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Portland O bsi-rvrr Government proposes octane ratings A proposed regulation ia sued by the Coat of Living Council may soon require the posting of octane ratings on all gasoline pumps. To make the most of this information should the regulation he implemented on September 12 you may want to learn more about what octane is and how it works. According to the American Petroleum Institute (A P I), THE PORTLAND OBSERVER PO. Box 3137 Portland, Oregon 97208 Please arrange to have the OBSERVER mailed to my home. • $5.25 per year in the T ri County area. • $6.00 per year elsewhere. Name , Address State & Zip City Apt. (if any). Telephone. DR. JEFFREY BRADY says: "DO Not Put Off Needed Dental Care" • Enjoy D ental H ealth N o w an d Im prove Your A p p e a ra n c e PLATE REPAIRS «N ILI TOU WAIT HO AmiHTMUT MEMO • (OUnHUOOHIATIOM OH AU KNTAl IHSUIAHU KAHS • COMPUTE OEM Al SEIVKES Jee* «erne fo «Ma efftce before 10 AM end W e win try fo d e lv e r yeer DBNWMB* by 4 PM THi SAMI DAY fo r* Tree Any for* 'a foe* la* HOUR* Waa*4ays l i l O s * ta Spaa. fot„ » i JO sjs . *a 1 p-a»- octane is a measure of a gasoline's ability to resist knock. Knock is a sharp, metallic noise resulting from uncontrolled combustion in the car's engine. Knock loud enough to be audible may hc annoying, but it will rarely cause engine damage. In tense, sustained knock, on the other hand, ran harm engine pistons. As a basic rule of thumb, 94 is the octane rating of regular gas and 100 is the rating for premium. Pre mium is often required for cars with large, high com pression engines. These en gines are more powerful than smaller engines, hut they also have a greater tendency to knock consequently, they need gasoline of a higher octane number. There is no benefit Irom using gasoline higher in or lane number than needed to prevent knock. (For this reason, regular gas is usually recommended for small cars.) Why pay the extra price for higher octane gas when the lower cost per gallon gas will do the job and not damage your car's engine? In addition to your car s engine size, there are other factors that influence the knocking characteristics of a car: • Tem perature higher octane gas may be needed in hot weather to avoid knock; • Altitude and humidity higher octane gas usually is needed in lower altitudes and when humidity is low; • Spark timing when the spark timing setting is advanced, the engine needs h ig h er octane to co n tro l knock; • Method of driving sud den acceleration may result in a need for greater octane; s ta rt and stop d riv in g in creases combustion deposit build up and thus increases the need for higher octane. The following are some suggestions from A P I that may help you determine the octane requirements for your car: • Consider the manufac turer's recommendations or discuss the selection of gaso line with your local car dealer. • If sustained knock is cn countered, try gasoline of higher octane quality until you find the octane rating that controls knock. • If you encounter knock after your new car has been d riv e n several thousand miles, select a higher octane gasoline. According to A P I, as a new car is driven, the octane requirements increase due to build up ol combust.on deposits in your engine. The A lb in a C o n trac to rs Association has been active during the past month in obtaining contracts for its members, as well as for other minority contractors. Eugene Jackson, Business Manager for the organiza tion, is currently negotiating with Todd Construction Com pany for sub contracts on the federal building in Eugene; with Hoffman Construction Com pany for the fed eral building in Portland; and Tom Walsh Construction for 13 housing units in Albina. Many contracts have been recently acquired for ACA members. State Treasurer Jim Red den said the $42,471.874.62 received from Washington, D.C. will earn an extra $12,000 a day for the next three to ten days as a result of his plan which provided for personal delivery of the check. The money, Oregon's share of United States Forest Service funds, has in the past l»een mailed from Wash ington. D.C. to the Trea surer's office. Redden said the combina tion of high interest rates and slow mails prompted him to find a way to avoid delayed deposit of the funds. He first contacted the United States Forest Service and secured th e ir cooperation. The Forest Service agreed to personally deliver the check from Washington. D.C. to the Treasurer or his dele gate. Redden then contacted Dale Mallicoat. Administra live Assistant to Governor McCall, whose office is in Washington. An exchange of correspondence between the three established Mallicoat as the Treasurer's delegate to receive the check. Red den next contacted the U.S. National Bank in Portland and the bank arranged for the immediate deposit of the funds with a cooperating bank in Washington. D.C. John Calhoun, a Black for mer Foreign Service Officer, has been ap|K>inled to a top post on the W hite House staff. Calhoun, 36, will serve as assistant to Stanley S. Scott. Special A s sista n t to the President and the top rank ing Black on the W hite House staff. Calhoun brings a wide variety of experience to the W hite House post, including num erous assignm ents in Public Affairs, Community TCan ’HbpicsA« WANTED Contact: AMA Family IJay/Might Program 288-5091 1635 N .E . 