Evening star., 1943-07-16
481 in District
Get Vacation
Auto Permits
Applications of 98%
Granted in Nearby
Virginia, Maryland

District ration boards today con.
tinued to receive applications fol
automobile travel permits, aftel
having granted 481 authorizations
yesterday.
1--WE do not expect to be swampeo
with applications, for the simple
reason that the travel permit does
not increase a car owners gas ra-
tioning," an OPA official explained
He added that a preliminary check
shows the average vacation travel
request made yesterday contem-
plates trips of about 100 miles, to
Virginia and Maryland beaches and
mountain resorts.
Meanwhile, nearby Virginia ano
Maryland boards granted 9S pei
cent of travel permit applications
officials in these communities ap-
peared to be having little difficulty
with the Interpretation of adequate
alternative transportation"
New Hampshire Trip Projected.
Ration Board SO here had under
consideration request for author
ization of motor trip to New
Hampshire, distance which would
exhaust the applicants gas ration
for months.
Board 81 set the pace by granting
80 permits. Other boards acted as
follows: Board 10, 18 permits; Board
II, Is; Board IL, IL; Board 20, 10;
Board 80, 70; Board 81, 76; Board
80, Is; Board 33, 13, with 80 pend
ing; Board 40, 40; Board Al, /, with
so pending; Board ~, 2; Board so,
7, with pending; Board so, AZ;
Board 81, q, with 20 pending.
AS District boards wrestled with
the problem brought about by this
specific relaxation of the pleasure
driving ban, Maryland OPA Direc-
tor Leo H. Mccormick urged ration
boards to tighten up in the issu-
ance of permits, adding it may be-
come necessary later to review some
of these certifications and call in
some which have been issued in er-
ror." In many cases, he said, mo-
florists were given permits covering
travel mileage in excess of their "a
ration.
Apply to Any Board.
1t was emphasized here that ap-
plication could be made to any ra-
tioning board and not necessarily
to board from which a motorist
received his ration allowance.
New York ration boards, it was
reported, were granting trip permits
quickly to applicants who could show
their mileage records were clear and
that they had sufficient coupons to
make short journeys. One Manhat-
tan board denied 10 permit requests
because mileage readings were i'm
proper. A Staten Island board
granted 1873 out of 140 requests.
Rochester, N. Y, turned down only
10 applicants out of 1000 In Troy,
N. Y, every one of 162 applicants got
a permit. aN#
Warns of b Coupons Use. -
A New York business executive
who had no more No. coupons in
his A book was warned not to use B
coupons for a vacation trip. A
woman sought to make a 2,900-mile
round trip to New Orleans with valid
A coupons representing 800 miles of
travel. but her permit request was
refused.
Board officials in nearby counties
reported that of a total of 243 re-
quests received yesterday, only three
were turned down.
Those three were submitted to the
Bethesda Rationing Board, which
refused approval because the appli-
cants did not have sufficient A
coupons. The Bethesda board ap-
proved SO requests and 18 others
were held for future action.
Other Maryland boards, which ap-
proved all applications acted on, in
clude Silver Spring, eight approved
and 50 held for action today; Hyatts-
vile, 73 applications approved, and
Rockville, 81 applications approved
James Douglas, executive secretary
of the Alexandria Rationing Board
reported that IS requests for vaca-
ton gasoline were approved yester-
day. In addition, he said, Is mo-
torists took application forms to be
returned to the board later.
All Of 81 Applications Approved.
Arlington board officials said 81
applications were approved yester-
day by six-man vacation gasoline
panel. Officials said all applications
presented to the panel we're ap-
proved.
Fairfax County board officials re-
ported that application forms have
been received by the board today
after more than 100 motorists who
applied yesterday were turned away
because of the lack of forms.
officials of nearby boards said the
rush of vacationists has handi-
capped workers in conducting regu-
lar rationing business. They said a
new rush for vacation gasoline al
1owances is anticipated after July
%, when the No. period A coupons
become valid.