Show Jef Jeffers f ers Criticizes O Q P A Method Of Handling Tire Ceilings WASHINGTON Nov 19 CUP Rubber CUP Rubber Director William M. M Jeffers said Thursday he was not satisfied with the office of price administrations administration's handling of price ceilings on automobile tires and criticised the current tire registration program as cum cum- Testifying before the senate I banking committee Jeffers said the 0 OPA's OPAs P As A's plan for registering the nations nation's tires seemed unnecessarily unnecessarily unnecessarily complicated I cant can't say Im I'm entirely In accord accord accord ac ac- ac- ac cord with the program he said The procedure is perhaps too cumbersome Jeffers was testifying on legislation legislation legislation legis legis- lation which would give independent dent tire dealers exclusive rights to sell new used retreated and recapped tires for civilian use The bill also would require the setting aside of tons of crude rubber and tons of reclaimed reclaimed reclaimed re re- re- re claimed rubber for the purpose of providing retread tires tiresa a year for passenger cars Im Imery very ery much in favor of keeping so-called so little business businessmen men nen in business Jeffers said but by and large I very much doubt the necessity for legislation of this kind I should dislike to see any legislation legis- legis legis-I. legis lation which would hamper our efforts to get In the tires get them I and get them back inline in line ine he added I He said that even without any legislation it would probably be possible to keep dealers dealers dealers deal deal- any ers in business Moreover the 1 bill he added would stop me I from using all aU the equipment available |