Check Your Tires Once
"Two of the most impor
tant rules in tire safety and
mileage are maintaining the
proper air pressure and regu
larly examining for excessive
or irregular tread wear,”
says Ross R. Ormsby, Chair
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Denver, Penna. 17517 Phone 215-267-5585
man of the Tire Industry
Safety Council.
Checking a tire’s air pres
sure is an easy task that any
motorist can handle. The
Council recommends the pres
sure be checked at least once
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a month with a personal hand
gauge. Government surveys
have found that air tower
gauges are often inaccurate.
Check the pressure when the
tires are cool, before starting
out on the road. Your car
owner’s manual will tell what
the correct pressure should
be, and then if necessary add
the needed amount.
Then take a Lincoln penny
and insert it upside down into
the tread groove. If the top
of Lincoln’s head is visible in
two or more adjacent grooves,
the tire needs replacement.
Safety experts consider a tire
as “bald” when the tread
depth is worn to l/16th of an
inch or less. After this point,
the tires are 44 times more
likely to disablement
than new tires.
Removing nails, small
stones or bits of glass em
bodied in the tread will help
prevent costly tire damage
which can lead to failure.
This preventive maintenance
is normally done at the serv
ice station when the tires are
rotated (every 5,000 miles),
the oil changed or the car lub
ricated. But there is no sub
stitute for periodic personal
inspection for greater assur
ance.
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday. April 14.197
LET’S GO METRIC
In August of last year, the Senate passed legis
moving for U.S. adoption of the international metri
tem as our primary system and comparable acti
anticipated in the House. From a number of view)
this is a most responsible decision. j
In the first place, we are now the only industrial r |
on earth not on or moving to the metric system. |
estimated that with metric-sized products we’ll op< l
as much as $lO-billion additional foreign trade and
en knows with our trade imbalance we can use it.,
tinuing to use our customary system places us in a I
nological trap of our own making and this is iiian j
world where all are moving to a single technolug'
though the move will be expensive, evidence is suc’i
failure to change will be more costly in the long rid
Domestically a shift to metrics will create somJ
fusion for both the public and business, but in thej
run we’ll probably learn it better than our preserl
tem. After all, how much sense is there to a system
asks you to relate 12 inches to a fool, three feet to a 1
36 inches to a yard, 1,760 yards to the mile or 5,28;
to the mile? With metrics we measure simply—for I?
the meter is divided into decimeters (l/10th),cenlin|
(l/100th), millimeters (l/1000lh) —all you do is ■
a decimal point! The system is so much more logica j
our own.
The changeover will also encourage us to updal
standards and specifications for products, offering
unprecedented opportunity to improve them and ci
the unnecessary variety which increases cost.
Quick action on this vital legislation would be a si
to America’s economic future. j
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