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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News Record, 1945-01-18, Page 61 jl IN GREAT BRITAIN -PLEASURE DRIVING ENDED LONG ACCO British racing fans can enjoy their favorite sport only if they're willing' to walk or pedal their way to the track. Here bicycles are parked outside during the Newmarket' races. Britain's answer to gasoline and the vehicle. Thus an automobile every quarter. To discourage the 'lire shortages has been to attack of less thanseven horsepower got use of gas -wasteful ears, no one the problem at the heart,. Pleasure four gallons per month, while a is given. more gas than would be driving has been elitninated entirely 20 horsepower limousine, got 10 necessary to drive the required since June 1942. Such driv-re- gallons. number of miles at the consump- iates luxuries as horse racing have On top of this basic ration, tion rate of 20 miles to.,the gallon. been so drastically curtailed as to which was automatically avail- Gas savings have been effected be non-existent • for all practical able to anyone' who owned a ` car, in other ways, such as drastic re - purposes, there was a supplemental ration duction of deliveries and pooling Today there is no basic gasoline forwar-connected use—much the ' of commercial routes. Consumers ration in Britain. As • a result, same as the American system. were, until recently, restricted' in there are an estimated 250,000 ei- REDUCE RATIONS. cases of services,' such as faun- vilian private- cars now on the As war and gasoline shortages dries to the one located nearest. road, as opposed to two million in progressed the basic 'ration was, them. With the bettering •of ' gaso-' 1030: progressively reduced with the line supplies some of the 'more Gasoline is available to four largest reductions in the higher- stringent commercial restrictions main classes ofusers;. business es- horsepower levels to penalize have been lifted .within- the past sential to the war effort; service users of gas -extravagant vehicles. month. So now you can,choose essential to the life of. the cbm- In' April, 1042. for example, the which laundry you wat your triunity (doctors, etc.); farmers; lowest horsepower Car's - ration clothes not to come back from for domestic situations where, be- was cut from four . to two gallons three weeks. ,r cause of lack of other means of monthly, while the biggest car's RATION BUS FLEETS transporation complete curtail- was slashed from 10 to three And Savings were instituted in pub- ment of gasoline would cause real a half. lic transporation by rationing hardship. In somerural districts, To'get his for example„ gas is available for gasoline an m iv' bus fleets to half their pre -War nal must apply to the regional .pe- consumption, and eliminating cer- driving to and from the station troleum officer. There are 12 such tain routes. In London, for ex- . a couple of weekly shop- ,r • hien for the entire United King- ample, buses are parked on road - ping trips if no public transporta- dom which give an idea of how sides during slack daytime hours. tion is available. cotuparatively few cases are in The saving involved in not run - USED AMERICAN SYSTEM volved, The application must ex- ning them back to their garages The early history of Britain's • plain not only why gasoline is approaches 2,000,000 driving miles rationing system reads much like needed, together with details of annually. our own. Within three weeks of the number of mires driven on Taxis are rationed on regional • the war's start the English intro-. similar work in the previous pe- scales. In London, where there duced a scheme including both riod,_but also must specify the are an estimated 4000 cabs as . basic and supplemental gas cou- routes to be driven. The last is of against double that . number in pons. The basic ration was fig- immeasurable help to enforce- normal times, taxis get 00 gallons tired to give an average of 180 nlent officers. Even if your claim monthly. Hired cars are pretty miles monthly. Unlike our basic to gasoline is approved, you will freely—if expensively =-- available ration, however, Britain's ration have to reapply—with all the de- for trips within 10 miles of the was scaled to the horsepower of tails repeated again—at least once owner's garage. ALLIED FOOD SHIP REACHES GREECE After many months of planning, Military Liaison (Greece) is now beginning to' assist the Greek Government by bringing in supplies of all kinds. Six months' supplies have been arranged, amounting to '700,000 tons. The first food ship, since the liberation' of Greece , began, to unload was the British merchantman S. S. "COULGORM" with British' Empire and American food supplies aboard. Photo shows M. Papandreou, the Greek Prime Minister, helping to unload the first sack of flour into a truck while Lieut. Gen. Scobie, G.O.C., Greece, looks on. NEW COMMANDER Here is a clinically -proven, two- way treatment for colds! Take ALLERGI-TABS to "blitz" that "drip'—relieve congestion and dis- comfort within an hour. ALLERGI- TABS combine fast -acting medi- cinal ingredients with Vitamin C. One or two tablets will prove how effective they are! Take VITAVAX to speed recovery, increase vitalftyand build immunity to future cold. VITAvAX combines \Cold Vaccine (specially prepared to combat common cold bacteria) With richly concentrated Vitamins ' +I,'Bi, C and D. Remember: ALLERGI-TABS for speedy relief from colds; vITAVAX to build immunity to colds. Ask your druggist, Roberts Biological. Laboratory, Toronto, can Liel)t -General Sir Richard Mc- Creary, . ,K.CB,. DSO, MBE, re- cently appointed' to command the British Eighth Army in Italy. - EASTERN STAR i Famed songwriter Irving Berlin, above, who toured Europe, with v his hit musical "This Is the Army," is now on an entertain- ment tour of the Far East, doing his stuff for servicemen in lib - :rated Dutch East Indies. "ALL QUIET" -BUT CANADIANS .KEEP ALERT ON THE WESTERN FRONT While great' battles swirl to the south where Field Marsha/ von Rundstedt made his first big counter -offensive on the Western Front Canadian troops have settled down to a virtual duplicate of the trench warfare of the last Great War.. Everyone is constantly on the alert however to counter any new move from Jerry, and patrolling actions by both sides are the order of the day and night. Here are two pictures taken on the Canadian sector. At left, Pte, Bill McConnell of London, Ont., is preparing to toss a hand grenade afterullin the pin with his teeth, while at right, three Canucks stand on the alert in the dugout gouged froin an earthy bank. The men are Pte Sam 1VfcClymont of Sarnia, Ont., Pte. Bill McConnell of London, Ont., and ,Pte. Ron Weir of Annapolis, N. S. FDR ADDRESSES THE NATION Demands for national service legislation, which keynoted his message to. Congress, was rapeated by President Roosevelt in his recent radio Address to the nation, This White House photo was made shortly before the speech was broadcast. -AND THE PILOT WALKED AWAY His P-38 fighter plane lies smashed and burning on Mindoro. Island, but the Allied pilot, walks away unharmed. He was shot down in flames by a Jap Zero, made a crash- landing. THERE'S STILL A WAR ON BURMA'S `FORGOTTEN. FRONT' While the Western Front drama snares the big ,headlines, the war still goes on in ,Burma, where Allied forces, including American -trained and led d' Chinese troops are gradually forcing the Japs out of the country, Photos above taken near, recently recaptured Bhamo, dhow, top: a unique jeep tan- dem, serving as a "locomotive" to haul freight cars filled with supplies; left, below; knowing that . , Jape often feign death only to heave a grenade when they get a chance, a combat cameraman rolls over the body of a Nip killed on the banks of the Irrawaddy River; below: The war corres- pondent, who took the photos, sits a -top a tank, manned by r Chinese and an American. COLD ENOUGH FOR YOU? • If, like millions of other folks, you've been shivering under King Winter's blasts recently brush the icicles off your eyelashes and take a gander at the picture above. 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