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Show Page November 15, HERALD, Provo, Utah, Thursday, HE r 1 " 4 fa- t- r- - i M i ' " . 1 as World War a Relived in Book R 1 I ' : : 1973 1970 book, "Don't You Know There's a War On?" By MIKE FEINSILBER I ..... 5 i You WASHINGTON (UPI) were given an A. B or C sticker to display in the right hand comer of your windshield, depending upon your need for gasoline. Naturally enough, no American wanted to admit his drivinj was so pleasure-mot'vatethat he rated only an A. So anyone who could come up with any excuse at all trooped down to convince his local OPA officials that he warranted a B or C. Soon nearly half of the nation's 30 million auto owners had wangled a B or d C. lhat was gasoline rationing back in World War II, as recalled by Richard R. Lingeman in his An A coupon entitled a driver to four gallons of gas a week, enough the government figured, for 60 miles of driving. Later this was reduced to an allotment of three gallons and for a bleak period of 1943 to only two gallons. Parker, summer," Vglies Unlimited' Stage First Protest 20, of rationing was made nationwide. Some people, Lingeman rote, considered it "an exercise in official sadomasochism whose only purpo?e was to instill in the American people a proper mood of wartime To conserve gasoline and rubber, Rochester, N.Y. the a government imposed nationwide speed limit of 35 miles an hour. Worse yet, it banned pleasure driving altogether. Even the fellow with his A sticker was supposed to devote his haltry ration to such driving as "necessary" shopping or trips to church, funerals, doctors, jobs. The ban on pleasure driving was lifted in September, 1943, but not before agents of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), which administered gas rationing, i d lifted the coupon books of motorists whose cars were spotted at racetracks or stadiums or parked outside night chibs. Crime saw the opportunity in all this. Counterfeit rationing coupons sold for as much as 50 cents each. In Washington, coupons worth 20 million gallons were stolen from a government The government warehouse. that between one estimated million gallons of gasoline week and 2.5 million a day were sold illegally. Fifteen per cent of all C coupons in circulation were said to be fakes. There were salutary effects, too. The highway death toll People rediscovplummeted. ered walking and bicycling although bicycles were sold only to those who could produce a "certificate of necessity" and the shortage of hides led to shoe rationing. Gasoline rationing ended Aug. 1, 1945 just before the end of the war. Throughout the land was heard the cry, "fill her up ! " s Affsf fears U.S. Prosecution For Painting of Bogus Bill - . N.Y., 1, 1942, Daylight Saving five-mont- h, Morrisville, Lec. Nihw.,t shun, VENTURA. Calif. (UPI) -T- May 28, wearing out about six hree young women rode their sets of shoes per horse, and horses into the Pacific surf exhausting six horses and a mule. Only Diana Siderides, 21, Tuesday, completing a 3.400-mil-e crossing of the of Cherry Hill, N.J., finished the continent by horseback. trek on the same horse she began with. wonderful "We had a time," said Sally Howell, 22, of Rome, "We all three graduated from took N.Y. "We didn't rush-j- ust tie State Universitsy of New our time and let the horses take York at the beginning of last theirs." said Debbie They left On War workers who drove in car pools were given B stickers and jobs, persons with like doctors or farmers, got C stickers. Truckers got T stickers unlimited and mileage. Gergymen and policemen won with X unlimited gasoline stickers. When coupons were first issued more than 200 of members Congress asked for and unashamedly Cross Country Ride Ends in Pacific Surf ' UGLY DUCKLING? li eemi she claimi she is, SHE'S declaring that American Airlines discriminates against her because she's "too hippy." She's Jan Palmer, member of what is called "Uglies Unlimited," a group of plcketers in front of an American Airlines ticket office in Fort Worth, Tex. "Uglies Unlimited" is protesting against hiring, policies which discriminate against "ugly human beings," UPI Telepboto. the pickets declare. were issued X stickers. Rationing started in 17 eastern states in May, 1942 because were submarines German the tankers which sinking normally supplied the East Coast. The pipelines from Ttxas had not yet been built. SEATTLE (UPI) Daylight saving time the year-roun- d if any, would save little, in Pacific the electricity Power Northwest, Bonneville officials said .Administration Tuesday. when the "A guy I never saw before sculptor turned caricaturist displays his came in here not long after I collection of Watergate stamps went to see the Secret Service," at the Henri Art Gallery. he said, "and suggested we go The Secret Service has into counterfeiting together. confiscated the San Clemente bill But he is ready to sell a limited as a violation of counterfeitedition of 100 sets of four stamps ing statutes although Wagner in cariacture. He will display says "Can you imagine trying to them at the gallery. pass one of those things ?" Since his brush with the Secret Service he has had other offers A cool temper marks a safe, and he thinks they have come from undercover agents. driver. KA NSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)-T- he Secret Service has confiscated Gale E. Wagner's counterfeit ?Q bill that has a picture of the San Clemente White House on one side, President Nixon on Daylight saving time during the other and is two and a half the winter months, as has been feet long. proposed in Congress, would So Wagner has come up with result in savings only about 1 per another one with a picture of the cent of the regional load, the Watergate Complex instead of BPA officials said. the San Clemente estate. Neither of them will be on They added that possible peak savings also would be nominal. display Dec. 5 in Washington FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI) -- the beautiful people. The men To join Uglies Unlimited you with the wide brimmed hats, thin need $2 and a face that would moustaches smoking little cigars stop a train. "We open our doors to secretaiies with warts, stewardesses with pimples, policemen with freckles, hostesses with lumps, barbers without hair and businessmen with hook noses, but most of all we embrace the masses wallowing in self pity," says Danny McCrory, the founder of the organization. "Membership is $2." But Uglies Unlimited is not a social club geared to providing for the habitual happiness wallflowers of the world. The organization was formed to protest the emphasis placed on that attract only flatbellied, fair skinned lasses in skimpy bikinis that soak up the sun around the pools at singles apartments. The organization abhors the newspaper advertisements in general and the want ads in "m particular, theones that say "Wanted attractive receptionist" or "Pretty secretary needed." Uglies Unlimited staged its first formal protest Tuesday. 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