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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>HI</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The also had gathering places for rubber and
hundreds of the old rubber tired astrays wound</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>up in the stacks. Aluminum also from
various</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>items, including the many cigartte
packs.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jacroing67@ev1.net href="mailto:jacroing67@ev1.net">Jacqueline</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 31, 2005 7:50
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Government Ration
Stamps 1940s</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jacqueline</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="mailto:jacroing67@ev1.net">jacroing67@ev1.net</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=evbarnes@earthlink.net href="mailto:evbarnes@earthlink.net">E V
Barnes</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 31, 2005 7:19
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Government
Ration Stamps 1940s</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Every family had one. Butter, Meat, Eggs,
Gasoline, shoes hard toget, no vehicles produced</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>fall of 41-46. Gasoline had A, B, C.
windshiled</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>stickerthere may have been more. We used
to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>watch the P-38's and P-39's in mock
dogfights</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>over the skys of Oakland. Later the
Blackwidow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>could be seen going out in the eveing
sky.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There were several false alarms. One Jap
sub</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>did fire on the southern coast. Did
little or no</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>damage. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>During the middle of the war my father's
shop</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>repaired a buick that had been side swiped
by</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the flatbed carrying a minature Jap
sub.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=trisch@charter.net href="mailto:trisch@charter.net">Trisha
Neal</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
href="mailto:or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us">or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:01
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [or-roots] Government Ration
Stamps 1940s</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Trish</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Coos Bay, OR 97420<BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"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
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