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Show THE SALT LAKE TIME! FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1973 SECTION 2 Page Nine Cycle Safety Rules Published By Utah Safety Council A significant positive factor in collisions between motorists and cyclists (both bicycles and motorcycles) is a failure of the motorcyclist to see the cyclist. The relatively smill size of the bicycle motorcycle makes it easy to be obscured from the motorists view by a blind spot, tree, pillar, shrub, sign and other vehicles. Moreover psychology tells us that perception is a function of familiarity, we perceive what we want to expect to see. Although motorcyclists and bicyclists are appearing on our highways and streets in evergrowing numbers, still they constitute a very small proportion of our roadway users. In short, not only is the motorist not used to seeing bicycles and motorcycles in the traffic system, they are difficult to see even when the motorist is watching for them. In recognition of this problem a wide variety of devices designed to improve the identification of the cyclist has been advanced. Headlights, reflectorized or fluoriscent tries, pedals, tape, paint, vests, hats, belts, fluorescent spinners, blinking lights, vehicles and horizontal piles with flags and similar devices have been advanced as a means to resolve the problem. Frequently, enthusiastic proponents have sought the Utah Safety Councils endorsement of a particular idea or product. In keeping with our Councils general operating policies, the Council cannot endorse any commercial product or enterprise. However, in keeping with our mission of accident prevention mitigation, the Council encourage the use of devices which can reasonably be shown to improve the identification of the cyclist in the traffic stream during the daylight hours or during wind-activat- ed times of reduced visibility; providing the use of such devices does not entail legal conflicts or hazards inconsistent with its professed safety advantages. The Utah Safety Council also encourages research to substantiate the effectiveness of such devices. Now that bicycling is on the increase in the nation as an exercise vehicle, method of travel, and for recreational purposes, it brings with it new safety hazards if not properly used. Just last year alone there were an estimated 1,100 persons killed and nearly 50,000 injured in accidents. The new Safety Bike Driving Rules are: 1. Obey all applicable traffic regulations signs, signals, and markings. 2. Observe all local ordinances pertaining to bikes. 3. Keep right. Drive with the traffic, not against it. Drive in single file. Keep as close to the curb as practical. 4. Watch out for drain grates, soft shoulders, other surface hazards. Be careful of loose sand or gravel, particularly at corners and watch out for potholes. 5. Watch out for car doors or cars pulling into traffic. 6. Dont carry passengers or packages that interfere with the vision or control. 7. Never hitchhike a ride on a truck or bicycle. B. Be extremely careful at in tersections, especially if making a left turn. 9. Use hand signals to indicate turnig or stopping. 10. Protect yourself at night with the required red reflecetors and lights. 11. Drive a safe bike. 12. Drive the bike defensively. bike-relat- ed Mrs. Elaine Sharp, executive director of the Mental Retardation Association of Utah, hands the keys of a new 1974 Chevrolet Vega to David W. Adamson of 152 South 2nd East, Lehi, who won the car at the MRAUs annual charity bazaar No vember 3 at the National Guard Armory in Salt Lake City. The MRAU collected almost $20,000 at the bazaar and will use the money to build Community Group Homes to aid the retarded in the communities of the state. The association serves the retarded and the developmentally disabled in the state through state support of the Utah State Training School at American Fork, Co mmunity Group Homes and other statewide and 1 ocal programs. company initiated a series of energy savings policies including: elimination of morning vehicle warm-up- s before starting the not idling to keep work; days vehicles .warm during the bad Mountain Bell announced it is would be a significant sum, Mr. weather; eliminating fast starts and stops and not idling vehicles responding to the federal gov- Lattin said. ernments request to conserve Earlier this year the telephone to charge batteries.. energy. John E. Lattin, vice president for Mountain Bell, said his comThe meadow lark is really not pany would begin an energy cona lark at all. He belongs to the servation program in Utah imblackbird family. mediately. i?HAT THE fICICETNEWyOEK 15 A SUMMONS FESTIVAL, The plan includes: ACCORPlNG YD AM APC0A PARKING ATTEUFANT, REPUTE PLY THE ONLY purser in new york that can punch parking tickets. Reducing maximum vehicle JO$B VEGA'S WPP, C?UCA, AL50 ENJOYS to 50 miles per hour. speeds RiriNG WINP5HIELP WIPER ANP . 0UT PUNCHING TICKET 5H0ULPER5. Lowering thermostat temperaI MAIN J OP AT THE PARKING HI V tures in all heated offices to a LOT AT 12B WEST J STREET. A SUBSIDIARY OF INTERNATIONAL sJ maximum of 68 degrees. (Air TELEPHONE ANP TEIE6PAPH COftP., V PARKING IAC THE 15 APCOA not conditioned offices will be FIRM IN cooled lower than 78 degrees in the summer. Maintaining a normal temperature of no more than 50 degrees in garage buildings during the heating season. Cutting off heat supplies to seldom used rooms maintaining a minimum temperature of 40 degrees. Checking gas and oil burners for maximum operating effici- Mountain Announces Plan For Energy Conservation in Utah Bell I I ency. MONKEY BABY: Clarissa H. Beatty, Ph.D. (r.) and Rose Mary Bocek, Ph.D. give "mother love to cuddly infant rhesus monkey at Regional Primate Research Center in Beaverton, Ore. The physiology of monkeys is being investigated in a scientific research project sponsored by Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America. Because monkeys are more biologically similar to humans than are hope their molt laboratory animals, Dr. Beatty and her rhesus of the monkey during tndy of the muscle metabolism development and growth will yield data useful to understanding the dystrophic process in children. Dr. Beattys research endeavor studies now underway in is just one of over 220 MDAA-supportcenters in the U.S. and research and leading hospitals, universities, 13 foreign countries. The Associations worldwide research program, aimed at conquering MD and related crippling disorders, is principally financed by dollars raised through the annual March co-work-ers cd Against Muscular Dyitrophg. Turning out lights in all unoccupied areas and conserving all other usage of electricity if possible. The Mountain Bell motor fleet numbers more than 960 vehicles in Utah and consumed more than 800,000 gallons of fuel last year. Mountain Bell has recorded an increase in gas mileage through the use of many smaller cars in their motor pool. In adition, each car and truck has been given more frequent tune-up- s and timing checks. The result has been an average increase of two miles per gallon for the fleet. "Even a 5 to 10 percent saving Agonizing Pain From Ingrown Toenail? Get Outgro For Fast Relief Outgro gives you fast temporary relief from ingrown toenail pain. 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