Evening star., 1942-07-10
$4,000 Obtain
Gasoline Cards.;
Delays AreFew
Half Get Blanks
For Extru Rotions:
Mailing Is Asked

A total Of $4,000 District car and
motorcycle owners had their A or D
gasoline rationing books as enroll
ment for permanent rationing con-
tinued today in % District schools.
The remaining two days of regis
tration-from 7 am. to 9 pm. today
and from 7 am. to pm tomorrow
was expected to take in 125,0OO
motorists and motorcyclists.
Meanwhile, at the IS local ration
ing boards. drivers of commercial
vehicles also started registering and
this enrolloment will continue until
July 20.
Mailing of Forms Asked.
Although more than half of the
motorists who signed UP for their A
books in the schools yesterday left
with the supplemental ration blanks,
L. P. Steuart, chairman of the Gas
Rationing Board for the District,
urged that only those who could fill
the requirements for extra gasoline
send in the forms He particularly
asked that they mail them rather
than bring them to the local boards
in person, since their few minutes
OF conversation with board clerks
would slow up the machinery.
Mr.. Steuart warned that only the
local board in the residential area
of the registrant would consider
the request for extra rations and
that mailing the request to the
wrong board would only slow up
consideration.
He figured 1t would take the Is
local boards about week to handle
all the requests for supplemental
rations, and said he would put ex-
ira men to work if the requests
were too heavy for the existing per-
sonnel.
July % Is Effective Date.
No one will be informed whether
he has been granted an extra ra-
ton until after July %, when per-
manent rationing goes into effect.
The temporary ration books expire
on the evening of July 81.
If motorists are not Immediately
informed whether they will be al
lowed extra gasoline, Mr.. Steuart
pointed out, they have the first two
months supply allowed in the A
books to use at their own discretion
They will be 'out of luck" he ad-
If they use up the two
months supply quickly and then
are not granted the extra allotment.
Asked if the names of those who
had been allowed supplemental
rations would be made public, he
pointed out that those granted B
and G books must carry B and c
stickers on their windshields
The registration SO far was pro-
the smoothest yet by Law
son j. Cantrel, assistant superin-
tendent of schools in charge of reg
istration. In only one school, Hine
Junior High, was waiting line re-
ported and this numbered not more
than so. Mr.. Cantrell was assured
when the school registration officer
the waiting line that it
would be cleared up within a half
hour.
Public Cooperation Aids.
Mr.. Cantrell commended the
public for following the alphabetical
system of registration which enabled
the enrolment to maintain an even
flow over the three-day period
Those whose last names began with
letters from F to M we're to register
today with the Ms to rs getting their
books tomorrow.
The procedure of having a single
"block agent" bring a number of
books to registration center was
pronounced "the best time saving
device" for large oces. Mr.. Cam
trell said a number of Offices pro-
cured their registration blanks sew
eral days ahead of the enrolment
period and sent single representa-
tive to the centers yesterday. He
estimated about $4,000 workers in
Government and large private Offices
were following this system and re-
ported that a War Department
agent with 100 registration blanks
completed his chore at Woodrow
Wilson High School in an hour In
dividual registration has averaged
from 4 to minutes.
Five registrars have been enrolling
members of Congress and will con-
tinue at their booth on Capitol Hill
through the end of the registration