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Show FORESTALL GAS RATIONING WITH WASTERUBBER While the nation-wide rubber salvage campaign begun on direction di-rection of President Roosevelt at 12:01 Monday, June 15, and to continue until midnight, Tuesday, Tues-day, June 30, is receiving a response re-sponse which exceeds expectations, expecta-tions, only by seeing that every bit of rubber reaches local oil stations can the necessity for gas rationing be delayed or put off entirely in this area. There is plenty of gas and oil available in this section of the nation, but shortage of rubber and the need to conserve stocks now on wheels will bring about gas rationing unless the rubber salvaged in the present drive is received in large enough amounts as to reassure the war production board, bureau of industrial conservation, con-servation, of the adequacy of reserve re-serve stocks for all military needs. The oil industry has agreed to make available entire personnels and facilities, including filling stations. and bulk plants, which are in use as collection depots. In this most important of the salvage efforts all rubber, small or large, is to be given or sold for one cent a pound at stations. No profit is made by distributors. distribu-tors. All rubber salvaged should and must be gathered through filling stations and bulk plants, . Reclaimable rubber which is acceptable includes all kinds of rubber except battery boxes, tire beads or leather or wood attached attach-ed to rubber. By yesterday afternoon rubber collected in Bingham district included in-cluded four trucklojids by Standard Stand-ard garage, 3000 pounds by Ad-derley Ad-derley and Nichols garage and 1000 pounds by Standard Oil of California. |