Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1942 — Page 11

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busses, disarrangement of normal

limited for a city of its size.

Times asked for suggestions from

- ters speaking in uncouth terms of

the first persons who grrived to © Wait in the cold would get on first.

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Bile for ordinary transportation, the : jenive use of automotive vehicles that

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several reasons, . ‘among them the] greater dependence on the automo-

operations, and the fact ey are close to sources of oil. St. Louis is going through the p ordeal already: experienced by metropolitan centers in the East — people waiting a long time for crowded streetcars ani

schedules for getting to work and to school.

This. brought demands for a, ; rtation administration to get some order out of what seemed for

‘The first reaction to the approach of rationing is to gripe,. which is a healthy American habit. But basically, the people are taking it well, '; co-operating, and = ration ‘boards are working day and night.

Much of the complaining is just blowing off steam, and not to be taken seriously. But Some’ of ‘it, particularly in agricultural-regions, tepresents inequities due to a lack of understanding here of some of the problems, and to complex systems of rationing handed down with long instructions that are hard to understand and sometimes down-

the moment like chaos, since transportation facilities are somewhat

Favors Bus Priority Yet, when the St. Louis Star-

the public for improving the situation, it got only a few bitter let-

such people as Leon #Menderson and William Jeffers, but numbers of suggestions’ with merit. One suggestion that will appeal. to every straphanger was from a woman, who recommended a priority system at the bus stop so that

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right silly. 90 Per Cent Just Gripes

One congressman here from that area says that about-90 per cent of the complaints that come to him are just gripes, without real: basis, but that about 10 per cent turn out on investigation to be justified. Ten per cent is worth considering, for the rumors go buzzing around to magnify the bungling of bureaucracy in, Washington, and to disseminate discontent. This reacted in the last election to make the Washington “bureaucrat” an ogre of sorts—and beyond his desserts, for there are many hard-working, conscientious men here, For the long pull of the war, and the creation of a just peace, the mistakes of bureaucracy can become costly, particularly in the middle west. For there is in that area still some evidence of lack of real enthusiasm for the war. Tt is a minority viewpoint, but it is present. And if this is nourished and spread by a failure to appreciate the problems of people in this area, it may react against the best intentions of such leaders as President Roosevelt,

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SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 16 (U. P.) —Frank N. Nevins, 49, central figure in South Bends “salary. grab” suit several years ago, died today at Epworth hospital. Physicians said death was due to a heart attack which he suffered last week. A native of South Bend, Nevins served as St. oJseph county clerk from 1926 to 1934. He was involved in a suit filed by several county office holders, demanding back pay, arsl was awarded $80,000. The suit attracted widespread attention, Survivors are his wife and a son.

STATE OPA ASKS MORE FUEL OIL

10-Gallon Increase in Next Coupon Sought in Plea To Region Chiefs.

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lieved most of the people of Indiana would support - the rationing program whole-heartedly. The governor complimented the OPA officials for what he termed their “fine job” and said that they had done the “right thing” in cutting through red tape to allow oil companies to take promissory notes from people who did not yet have their oil coupons. Alex Taggart, Marion county rationing co-ordinator, whose letter of protest concerning OPA red tape last week touched off a nation-wide storm, said that the local situation was now practically cleared up. He said that only three of the nine local rationing boards had not yet completed their fuel oil rationing work, but that these would be finished ‘within two or three days.

Extend Note System

Mr. Cotton reported that rationing boards in all but 17 of the state’s 92 counties were -¢ up-to-date and that telegrams were sent today to boards in these 17 counties permitting them to extend until Sat-

urday the promissory note system. He said that a great share of the fuel oil crisis was due to the three cold waves that have occurred: already. He added that while many people have already exhausted their supplies and are suffering hardships that the percentage of the whole is not high. The moratorium on fuel oil reports was proposed to give the rationing boards and oil companies time to catch up with and do their work, OPA officials said. Wilson G. Stapleton, regional OPA information executive from Cleveland, told the governor at the conference that “our feeling is that

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ing boards and we are bending every effort to get more help.” He said, however, that a lot of voluntary work was necessary “because there is not enough money in the world to staff adequately with paid employees all these boards.”

Pledges Aid to Officials

He said that the Cleveland office had been backing up both Mr. Strickland and ‘Mr. Taggart in their requests ‘and were “funneling them through” to Washington. Mr, Strickland issued a statement

at the conference in which he pointed out that while the fuel oil rationing plan involves forture boards are given wide discretion to take care of individual cases.”

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which boards can handle the requirements of sick and infirm persons,” he said. “Additional allowances are provided for children, adjustments are made in cases Jocal boards consider proper to take care of persons who cannot get along on the ration given them. “The local board is permitted to work out a ‘system on the basis of which such persons may tide themselves over ‘into the next ration periods. Want Supply for All

“It is the feeling of the Indiana OPA office that while it is necessary to adhere closely to the regulations in order that there may be a supply of this vital commodity proportionately available for all, that the flexibility in the plan will operate so that there will be no undue hardship or suffering visited upon any citizen ‘of the state of Indiana. Meanwhile an unofficial survey of .the Marion county fuel oil situation revealed today that the fuel oil available in this section of the country is greater than that of the corresponding time a year ago. Petroleum News shows that on Nov. 21 there were -6,411,000 barrels on hand in the Indiana-Kentucky-

total supply of only 5,686,000 barrels the supply increased during the

approximately’ 52,000 -barrels, Need Tank Cars

Other facts shown ‘in the survey are: 1. A shortage of railroad tank cars, used as a basic argument for rationing of fuel oil, has no bearing on the Marion county situation since no such cars are used to haul the product here. It is reliably, estimated that nearly 80 per cent of the local supply is routed in through pipe lines. The rest is hauled from Ohio river and southern Illinois points by truck runs ranging from 100 to 130 miles. -2. There are only about a tenth as many oil burners in this section of the counfry as in the east. i

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U.P.) — The wer labor board, in what It termed a8 “unique decision,” today granted provisional union security to the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0), to be written into a contract with the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co. plant in Pontiac, Mich. The plant employs about 9000 workers,

The. board warned that the maintenance-of-membership provision is conditional upon the union’s goo® behavior and avoidance of work stoppages.\ It also ordered the

Wayne L. Morse, public member of WLB, “the fact remains that they did constitute violations of labor's solemn pledge that for the duration of the war labor will not resort to strike methods. Labor should not be blind to the fact that the patience of the public has its limits.”

AIDERS TO GET BANDS

First aiders of Civilian Defense district 44 will be assigned posts and issued OCD bands and buttons in a meeting at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow at the main casualty station, northeast

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