Bainbridge Review 1942-03-19

              
March 19, 1942

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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MAR. 19, 1942.  VOL. XVII, NO. 46   10 PAGES, 5 CENTS

CHAMBER MAY URGE 30-MILE SPEED
APRIL 1 MAY BE DATE OF MEETING
The Chamber of Commerce, which probably will consider a proposed  request to county officials seeking a 30-mile-an-hour speed limit on Island dirt roads, it was learned last night.
Laurance A. Peters, Port Blakely, chamber president, said he expected the County Health Department's summary action in refusing to solve the Island's garbage dump problem also would be discussed.
"A major problem before the meeting undoubtedly will be automobile speed as it affects not only personal safety but also the rubber shortage," Mr. Peters said. "The President has asked us to slow down to conserve our tires."
Mr. Peters said he believed that not only a proposal to cut speed limits would be discussed but that a plan might be approved to appoint ten civilians to aid Deputy Sheriff James Johnson and traffic enforcement. Mr. Peters said he would be willing to accept traffic charges filed by this unofficial group if the chamber endorsed the plan. He said Mr. Johnson, pressed by other duties, needed help in controlling speeding motorists.

Earlier this week, the county commissioners – in line with the Pres.'s request – curtailed speed on all county roads to 40 miles an hour. This meant that the only road on the island on which a 50-mile-limit is permissible is the state road which runs from Port Blakely to Fletcher Bay.
What action the chamber might take on the garbage situation was not hinted by Mr. Peters, but others were urging strong action on the charge that the health department has failed to do its duty in refusing to find a suitable garbage dump site.
A third important point of discussion at the meeting probably will be a report on the county's sharply reduced road budget by Dr. Hobart T Cave, Crystal Springs, chairman of the chamber's road committee.
Definite announcement of the meeting will be made next week, but Mr. Peters said he felt sure it would be held on April 1.

ONE-WHEEL
Image caption: LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Gilbert Roney, aircraft worker, saw no reason for wearing down two bicycle tires when one would do – so he built himself this unicycle. He petals on it to work each morning (United Press photograph).

WORKING AT BLAKELY
Mrs. Harvey Shotwell, Ferncliff, was working this week at the Port Blakely Post Office.

MISS PRIMROSE PICKS POPULAR DATE FOR BIRTH
Brenda Elizabeth Primrose, two-week-old granddaughter cf Mrs. George Hansen, Island Center, really did something when she was born in a Seattle hospital March 5.
Brenda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allan Primrose, Seattle, chose as her birthday the birth anniversaries of (1) her father, (2) her maternal grandfather and (3) paternal grandmother.
Mr. Primrose, Mrs. Hansen's son. recently was tranferred to Spokane by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,

'GAS' RATIONS CLOSE GARAGES HERE SUNDAYS 	
Gasoline rationing, effective here today, will mean closing of all garages Sundays and in the evenings and may result in curtailed allotments to some motorists, it appeared last night.
Leading garage proprietors announced new hours of business in compliance with federal orders forbidding sale of gasoline for more than 12 hours in any one day or 72 hours in any six-day week.
At least one garage – Walberg's Motor Service, Pleasant Beach, – will go on a cash basis for all gasoline sales.
"I figure that will result in some lessening of the demands," Elmer Walberg, owner of the garage, said.
A Review survey showed that all garagemen intended to protect their own customers as much as possible and to make rationing, if it is necessary, effective first against "foreign" business.
Russell Keys, co-owner of the Bainbridge Motor Company, Winslow, said. "we know our customers and know what their requirements are, so I think we'll be able to save enough to keep most everyone satisfied." Mr. Keys pointed out that motorists were not driving so much these days and that the demand probably will be less. He indicated that most motorists probably would ration themselves by less driving.
Casey Selfors, new operator of of Rodal Motors, Rolling Bay, and Ray Williamson. proprietor of Terminal Station, Hawley dock, were among others who realised that garagemen were being "put on the spot" for the doling out of wholesale shipments which, beginning today, will be curtailed 20 per cent to each dealer.
Mr. Walberg said his garage heretofore opened on Sundays from 8 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night daily would be operated from 8 o'clock in the morning until 7 or 8 o'clock at night daily only.
Bainbridge Motor Company will continue to be closed Sundays, and will operate daily from 8 o'clock in the morning until 7 at night, Rodal Motors and Terminal Service will observe similar hours.
By. federal order last week, gasoline rationing was made effective in seventeen East Coast states, the District of Columbia and in Washington and Oregon because of wartime difficulty in transporting the product to those states.

