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Show FUX CHECK-UP OF TIRES URGED By LOCAL DEALER For years it has been the cus-,, cus-,, of many i motorist, looking lard Fall driving to use the erlod jst preceding Labor Day ? eet his car ready for bad wea-Lr wea-Lr since vacations for the most Tart' are ver and with th6m Ule Le summer drives have ended. . oldng to his car's battery ignl-ln ignl-ln svstem, and especially to : (ires, has become an annual routine. rou-tine. Coupled with this is the fact ttiat tire engineers have proved .trough road and laboratory tests and observations, over a period of tears that when new tires are : applied to automobiles in cool weather, their owners gain as much as 20 per cent longer wear ' from them, than would be the ease were the tires applied in hot leather. Besides this, new tire treads are sharp and clean-cut, " providing necessary protection against skidding on wet pavements pave-ments prevalent to Autumn. Important news to car owners this year, Ed Johnson, local Goodyear Good-year dealer told the Herald in an : interview, is that for a -nine-day I period only he will be able to of-I of-I fer Goodyear G-3 tires with the All-Weather tread, that is protection protec-tion against wet pavement skids, at a special price for the 6.00-16 size, which is what 70 per cent of the cars in service use. "When they learn the price, which is but $9.99, and that similar simi-lar reductions apply to other G-3 sizes, those discerning car owners who want quality and appreciate ap-preciate it the more at lower prices, will certainly be interested. inter-ested. "The tires," Mr. Johnson explained, ex-plained, "are protected by a lifetime life-time guarantee, and the price includes in-cludes turning in the customer's old tires. "Despite the increase in tire prices which took place in July, tihs nine-day offer is a very unusual un-usual departure in merchandising," merchandis-ing," said Mr. Johnson, "but is being made to give car owners an opportunity to do their part in helping make Fall highway driving driv-ing safer, preventing those dangerous dan-gerous skids which are a big factor in the total accident toll." Longest of Flags Probably the longest flags used in the United States are the "homeward bound" pennants of the navy. When a ship has served for more than a year on foreign duty it flies the pennant on its return. re-turn. The usual procedure is to allow one foot of pennant for each man in the crew. The U. S. S. Houston, when returning from duty in the Asiatic fleet, had a pennant 575 feet long. Putting all your concrete and steel into a Maginot line and leaving leav-ing it out of your statesmen isn't clever. |