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Show ON THE HOME FRONT The moot question of sugar rationing ra-tioning still is not settled, according accord-ing to Stanley J. Stephenson, State Director of Rationing Boards of the Utah Council of Defense, although some advance information has come through. The Government has asked all school boards and all school teachers teach-ers to cooperate in the rationing program by handling the registration regis-tration of all heads of families, or heads of households when the nation-wide registration is provided pro-vided for. They were also asked to handle the distribution of rationing ra-tioning carde for sugar. As in all previous rationing, this will be accomplished ac-complished through the County Councils of Defense of the Utah State Council of Defense. Registration cards will be provided pro-vided by the government and will be distributed through the Utah State Council to the County Council Coun-cil and will then be distributed to the schools. With them will go a set of instructions coverning every ev-ery detail of the first of the nation's na-tion's great rationing programs. As far as sugar is concerned, it will be necessary to register the head or "buying" person of each household, after which rationing ra-tioning books will be issued for each person of the household. It is not necessary for any personto see any county rationing board in connection with sugar rationing, ration-ing, because there are no exceptions excep-tions to the rule under any consideration. con-sideration. Those who have bought sugar previously in the hope of having a surplus stock are doomed doom-ed to disapointment, since the government rules insist that all sugar on hand over two pounds per person in the household be declared, and this will be deducted deduct-ed from their normal ration. If there is any idea that these rules can be evaded, they should be dispelled immediately since sales of sugar in recent months have been recorded by the retailers retail-ers and these records are open to government inspection. Those who are suspected of hoarding may find themselves in a situation that is emberrassing. Search warrants war-rants can be issued to reveal their hidden stocks. Violations are no mere misdemeanor; they involve a 510,000 fine or ten years imprisonment which will be invoked in-voked if the fortunes of war progress pro-gress against the nation as they have in the past few months. |