No more installations of fuel heating equipment in new homes may be made here. the War Production board ruled this week. The ban affected Washington, 16 other states and the District of Columbia.
Consumers now using fuel oil may obtain additional stocks only if they are making full use of standby facilities using other than electricity or natural gas. It was urged that conversions be made if possible to leas scarce fuel such as coal.

Tag: Civilian War Effort, Bainbridge Island, WWII

Used typewriters will be rationed effective April 13, the Island's Rationing Beard was informed this week.
While official instructions were delayed, it was learned only prime contractors for the government and persons operating plants involved in production of certain critical war materials may obtain used machines.
Used typewriters, however, may be rented without permission of rationing boards.

Tag: Civilian War Effort, Bainbridge Island, WWII

A HERO THEN, TOO
Image caption: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dug from the forgotten files of World War I, this picture shows Gen. John G Pershing decorating Gen. Douglas MacArthur, then commander of the 84th Brigade, 42nd Division, with the Distinguished Service Medal in Remagen, Rhenish Prussia, 23 years ago. Hero of World War II for his stand in the Philippines and this week having been flown secretly to take charge of Australian defenses, Gen. MacArthur also is a holder of the Distinguished Service Cross. He also wears the Silver Star Medal with six Oak leaf clusters. A bill is before Congress to award him the Medal of Honor (official United States Army photograph).

WANT A NEW CAR BEFORE JUNE? BETTER APPLY IMMEDIATELY
Persons who will need new passenger automobiles prior to June 1 and who believe they are eligible to purchase them under rigid federal regulations were urged yesterday to make applicaftion for them prior to Saturday night.
Walt Woodward, Pieasent Beach, chairman of the Island's Rationing Board, said the board would meet this weekend and probably would consider new car applications on file. The Island car quota for March, April and May has not been announced but the board was instructed Monday, by Jack Rogers, Bremerton, County Rationing chairman, to proceed with new car applications.
Mr. Woodward said failure to apply prior to Saturday night would not bar prospective applicants from applying later, but that delay in applying might result in the applicant finding the quota already expended. Application forms may be obtained at The Review, which is the board's headquarters.
Mr. Rogers this week warned individual owners of 1942 cars that they may not, under rationing regulations, dispose of their new machines unless the purchaser holds a certificate of purchase from a rationing board. He pointed out that the rationing regulations govern any new automobile, meaning any 1942 machine or any other passenger car driven less than 1000 miles and whether owned by a dealer or an individual.
All other machines are classed as second-hand cars and may be bought without rationing certificates.
A brief summary of eligible classifications for new car purchases: physicians and visiting nurses; ministers; passenger cars used as ambulances; persons engaged as fire-fighters; peace officers; public health and safety officials; mail services; passenger cars used to transport certain types of traveling salesmen; passenger cars used for wholesale delivery of newspapers. The board continued to wait this week for further orders on the proposed rationing of sugar. Rationing registration dates, originally scheduled for this week, were cancelled.