9th Joe Joseph 2017 Lloyd Center 288-5692 Eve. 288-0525 Life M a llic o a t deposited the check in Washington and the funds w e re im m e d ia tely wired to the Portland bank. As soon as the funds were received by wire the Trea surer’s office invested them. Redden said the increased income as a result of the im mediate delivery and invest ment would be in the area of th irty tw o to one hun dred and twenty thousand dollars. (The exact amount will not bo known until Malli coat’s letter, mailed at the same time he received the check in Washington, arrives in Salem. If the transaction had been handled in the usual fashion, the check would have been enclosed and the money invested upon its receipt.) The funds will remain in vested until the Executive Department disburses them to various Oregon counties. Redden said he is checking into o th e r fed eral funds which are routinely mailed to governmental units in the state, as a part of his effort to get the maximum amount of use from funds available. Earlier th(s year Redden sponsored legislation which will allow local governmental units to pool idle funds for investment through the Ore gon Investment Council. Calhoun gets Phono: 2 2 8 -7 5 4 5 Ages Infancy thru 12 yrs. Its i Swing Graveyard Baldwin Sanitary Service obtained drop boxes for Law son Construction at the Pio neer Post Office and Con course K at the airport. They subcontracted with Contracts Incorporated for drop boxes at the M arine Reserve base and the University of Oregon Medical School, and with Hoffman Construction for the federal building They also have contracts with Tom Walsh Construction, James Hickey for the Bed Carpet Boom at the airport and the Western Balboa Urban Development has contracts with the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver and with Hoffman Construction for the federal building. W illie Harris has a paint ing contract with W eyer haeuser Tim ber Company in Klamath falls. The W .T. Hem m ing bon struction Company is doing painting for Piedmont Plaza and has a contract with Vancouver Barracks. John Craig has a land scaping contract with Van couver Barracks, a sub con tract with Contracts Incur poraled for the Swan Island Marine Reserve base; with Bahanan Construction Com pany lor the sewage disposal plant at Woodland, Wash Redden saves money S.W. 3rd & Morrison St. Portland, Oregon Take Elevator to 2nd Floor 3rd St. Entrance To provide Child Care in your home Pug»' 3 AlbilW Contractors g (I ill COñtrdCtS DR. JEFFREY BRADY, DENTIST S E M L E R B U IL D I N G Day Care Mothers Thursday. Svplcmbvr 6. 1973 insurance, educational savings program s, retirem ent, health insurance and group insurance ington; and is doing land scape work on Woodlawn Park. Coast Janitorial has con tracts with the Port of Port land; Hoffman Construction, and Tom Walsh Construction. T h e A lb in a C o n trac to rs Association has been meeting regularly with federal agen cies to insure the enforce ment of affirm ative action regulations. CLK A N IR S « L A U N D fR IR » S ftla b lilh e d 19 QUALITY DRY CLEANING REASONABLE RATES •SAME 0 / i SHST SfSVICE • ì H O U » CLEAN IN G SA’ USDAfS UNTO. N O O N •C O M S tW e IA U N 0 T » IWVICE Do I. VeurleM And Srtv» SS 1014 N K ltUNO tW OSTM 4 Sleek« I m i •< l a W i H H «unreal 2 8 9 -9 3 5 7 < » .a ito .li« Every day, some innocent person bounces a check. Senior citizens attend classes Older adults may benefit from two programs at Port land State University this year. First, persons over 65 years of age may register for either day or evening classes this fall on a space available basis for $5 per credit hour. However, there may be additional costs lor course materials. Second, retired profession als or executives may join the Retired Professional Assoc lates which is designed to provide an educational oppor tunity for persons who may not have had time to take classes w h i l e they were working. Members of that group w ho don’t have to be over 65 may take courses on a space available basis for $5 per credit hour or share their expertise in informal group lectures, courses and field trips. There is no charge for those sessions. Registration on the space available basis is September 25th. Registration for regular classes is September 21. check you write (up to your approved credit limit, of course). Best of all, A .C .T . costs nothing to apply for, and there is no charge at all until you use it. Just visit any branch of U.S Bank and talk to our Lady on the Red Carpet. She'll make your banking a very personal thing. It can happen to the best of us. Just an innocent mistake in your checkbook, and suddenly, you're overdrawn. But U.S. Bank has a way to make sure it doesn't happen to you. It's called A C .T ., Automatic Cash Transfer. Once you are approved for it, we'll cover any House post Relations, studies in general and international law. He established a new com munications and advertising program for the Peace Corps to relate to ethnics and mi norities in 1971 while serving as the Director of Minority Communications for the agen cy. He was named Special Assistant for M inority Com munications upon the forma tion of A C T IO N , which merged the Peace Corps, V IS T A and five other Fed eral agencies. The new White House aide was Director of Public Af fairs for National Farmers Union and its Program Green Thumb during the year of 1970. He served concur rently as Director of Com munity Relations for the Denv er, Colorado based Farm organization. Calhoun was Chief of Com munity Relations for the M ilitary District of Wash ington during 1969, and was responsible for helping to coordinate press coverage of special ceremonies at the W hite House, the State De p a rtm e n t, and A rlin g to n N a t io n a l C e m e te r y . He played a key role in ar rang ing th e in te rn a tio n a l press coverage of the funeral activities for (he late Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower. He also edited the 1969 In augural