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Show Conoco Introduces New Style Touring Map PONCA CITY, Okla. A major improvement in automobile road maps which encourages the motorist motor-ist to think in terms of reasonable reason-able driving time between given points rather than milage to be covered, is announced by the Con-! tinental Oil Company in connec-! tion with the issuance of maps of j the new type by the company's Conoco Travel Bureau at Denver, 1 Colo. j The new feature which will I appear on the face of all Conoco j maps consists of the addition of, actual driving time in hours and j minutes from town to town. These figures are printed in red ink and appear directly under each of the usual mileage figures which give the distances between cities and towns. A footnote points out that the driving time has been calculated cal-culated for normal traffic conditions condi-tions and dry roads and that allowances should be made by motorists who drive unusually fast or slow. The improvement is also in use by one other major oil company and is understood to be under consideration by several others. This strong emphasis on reasonable reason-able driving time rather than the factor of distance-to-be-covered should do much to promote highway high-way safety, say Conoco officials. |