Tag: Civilian War Effort, Bainbridge Island, WWII

ISLAND MUST WAIT TO LEARN DRAFT NUMBERS 
Concerned Island men must wait "a week or ten days--probably ten days" before learning their order numbers in the Army's third national draft lottery, The Review was informed by the Kitsap County Selective Service Board yesterday.
Islanders, for the first time since the government began drafting men for military duty, were forced this week to read published accounts of the lottery drawing without any information as to how it affected them. Previously, draft registrants had been supplied with serial numbers
and were able to estimate approximately when they would be called.
No Islanders, this time, had serial numbers to check against lottery drawings.
The Port Orchard board said it was riot releasing the serial numbers because of a delay in arranging the list in alphabetical order. No release will be made. The Review was told, until a master order list arrives from Washington, D.C.
The Review will publish the Island's order number list as soon as it is made available by the draft board,
The new lottery affected men from 20 to 21 years old and from 36 to 46. It was reported that some of this class would be inducted into the Army in June.

Tag: Bainbridge Islanders in the Armed Forces

ANOTHER LECTURE. COMING
Second in a series of defense food lectures by Mary West, home economics. expert, will be given in the Lynwood Theatre, Pleasant Beach. at 1 o'clock in the afternoon of March 31, it was learned yesterday. The announcement was made as Miss West gave her first lecture here under sponsorship of the Civilian Defense Council.

Tag: Civilian War Effort, Bainbridge Island, WWII

BREMERTON RUN MAY GET BUS 
U.S. YARD MEN TO BE AIDED BY NEW PLAN
A new schedule of bus operation on the Island, "undoubtedly" providing some service to the Bremerton ferry at Crystal Springs, will be proposed momentarily by the State Department of Public Service, The Review learned this week.
In aletter to Walt Woodward, Pleasant Beach, chairman of the Island's
Rationing Board, Frederick G. Hamley, director of the department, said:
"The company (Bremerton Transit Lines, operator of the Island bus service) will submit ... a new plan for bus operation on Bainbridge Island which will contemplate no reduction in the number of vehicles or drivers now in use there but may involve some readjustment in service for the purpose of serving the greatest number of people. This plan will undoubtedly provide some bus service for Point White (Crystal Springs) even if to do so requires some reduction in service on the Island..."
Mr. Hamley said the company had "abandoned any intention" of pressing its previously announced plan for current tailed bus service. The company, in October, asked that it be permitted to operate only two routes connecting with the Seattle ferry at Hawley instead of the four now in operation. This plan met vigorous opposition by the Chamber of Commerce. 
Mr. Hamley wrote Mr. Woodward because the Rationing Board, last month, protested to him for the company's failure to operate any bus connection with the Bremerton ferry. The board contended that this was not economy of rubber as many defense workers in the Bremerton Navy Yard were forced to drive their own cars to the Crystal Springs terminus.
Mr. Hamley indicated that service to the Bremerton ferry would be installed principally for use by defense workers and would be predicated upon the company's ability to obtain more buses in view of the pressing nation-wide demand for these vehicles. Mr. Hamley said he had just returned from Washington, D.C., where he had attempted to gain high priority ratings for bus operators in the state. 
"It should be remembered, however, that we are in a war emergency," Mr. Hamley wrote, "that the bus companies all over the state are facing desperate problems in their attempt to meet the situation, and I know that the people on the Island will agree that the first consideration must be given to the transportation of defense workers and military personnel." 

Tag: Civilian War Effort, Bainbridge Island, WWII

TO MARRY SATURD.AY
Miss Betty Logg. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Logg, Rolling Ray, and Edward Ward Pettit, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Pettit, Bucklin's Corner, will be married Saturday, the couple said last night. Only members of the families will be present at a simple ceremony in the home of the Rev, and Mrs. E. A. Ballis, Rolling Bay. After a party in Seattle with friends, the couple will spend a short honeymoon in the Cascade Mountains. They will be at home in their Seabold residence after March 29.

STUDENTS HONORED
Chuko and Teddy Hayash were honor guests at a party given by their Sunday School class at the Ferricliff home of Mrs. J. M. Curtis Friday. The honor guests were given Bibles by the class.

VISIT TACOMA
Mrs. Roy Dennis and daughter Nancy, visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Pierce, Tacoma, this week.