The Lexington advertiser., 1942-04-30
Answers To Questions
About Sugar RatiOning

d. C. Lundy, Chairman of Local Ra-
tioning Board No. 26, announces that
the following questions are typical of
those you may ask concerning the sugar
registration:
Q. How much sugar can l get with
each stamp!
A. You may buy / pound of sugar
with each of the first four stamps.
@. Can l get the same amount of
sugar with each stamp?
A. Not necessarily. The ration of SUI
gar may be changed from time to time
according to the total supply of sugar
in the country. The ration for each
stamp will be publicly announced by
the government.
@. How long is each stamp good for ?
A. Each stamp will be good for the
period to be announced by the Office of
Price Administration. The time each
stamp is good for will be publicly an
nounced by the Government.
@. Can ! save up the stamps and get
all my sugar at one time.
A. No. Each stamp is good for only
the announced period.
@. Do we each have to take our War
Ration Books in person to the store in
order to buy sugar?
A. No. Anyone may take your War
Ration Book to buy sugar, provided
they are buying sugar for you. The
mother or the father or any one of the
children, or anyone connected with a
family may take some or all the War
Ration Books to the grocer to buy the
entire households supply of sugar.
Q. Suppose do not buy sugar at all?
A. There is no occasion for you to
buy sugar except as you need it. But
keep your War Ration Book carefully.
1t may, at later time, be necessary to
use it for other commodities if they are
rationed.
@. May l tear out stamp and take it
to the store to buy sugar?
A. No. You must take the War Ration
Book with you and tear out the stamp
in the presence of the storekeeper or
his employees.
O. Suppose / order sugar by telephone?
A. Before the person making the de-
livery can give you the sugar you must
show him the War Ration Book, or the
family's ration books, and in his pres
ence tear out enough stamps-not more
than one from each book-to cover the
amount of sugar you have ordered. He
cannot give you more sugar than your
stamps allow even if it has been sent.
He would have to take the balance back
to the store. Give the person delivering
the sugar the stamps you tear out OF
the War Ration Books.
@. What if l need more sugar than
get with my War Ration Book?
A. If it is absolutely necessary for
you or your family to have more sugar
for home canning, illness or some other
special reason, you may go to your Lo-
cal Rationing Board. They will decide
whether YOU can have this sugar, and
how much you can have. They may then
issue to you q special certificate permit
ting YOU to buy specified amount OF
sugar for a specified purpose. You will
not need to use the War Ration Book
or Books in buying sugar with this Ger
tificate.
@. What do / do if my War Ration
Book is lost, stolen, destroyed or mu-
tilated?
A. Report the facts to the Local Ra-
tioning Board at once.
@. Can / send my War Ration BOOK
home to my family to use?
A. No. Your War Ration Book is is
sued to be used by or for you. The su-
gar it permits you to buy is intended to
be used by you or by the family OF
which YOU are member and with whom
you live.
@. Do these War Ration Stamps en-
title me to get sugar for nothing?
A. No. They only entitle you to buy
sugar. They determine the amount OF
sugar you or anyone else may buy.
@. Do I have to buy sugar because l
have a War Ration Book?
A. No. The War Ration Book gives
you the right to buy certain amounts OF
sugar. If you no not need sugar do not
buy it.
@. If my family has enough stamps
can we buy more than 2 pounds of su-
gar at time?
A. Yes, You can buy as much sugar as
your family's stamps entities them to
in the period during which these stamps
are valid.
@. / make candy and cakes and sell
them to make money. How can l get su-
gar need for these?
A. Apply and register at the Local Ra-
tioning Board. They may give you spe-
cial certificate to use to get the sugar
YOU are allowed for your business.
@. / live in boarding house. May
have a book just the same.
A. Yes YOU may.