Oklahoma Drivers Urged to Drive Slowly to Conserve Rubber

Tire Rationing
Units to Begin
Work Monday

Members Are Told
To Inform Public
Of Meeting Dates

Rationing of automobile, truck, bus and tractor tires and tubes throughout Oklahoma will start Monday with local boards advised to give publicity to their place of meetings so the public can apply.

Bert McDonel, state tire rationing administrator, said Saturday he had urged the county boards to fix a meeting place and give publicity to the time and place of meetings.

Certificates for successful applicants for tires were received Saturday and forwarded to the counties. State headquarters had received notice of appointment of county rationing boards in all except 8 of the 77 counties.

Safety Appeal Issued

Meantime, Governor Phillips joined in an appeal for safe driving on the highways to conserve tires and automobiles.

"Washington recommended passage of a law limiting the speed on state highways," he said. "I answered it counted be done without special session of the legislature. I hope the citizens will appreciate the fact that this is no time for speeding and obey the reasonable restrictions heretofore outlined by Walter B. Johnson, commissioner of public safety.

45-Mile Limit Urged

Johnson has advised motorists to limit their speed on highways to 45 miles an hour to conserve tires, lubricants, gasoline and the automobiles. Johnson said the costs at a 45-mile-an-hour limit would be half the cost of a 65-mile an hour maximum speed.

V.P. Crowe, chairman of the Oklahoma county tire rationing board, notified McDonel the board will meet Monday, 10 a.m., in room No. 1 at the courthouse to consider applicants. R. J. Clements of Cain Coffee Co., was named a member of the board instead of L.H. Jarvis, of Peyton's who was forced to be out of the city for several days.

Counties which had not informed state headquarters of the personnel of local committees Saturday were: Canadian, Carter, Cimarron, Delaware, Dewey, Johnston, Murray and Rogers.