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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 1970 Safety Council Official Explains Differences in Snow Tires Lady Bird Johnson Should I buy snow tires, studded tires, or reinforced chains this winter? Are they really any good, are they worth the money and bother and which will perform best for me? These questions are posed to police and traffic safety officials many times each winter. As a service to consumers and in the interest of traffic safety, Leo H. Barlow, Utah Safety Councils vice president for Traffic, was asked to comment on the widely used traction devices. His reply and observations are factual eye openers and you will find them interesting and uesful. Any traction device, snow tires, studdied tires or reinforced tire chains that help a driver to start and stop his care more safely on ice and snow is worth the price, he said. At todays repair costs they pay off if they help a driver to Reveals Secrets Of White House Life unbiased measurements of performance on snow and ice. Few drivers know, for example, that conventional snow tires without studs are actually slightly inferior to regular tires in stopping on glare ice. Contrary to popular belief, the tests show that with regular tires the average braking distance from 20 mph is 149 feet whereas with snow tires on the rear wheels the comparable distance is 151 feet! Drivers who think they can stop quicker on sheet ice with snow tires are deluding themselves. Snow tires do have ad- vantages in loose snow and in getting started however. As might be expected, the best performance on ice was by reinforced tire chains. They cut the braking distance to 75 feet, a 50 per cent improvement. He said tests with studded snow tires on the rear wheels made the stop in 120 feet for an improvement of 19 per cent. Conventional snow tires score better in the pulling or starting traction test on glare ice than in stopping. Here they are 28 per cent better than regular tires, whereas studdied tires give you three times the pulling power on ice and reinforced tire chains seven times, the official noted. On loosely packed snow, tests show that snow tires are 51 per cent better than regular tires in getting you started, while reinforced tire chains provide about three times the pulling ability avoid even one minor fender-bendtype of accident. But the for his own protection, buyer, should understand the limitation of these devices. There is some concern about advertising claim which lead the consumer to believe that all our winter starting and stopping and skidding problems vanish with the purchase of this product. But many accidents occur because drivers are led to believe they have a far greater margin of skid protection than is built into the device they bought, he said. He cited the findings of the National Safety Councils Committee on Winter Drivng Haz- of regular tires. ards during its anual testing program to determine how vehicles Reading Biographies and traction aids perform. The tests give us accurate and Introduction to er Business Know How S.L. Study Describes Evaporation Technique A new Water Resources Bulle- tin (No. 15) is available from the University Geological Survey. Evaluation of Eddy Flux Techniques in Computing Evaporation from Great Salt Lake was compiled by Don R. Dickson, chairman. Department of University of Utah, and Alvin E. Rickers, Lt. Colonel, U. C. Air Force. The technical report is a reexamination of an earlier investigation (1964) where results were obtained by the eddy flux methods. At that time, observation stations were set up near Rozel Point and Stansbury Island. The new study concludes that lake evaporation is higher than earlier estimates. The bulletin, which includes figures on distribution and cumulative evaporation as well as evaporation tables, is available by mail for $1.10 at the Survey Office, 103 Utah Geological Survey Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112. Mete-orolg- Arthritis Sufferers. WAKE UP WITHOUT ALL THAT STIFFNESS! New formula for arthritis minor pain is so strong you can take it less often and still wake up in the morning without all the pains stiffness. Yet so gentle you can take this tablet on an empty stomach. Its called Arthritis Pain Formula. Get hours of relief. Ask for Arthritis Pain Formula, by the makers of Anacin . y, Page Three Still Plenty of Need in U.S. For Skilled Machinist In a McCalls magazine article A machinst is a person who him as having the background runing its second lengthy ex- makes cerpt from A White House Di- machinethings machine tools or and theory in such things as math and blue print reading to parts. ary, Lady Bird Johnson reveals of need work in some phase of the maThere is still plenty the cause of her great insecurity this fast chinist trade. Completion of the fast in him for moving, as First Lady, the cause of course second year will qualify him to was the shadow of her beautiful advancing age. Thus declares Earl Cottom, go to work as an advanced appredecessor, Jackie Kennedy! On of the building and prentice. He will then progress chairman October 19, 1968, in the quiet metals department of Utah Tech- to journeyman as he works in of Camp David, Mrs. Johnson writes the opening lines of that nical College at Provo, who em- the trade, according to rules set phasized this week that quali- up governing it, said Mr. Cottom. days entry: Mrs. Kennedy is fied machinists graduates who To train machinists, Utah Tech going to marry Aristotle Socrates Onassis! Mrs. Johnson can wanted to go to work in that has a shop full of milling manot help referring back to her field have been able to get jobs. chines, lathes, drill presses and Last spring the college gradu- precision machines which, if the (Jackie) in this entry: The last ated 19 machinsts. The big ma- college were required to replace time I saw her was at Bobby of them obtained jobs in them, would cost in the neighKennedys funeral, when I hope jority their trades, he said. 