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Show Farmers Warned Against Excessive Use of Cars The warning bell "jingled" again for Utah farmers when the state USDA War Board told them they must conserve their tires, heir cars, and their trucks in order to protect wartime food production. "Before we, realize it, both tires and repair parts for farm cars and trucks may . have joined the dodo birds," said Sidney J. Nebeker, of Laketown, chairman of the board. He urged that farmers everywhere every-where in the. state give immediate thought -to ways of cutting down on driving, such as 'share-your-car". and "share-y our -truck" methods of neighborhood pooling. "While it's Jrue .that farmers have been able ' " to get car and truck repair parts from their dealers, deal-ers, and have a certain preference rating with local tire rationing boads, this won't mean a thing when repairs and recap tires become be-come unobtainable,"" he declared. "And I'm afraid that day is nearer near-er than we think." The chairman pointed out that the Jans now occunv the Far rubber, but these supplies too will be needed in fighting the war. There will be only a few recaps and no new tires for the duration, he declared. Similarly, Mr. Nebeker . said, there will be practically no new farm trucks and before long, dealers deal-ers will be running out of repair parts. Manufacturers of both vehicles ve-hicles and parts have turned to making war materials. Civilians will have to get along with what they have for the duration. "It will be tragic," the chairman declared, "if there should foe" any ' breakdown in our wartime production produc-tion program because of transportation transpor-tation trouble. We need to make our cars and trucks last for the duration. This means using them only when vitally necessary, and it means very careful care, of both, vehicles and tires. , "I suggest that every farmer become be-come a member of a neighborhood transportation pooling group, immediately. im-mediately. You'll be doing yourself and your country a real service If you keep 'em rolling but do it on a community basis." He called attention to the Saturday Sat-urday shopping trips to town and said that these trips should be made only when necessary and that when thev flm ma.de thp hpst. Eastern rubber lands from which the nation normally gets 98 percent per-cent of its supply. The stockpile of rubber on hand is being used so rapidly that some army tanks will have to be manufactured with steel treads instead of rubber. It will be months before any large quantities of synthetic rubber will be produced, and most of this will be needed for military purposes. There will be some crude rubber from Brazil and from the Guayle plant, as well as some reclaimed possible use of the car or truck should be made. "We must make our cars and trucks help win the war. Enlist them now for the duration and help keeping them serving for the duration by pooling," he advised. A single machine for making center wing sections at one airplane air-plane plant now simultaneously performs 87 operations that were erly were done individually and by hand. 1 |