Parade Scenario. The new W hite House aide was the Press Liaison repre sentative in Tokyo, Japan, from mid 1967 through 1968 for the United Nations Com mand. He served concur rcntlv as the Public Affairs Representative for United States Forces in Korea. In the past, he earned a high Korean Government award and official commendation for assistance rendered in facili fating press coverage of the seizure of the USS PU EB LO and the attempted assassina tion of President Chung llee Park. While in Japan. Calhoun was an evening student at Sophia University and com pleted the requirements for a Masters Degree in Asian Studies. the U.S. Arm y Recruiting Service in the states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. He also wrote a weekly newspaper column for 12 New England news papers, including the Penob scot Times. Eastern Gazette, and the Houlton Pioneer Times. Calhoun pursued the study of law and radio and television at the University of Maine during 1964 67. Calhoun was news editor of Radio V U N C . a 24 hour per day all-new s statio n which broadcast in Chinese M an d a rin , C antonese and K o rean th ro ug ho u t Asia under the U.S. State Depart ment and Defense Depart ment in 1964. An Arm y veteran, Calhoun was a newspaper editor, in telligence analyst and news correspondent during his mili tary service. His byline stories appeared regularly in the Stars and Stripes. Army- Times. and other publications in Germany. Born in Fort Oglethrope. Georgia. Calhoun spent his early years and much of his life in Elyria. Ohio, D etroit, Michigan, and parts of Maine. He left a job as a cook's helper and dishwasher in the kitchen at the Cleveland, Ohio Ford Motor Plant and joined the Arm y at the age of 17. He applied for and was granted admission to the prestigious Arm y Inform a tion School in New Rochelle, New York, where he picked up a diploma in Journalism in 1956. Through the United States Armed Forces Insti tute and the University of Heidelberg. Calhoun worked his way through the require ments for a BA degree in English in 1959. He earned a LLB degree in law from Blackstone School of Law in Chicago in 1970. He has completed additional studies in law and on C hina at Catholic University, Wash ington, D.C., and the Uni versitv of Wisconsin. He is a member of the pre d om in ately Black C apito l Press Club and serves as Parliamentarian. Calhoun resides in Wheaton, Maryland, a suburb of Wash ington, D.C. Before going to Japan he supervised advertising and public relations activities for I © S E I' SE «VK f M » CLEAN IN G A V A IL A tlt To help during this power crisis, here are some ways you can save electricity in your HOME The region is short of power Your voluntary help now mav help head-off enforced curtailment >arer Here s why Every kilowatt-hour of electricity you use means either some water must be released from reservoirs behind a dam. or some thermal fuel burned to generate that power If the area s utilities can save the w at-r and the fuel until the big winter demand occurs we will an be in much better shape to meet the need A kilowatt-hour saved now can be very important later Nobody wants a forced curtailment or blackout Jobs suffer People are inconvenienced It is bad for us all Here are some things you can do to helo H E A T IN G Set heating thermostat 4 below its normal setting New setting would be about 68 i Make sure filters are clean Keep curtains and shades closed on cold days And conserve heat by installing weatherstripomg. storm windows and msuiation now W A TER H E A T IN G Make sure water heater thermostat is set no higher than 140 Repair all leaking faucets immediately Take fewer showers and baths and spend less time in the shower Do your laundry only when you have a full load of clothes Use the dishwasher only after it is full Turn off the hot water heater at the main panel when you leave home for a week or more L IG H T IN G Use no more lights than necessary Always turn out lights when you leave a room And do not use porch lights or post lamps needlessly C O O K IN G /F O O D STO R A G E Plan your meals to conserve the use of the range especially oven use Remove food from the refrigerator or Wnfo tor • fre e b < x *'e t o< cfoas freezer m ample time to allow thawing before cooking Detrost your refrig erator and freezer regularly C O OLING Set your air conditioner s thermostat at 80J Be certain that filters are clean Keep curtains and shades closed on the sunny side of the house during hot weather M IS C E L L A N E O U S Turn off TV sets, radio and music sys tems when not in use Make sure that any heating ducts or hot water pipes in uninsulated parts of the house are well insulated themselves Keep all windows closed when the heating system or air conditioner is operating PGE toms ,09 other utilities in the Pacific Northwest in urging customers Io save energy now to help dilute the impact ot a power crunch this winter We share the groups concern that sooner or later, unless new generating plants, transmission lines and other electrical facilities are built as needed without imprudent delay tor whatever reason scarcity ol electricity and enforced rationing may become a per manenl tact ot lite in this region We re working hard to avoid the, situation But we need your help and understanding ,-y $ yo u' Dosine«« home CK com m unity Portland G on or a l E foclric C om pany C onservation C an for •2 1 S W Aider • Portland O rap o n 9 72OS I want to do my part m the energy conservation campaign Please send me free booklets fcr 0 home» 0 b v B in p t» a » 0 DuikJine» 0 apartment* 0 community Name_____ AddtUI_______ — City_______ I Portland General Electric Company
