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Show Community Service Release Office Of Price Adminstration Salt Lake City, Utah OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION Red stamps from War Ration Book Two will be surrendered by consumers in Salt Lake City board area and throughout the United States when they purchase pur-chase meat, butter, other fats and oils, cheese, and canned fish after midnight of Sunday, March 28, according to Mrs. R. L. Mc-Kean, Mc-Kean, community service member mem-ber of the Salt Lake City war price and rationing board. Beginning Be-ginning Monday March 29, these commodities will be rationed after af-ter the point system. During April each holder of War Ration Book Two, regardless regard-less of age, will have a basic allotment al-lotment of 16 points per to spend As in the case of processed foods one member of the family may shop with the books of all members, mem-bers, i Red "A" stamps wilt become valid on March 29, "B" stamps on April 4, and C, D. and E, stamps will become valid on each succeeding Monday through April 25. All of these stamps may be used until April 30, w hen they become invalid. The meats and fats rationing program will enclude fresh, frozen froz-en cured, smoked, and canned meats and meat products derived de-rived from beef, veal, lamb, mutton, mut-ton, and pork, as well as varity meats (heart, tongue, etc.). and sausages. It will also include canned fish, most natural and processed cheeses, butter, lard margarine, shortening, salad and cooking oils. The program will not ration fresh, frozen smoked of pickled fish, fish in containers not hermetically sealed poultry and game, whether fresh, frozen or canned, olive oil, salad dressing dress-ing and mayonaise. Soft or perishable per-ishable cheese such as cream, cottage, neufchatel, pot, bakers, camembert, liederkrans, drie and blue. Cheese speads and cheese, products containing less than 39 per cent of rationed cheese also are not rationed. Whether or not sales will be frozen prior to rationing will depend de-pend on how the buying public proceeds in the remaining period, per-iod, it is stated. In any case, it is not anticipated that sales of meats will be frozen. OPA anticipates housewives will have little difficulty with the meat and fat program since they will have a month of experience ex-perience with point rationing. In some ways, this program will be simpler than the processed foods rationing program as no registration regis-tration will be necessary, nor consumers declare their supplies of meats or fats on hand. Point values of the meat and fats to be rationed beginning March 29 will oe made public sometime during the week of March 22. Among the factors to be taken into account in assigning as-signing the values will be the relative re-lative scarcity of the various foods and in the sale of meats, those having a greater proportion propor-tion of bone will assigned to the lower price point values. Attention of the public was called to the first change in point values announced since the beginning of the processed food rationing program. Dried and dehydrated prunes and raisins have been cut from 20 points per paund to 12 points per pounc, while dried peas, beans, and lentils len-tils have been cut from 8 to 4 points per pound. Dates annd figs, other than those in hermetically sealed containers, con-tainers, have been removed entirely en-tirely from the Ust of foods currently cur-rently being .-ationed, it was stated. |