The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 14, 1959, Image 7
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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.
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