The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1944-11-16

Ration Calendar Tor Week of Nov. ID.
Processed Foods-Blue AS through
VS. Book ~ now valid at 10 points
each. Good indefinitely.
Meats and Fats-Red A-s through p
6 Book y now valid at ten points each
for use with tokens. Good Indefinitely.
Sugar-Stamps 80, 81, 32, SO, now good
for five pounds each indefinitely.
Stamp 81 good for five pounds indefini-
tely on Nov. 16.
Canning Sugar-Stamp No. 40 good
February %, 1945.
Shoes-Airplane stamps No. /, 2, and
3 valid indefinitely.
Gasoline-A-13 coupons valid through
December 81.
Rationing rules now require that
every car owner write his license mum
Der and state on all gasoline coupons
in his possession as soon as they are
issued him by his rationing board.
Rent-Rent regulations apply only to
property used for dwelling purposes.
The Office Of Price Administration
has acted to restore low-priced cigars
on the retail market and, at the same
time, compensate manufacturers for
sharply increased material and labor
costs.
The action is expected to make pos
sible estimated savings of fifty million
dollars annually to cigar smokers Of
the nation.
Under new maximum price schedules,
effective November 10, the Scent cigar
of March, 1912, will retail at 2 for Is
cents, the 10-cent cigar Of 1912 at 2 for
20 cents, and the 25-cent. cigar of 1912
at 2 for IS cents.
In granting the increases, OPA made
it mandatory that manufacturer re-
sumo production o. low-priced cigars
which had virtually disappeared from
the market under previous price sched-
ules, at a comparable ratio with 1912
sales.
The Office Of Price Administration
and Santa Claus are working together
this Christmas in an effort to keep
prices of toys within reach of families
with moderate incomes.
District Director Holcomb said OPA
prices for many new Christmas toys and
the toy price staff in Washington has
recently been tripled to take care Of
new items appearing on the market.
Although applications for maximum
prices have been arriving in the Wash
ington office at more than twice the
rate of last year, the increased staff
has been able to clear all filed proper
ly.
Major Holcomb said enforcement
staffs of OPA have been instructed to
give as much attention as possible to
Christmas toy sales this year to pre-
vent widespread overcharges such as re-
ported last year. Consumers are asked
to report suspected o~vercharges to their
local War Price and Rationing Board.
Used toys, as we'll as new toys, are
covered by OPA maximum prices, OPA
said, which require that such toys be
sold at no more than three-fourths of
the original cost if in good workable
condition.
Despite tremendous lnflatlonary pres
sures, overall food prices actually drop
ped 6.2 per cent from May, 1943, to
t March 1914, Major w. f. Holcomb, Dis
trict Director of the Office of Price
Administration, said today.
At the same time. figures cited by
OPA showed, the average family's ex-
!, penditure for food rose sharply because
most families were buying more and
tier quality of food. About 40 per cent
. of the average family's money spent
goes for food.
As victory nears the already increas-
5 ing demand for more and better food
/ will grow and greater inflationary pres
sures are expected, Major Holcomb said.
+, To maintain adequate price control on
| food as a bulwark against disastrous
initiation which followed the first World
War, groeers have joined with P in
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