Millard County Chronicle | 1945-05-03 | Page 4 | Oil Stoves Tightened: More Electric Ranges

Oil Stoves Tightened: More Electric Ranges Eligibilty certificates permitting purchase of oil cooking stoves is being tightened to make sure that the increasingly scarce supplies go to consumers who need them most OPA has announced. Under the new provisions, local war price and rationing boards in the emergency emergen-cy oil shortage area (all states except ex-cept Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mex-ico, Texas and parts of California and Florida) will issue certificates for oil cooking stoves only if consumers con-sumers need to replace oil cooking stoves that they have been using for at least six months before making mak-ing application, or if a coal stove or wood stove can not be used. Coal and wood stoves are not rationed. ra-tioned. The new requirement is being be-ing made an eligibility test for oil heating stoves also. Its purpose is to prevent persons from acquiring an old unusable oil stove and establishing est-ablishing eligibility for a new oil heating or cooking stove, OPA said.