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Show RATION PROGRAM RATION REMINDER SUGAR Coupon No. 12 good for five pounds must last through May 31 Coupons for sugar fur home canning available at local ration boards on and after May 1.1. COFFEE Stamp No. 23 good for one pound through May 3D. SHOES Stamp No. 17 in War Ration Book One good for one pair through June 15. MEATS, BUTTER, FATS AND CANNED FISH Red stamps E, F, G, H remain valid through j May. Red stamp J becomes valid May 23. PROCESSED FOODS-Blue stamps st-amps G, H, J remain valid through May. MAXIMUM CEILINGS SET ON'! MARKET BASKET FOODS Maximum dollars - and - cents prices are being established by OPA for the market areas of metropolitan centers throughout the United States and are expected ex-pected to cover 80 per cent of the fooda in the family market-basket market-basket by June 1. In Utah, maximum max-imum prices are being estaolish-ed estaolish-ed at once for the Salt Lake, ( Ogden, and Provo area which includes in-cludes most of the territory between be-tween Provo and north Weber county limits at Hot Springs. It extends west to Tooele and east to Park City. This will be enlarged en-larged as rapidly as possible with the Price, Utah area the next to be included, according to H. Crar.t Ivins, Utah state OPA director. The community-wide top pres are intended to simplify regulations regula-tions for the storekeeper and the housewife and to make the consumer con-sumer a partner in the enforcement enforce-ment of wartime price ceilings. Three Salt Lake City girls who enlisted as Privates in the U. S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve have reported to the U. S. Naval Training School at Hunter1 Coll-lege, Coll-lege, N. Y. C, for a six-week indoctrination in-doctrination course. They are Miss Lillian Frances Culp, 1357 Yale Avenue, Miss Mary Arline Henry, 215 G Street, and Miss Myra Iorg, 164 South 13th East. At Hunter they will undergo .physical conditioning and will, have courses of instruction in close order drill, history and trad-and trad-and naval courtesy and eti uette ition of the Marine Corps, military map reading, chemical warfare, administrations and weapons. Upon conclusion of the course they will be assigned to duty at Marine Corps Bases to free Marines Ma-rines for combat, or they may attend at-tend school operated by the Navy and Marine Corps for further technical tech-nical treaining. Miss Culip is the daughter of Hamer S. Culp, head of the Salt Lake war-price and rationing board and attendance East High school and the University of Utah, graduating grad-uating in 1942. She is a member of the Eastern Star and Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and has been employed by the Mountain State.3 Telephone and Telegraph Co. Miss Henry is the daughter of Robert L. Henry, of Bedford, Iowa, and has been employed at the Utah Ordance Plant. Sthe is an expert in firemans and can assemble or dissenable many basic weapons as well as a seasoned Leatherneck, beside testing rifles under firing conditions. Miss Iorg is the daughter of Claude H. Iorg, of Upalco, Utah, and was graduated from Roosevelt Roose-velt High School in 1939. She has been employed as a postel clerk. a CANNERIES NEED LABOR SOON Canneries in Utah are expected to need labor within a week or so with a peak of 5,497 workers necessary for the 26 food processing pro-cessing plants during ' the week of July 11, Theodore R Maughan, I associate state director of thei United States Employment Service, Serv-ice, said this week. Because of the shortage of full-time full-time labor, it is believed that many plants will have to use part-time labor from war plants, housewives who are able to work a portion of the time and business busi-ness workers. Communities in which the canneries operate may have to declare an occasional! "business holiday," closing ilownj all activitv to meet the demand during- the peak season, Mr. Maughan said. APPLICATIONS ISSTTF.D FOR RATION BOOK Application forms for War Ration Ra-tion Book Three were being distributed dis-tributed this week by mail carriers car-riers in both Utah and Idaho. The distribution started Thursday, May 20 and will continue throughout through-out the month. The forms, made up of three sections, are to be filled out and returned by mail to the regional OPA mailing center in Denver, Colorado, by: June 10. War Ration Book Three will be mailed to applicants from the center. OVERSEAS PARCEL POST Packages may now be mailed to a soldier overseas if a request is received from the soldier and the envelope bearing the APO cancellation can-cellation mark is presented at the time of mailing. Formerly, the approval of the commanding officer was required. Current restrictions as to weight and S'ze of packages remain in effect. MUST CARRY DRAFT CARDS Selective Service registrants who were 18 years old on or before be-fore November 15, 1942, must have their local board classification classifica-tion cards (Selective Service foi-m 57), as well as their registration certificate (Form 2), in their personal per-sonal possession after May 13. Men without both cards are liable to fine and imprisonment, Selective Selec-tive Service headquarters warned, board. |