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Show RUBBER DIRECTOR RELEASES RULING ON AUTO TIRES The following telegram written by W. M. Jeffers, rubber director, direc-tor, clarifies the tire situation: Mr. Prentiss M. Brown Price Administrator Office of Price Administration Federal Office Building No. 1 Second and D Streets, S.W-Washington, S.W-Washington, D. C. I know you and your organization organi-zation here fully realize the necessity ne-cessity for strict adherence to the announced tire conservation regulations particularly during the next few months. We will be making synthetic rubber but there will inevitably be some delay de-lay in fabricating it into passenger passen-ger car tires because of shortage of facilities, equipment and manpower. man-power. Reports from all over the country indicate that it will help your local boards perform their duty in holding down mileage and thereby reducing the number num-ber of requests for new tires if the public were better informed of these facts. I hope and believe it would help all concerned to get through this critical period if you would impress upon your boards and in turn have them advise the people in their community com-munity that all conservation measures should be strictly adhered ad-hered to. We do not want to be forced to impose any new and more drastic regulations other than limiting eligibility for grade III tires but this may have to be done if present regulations and advice does not bring the necessary neces-sary results to tide us all over this period while we are scraping scrap-ing the bottom of the barrel for tires to keep essential cars in service. The people should not request new tires that are not absolutely needed and all used tires should be kept in service until recapping is necessary and then recapped before asking to have them replaced with new tires. I am confident that in possession pos-session of the facts the American public will cooperate to achieve our goal of keeping cars rolling. I hope that by sometime in 1944 our supply of rubber and tires j may be adequate to enable us to remove most if not all of the existing ex-isting regulations. W. M. JEFFERS |