Show Metrics In TO THE What are the chances of the metric system coming to Davis WHAT is the likelihood of the local area eventually turning away from the current units of weights and quarts and the adopting such newer units as liters and The first concrete step toward that end has just been with the enactment of a Federal bill authorizing the expenditure of million over the nex four years to introduce metric system to school ACCORDING to the National Education many schools across the country will now be pushing in earnest to make metrics part of their Davis County children would be for that because ot the energy shortage the speed limit on highways has been reduced to 88 kilometers per hour which is the same as 55 miles an THEY would also learn that their family car gets about 6 kilometers to the Instead of 14 miles or so to the and that the passenger cars in their area consume an average of liters of gas in the course of a The Davis County in shopping for will be buying 2 kilos of meat to grams of cheese and a liter of milk THESE and other changes in our non-decimal system of units will ultima tely have to take according to Department of Commerce There Is increasing pressure in this from the educational and scientific to take the They propose a gradual conversion over a AS IT stands more than 90 percent of the coun-i ries of the world now use the metric The United States is the only major industrial country that does That fact puts us at a disadvantage as far as international trade is it is Many oppose the They contend that conversion would cost many billions of dollars and would upset our economy for years to |