The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-10-15
CHANGES EFFECTED
IN ODT PROCEDURE

OetatlS on the transfer OF Ger
tain functions Of the gasoline "a
tioning program from the Office o
Defense Transportation to the Of
flee of Price Administration were
announced yesterday by H. R. Viii
liams, acting ODT district man
ager here. The changeover be
comes effective October 16 wher
the Wilmington ODT office will be
closed.
All operators Of commercial mo.
tor vehicles t h a I require certifi-
Gates of war necessity = such as
buses, trucks, taxicabs, rental
cars, etc-win be affected by the
change, the ODT official an
nounced.
Under the new procedure, appli-
cations by commercial motor We
hicle operators for temporary and
homecoming rations will be made
to OPA local War Price and Ra-
t,oning Boards rather than to ODT
district offices. These rations will
be issued by local boards and any
appeals from decisions of the
boards will be handled by OPA.
Thus OPA will have complete au-
thority over the issuance of such
additional rations.
The change is expected to i'm
prove service and be of much
greater convenience to commercial
motor vehicle operators, since op-
orators will have $500 OPA local
boards as compared with 142 ODF
district offices.
1t was pointed out by the agen-
cies that recommendations on tenn
porary and homecoming gas allot-
ments for trucks owned by farm
ers will continue to be made by
county farm transportation COM
mittees, organized under the De-
partment of Agr;culture-but will
be referred to OPA local boards
for action-instead of to ODT dis
trict offices.
Applications for certificates Of
war necessity or for permanent
changes in certificate allotments
will be handled by ODT district
offices as in the past. Forms for
making such applications may be
obtained at all CPA boards, and
also at ODT district and field Of
fees and offices Of county farm
transportation committees. ODT
will continue to certify permanent
commercial vehicle needs and is
sue certificates of war necessity to
cover these needs.
Since the majority Of current ap-
plications, according to ODT, are
for temporary ALLEGATIONS, this new
procedure will tae troublesome,
but routine chore off the hands of
ODT district stats, releasing per-
sonnet to direct greater amount
of attention and effort to the
transportation phases Of its pro-
gram, sucn as traffic registration,
organization of joint action plans,
agricultural industry transporta-
ton programs and maintenance
and conservation work.
There will be four conditions, I'm
der the new procedure, un e r
which local boards will be author
lied to issue smaller ration than
that allotted by ODT on the GER
tificate Of war necessity. These
conditions are:
l. When the board has knowledge
of discontinuance or reduction in
the operations OF the commercial
vehicle operator.
2. When the board has knowledge
Of the misuse of commercial "a
tons and such misuse indicates an
overissuance. Cor example, h e
use Of commercial rations in an
operators p er's,c / passenger
carr
3. When an applicant indicates
to the board that his needs are
less than those certified.
4. When an applicant fails to use
all of his ration, or fails to claim
his ration within a reasonable
time.
If none Of these four conditions
apply, OPA boards will continue
to issue rations in the amount GER
titled by ODT.
Under the amendment to the
OPA gasoline rationing order,
commercial vehicle operators will
hereafter return all unused or ex-
pired transport rations to tn r
OPA boards rather than to ODT
district offices as has been requir-
ed in some instances in the past.