RAYON FOR TYRES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 42, 26 January 1943, Page 3

RAYON FOR TYRES

DESPITE COTTON PROTEST Disregarding Senate criticism of his programme for expanding rayon plants" to enable them to prodpee 50,000,000 pounds more, of high-ten-acity yarn for use in military vehicle tyres, Mr William M. Jeflers, the rubber director, ordered the programme to be put into effect, says a Washington eport in the New

York Times. War Production Board officials s>aid there was no reason to expect further delay, despite the objections raised by members of the Senate's Agricultural Committee on behalf of cotton growers. Involved, is an expenditure of about 5,000,000 dollars to expand the facilities of, six rayon plants and to build an addition to a seventh. The high-tenacity yarn, according to those who have advocated its use more widely in tyres, makes possible a saving of 650 pounds of rub-

ber for every 1000 pounds of yarn. Before the Senate Agricultural Committee, where 'he had been summoned by Senators from cotton States, Mr Jeffers bluntly told the committee that he intended to do his job and that no pressure group was going to stop him from substituting rayon for cotton in heavy duty tyres if the army wanted rayon. "I'm not going to put myself in a position where it is said of me that I lack the intelligence and guts to do a job," he declared.