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ursday, May 14,1959 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE 7 J By SPECTATOR.. COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS It is said that care tires wear out faster than in years back. I don’t I doubt it. However, cair you remena- 'ber when a tire guaranteed for 6,000 miles was quite a fine production? A tire today is supposed to sur vive the rabbit start and the quick stop. Some men, quiet fellows on foot, are speed demons in a car. They start at about fifty and reach seventy in a block. In stopping they run up almost to their destination at great speed and then slam on the brakes. . “Does it seem that you’re buying tires for your car more often these days than you did a few years back? You probably are. Tire companies have little to say publicly about the question. But tire company engineers privately con cede tires are wearing out faster these days. Ihe engineers, however, contend they are not at fault. In stead, they place the blame on the nation's auto makers. ‘We develop a tire that’ll wear longer, and Detroit designs a car that cancels out most of its advan tages’, complanis an engineer for a big Akron tire maker. Tire engineers note that in the past 10 years horsepower of the average new car has climbed 125 MORE PROOF...it pays to feed PURINA ♦ George Harrison herd at Yodkinville 1,357 lbs. more milk per cow George Harrison, Yadkinville, milk producer, has good cause to be a firm believer in the Purina Dairy Program. His 20 cows jumped from an average of 9,726 Iba. milk per cow in 1957 to 11,063 lbs. in 1968. “This shows exactly how much the Purina Program has helped me and my herd,” says Mr. Harrison. “And, since these are DHIA records, I know they tell the whole story. “Purina’s Program is good for a cow from the tube ahe’s born until she leaves the herd,” Mr. Harrison adds. “Calves on Purina get off to a good start. Heifers grow up in a hurry, freshen young, and start right in producing like grown cows.’* See us for details of Purina’s Dairy Pro gram. Learn how successful dairymen like George Harrison are raking large, high-producing herd replacements and laniasiin per-cow production the rs- searcb-proved, four-square Purina Way. Giles Feed & Supply YOUR PURINA STORE Phone 1005 N. Broad St. Val. per cent, encouraging rapid, Ure- purushing starts and higher-speed driving. Auto weights have risen 10 per cent and more, often creating, the tire men say, critical problems of overloading. The auto industry has introduced power brakes, now standard equipment on 22 per cent of the new cars sold, which make it easy to bring the heavier vehicles to tire-burning stops. And the in dustry has added power steering, which makes the job of wheeling the big machines around tight comers at high speeds an almost effortless task. In addition, tire men say hte pressures recommended by auto manufacturers for the tires on their care are too low; they insure a soft ride but cause rapid wear. The latest enemy of tire life ap peared on the scene in 1957, when Detroit’s designers, searching fran tically for ways to turn out the low est silhouettes possible, started us ing 14 inch diameter wheels on many ears, instead of the 15-inch wheels which had been standard for several years. Why do 14-inch tires wear out faster than the 15-inch variety? Tire company engineers offer several reasons. For one thing, the 14-inch tire simply must revolve more times than a 15-inch' tire to cover a specified distance. Tire engineers say the 14-inch tires therefore heat up faster than the 15-inch variety; heat tends to weaken tires and short en their lives. Furthermore, the engineers say, the smaller tire's loadorrying capacity is smaller, making it wear faster if it’s used to perform the same chore as a bigger tire. (In an effort to overcome this latter factor, auto companies have been using wider tires for their 14- inch wheels than they use on the 15- inch type. Of course, how long a tire lasts depends greatly upon how and w-here it is driven. The sustained high speeds motorists use in cover ing the hot, wide open spaces of the Midwest and Southwest are much harder on tires than the slow er speeds generally used on the more temperate, crowded highways of the Northeastern states. Survey of 2.422 cars traveling on highways in the Southwest found that 65 per cent of these were moving at 70 miles an hour or more, and 15 per cent of this fast-moving group were exceeding 80 miles an hour. Another survey found that 81 per cent of the adjustments made on warranties by U. S tire companies occurred in the Midwest, Southwest and Southeast, where only 43 per cent of the nation’s care are regis tered, presumably because the high speeds permitted in these areas caused motorists more trouble with their tires than elsewhere In the more temperate Northeastern states, 32 per cent of the nation’s cars pro duced only 6 per cent at the claims • * • The Wall Street Journal touches on a growing practice Consider this: “The official organ of the Amer ican Academy of General Practice, an organization comprised of ‘fam ily doctors,' recently reported that Americans are being practically dunned by charity groups who are grusading against various diseases Said the publication An expand mg variety at ailments and afflic tiona are being used for nickel, dime, and dollar fund aoliritations The article pointed out that if a par tciular disease is arrested, the or ganization that had been associated with it usually goes out and adopts another illness as its own. Very of ten there are overlapping and com peting agencies in the same field, and the report went on. there now 68 solicitations revolving around the human body and Its ail ments. • The fight against most of them is undoubtedly worthy of public atten tion. But fund-raising agencies al ready report they are having a dif