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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1970 More Than 140,000 Autos in Utah Have Bald Tires Says Survey More than 140,000 autos in Utah have at least one bald tire which could cause a serious highway accident. Thats what the Tire Industry Safety Council says, based on the latest government studies of passenger tires in use all over the country. The Council is launching a big drive to warn motorists against bald tires, particularly in those states which do not have tire safety laws. A total of 23 states in the U.S. have put minimum tread depth requirements into effect. In addition the state of Maryland has also passed a tire safety law, but has not yet determined a specific minimum tread depth. The Tire Industry Safety Council is attempting to convince motorists in the remaining states including Utah that their highway safety is endangered unless careful attention is given to the . worn tires. tire experts, in Government a study of independent surveys, recently cited evidence that one eighth of passenger car tires in use in the Eastern U.S. are bald. It was also discovered that in two out of three cases where there was one bald tire, there was also a second. Mathemati cians, working with these figures conclude that 30 per cent of the cars on the highways have one or more bald tires. If this pattern applies to Utah the state has over 140,000 cars with one or more bald tires. Total passenger carse registration in Utah in 1969 was 468,570. conductinfg the study wereciok Utah motorists, including bus and truck drivers, accumulate over 5.8 billion annual vehicle miles. Still Utah has yet to enforce a minmum tread depth regulation for the safety of its motoring population. Modern tires have built in indicators which seem as smooth 2 inch bands across the face 1-- of the tire when the tread gets down to inches. Beyond this point, the tire may be extremely dangerous even at moderate speeds on wet roads. For safety, when the bars appear in two or more adjacent grooves, replace the tire. These same experts caution motorists that it only requires a few minutes per month to give the tires the proper care they require. Tires are designed to run at a certain pressure, a certain angle to the road, a certain angle to the line of travel and under certain maximum loads. If you respect these requirements the modern tire will take a terrific beating for you and stand up, probably trouble free, for phenomenal distances of travel. If you do not, you are inviting some trouble. Surveys show that while tires are involved in les than one per cent of all accidents, in more than half of these cases these tires are worn to the cord. Bald tires have also been found up to 44 times more likely to suffer disablement as new tires. A tire having average tread depth is five to ten times more likely to skit on a wet road. As the tires are bald and being used on a wet surface the likelihood of skidding becomes ten to 20 times as great. l-1- 6th President Signs Credit Union Bill President Nixon at the White House signed into law a bill introduced by Sen. Wallace Bennett of Utah to provide mandatory insurance for savings of depositors in all federal credit unions and optional protection for state chartered credit unions. Potentially affected are more than 22,000,000 persons who have some $14 billion invested PagaRva Rail Passenger Service May Get Boost from New Law Rail passenger service has rail travel as a preferrable mode quantitatively and qualitatively deteriorated to the point where it now cannot be considered a generally viable mode of intercity travel. The extent of service decline is illustrated by the fact that the in the nations 24,000 credit nation was served in 1929 by more than 20,000 intercity pasunions. Sen. Bennett said, I am highly senger trains and now is served less than 500 intercity trains. pleased of course at the Presi- byThe public has overwhelmingdents action. It finalizes the legchosen the car and to a lesser islative process necessary to ly extent commercial air carriers grant needed protection to our as preferred modes of intercity countrys credit union share- travel. holders. I introduced the measure with the knowledge that of all American investors in major institutions the relatively small depositors who comprise the bulk of credit union savers were unique in the lack of protection afforded them under current laws. Yet it is these very persons who can least afford potential losses of their savings. The bill signed into law today is a major step toward encouraging new investors to save their money and to deposit it in credit unions. The Bennett bill passed the Senate unanimously on Sept. 2 and passed the House on Oct. 5. It had earlier cleared the Senate Banking and Currency Committee on which Sen. Bennett is the ranking Republican. Planners Official Will Address Seminar at U of U participants. Sponsored by the Division of Community and Urban Development at the University, the seminar is the first in a series of Title I Planning Seminars. All interested persons are invited to attend. Mr. Monasch is a former regional president of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. He served on advisory committees for the various Housing and Urban Defor velopment (HUD) propects was the federal government and recently appointed to the Operation Breakthrough Site Design Review Committee. The guest speaker has worked on housing and community deand velopment in California Great Britain. He is a member Plan-ni- g of the American Society of Officials and the American Institute of Architects, and was elected president of the American Institute of Planners in 1969. Rain. Thunderheads whipped into a dark fury by the wind. Millions of Individual drops lowering a curtain across the valley and finally splashing across your window. Rain. You'll learn to love it, too . . . when you have an electric clothes dryer. A viable intercity rail passenger service will relieve highway and airway congestion. Train propulsion systems pol- lute significantly less than those of alternate modes. Modern, efficient intercity rail road passenger service is a necessary part of a balanced transpor- tation system. Public convenience and necessity require the continuance and improvement of rail passenger service to provide fast and comfortable transportation between These public preferences have urban areas and other areas of received substantial federal fi- the nation. nancial support in the form of The Act instructs the Secretary aid to highway construction and of Transportation to designate a ongoing programs of moderniz- Basic National Rail Transportaing of airports and airways, and tion System specifying the points rail passenger service has re- between which intercity passenceived little federal financial as- ger trains will be operated. The National Railroad Passensistance. The nations rail carriers in ger Corporation is created to 1969 incurred a loss of over $200 operate by contract with railmillion in the operation of pas- roads the basic system beginsenger service. They have neither ning May.l, 1971. The corporation will be capithe incentive nor financial capatalized servto by the payments of parimprove passenger city ice. ticipating railroads which are The successful rail passenger expected to aggregate $200 milservice offered by Metroliner, lion and is assisted by a combioperating between New York and nation of federal grants and loan Washington has demonstrated guarantees of up to $175 million. that given fast, clean, safe and A proverb is a short sentence comfortable service, a significant on long experience. based segment of the public will choose - The president of the American Institute of Planners will be the guest speaker at a seminar on of the City Planning; The State at the Art, Monday, Nov. 16, University of Utah. Walter J. Monasch, Jr., of Chiin cago, 111., a national leader discuss will urban development, the emerging problems of city alternative palnning and review seminar with and case histories of intercity travel. keeping rain from your clothes. It brings a change in your way of living. A change in the way you feel. A change in the way your clothes feel. An electric dryer takes the hurry, the carry, and the worry out of laundry. Then it gives your clothes a soft tough. And, an electric dryer costs less up to $40 less. The Sun That Never Sets |