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Show ON THE HOME FRONT COST OF LIVING CLIMBS 0.4 PER CENT TO AUG. 13 Led by sharp increases for certain cer-tain foods exempt from price control, con-trol, the cost of living rose by 0.1 per cent from July 15 to August Au-gust 15, the regional economist for the bureau of Labor Statistics Statis-tics in Denver, reported last week The Bureau's cost- of-living index in-dex now stands at 117.4 per cent of the 1935-39 level, about 19 per cent higher than when the war started in Europe. OPA CAMPAIGNS AGAINST UPGRADING OF MEAT Following up closely its vigorous vigor-ous drive against the upgrading of meats, the Office of Price Adminstration Ad-minstration has ordered more rigorous grading requirements of both beef and veal by every meat packer in United States. As the inital corrective :step in the program pro-gram OPA has directed that all beef and veal carcases and cuts sold as 'choice" quality must be so graded and grade-marked under un-der supervisin of official Department Depar-tment of Agriculture graders. TYPEWRITER RATIONING RULES ARE CHANGED An amendment to the typewriter typewri-ter rationing regulations materially, mater-ially, broadenes the classification of those eligible to buy both standard stand-ard and portable machines. Add"d to the list of eligible purchasers are contractors engaged in war work, the merchant marine, labor unions, employers associations and agencies auxiliary to the war effort such as the United Service Oganization and the Red Cross. ALL-PURPOSE RATION BOOK BEING PRINTED The first of the nation's "al-purpose" "al-purpose" ration books, designed to provide a swift means for rationing ra-tioning any article or commodity almost at the instant the danger of a critical shortage appears, are now being printed. The book contains con-tains 192 coupons on eight pages, pag-es, each page a separate color, and each coupon separately designed de-signed by number and letter. The design makes possible the use of the book for1 straight coupon rationing ra-tioning such as is njw used for sugar, or use of the "point system' whereby the consumer may 'spend his ration on various grades and kinds of a general type of commodity. MOUNTAIN REGION SHIPS 21.310 TONS OF STEEL The five states of the Rocky Mountain region shipped 21,310 tons of iron and steel scrap in July, according to official Bureau of Mines figures released last month. Wyoming led the other states by shipping 2,680 tons or 13 8 per cent of its quota 'of 27,000 tons to be moved before January 1, 1943. Utah per cent of quota shipped was 13.0, or 4,290 tons. |