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Imperial Valley Press
El Centro, Imperial County, California
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OPA officials addressed civic representatives in El Centro on Monday night, promoting the Home Front Pledge to enforce legal prices and rationing, aiming to combat inflation; pledge previously reduced New Orleans' cost of living by 5%.
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'I will pay no more than top legal prices. I will accept no rationed goods without giving up ration stamps.'
That is the home front pledge that El Centro citizens will be asked to sign and which was explained by district OPA officials Monday night at a meeting of representatives of various civic organizations in the Barbara Worth hotel, these representatives being asked to take the information back to their respective groups, asking the membership to sign the pledges.
Mrs. Olga Costello of the local war price and rationing board, presided and introduced four OPA officials: Dr. Walter Isle, San Francisco, regional education officer; Stewart O. Wicklin, San Diego, district price officer; Miss Emily Clayton, San Diego, district information officer; Glenn J. Sheen, San Diego, district trades relation officer.
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Dr. Isle stressed the necessity for understanding the part of citizens of the various programs and the individual responsibility of the citizen in the success of any program; Wicklin discussed inflation and the necessity for price fixing and rationing to combat it; Miss Clayton explained the home front pledge, pointing out that when it was first tried out in New Orleans, the cost of living decreased five per cent against a 1.7 per cent increase in the country as a whole; Sheen discussed the work of the price panels in seeing that retail store prices are in line, in hearing and acting on consumer complaints, asking that citizens cooperate with their price panels.
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El Centro
Event Date
Monday Night
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citizens asked to sign home front pledges; example of 5% decrease in cost of living in new orleans after pledge implementation
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Meeting at Barbara Worth hotel where district OPA officials explained home front pledge to representatives of civic organizations, who were to disseminate information and encourage membership to sign pledges. Discussions covered citizen responsibility in programs, inflation and need for price fixing and rationing, pledge details and its success in New Orleans, and work of price panels in checking retail prices and handling complaints.