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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>
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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> 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
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