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Show COMMUNITY SERVICE Ration Reminder Processed Foods Green stamps G, H and J Eook Four expire February 20. Meats, Fats, Etc. Brown stamps R, S, and U Book Three expire January 29; V and W valid January 30 expire February Feb-ruary 26. Suirar Elack stamp 30 Book Four expires ex-pires March 31, 1944. Sugar coupons issued to purchase sugar for home canning are good through February 29, 1944. Shoes Stamp No. 18 Book One and Airplane Air-plane stamp No. 1 Book Three both good for one pair of shoes. No expiration date has been set for these stamps. Thirty days advance ad-vance notice will be given if and when an expiration date is set. (iasnline Stamp No. 10 A Book good for three gallons until March 22, subject sub-ject to change. Kill the Black Market Endorse Your Gas Coupons! A Weekly Announcement No. 6 American consumers have more points for pork than there is pork to buy. The present backing up of hogs at terminal markets is due, not to a surplus . of the meat but to limited storage space, limited slaughterhouse facilities and a grave shortage of manpower. If it were made point free, the ration i value of other rationed meats andj butter and cheese would have tO be increased by about 62 per centj to absorb the stamps now available avail-able for pork. Pork is actually becoming be-coming scarce on the Alantic and Pacific coasts, and the situation would be aggravated by removal of pork rationing. ICE CREAM The price of ice cream is going ( to remain right where it is at least untl February 23rd, OPA has announced. The price agency has just extended a temporary price provision on ice cream to that date, pending issuans of a per- rmanent price regulation" for this " commodity. ' f i J Red stamps in book four num bered ''g" from letters 'A' through "M" 12 stamps in all, the board member said, have been the value of ten points each and may be used us-ed to purchase fresh meat from a farm or slaughterhouse only, not a retailer. Community Service Release 77 To assist farmers in marketing market-ing supplies of fresh meat, particularly par-ticularly pork, the OPA has validated vali-dated advance use of stamps in war ration book four, Mrs. R. L. McKean, community service member mem-ber of the Salt Lake City war rationing ra-tioning war price and rationing board announced this week. |