Evening star., 1943-06-29
Tire ReplacemMents
To Be Cut Sharply
Beginning July |
Strict Adherence TO
Conservation Rules
Urged by LETTERS
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Rubber Director william M
Jeffers today called for strict
adherence" during the next few
months to tire conservation
regulations, and the Office of
Price Administration put force
to his words by sharply reducing
the number of low mileage pas
senger car owners eligible for
used and recapped tires.
Mr.. Jeffers advised OPA that only
100000 used and recapped tires will
be available for rationing in July,
a reduction of 800, 900 from June.
Beginning July / and probably
for period of 80 days while supplies
Of used tires are being put into serv-
iceable condition, the eligibility Of
drivers with mileage rations of 240
miles or less month will be deter
mined by these standards:
l. In the East where an A book
is good for 80 miles a month, drivers
who hold only an A book cannot get
requirements. They can still have
their present tires recapped without
getting a certificate.
2. Outside the East. where the A
book provides 240 miles a month. the
applicant must show he used his car
for essential purposes
Jones Sees Good Future.
Present regulations make all low
mileage drivers eligible for used or
;recapped tires. Regulations for
drivers with monthly mileage rations
exceeding 140 miles were not
changed.
Announcement Of the new restric-
tions followed speech yesterday in
which Secretary OF Commerce Jones
declared that by the end of this
year Americas S70O,00OO00 rubber
industry will be capable of meeting
all essential civilian as well as mill
tary requirements.
Manufacturing capacity OF the 40
plants throughout the country by
December will be in excess of 800,-
900 tons year, which is more than
we have ever used and sufficient for.
our essential purposes Mr. Jones
said in an address broadcast to
made in America rubber" luncheon
In Houston, Tex.
Would Avert Further Cuts.
In disclosing the reduction in used
Rnd recapped tires available for ra-
tioning, Mr.. Jeffers told the OPA:
Il hope and believe it would help
all concerned to get through this
critical period If you would impress
on your boards and in turn have
them advise the people In their COM
munity that all conservation meas
ures should be strictly adhered to-
I'VE do not want 20 be forced to
impose any new and more drastic
regula tions other than limiting the
eligibility for grade tires (used and
recapsl, but this may have to be
done if present regulations and ad-
vice does not bring the necessary
results to tide us over this period
while we are scraping the bottom
Of the barrel for tires to keep essen
tial cars in service"
Gas Coupons Won't Be Changed.
At the same time, Price Admins
traitor Brown disclosed that reduc-
tions in the values of A, B and c
gasoline coupons will be unchanged
for the present.
Mr. Brown said last night he
hoped enough gasoline could be
brought into the Northeastern
shortage area to maintain coupons
on their present basis If that can't
. be done, however, he said he was
sure the motorists will be willing
to make whatever new sacrifice this
emergency war condition requires"
Reporting on his prewar stock
piling program, Mr. Jones declared:
About this time in 1910, l8 months
before we were drawn into the war,
your Government began protecting
our rubber supply. In July. 1910,
President Roosevelt asked the Re-
construction Finance Corp. to build
up a Stockpile of rubber. Between
that time and the capture of the
Dutch East Indies by the japanese,
we bought every pound of rubber we
could possibly get.
Much Still in Stockpile.
LAS a result, when we entered the
wa we had accumulated the largest
rubber stocSpile the world has ever
known. We have drawn upon that
stockpile for all our essential needs,
as we'll as for those of the United
Nations. and we still have several
hundred thousand tons"
Of the synthetic program, he said
"the task has not been an easy one"
Now that the storm of words has
subslded and Government, together
with industry. has been allowed time
to do the necessary work, we have
what we set out to get when forced
into the war-a completely lnte-
grated rubber industry"
Mr.. Jones paid high tribute to Mr.
JefTers. asserting "his insistence and
determination that construction ma
terials be made available, that all
phases of the program be thorough
ly checked, and that speed be the
watchword, have been responsible for
the early completion of the plants,
He drove the program through