent for the second quarter of 1942 ceiling pi ili lees ices must iso ile posted clearly the office of price pi ice tion has informed merchants mei chants that ceiling prices on the specified list of cost coat of living commodities must be posted in a macnei plainly visible to the buying public the OPA has ruled that a book a loose leaf leal folder or a card caid index located near the merchandise does not satisfy the requirement that the price be plainly visible |