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Show WASHINGTON , NOTES Defense Petroleum Coordinator Harold L. Ickes reported this week that despite insistent and repeated appeals for a voluntary cut of one third in the use of motor mo-tor fuels in 16 Atlantic Seaboard States, deliveries of gasoline to service stations increased last week by 1,029,866 gallons over those of the previous week, a gain of almost 1 percent. He stated that the filling stations sta-tions operators have eoopehated practically 100 percent in the effort ef-fort to obtain a reduction in the quantities of motor fuels consumed con-sumed in the Atlanic Coast area. 'On the other hand, the reaction on the part of the public are not encouraging. Perhaps the public does not want to face the facts. Reports and advices received by this office would seem to indicate that there has not yet been a full realization of the seriousness of the problem we face. Distribution was started by the industry of stickers for automobiles automo-biles indicating that drivers had pledged themselves to use one third less gasoline in the interest of national defense. In addition, formal advisements paid for by the industry, have been prepared for insertion in more than 500 newspapers. SALVAGE OF SALMON IN SACRAMENTO RIVER Work will begin shortly on the program for salvaging the annual $300,000 salmon run of the Sac-ramentr Sac-ramentr River blocked by 560-foot 560-foot Shasta Dam, control feature of the Central Valley project, California. , GRAND COULEE DAM Grand Coulee Dam's is two-thirds two-thirds full. The cold blue-green waters of the Columbia, endlessly pouring into this third largest man-made lake in the world from the snow-fields and glaciers of the Canadian Rockies and mountains moun-tains in Montana and other states, stat-es, has brought it to its season's peak. |