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Automotive News Briefs: 1 March 1945

Automotive News Briefs: 1 March 1945

New Automobile License Plates Are Appearing
Nashua Telegraph

New 1945 automobile registration plates appeared on a number of automobiles today and the plates this year are black and white in contrast to the green and white plates of 1944.

Again this year but one plate is being issued and police find that this hampers their work considerably, especially in the matter of apprehending stolen cars. Police officials maintain that with but the one plate officers are unable to detect the number of a car until it has sped past and by that time it is almost impossible to read the numbers.

Tobin Proposal For Gas Tax Is Unwarranted
Nashua Telegraph

Boston, March 1 (AP) — Gov Maurice J. Tobin's proposal to increase the state gasoline tax an additional cent was termed "another unwarranted levy to soak the motorist" by Sidney S. von Loesecke, a spokesman for the Automobile Legal Association.

Nearly two dozen highway users organizations lined up behind von Loesecke, who told the legislative committee on taxation that adding of the penny tax to the present three-cent levy would "destroy postwar business potentialities."

Others opposed to the additional tax, recommended to provide a $75,000,000 three year postwar highway construction program, argued that the program could be financed with revenue collected at the current tax levels.