[or-roots] Government Ration Stamps 1940s

[E V Barnes]

HI

The also had gathering places for rubber and hundreds of the old rubber tired astrays wound
up in the stacks.  Aluminum also from various
items, including the many cigartte packs.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jacqueline 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:50 AM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Government Ration Stamps 1940s


  The stamps that were a struggle for families was "shoes".....I remember one pair dad bought for me, evidentially the soles were made of cardboard made to look like leather, walking a mile to school on gravel in the winter rains, they lasted a week. Dad took the shoes back to the store and somehow got a replacement that lasted the winter months. The stamps were not to be loose when you bought the restricted items, but everyone exchanged for what they didn't use for what was needed.  I can still see my grandmother bending over the paper to see what stamp could be used the day we went to the store. What wasn't in the books was also interesting, in order to purchase toothpaste you had to be exchange your used tube to get a new one.  Get into town and the whispers were, Mangus has Kleenex, under the counter, so and so store has stockings, under the counter. So you had to ask for the item in order to get it, and that was possible if the clerk liked you or not.

  Jacqueline
  jacroing67 at ev1.net

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: E V Barnes 
    To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
    Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 7:19 AM
    Subject: Re: [or-roots] Government Ration Stamps 1940s


    Every family had one.  Butter, Meat, Eggs, Gasoline, shoes hard toget, no vehicles produced
    fall of 41-46.  Gasoline had A, B, C. windshiled
    stickerthere may have been more.  We used to
    watch the P-38's and P-39's in mock dogfights
    over the skys of Oakland.  Later the Blackwidow
    could be seen going out in the eveing sky.

    There were several false alarms.  One Jap sub
    did fire on the southern coast.  Did little or no
    damage.  

    During the middle of the war my father's shop
    repaired a buick that had been side swiped by
    the flatbed carrying a minature Jap sub.
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Trisha Neal 
      To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
      Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:01 PM
      Subject: [or-roots] Government Ration Stamps 1940s


      Is there anyone on the list who knows how Government Ration stamps were issued around 1944-1945?  Who were they issued to?  How old did you have to be in order to be issued the stamps? How quickly could they be issued?  Please contact me offline and I can give you more information. Thanks!


      Trish

      Coos Bay, OR  97420

      "For I know the plans that I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a good future.--Jeremiah 29:11
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