Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-14
Ickes Promises New
Preferential List for
Gas, Oil Users in East
Less LiberoIity Seen
In Revision of
CIussificutions
BY the Associated Press.

oS tue AooOSi6NCo EIe9S.
A new preferential list of fuel oil
and gasoline consumers in the petro-
leum-short East was promised today
by Petroleum Administrator Ickes.
Mr.. Ickes said he was working
with the once of Price Administra-
ton and the War Production Board
on substitute for the Cancelled
original list, which omitted amuse-
ment places but gave all other fuel
oil consumers equal rating.
The OPA, meanwhile, simplified
its fuel oil rauoning regulations for
householders receiving 200 gallons or
less of oil a year to permit them to
redeem ration coupons any time
during the year, rather than during
specified heating periods. They will
have the entire responsibility of
budgeting their consumption for the
remainder of the heating year end
ing September 80.
In another order designed to aid
the petroleum industry in meeting
delivery problems, OPA established
overlap periods in the validity
dates between the expiration of
current ration and the issuance of
renewal ration.
The order will affect mainly con-
sumers using fuel oil for domestic
cooking. lighting. industrial pur-
poses and uses other than heating.
Additional Use Authorized.
Under the ruling. rations may be
used for an additional Is days after
the expiration date, provided a re-
newal application has been filed.
Likewise. a consumer may use the
ration issued for the next quarter
during the IS days before the quar-
ter begins
Mr.. Ickes yesterday restricted
Eastern gasoline and fuel oil re-
sellers and industrial and CONNER
cial consumers to Today petroleum
supply limit.
This restriction, Mr.. Ickes said,
was intended to provide for more
equitable wartime distribution of
the limited amount of petroleum
products on the East Coast" pre-
venting some from holding surplus
stocks while others could get no
supplies.
Excepted from the restriction were
homeowners' fuel oil tanks, filling
stations suppliers' bulk terminals
and refinery storage.
Informed sources said the new
preferential list would be less liable
than the old and probably would
designate classes which would not be
allowed to get petroleum unless sup
plies were ample after others needs
had been filled.
The restriction order also ex-
banded Mr.. Ickes' authority over de-
livery of motor fuel oil to secondary
suppliers, who buy stocks brought
into their zone by others, and listed
restrictions on Eastern inter- zone
transfer of supplies.
News Photographers Eligible.
The OPA announced it would make
news photographers eligible for c
gasoline coupon books for transport
ing non-portable equipment.
Photographers who qualify under
the amendment. effective January
20. will be eligible for sufficient gas
oline to take pictures for their publ
! cations.
A previous regulation limited pre-
ferred mileage for Photographic
purposes to newsreel cameramen
Persons using non-portable equip
ment to take photographs for mag
azines or for industrial or govern
mental use also were made eligible
for c rations.
OPA said the order was designed
to provide mileage only for pho
tographers carrying bulky or cum
bersome equipment which cannot be
transported in public conveyances
To qualify for preferred mileage
however, photographers must show
that the additional rations are neces-
sary for transporting non portable
equipment They also must show
lack of alternate transportation re-
quirements.
The order also rescinds a provision
in the regulations allowing C rations
to internes and medical students
for making medical or inspection
calls. OPA said it had found C
rations were not needed for this
purpose.