Evening star., 1942-11-10
Registration Forms
For Gas Rationinq
Now Available
Auto Owners Permitted
To Ask Other Persons
To Pick Them Up

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Registration forms for Nation
wide gas rationing are now available
at the Is war rationing boards here
and may be obtained by any one to
be taken home for the owner of the
vehicle to sign. District OPA Ad-
ministrator Whitney Leary an
nounced today.
He suggested that where hardship
would develop on owners under the
requirement that they must appear
in person at school registration
points to sign the forms it might be
more convenient for them or some
one else to pick up the form at their
rationing board.
With the owners signature on the
registration form, he said, any one
could then go to the registration
Thursday or Friday, carrying to the
school the owners registration card
and ration books.
No special identification, he said,
was necessary to obtain registra-
ton form at one of the boards.
Agent Allowed to Sign.
Where owners are out of the juris-
diction or physically incapable of
getting to the registration point, as
would be the case with men in the
service, he went on, any authorized
agent would be allowed to register
and sign the form. This would ap-
ply where friend has the tempo
rary use of car while its owner is
out of town.
Asked to define an authorized
agent, Mr.. Leary said that was a
legal point, but if a relative or friend
was in possession of the registration
card and ration book it might be
considered sufficient indication that
the person was an authorized agent.
The application form itself bears
the provision that "the registered
owner of the vehicle must sign this
form unless good cause for failure to
do SO is shown to war price and
rationing board" In the previous
gas rationing registration the owner
of the vehicles was not required to
appear in person.
Concession to Owners Of Fleets.
Meanwhile. owners of fleets of We
hicles were given permission by Mr..
Leahy to make application for one
of their own maintenance men to be
appointed tire inspector.
In this way, Mr. Leary explained,
tires can be inspected on the prem
ises and fleet owners will not be
nconvenienced by the OPA mileage
rationing regulations which call for
an inspection between December l
and January 81 and every go days
or 5000 miles thereafter.
For the convenience of other mo-
torists, Mr. Leary was scheduled to
meet today with Traffic Direc-
tor William A. Van Duzer to work
out final plans for adjusting annual
auto inspection dates to tire in
spection date so that the auto in
spection could be included as one of
the period tire inspections.
License Number on Coupons.
Mr.. Leary explained that the ar
rangement was being worked out on
license tag basis.
Meanwhile, the OPA announced
that motorists will be required to
write their license number on the
back of each gasoline ration coupon
when Nationwide rationing starts
November %.
1t was explained this requirement
was safeguard against theft and
misuse of coupons. Gasoline deal
ers will not be permitted to accept
coupons unless they are so marked
Final instructions for the CITY,
wide gas rationing registration were
given out at % simultaneous meet
ings in school buildings yesterday
afternoon.
$500 Teachers to Serve.
Approximately $500 teachers, most
of them veterans of the sugar, draft
and first gas registration, will serve
as registrars Thursday and Friday
while their pupils are enjoying q
three-day holiday, including Armis-
tice Day.
The instructors yesterday were the
school principals who received theil
instructions on filling out the form.
at meeting late last week.
It was estimated that with these
veteran registrars the registration
would average not more than II
minutes per person. The % schoo
buildings will be open both day.
from am. to 9 pm.