Advice for
skidders:
don't panic
Autumn and winter driving can
hold numerous hidden hazards.
Wet leaves on the road surface or
patches of ice on bridges or shady
pavements can be far more
dangerous than driving on newly
fallen snow.
If you run into icy stretches or
slick pavement, reduce speed but
don’t slam on the brakes. If you
brake too hard, you’re likely to
lose traction and start skidding.
Also, avoid any abrupt steering
movements.
If your car should go into a
slide, don’t panic—turn the
steering wheel in the direction
the car is sliding and allow the
car to reduce speed by taking
your foot off the accelerator. If
you must use the brake, pump it
gently.
If you have stopped on a slip
pery surface, accelerate slowly
in this situation as well. Sudden
movements can cause your car to
go out of control.
In cold, rainy weather bridges
freeze sooner than the rest of the
road surface. Be especially
careful to avoid skids on bridges.
Put your
cooling
system
in shape
for Winter.
Unless the cooling
system is in top shape,
your car’s performance
will suffer. You may ex
perience poor fuel econ
omy, breakdowns—even
a shortened life for your
car
To prevent these
problems, get Tune-Up
No. 2—a complete check
up of your car’s cooling
system
And if key parts need
replacement, specify
Gates, the top quality line
of V-belts, hose, radiator
caps and thermostats.
They're available every
where.
The Gates Rubber Co.
Denver, Colorado
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Downtown parking-its not all free
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By KATHLEEN GLANVILLE
Of the Emerald
Free parking downtown has been in effect for over a month, but the
good old-fashioned parking ticket has not become obsolete. Publicity
promoting the new parking program has served to confuse many
shoppers who take the admonition—COME DOWNTOWN AND PARK
FREE—literally, whether or not signs or meters indicate otherwise.
Alice Rutter from the city’s public relations department em
phasizes, “If there’s a meter there, pay it!”
During the first few weeks of the program, irate shoppers waving
parking tickets beseiged the office of the city manager, demanding
explanations. The city is anxious to clear up any misunderstandings
about the program by stressing the fact that although free parking is
unlimited as to time, it is definitely limited as to location.
Free lots and on-street parking spaces are designated by large signs
proclaiming: Welcome to Downtown PARK FREE. Signs designating
restricted parking areas must be obeyed. Two hour zones, loading
zones, and other posted areas are not part of the free-parking program
and anyone ignoring them will get ticketed.
The 1,300 meters remaining in the downtown areas are beyond the
district which the downtown merchants and property owners are
financing and they must be paid.
There are over 2,000 parking spaces which are free within the core
area. Downtown merchants and property owners will pay ap
proximately $235,000 during the first year to provide this service. It is
vital to the success of their program that the public is able to use the
program with ease and assurance.
One of the major concerns of those financing the program was a
possible monopolizing of the free areas by employees working in the
central area. If downtown employees filled up choice free parking
areas the downtown merchants would fail to completely eliminate
the edge large shopping centers have always held in parking con
venience.
An ordinance painstakingly drafted by the city attorney’s office
bans free parking areas to those living or working in the downtown
district covered by the program.
This includes both employes and employers, permanent residents,
and registered guests at hotels and motels in the area. The ordinance
clearly provides that free parking is off limits to one of these people
only “while in his place of employment, while at his residence, or
while in the motel or hotel.”
The ordinance does not exclude workers and residents from using
the free parking areas when they are shopping or off work. It only
excludes them from using the free parking as long term free parking.
The massive job of applying this ordinance effectively and fairly
belongs to a computer. All the license numbers of people working and
living in the area have been fed into a computer to be compared with
the license numbers of cars parked for long periods of t i me.
City Traffic Engineer A1 Williams has emphasized that human
judgment as well as the computer will be used in the enforcement
program. Enforcement personnel will check and determine whether
or not a vehicle in question is really in violation. Williams says the
enforcement program is intended to punish only the persistent
violator.
Downtown merchants are cautious in assessing any initial success
of their program. It will be at least six months before the program can
be gauged by increases in traffic and sales. The crucial question
whether or not free parking will draw people who otherwise would not
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patronize the downtown area cannot be answered until studies a‘re
made over a long period of time.
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an economical car. Volkswagens not only get good mileage, he says,
but the initial cost of purchase is low, and repairs are easy to make.
The cheapest car sold at Ed Pape’ is the standard sedan, the “beetle,”
which sells for $2,400. Ross says most beetle sales are to people bet
ween 22 and 28 years old.
Some Eugene citizens apparently aren’t concerned with finding the
best bargain. Earl Stone, sales manager at Dunham Olds-Cadillac,
says that his business caters “to a different class of people ... not
the 40-hour-a-week, work-at-a-mill type of guy.” His customers, says
Stone, are used to driving a luxury car, and they’re not bothered by
either rising car prices or the shortage of gas. While Stone doesn’t
foresee an increase in Cadillac and Oldsmobile sales in the near
future, he doesn’t expect them to drop off either. 'Hie same people
come back to buy luxury cars, and they aren’t concerned with getting
an economy car. Besides, Stone points out. Oldsmobile makes the
Omega, which is comparable in price to a Volkswagen super beetle,
and could be considered an economy car.
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