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Show CONSUMERS GUIDE POST WHATS NEW Rumors that OPA intends to cancel spare stamp nine for canning can-ning sugar and to invalidate sugar stamp 39 have been circulated circu-lated recently. OPA announces that it has no intention whatsoever whatso-ever of cancelling spare stamp nine. This stamp will remain valid for five pounds of canning sugar throughout the canning season. Housewives are urged to save this stamp until they start canning so as to assure having sugar when it is needed. An additional canning stamp wil be issued later on in the season. sea-son. Sugar stamp 39 will remain valid for five pounds of sugar until April 30 as previously announced an-nounced by the office of price administration. ad-ministration. A former Salt Lake businessman, business-man, M. Paul Mertlick, now living liv-ing in Sao Paulo, Brazil, reports "The cost of living here is much higher than in the states even with our good exchanges with the dollar." A loaf of bread is 25 cents. Milk 25 cents a quart. Rent is up three times, but above all to get the key of the house, after they have you sign a contract con-tract or lease, you pay from $50 to S500. Taxi fare, if meters reads 50 cents you pay $1-00. Wages are from 15 to 35 cents an hour for laborers and clerks get $50 to $70 per month." Even George Washington had shirt troubles. After the Revolutionary Revolu-tionary War, he found the shirt shortage just as bad as it is today. to-day. In a letter to an old friend he asked if it would be possible to have several shirts made for him if he supplied "the linnen and a piece of Cambrick." He said that he had been unable to buy any shirts with sleeve and collar ruffles that would fit with "proper bigness." |