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Show Expanding Ruts Hamper Cars In Desert Travel STONY FORD, Ariz., Mai'. Changeable weather here Is making travel difficult, because the ruts in the roacis 'xpnnd and contract with warm and cold spells. It's got so that a car running run-ning along in a five-foot rut suddenly finds the rut expand ex-pand to six fe etas the aim Rets hotter, and there is the auto, one wheel in a rut and !lle other a foot higher. The Acme garage is trying o solve the problem by fit-ling fit-ling rubber axles to cars, so that the wheels will automatically automat-ically follow the ruts, no mat-H'f mat-H'f how wide the latter are. On top of Black Butte this morning the. ruts were nine fi'et apart in the sunshine; in 'he canyon below, they were "ily 4li inches. Old timers 5"iU this was unusual. j |