The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-03-25
Meats and Fats VIII Be
Rationed Monday, March
70; System Explained

crom announced by the OlIlces' Oh
nr;ce Administration" said G. @.
willians, chairman of the kenne-
uick rationing board. Housewives
aill have no difficulty at all in
shonning with their rad ration
starns in War Ration Book Two
- . the new program goes into
effect on March 90" -. "
Although the ration list includes a
wide variety of foods, including all
meats and many cheeses,5 as well
:. shortcomings and salad oils, but
Tor and margarine, canned fish, and
manv other items, from the point
If view of the housewife who does
the shopping it will really be a
simple matter. gsgs ss-z Fsz,r r..
aall these foods will be rationed
with a single set of stamps" Mr..
Williams pointed out, land the
b,,sv housewife will have to consult
univ one table of point values to
find out how many ration points any
Of these foods will cost"
aThis latest program requires no
registration of any kind" added
Mr. Williams. "War Ration Books
Two are already distributed, and
when the program goes into effect,
housewives will already have had a
full months experience in the use
of their point-ration books in buy
ing processed foods. Neither will
consumers be asked to report any
stocks of foods they may have on
hand" III
AOne of the few differences be-
tween the use of the blue and red
stamps in War Ration Book Two, is
the order in which stamps will be
declared valid
When rationing begins on March
20, the first set of stamps, marked
A, with l6 points, will be valid
Beginning on April 4, and then on
each succeeding Sunday throughout
April, a additioal set of stamps will
be validated. All these stamps, from
"a through "E" inclusive will re-
main in use all month, making a
total of 80 points per person for
April.
Another difference in the use OF
the red stamps is that that it per-
mits retailers to make change" In
ration stamps when customer
finds it impossible to give the exact
amount of valid red stamps when
making purchase. Only one-point
red stamps of any series currently
valid may be used for this purpose
During the week of April 4 and 10
for example, storekeepers may give
their customers red one-point
stamps marked "a" or "B" in
change. Customers are reminded
IN this connection, that they must
use stamps they receive in change
by the end of the month in which
they are issued and before tfsy
exptre-just as they must use the
stamps IN their own books.
As red stamps are declared valid
tney may be used with complete
freedom of choice by the housewife
70 buy any one, or any combination
OF the foods for which they must be
surrendered. There is no distinction
mace IN the use of the red stamps
as between meat and cheese, or any
OF the other foods for which these
stamps are to be spent. =
For example" explained Mr.. Will
nams, "a housewife who comes into
the store with 40 points to spend
nom the ration books of her family
may spend all of them for meat, OF
al Of them for butter or cheese
VI she may, if she wishes, divide
W ner points, and buy butter AND
caeese, or margarine and meat, OF
any other combination of food she
chooses IT,
Foint values for the. entire lisi
" FOODS rationed in Kennewick vii
oe the same as in every retail store
~ Inc country-just as they are fol
sained goods. Point prices of diff.
.slent cuts of meat will be differ.
cut Just as the point price of april
oS and peas, for example, is diff.
.e.ent. However, there will be ne
~. in point price between
inherent grades of the same cut Of
asat-nor between different grade.
- aard cheese, nor the same guam.
u.y OF any kind of butter.
Many farmers, even those wht
PIRATE on a very small scale, pro.
suce some of the foods included
: ~ae new ration program for the
ol their families, Mr.. William.
NJ punOeo out. Although the new plar
a'es no official restrictions on tht
VI any of these foods at tn,
s.iners own table the government
questing that farm families re-
IT, req stamps in their family ra'
ns vh books in an amount equal il
s0,iS value to the foods produced
aao eaten at home.
FARMER who slaughters a Mig h,