ficult time finding volunteers to canvass neighborhoods because the average housewife has become re sistant to giving now that so many organizations have their coin cans extended. The government also has entered the picture, asigning millions of tax dollars to areas normally the concern of private groups. States and counties, too, are deeply in volved in activities related to health. The eventual result, unfortunate ly, of so many zealous tax collectors and so many zealous private or ganizations laying seige to the cit izen’s pocketbook is not difficult to foresee. We may be moving toward the day when people will stop show ing they care, when the public will be largely immunized from any and all appeals for help ( Soon we may have “drives” for bald-headed men; other drives for “slew-footers”; still others for south-paw fellows. Everything imaginable now has “drives.” We Americans go from drive to drive, notwithstanding all that State and National govern ments do; and without regard for all the special calls of all the churches. So far as I know all drives are being pepped up, all being deduct ible, you know. There is one drive which has abated somewhat. TTiat is the call we were reared on, namely, the call for Chinese Missions. Probably everyone who has a no ble idea engages a big. profession al “drive organization - ’ to solicit money all over the nation on a fat percentage. What we need now is a Drive tof end all Drives, eh? ' * * * My brother of the eagle eye, E. H. Agnew, up and doing president of the South Carolina Farm IBurea Federation, reports on the Legisla ture in The Farm News of Tho South Carolina Farmer. Hows this. “Don’t let anybody fool you into believing there are not substantial increases particularly in the Senate version of the General Appropriation Bill. When it comes to spending the money, the higher moguls are get ting the raises while the common state employees get none When it comes to raising the tax revenue, it reverse*—the higher moguls are being excused from paying addition al taxes while the common folks must foot the bill. The governor must be going after industrial business A new industrial secretary is added to his staff at the salary of $12,000. the salaries at his Executive Secretary and Legal Assistant are increased from $7,- 865 to $9,000, tor stenographers in the Governor’s office from $16,471 to $21,800. for extra clerical help an increase of $3 000. for travel and promotional expense an increase of $11,400. for telegraph and telephone service an increase of $7,000—for the governor a office, an increese of more than $42 000—and this does not include another increase of $12,000 for use at the ma&ion (the govern or’s house) If the Senate version of the General Appropriation Bill is adopted, cost of operating the gov emor's office and the governor <> house will total approximately $75. 000 more than was appropriated for these purposes by the 1966 Gen eral Assembly. The Secretary of State, the Comp troller General, the Attorney Gen eral. the State Treasurer, the Adju tant General, the Superintendent of Education—all these have salary in- creses from $10,500 to $11,000. The State Dairy Commission ap propriation was cut $10,000. The House Ways and Means Committee cut this appropriation $10,000 but it was restored. We hope the Senate will also restore this cut. The State Dairy Commission are doing a fine job in protecting the interest of both consumers and producers of gride A milk. The House bill and the Senate bill are in agreement in increasing the appropriation for the State Tax I Commission by $270,000—just watch this inucrease next year if the with holding tai is made effective and another big new department under the State Tax Commission is put into operation The Senate bill in creases appropriations to the State Department of Agriculture by more than $225,000 (including he $1,000 salary increase for the commis sioner)—most of this for additional chemists and the equipment in con nection with a stepped-up testing program for gasoline. The State Forestry Commission gets an additional $100,000 while Clemson gets no increase for re search and extension and livestock sanitary work The State Develop ment Board gets an increase of $45,- 000. The mam trouble is that most cit- them? Why do we pussyfoot and either to study the lav?: or to reject izons and taxpayers of this state are not bothering to form an opimon or express an opinion to members of the General Assembly with regard to more desirable ways to raise ad ditional tax revnue. When John Q Public begins to pay these addition al taxes, he will then start to rais ing hell.” As plain as thp nose on your face, and well known to the governor and all the leaders is the exemption from taxation of many concerns which compete with business bear ing heavy taxes now. Why doesn’t someone face the facts and act on play around like childmi when a simple expedient would solve the problem overnight*’ Is the state an organization for pets and favorites’* Or does it treat ^all alike** Incidental ly I remind all those in authority that any business enterprise paying taxes may enjoin the Tax Commis sion from collecting my ta^: which a competitor doe> not pay That in junction ma) he applied for to a Federal or State jud <or both the Federal a n d State institutions guar ante* ?.. ,.11 trie Equal protec tion of the .» (■ hi^h time for some la\ >‘r- ’he Legislature it. Gray Funeral Home Cliiiua. S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ... and . . . EMB AF.MERS Phone 41 AMBIT ANTE SERVICE Midway DRIVE-IN THEATRE Tonight and Friday MAY 14-1.', Not Recommended For ( hildren US DARING A PICIintE AS VOUU EVB $££! A DRAMATIC THUNDERBOLT. . - A Story^ About Real People . . .Torn From Real Life. IS IOVI A . . $•• The An*w«c m • Choose Carousel Red—torrid as the noonday sun. 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