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Show "Out of Gass" Calls More Than Million Although there is an average of one filling station or garage for every mile and a half of surfaced highway in the United States, more than one million drivers ran out of gasoline last year, according to emergency road service report3 of the Utah Motorist Automobile Association As-sociation and affiliated AAA clubs throughout the country. Other figures fig-ures contained in the reports Beem large at first glance, until it is realized that they resulted from more than four hundred billion passenger pas-senger . miles of automobile operation. oper-ation. Considering the general high efficiency, effi-ciency, of modern motor car construction con-struction it is evident, however, that much trouble on the road could have been avoided by proper care,; the . Automobile association comments. Approximately 8,600,000 tires went flat last year; 6,400,000 caaea of ignition trouble were recorded; 2,000,000 cases of starter trouble; 457,000 carburetor complaints; 8 200,000 cases of- battery trouble; 00,000 care, that became stuck in mud or. snow; and 1,246,000 cars wrecked or off the road that requia ed the use of crane service. |