Show tire rationing j plan set up at meeting g of board mem members bers in salt lake C clity city lity partners farmers in the less populous areas especially those without good bus or t train connections will bo be conducted under tile tho utah council of defonso defense all regula ti alons ons are milde by the U S government ern orti ment not the state and are administered by local officials all of whom are under U S oath of office no matter how stringent tho rules nor what the general desire to change them they must be strictly enforced accord aing to regulations even though farmers have hava to depend upon their automobiles to travel to and from fiant their ranchos ranches no now tires and tubes will be available to them nor tor for any private automobile except the those so of police groups doctors and jurres newest wartime restriction Is tile freezing of sales put into effect this week now the public can got get no automobiles tor for which there would bo be no tires available anyway chairmen or of all county councils of de defense fouse ma met monday january 5 at the newhouse hotel in salt lake city in a statewide con conference forono of state civilian do de jense officials dr hebor heber N harper regional director of defonso defense work and eugene carvi regional information director of the and the OPA wore were special speakers ip eakers at the meeting as was governor herbert B maw mav 1 state chairman of the defense council jack 11 helms regional region at Al director rector for tile tho entire west and aless lou director of activities also spoke at tho the meeting this meeting was held lil to coordinate coor dinato the efforts ol 01 all defense agencies n gon cies tiro tire quotas for january herewith Hore with are tire quotas toi f I 1 all counties count loa in utah in tho the first and second columns are quotas on tires and tubes respectively for passenger cars motorcycles and light trucks combined lind and in in the third and fourth colbi columns are quotas on urea tires and tubes respectively for heavy trucks and busses combined 13 beaver e av 0 r 4 3 12 10 boxelder Box Dox elder I 1 17 14 64 54 64 cache 27 22 23 61 61 51 carbon 17 14 43 36 1 1 1 1 davis 17 14 43 36 duchesne pu chesne 6 5 4 22 18 E emery mery F 4 3 16 13 garfield 2 t 1 13 11 rand grand G I 1 1 I 6 6 5 iron 7 6 6 33 28 juab 6 5 17 14 kano 1 1 9 8 millard AIll lard 7 S 23 19 morgan 3 2 7 6 pluto plute 1 1 7 6 rich 2 1 I 6 6 salt palt lako lake san juan 1 I 1 8 7 sanpete 11 40 2 ai sevier evler 11 9 29 24 Su summit nimit 8 7 18 15 thoele tooele 10 8 18 16 uintah 6 5 4 30 26 utah 61 51 43 baratch 6 4 1 13 10 washington 4 3 36 30 wayne I 1 1 5 4 weber 58 40 87 hero are tho the reasons the government la its in a tough h spot on rubber and finds it necessary to clamp down on the use 1180 of th tires cs and tubes approximately 60 per cent of united states rubber conics comes from areas already occupied or being invaded by japanese another r 43 4 3 pr cen cent J comes from adjacent dutch and british islands of sumatra java and borneo all of which are threat cited by japan while this county has largo stockpiles stock piles of crude rubber on hand and large inventories of manufactured goods the expanding military needs plus the un certainty of supplies from the far east make it imperative that thai the nation reduce its cf civilian vIllan consumption suin atlon to not more than tons of crude rubber a month consumption tor for civilian uso use has haa boon been running around tons a month it Is obvious this must be cut nearly 80 0 per cent approximately 76 75 per cent of tho the crude rubber consumed in ill this country goes into now new tiros A small amount of the balance goes into golf and tennis balls bathing apparel stationers stationery station ers goods gooda toy balloons and deonis manufacture of these cai bo eliminated entirely but most of the balance balanc 0 goes into essential mechanical goods and other products such an aa tire fire hose transmission and conco conveyor or belts pac kings friction tape jar rings surgeons gloves hot water bottles sy syringes protective cloth ang arid and thousands of other products reclaimed rubber will be used in place of crude rubber in many items amounts of synthetic rubber abal lable in the near future will bo be small email at the present time there are between and now new tires ili hi stock in ili this country in recent months replacement tire sales have been running around 0 tires a month or a year yea r it la Is obvious that exist ing stocks on this basis would be adequate to meat only about two months i |