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Show Motorists Cautioned On Wasting Tires Thru Excessive Speeds Utah motorists beginning Monday Mon-day must reduce their speeds or forfeit whatever chances they may have of obtaining new tires or retreads re-treads for their cars. On the open highway, the state highway patrol will issue warning tickets to all those exceeding 40 miles per hour; on Salt Lake City streets, the same kind of tickets will be issued by police officers to those driving more than 25 miles an hour. Copies of these and of all arrest tickets for offenses involving speeding speed-ing will be sent to the state rationing ration-ing board, which will refuse tires and retreads to offenders. The state and city cannot make arrests for exceeding the foregoing speeds in zones signed for higher speeds, but with the cooperation of the rationing -board they have an effective weapon to obtain compliance compli-ance with the war speeds, officials said. . The general public can obtain neither new tires nor retreads, but public carriers, war workers and other classes can obtain one or the other, and if they are found to be speeding they will be out of luck as far as rubber is concerned, it was pointed out. A recent survey by the traffic and safety department of the road commission showed a substantial percentage of both military and civilian vehicles are exceeding the 40-mile-an-hour war speed. Timing of nearly 5000 vehicles of all kinds at strategic locations disclosed that: 1. In 40-mile zones, 18 per cent of Utah passenger cars, 12 per cent of Utah trucks and 28 per cent of out-of-state and military vehicles travel faster than 40 miles on hour. 2. In 50-mile zones, 35 per cent of Utah passenger cars, 20 per cent of Utah trucks and 49 per cent of out-of-state and military vehicles ve-hicles travel faster than 40 miles. 3. In 60-mile day and 50-mile night zones, 51 per cent of Utah passenger cars, 39 per cent of Utah trucks and 61 per cent of out-of-state and military vehicles exceed 40 miles. 4. Of the total number of vehicles ve-hicles sampled in the 40-mile zone, 26 per cent exceed 40 miles an hour; in the 50-mile zone, 34 per cent exceed 40 miles an hour, and in the 60 day and 50 night zones, 47 per cent exceed 40 miles an hour. 5. From the sample of military vehicles in all zones, 43 per cent exceed 40 miles per hour. |