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Show COMMUNITY SERVICE Meats, Fats, Etc. Book Four, red stamps, A8 through Z8, A5 thro D5, good indefinitely. Processed foods, Book Four, blue stamps, A8 through Z8, A5 thro F5, good indefinitely. Sugar, five pounds. Book Four, No. 30, 31, 32, good indefinitely. Shoes, Book Three, Airplane stamp 1, 2, good indefinitely. Gasoline, A-12 good1 for three gallons, September- 21 inclusive. Don't dispose of cover to your A gasoline book. You must have it for renewal of gasoline rations. r The Utah State Liquor Cntrol Commission received a request from the Utah OPA district office of-fice to desist from making com-bination com-bination or tie-in sales of whisky and rum. The OPA contends that state liquor stores are in violation of OPA regulations, and failure to heed the request may result 1 in court action. With a few exceptions, the -sale of articles through tying in sales is prohibited by the OPA. In the opinion of the OPA ,-the liquor cemmission is not authorized to move their surplus stocks at ceiling ceil-ing price by tying it to a readly saleable article such as pints of whisky. Failure to comply to the OPA's request may result in court action. According to the OPA. combination com-bination or tying-in sales are forbidden for-bidden with the exception of some articles. A new red stamp became good Sunday August 13. Red stamp D5 is good for 10 points for an indefinite in-definite period. The additional stamp was made valid to take care of the return of most cuts of pork, ham and other foods to the ration list. Housewives are warnd not to send their Sugar stamp 40 to the local boards for canning sugar. sug-ar. Sugar stamp 40 is good for five poundg of canning sugar and-may and-may be presented at any market. I The National Safety Council's traffic and transportation division ' division estimates that 7 0 010 American cars a day land on the junk heap. More conservative esti-estimates esti-estimates are 4000, but no matter i which figure you sleet, the auto-1 I mobile is disappearing at an alarming rate. aauly alarm t i .. HOW POINT VALUES ARE DETERMINED As the first step in allocating wartime food supplies, the Gov-1 ernment determines the total amount of the various (foods butter for example- that the nation na-tion can produce during a given perio. Then the Army and Navy decide de-cide what they will need. Ofcourse our boys in uniform are entitled :to fjrst call on our food supplies. What is left over after the needs of our Armed Forces are supplied, is what remains for civilian' use. I From October, 1943, to April, 1944, the point value was reduc- .ed to 12 points a pound. In mjd-' July, the point value of 16 red points a pound was restored. I WHY POINT VALUES ARE CHANGED According to information pre- pared by the War Food Administration, Adminis-tration, creamery butter production produc-tion for the first seven months of I 1944 totaled 988.700,000 pounds in the same seven months of 1943 This was a decrease of more than 10 per cent. In a nutshell, point values were increasing because the demand was going up while the supply was going down. |