'We could borhood of $250,000, he said. her name and put out my hand, she looked at me as if from a have placed 50, from the re- These are the tools for making had from the various machine parts and machine tools great distance. Remembering quests we stated. he which is waht a machinist does. her eyes that day, I thought this firms, Firms such as Clark Engineer- He is not to be confused with a complete break with the past in Orem, Hill Field, the steel mechanic, whose principal job is might be good for her. It was ing and pipe industry, specifically a repair and installation. almost as though the use of the name Jackie Kennedy might pump making company in Los The Advisory committee of the and a firm doing atom- Utah Tech in the machinist bring the dying ghost of a shad- Angeles ic energy research in San Fran- field, a combination of educators ow alive again. Lady Bird says she went to sleep satisfied and cisco, an aircraft and missiles and practical tradesmen who adparts company in Salt Lake and vise what trades and vocations happy to be at Camp David. will be most needed in industry another there Mrs. Johnson closes this same parts, all havemaking precision tells where the college maemployed Utah diary entry writing, One of Technical College machinists in chinsts are still in demand and the oddest things is that as the the past and from all indications advises a strong machinist proresult of the wedding which will the demand is still there, ac- gram at the school. happen tomorrow on a Greek cording to Roy Despain and Vard Winter quarter begins at the Island, I feel strangely free. No Roper, veteran machinist in- schol Dec. 8 with registration on shadow walks beside me down structors at the college. Both are Dec. 7, and a new class for bethe halls of the White House or qualified journeyman machinists ginning machinist will be taught here at Camp David. I wonder with special training as instruc- providing a minimum of 10 enwhat it would have been like tors. roll. This is an opportunity, said if we had entered this life unUtah Technical College gives a the department chairman, to get accompanied by that shadow? two year course leading to an started now without waiting for President Johnson carried a associate degree of certificate of school to start next fall. He formal statement of his decision proficiency in the machinist urged all interested to contact to retire to his State of the Union trade. At the end of the first the school for any further inspeech on Jan. 17, 1968, more year, the student will have a cer- formation and to register as soon than two months before he an- tificate of completion qualifying as possible. . nounced it, Mrs. Johnson says in her memoirs. However, in the resounding applause from Congress for his proposed programs, he walked away from the dais without delivering it. Later Mrs. Johnson describes the family's uncertainties and disagreement over the Presidents intention not to run again, because I do not believe I can unite this country. For herself Mrs. Johnson said during those months: I face the prospect of another campaign like an open end stay in a concentration camp. Reading biographies of major executives and industrial tycoon may be the key to know how in joining the professional management establishment, says Dr. G. S. Odiorne, dean of the College of Business at the University of Utah. ' In the November 1970 issue of the Michigan Business Review, the noted Utah dean says the new biographies of such men as Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors and Tex Thornton of Ford Motor Co. give business students Technical College perspective on management that they may never learn in school Names Business classes or from company executive management courses. Dept. Chairman beMrs. Lucille Stoddard has been Contrary to a widely held Odiorne Dr. says biography named acting chairman of the lief, shows that the pattern of very business department at the Utah famous and successful executives Technical College at Provo, said does not depend on personality, President Wilson W. Sorensen. nepotism, favoritism, degrees of Mrs. Stoddard as acting chairthe to clothes wear rights ability man will succeed Gary M. Lloyd etc., Instead, the evidence tips who has resigned to accept a the scale in favor of excellence post with-thUtah State Board of performance. of Education as state specialist The admission ticket to the in charge of business and office professional management estab- education. lishment is to be efficient, but Her appointment takes effect more important, to pick the correct boss, says Dr. Odiorne. He Dec. 7, the date of Mr. Lloyds pointed out that time after time resignation. Mrs. Stoddard comes to her the great business tycoons of the new with a PhD from Utah country have produced a major State post University in curriculum school of managers. The one exwith emphasis on perienced senior professional supervision woudl impart his know how to a business education. She has been on the business relatively small corps of juniors sucfaculty of Utah Technical College who in turn became highly for a year as instructor. She cessful. Readers of biographies of the previously taught at Utah Tech leaving for Arigreat management tycoons such in 1963 before was chairman of as Alfred S. Sloan or Pierre S. zona where she du Pont can take cues from the the business education departsuccesses and failures, thereby ment at McClintock high school man- in Tempe. She left that postt o gaining expertise in the teach at Utah State for a year agement establishment leading to earn her doctorate, then rethe countrys industries today, turned to Utah Tech. said Dr. Odiorne. casii Consider the Jim Beam half gallon: (1) The Worlds Finest Bourbon Since 1795 costs less pef drink. (2) Theres' a handle on it. Easy to carry, easy to pour. (3) Theres less chance of running out; less need to run out for more. A sensible way to enjoy the Bourbon that has been a family art since 1795. . 86 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey Distilled And Bottled By The James B. Beam Distilling Co., Clermont, Beam, Kentucky |