The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-06-17

| And now there should be more
lon library shelves to accommodate
a greater number of books if they
|are of the war model type. For
publishers are making books light
Ter and easier to handle. It's so
they can manage, with wartime
restrictions on publishing materi-
|als that lighter-weight paper stock
is being used, that margins are
narrower, the space between lines
1of print is being reduced and the
number of pages are being de-
creased However, that doesn't
mean that there will be fewer
books published.
| Don't be generous with your
unused red or blue point ration
stamps and turn them over to
your merchant at the end of the
ration period, the OPA has warned
Mrs. America. For this gesture,
innocent as it may seem, helps
stimulate black markets for al
though the stamps are no longer
good for consumer purchases they
are valid for use by the retailer
through trade channels for some
time. The best thing for any
housewife to do with unused red
or blue point stamps at the end
of the ration period is to destroy
them. : r. .-..Ers. II. r. 4
And speaking of ration stamps,
here's reminder. Red 81" stamps
are good throughout the month
of June instead of expiring May
81. The schedule of validity Of
other red stamps for the meats
and fats program in June is as
follows: "K" good from May 80
through June 30; Ell" valid be-
ginning June 6; "M", good begin
ming June 13; and en-, valid be-
ginning June 20. ALI will expire
on June 80.
Unless an army or volunteers
can be recruited locally to staff
canneries, Americans will have less
canned goods next year. And this
is an important step in the pro-
duction of food vital to winning
the war which can be taken by
Mrs. America. In most COM
munities the local US Employ
ment Service office can give you
information about working in
cannery. 1t is expected that in
nearly all communities housewives
or employed women and others
who cannot give up their full time
will be willing to devote parts Of
days or nights or certain amount
of time each during the season to
this essential war food production.
And speaking of canning food,
here's latest information regarding
the supply and cost of pressure
cookers. Because of the urgent
need for home food preservation
equipment, the WPB has allotted
materials to produce another 125,-
900 cookers bringing the total out
|put to 275,000 which will exceed
any previous years production.
The available cookers are being
allocated through country farm
rationing committees established
by the Department of Agriculture.
Specific dollars and cents ceilings
have been set by the OPA on three
war models of pressure cookers.
June brides setting up house
keeping will find that a new ice
box-as precious as it is these
days-won't take an unnecessarily
large slice out of the home fur
nishing budget. The OPA has set
specific dollars and cents prices
on new ice boxes, and regardless of
where one buys this type of equip
ment, the ceiling prices are spelled
out model-by-model and state-by-
state. A tag must be attached to
the ice box giving the make and
model, rated ice capacity, ceiling
price, and selling price, and the
tag must not be removed before
delivery of the ice box to the user.
The War Production Board re-
Gently increased the quota of ice
hoxes to he manufactured for