Evening star., 1942-11-06
Registration
OF Tires SET for
November 1913
Enrolment Will
Determine Future
Gasoline Rotioninq

Washington gasoline rationing will
be brought into conformity with the
rest of the Nation, and holdings of
excess automobile tires will be re-
vealed, at registration here next
Thursday and Friday in % elemen-
tary and high schools, school
officials said today These schools
will be closed both days, with school
teachers taking care of the regis
trations from 7 am. to 9 pm. each
day.
Information disclosed in the No
vember 1913 registration will be the
basis of future tire inspection. An
Office of Price Administration ruling
forbidding possession of more than
five tires per automobile, it was
pointed out, means that car owners
cannot qualify for gasoline ration
ing without certifying they have
disposed of idle tires.
Required Information.
In announcing that the OPA had
set the November 1918 dates for
registration, Lawson J. Cantrell,
assistant superintendent of District
schools, said automobile ownel
should bring with them the follow
ing information:
/. Their registration card and
gasoline rationing book or books,
including the basic A or D books as
we'll as B or C books.
2. The serial numbers of all auto
mobile tires owned. The serial
numbers desired are not the raised
numbers but the numbers which are
indented. The serial numbers of
tires on the vehicle to be registered
are wanted, including that OF the
spare, as well as those of other tires
of passenger car type, owned by the
registrant.
The registration form will en-
brace essential gasoline inquiries, AS
we'll as tires, so that the East will
conform with the rest of the Ma
ton in national gasoline rationing.
This form will be retained by the
registrar and forwarded to each mo-
torist's local ration board. A sep
arate tire inspection form will be
given the automobile owner, who
must report to an approved tire-in-
spection establishment before jan
uary /.
TT is of utmost importance that
tire owners have the correct serial
numbers" Mr.. Cantrell said, "as fu-
ture gasoline rationing may depend
on the accuracy of these numbers
It will also be necessary for the
owners to know the number OF his
local War Price and Rationing
Board" -.
Places of Registration.
Schools handling the tire registra-
ton will be: Anacostia High, Cen
tral High, Coolidge High, Eastern
High, Hine Junior High, Jefferson
Junior High, Mckinley High, Powell
Junior High, Roosevelt High, Stuart
Junior High, Taft Junior High,
Western High, Woodrow Wilson
High Banneker Junior High,
Briggs Montgomery Elementary,
Deanwood Elementary, Smothers
Elementary. Douglass-Simmons Ele-
mentary, Dunbar High, Garfield
Elementary, Francis Junior High,
Birney Elementary. Giddings Ele-
mentary, Harrison Elementary,
Randall Junior High and Young
Elementary.
The Grover Cleveland Elementary
School at Eighth and T streets NV
will be used instead of the Mott
School. announced earlier today. A
further change announced was that
the Cardoza High School, Ninth
street and Rhode Island avenue
NV. will be used instead of Shaw
Junior High.
In order to avoid congestion, Mr.
Cantrell requested car owners to
register in the following order Those
whose last names begin with "a
through Il" are asked to register
November IL. and those whose last
names begin with IN" through q
on November 13.
Since November II is legal holi-
day, schools will be in session only
on Monday and Tuesday, Mr.. Can
trell said. adding that night schools
will be open only on Monday. No
vember 9. Thus the tire registra-
tion gives students of % schools an
unexpected three day holiday.
Only residents of Washington will
be registered here, Mr.. Cantrell
stated, adding this is made neces-
sary by the unusual amount of cleri-
cal work involved in forwarding
registration blanks from local boards
to boards outside of Washington"
Es1tire Plan Changed.
1t was originally planned to have
automobile owners secure tire
registration blanks from gasoline
filling stations Registration in "a
schools instead was decided on. Dis
trict OPA Director Whitney Leary
said, in order to get the blanks out
as early as possible and to put tire
inspection slips in the hands oi
qualified persons so that their tires
can be inspected by January l, when
new OPA inspection regulations be-
come effective.
Meanwhile, some $500 excess tires
have been turned in by District own
ers, it was stated by c. Arthur Will
liams, District agent of the Railway
Express Agency. which is acting as
collection agency for the Fedora
Government. Owners can sell these
surplus tires to the Government al
fixed ceiling prices or make a gift
of them. Mr.. Williams pointed out.
He urged District car owners tt
get rid of extra tires before the tire
registration. adding he did not know
how his agency could cope with the
situation If flooded with pickup re.
quests two or three days before thu
deadline.
A receiving Office at Second and
streets NE. is being kept open b,
the agency "a hours day, Mr.. VIII
liams said, He urged local motorist!
to take their excess tires to this To-
cation at the earliest possible mo-
ment. "or we will be swamped will
pickup orders" He added that Gov
ernment experts also are on duty a
the asency's main city ofiice. 1903 7
street NV, to give speedy Appraisa
f,f tires hroffrht in bv owners