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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.
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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.
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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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.