Show tire rationing plan set up at meeting of board members in salt lake city farmers la in the less populous areas especially those without good bus or train connections will be conducted under the utah council of 0 defense all regulations are made by the U S government ern ment nut not the state and are administered by local officials all of whom are under U S oath of office no matter how stringent the rules nor what the general deslie desire to change them they must be strictly enforced according to regulations even though farmers have to depend upon their automobiles to travel to and from their ranches no now new tires and tubes will be available to them nor tor for any private automobile except those of police groups doctors and nurses newest wartime restriction Is tile the freezing of automobile sales put into effect this week now the public can got get no automobiles tor for which there would be no tires available anyway Chai chairmen of all county coun ells of defense met Monday january 5 at the newhouse New housa hotel in salt lake city in a statewide confer conference elice of state civilian defense officials dr heber N harper regional director of defense work and eugene carn cam regional information director of 0 the and the OPA were special speakers at the meeting as was governor herbert B maw state chairman of 0 the defonse defense council jack H helms regional 41 director rector tor for the entire west and i nitis miss lou director ot of activities also spoke at the meeting this meeting was held to coordinate the efforts ot all defense agencies tiro tire quotas for january herewith are tire alra quotas toi fol till all counties in utah in the tha first firs t and second columns are quotas on tires and tubes respectively for passenger cars motorcycles and light trucks combined and in the third and fourth columns are quotas on tires and tubes respectively for heavy trucks and busses combined beaver 4 3 12 10 boxelder Box elder 17 14 64 54 cache 27 23 61 61 51 carbon 17 14 43 36 3 G daggett 1 1 1 1 davis 17 14 43 36 duchesne 6 4 22 18 emery B mery 4 3 16 13 garfield Gartl eld 2 1 13 11 grand 1 1 6 5 iron 7 6 33 28 juab 6 5 17 14 kane 1 1 9 8 millard 7 6 23 19 morgan 3 2 7 6 pinto 1 1 7 6 rich 2 1 6 5 salt lake san juan 1 1 8 7 San tiete 11 9 40 20 2 sevier 11 9 29 24 summit 8 9 7 18 15 tooele thoele 10 8 18 16 uintah 5 4 30 25 utah 51 43 wasatch 5 4 13 10 washington 4 3 36 30 vayne ayne I 1 1 5 4 weber 58 68 49 87 I tore here are the reasons the government Is in a tough spot on rubber and finds it necessary t to I 1 lamp down on the use of 0 urea tires and tubes approximately SO 50 per pel cont cent of united states rubber comes from areas already occupied or belnia bearil amaded by japanese another 43 per cent comes adjacent dutch and british islands of sumatra java and borneo ill all of 0 alch which are threatened ened by japan while this county count has large larg stockpiles stock piles of 0 crude i rubber libber on hand and large inventories of manufactured goods tho the expanding military needs plus the un certainty of supplies BUpp lles from the par east make it imperative that thai the nation i reduce educe its civilian chilian consumption to not more moie than tons of 0 crude rubb rubber or a month consumption tor for civilian use has been running around tons a month it is obvious this illus must t be cut nearly 80 per c ent cent approximately 75 per cent ol of the crude rubber lubber consumed in this county country goes into now tires A small knull amount of 0 the balance goes into golf and tennis balls bathing apparel a p p a r e 1 stationer S goods good toy balloons and items manufacture of these can call be eliminated entirely but most of the balance goes into essential mechanical goods and other products such as fir fire hose transmission and conveyor belts pac kings friction tape jar rings lings surgeons sui geons gloves hot water bottles syringes protective cloth ang and thousands of 0 other products reclaimed rubber will be used in place of crude rubber in many items amounts of synthetic rubber abal available lable in thy the near future will ft be small at the present time there are between and new urea tires in stock in this country in recent lecent months replacement tire sales have haie been running around tires a month or a year ear it is obvious that existing stocks on this basis would be adequate to meet only about two months normal requirements |