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Show COMMUNITY SERVICE i RE11 STAMPS Butter. Meats, Fats T5 through X5, expire April 28: ,Y5 through L)2, expire Tune .2. E2 through J2, expire .lutio SO; li-Z through P2, valid April 1, ex. pire July 31. Gcl for fats, meats I butter, cheese and canned milU. HI I K STAMPS Proeesed Foods C2 through G2, expire April 28; H2 through M2, expire Jane 2; X2 through S2, expires .limo 30, T2 through X2 valid April 1, ex pire July 31, Good for processed fruits and vegetables, 0 Sugar, Sugar stamp 35, good f ir five pounds of sugar, expires June 2. tvY stamp becomes valid May 1. ' Shoes, Book Three, Airplane Stamp, 1, 2, 3, good indefinitely. Gasoline. A-15, valid March 22, ..good for four gallons, B7 and O" now be-ing be-ing issued. Community Service Kelaase 197. Five new ration stamps, worth ten points each for a total of 50 points, have been validated for the April rationing period, Mrs. R. L. Mc Kean community ser-I ser-I vice member of the Salt Lake City board, stated this week. The new stamps are K-2-, L2, M2N2, and P2. They are good from the first of April through July. Five new blue stamps have been validated for teh same period. per-iod. They are T2, U2, V2, W2 and X2, The only sugar stamp that is now good in sugar stamp--35.-It may be used through June 2. Another sugar stamp will become good on the first of May. Dwindling supplies of meat re-suited re-suited in the OPA increasing the point values of pork from one to two points a pound on meat pork cuts and pork products effective Sunday, April 1. An estimated 5 per cent less pork, Price Admins-trator Admins-trator Chester Bowles repotted, will be available in April than i" March. Point increases were decided on to aid in getting better d',stribu-tion. d',stribu-tion. Increases also orderded for fats and shortening, not including , butter. Point values on other typ- es of ' meat remain unchanged. There will be more veal, lamb and mutton available than during the first quarter of the year but less beef and pork. Community Service Release 198. Sixteen Davis County high school boys received suspension orders, effective April 3, suspend, ing them under federal rationing regulations from driving motor vehicle or acquiring gasoline for periods ranging from six months to the duration of rationing. Mrs R L. McKean, community service member of the Salt Lake City war price and rationing board, reported this week. The orders were signed by E. H. Az'oill district special hearing officer. Two others were put on a six months probation period. Previously tried before Judge Theodore Bone of the First Dis-trict Dis-trict Juvenile delinquency, the boys adimtted that they had acquired ac-quired gasoline stamps from an- other student who stole them from a Bountiful service station. Sim-iliar Sim-iliar cases are still pending. "Vimmunity Service Release 196. Retailers of clothing and house-furnishings house-furnishings who are required to file price charts by April 20 need not file these charts on official forms Hamer S. Culp, chairman of the Salt Lake City war price and rationing board said the week The regulations specifically states that merchants may draw their own charts on blank paper, ers consume their purchase off the' premises of retailers. New ceiling prices were put into effect for such sales: Western beer, 12. ounce bottles reduced from 17 to 10 and 12 cents per bottle: Eastern beer, 12-ounce bottles from 22 to 16 cents. Prices of beer consumed on the premises vere not changed DRAIN ON GASOLINE ' The terrific cost in manpower and supplies required to invade the Jap stronghold of Iwo Jima gives some idea of the effect of total war on national resources. According to the lates figures that operation alone has required i enough fuel oil to fill a train of cars - 10,000 gallons each 2381 miles long; enough gasoline to operate 301,730 automobiles for a full year; enough lubricating oil he pointed out, so long as they follow t he pattern of the chart each merchant receives with his copy of the new regulation. It is entirely possible for any tommeroiali printer to duplicate and sell copies of the blank form, he stated. Retailers may make up their own charts, or may purchase them from commercial printers. BEER DRINKERS Relief for beer drinkers of the tate was afforded this week. The OPA put the operators of beer parlors on the same basis as grocery groc-ery stores in the case where buy- for one complete oil change in 466,000 automobiles: enough food to feed a city the size of Colum. bus, Ohio, for 30 days; enough ami munition to fill 463 cars. This drain on the Nation's supplies is the reason for rationing. |