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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1959)
:il ;:-f I.; 1" 7 IS Price 10 Medford 2nd SECTION Champion Tips on How To Save Editor's not: Patricia Jones is a 36-year-old stock car racer and stunt driver from Wichita, Kansas. Not long ago, she. confounded many male drivers when, driving an 8-cylinder 1959 Dodge Coronet, she won the Los Angeles to Kansas City fuel economy run for medium priced cars. In this dispatch she Puses on some economy driving tips to the average motorist. By PATRICIA JONES (Written for UPI) New York-(UPD-U.S. drivers waste billions of gallons of gasoline every year through bad driving habits and throw FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD KILLER A detective -srnrts KaniMth DeVoe, 14, from New York police station after the physically and mentally retarded boy was ar xwted for the sx-kffllng of six-year-old Zolton Toth earlier in the day. Kenneth is said to have admitted the slaying. The dead boy and his parents were refugees from Hungary. "IP T H' (Sip i A lii jPR0CESSir3ii U II EXTRA l-r II --11 This is the budget-priced projector that gives you the great big picture. Has an easy push-pull changer and 30-sIide magazine. , If you act now, we'll give you a roll of color-slide film with every Special. Shoot it, bring it back and well process it for you, without charge. And when you pick it up, your slides will be all ready to show in an extra free magazine for your Special. Hurry ... this offer is limited! ONLY $29 Phone SP 2-5238 Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 6, Woman Driver Gives awav still mow fuel dollars by ordering overpowered cars Auto purchasers shout for economy, but they still drive wastefully. Any driver can cut down on his gasoline bill and other auto operating costs by following some simple, common-sense rules, Here are 10 tips that can save you up to $200-$250 year in fuel costsaalone: 1. Drive at moderate speeds. 95 CAMERAS PHOTOGRAPHS ' ' ' 1 O J ' IF I JiJL 120 East Main St Gasoline 35-45 miles an hour. At 41-42 mph most recent-model cars will operate at peak economy But over 60, performance drops sharply on all cars- down to 9-10 miles per gallon on even the best cars at 80 miles an hour. 2. Climb hills at minimum f-of 35 miles per hour. Hill- climbing is gas - consuming -but more so at slow than high speeds. Get us as fast as safe ly possible. 3. Press gas pedal softly on downgrades. Don't let the en gine drag the normal forward motion of the car; this wastes gasoline. Don't "race the en gine" downhill either, though Maintain just enough pres sure on the gas pedal to keep the engine turning as fast as the wheels-within the limits of safety. 4. Avoid Abrupt Stops. Your brakes cut down normal momentum of the car and mo mentum doesn't use gasoline Also, in quick stops, your en gine is still working to make you go, thus also wasting gas. On top of this, a sudden stop sloshes gasoline out of the carburetor, making for fur ther waste. Look ahead of traffic, anticipate emergencies and avoid consuming gas with quick stops. 5. Avoid "jackrabbil" starts. The faster you dig away from a traffic light or other stop, the more gas you waste. A slow, smooth acceleration is the most practical. 6. Don't go over 35 until engine warms up. The engine wastes gas when it's cold. Es- pecialy on winter days, go slow until your heat gauge shows engine at the proper temperature and even in the summer take it easy at first. 7. Inflate tires adequately. Soft tires make a soft ride but an expensive one. For maxi mum mileage put six to eight pounds more in them than the owner manual says. 8. Shift to high as soon as possible. Engines are most ef ficient, and most economical, in third gear. Shift out of first or second as soon as you can. 9. Use reverse gear sparing ly. ThisMs the least efficient gear. Turn around rather than back up even a block. 10.- Stick to smooth roads. Muddy, bumpy, dirty, snowy roads increase gas consump tion because you lose traction and also bumps slosh and waste gasoline. Do these things and you'll get three or four more miles per gallon than you're pres ently getting if you're an av erage driver. Also, have your car serv iced regularly. To get thrift rather than thrills from, your car, you can request your ga rage service man to make some simple mechanical ad justments that could chop off another $60 to S90 from your gasoline bill. These , adjust ments, which any qualified mechanic can make for under $10, include: High Economy Set the distributor rotor for high ecdnomy rather than high speed; Widen spark plug gaps to achieve maximum miles per gallon; Pull out fuel jet plugs in the carburetor to provide a leaner gasoline mixture; i Reduce the shift speeds in the automatic transmission; Adjust brakes to make sure they don't drag when not in use. For further economy, choose a six-cylinder rather than an eight-cylinder engine when buying your car, and order a low - compression engine. Horsepower has little to do with fuel economy but the compression ratio does. The lower the compression, the lower the gas consumption. Of course, if you want even more economy-the lighter the car, the better the mileage. You can sacrifice comfort and space and buy small cars. All makers will have at least one within a few months. MEN LIKE ANSWER . New York-flJPD-Male visit ors to the Soviet exhibition here chuckled appreciatively when a woman asked a Rus sian guide how many shoes and dresses his wife has. "I think my wife have plenty of dresses and shoes," the guide answered, "but she does not." The Gowganda mining dis trict of northern Ontario was named from an Indian word meaning "porcupine home." We Give ttf GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central . 54th Year Tribune 1959 Pages 1-6 Halley's Comet, appearing about every 75 years, will next be seen in 1986. When sandwiches disappear ' I && s 1 - J fi : ) 0 YQ M' .life1 Give greater . . President Lays Third Washington (DPD President Eisenhower wielded a tiny sil ver trowel Saturday to lay a third cornerstone for the U.S. capitol after summoning the nation to rededicate itself to freedom. He flew to Washington" by helicopter from his holiday re treat ' at Thurmont, " Md., to participate in the Independ your picnic lunch flavor-appeal with . the Premium Quality bread Cornerstone ence Day ceremony laying the cornerstone for the new east central front of the capitol. . To spread mortar and tap the 4,200-pound pink granite stone, he used the same an tique trowel and ivory and gold gavel wielded by George Washington to lay the first cornerstone in 1793. A crowd estimated at up wards of 3,000 by capitol po lice was assembled in the east plaza to hear the president on this warm, sunny Independ ence Day. Few could see the cornerstone ceremony, howev er, because it was in an ex cavated area below ground. The ' original Australian aborigines are believed to have gone there thousands of years ago by land bridges long since submerged. Holsum DR. STONE DRIVES New York-fllPD-Rr. Abra ham Stone, 68, world-renowned expert in birth control and marriage counseling, died Fri day of a heart attack in New York hospital. With his wife, the late Dr. Hannah M. Stone, he joined pioneer birth con trol advocate Margaret Sang er in putting on the first in ternational birth control con ference in New York in 1921. fast . .. you'll know BUILD DAM MODEL Cairo-(DPD-United .Arab Re public and Russian experts plan to build a full-size dum my dam to learn the best way to construct the huge Aswan dam in the Nile "river, the semi-official UAR Middle East News Agency reported Friday night. Cliffs of the Nile valley in Egypt rise to 1,000 feet in some spots.
