24 - THE HERALD. Thun.. April 9, 1981 Your Money's Worth Night safety key concern for U.S. drivers By SYLVIA PORTER your car certain items that brand names for about Hose Bandage, sold in A set of three flares will During winter driving, tire Of course, stocking your will help you get your dis­ $1.75. automotive supply stores cost only $2.00. The fundamental Now in April, we enter chains (about $30.00) are trunk with all these message is: BEFORE you ManchMt«r, Conn. abled car in action again. (2) If your car defaults for about $1.50. Wait a (5) You might buy a bandy. the peak months for auto suggested aids (and many start out, day or night, be Friday driving in the U.S., and if (DA common disaster is because of another un­ while for the engine to cool burglar alarm which will more suggesteid by the a flat tire — but assuming known problem (there are if you have a hose problem, set off a blast to attract (7) A flashlight should be prepared for unpredictable April 10.1901 you're typical of the 141 Automotive Parts & trouble. million of us who are the tire hasn't suffered a 15,0(10-20,000 parts in a especially if the radiator attention of passing another staple in your Accessories Association) 25 C ants blow-out, the chances are car), turn to your citizens needs water after the hose motorists. On the market nighttime equipment kit. Check all your tires, be licensed drivers, a key con­ will not guarantee that certain they are properly cern is safety, especially at you can inflate it with a band radio. Drivers of breaks. Don’t attempt to are devises which are easy Crat: as little as $2.00 Be sure it has fresh batteries your car will be back on the inflated, and include a night. portable air compressor thousands of trucks, taxis pour water into the car’s to install. road quickly. If you must Sewing the Greater Manchester Area for 100 Years o p erated from a car and private cars have paid radiator until the motor whenever you go night­ check of your spare. For a woman particular­ (6) For practically no driving. An alternative get your car to the service cigarette lighter. $75-$200 for CBs, or more has really cooled. station and if a passing A final note; Make sure ly, being caught with a dis­ than $200 for a super band cost at all, a pail of sand which saves on batteries is (4) Even if you are not motorist offers help, a 12- you have sufficient gas­ abled car, new model or One device, called "Air model with a greater should be a staple, in case a hand spotlight that plugs oline! among America's 44 foot tow cable, costing as jalopy, can be a terrifying Aid" and produced by range. About 25 U.S. your car is on a situation into your car's cigarette million amateur auto little as $6.50, will be of Copyright 1981, Field Computer faiIs experience. And even Universal Security manufacturers or im­ where traction is needed. lighter-socket. mechanics and are in fact, enormous use. Enterprises Inc. though an estimated 165,- Instruments, can be bought porters are marketing CBs all thumbs, it is amazing FRANK AND ERNEST by Bob ThtVM 000 service stations dot the in auto stores for about in the U.S.; buy from a nation’s highways, a ser­ $29.95. It also can be used reputable retailer with how an emergency can vice station rarely seems for easy inflation of toys, products that stand for turn you into a mechanic. I| AUTOMATED INDUSTRIES INC. to be in sight. sporting, goods and quality and reliability and But if it is nighttime, take Next to having your own recreational gear. Another on which you can receive precautions. Even if you 'Y t> o 'R 6 F i M d ! tow truck or personal tire inflator is a can with easily available service. have managed to drive mechanic at hand, what to compressed air and sealer. your car on to the road's C U fA N OUT Flaw delays shuttle do'' Be sure you have in It’s sold under different (3) Your CB will sum­ shoulder, position reflec­ mon help — but you might tors in back of the car. A Y o u g D I5 K I have a broken hose with set of three reflectors can steam gushing from the be purchased for about CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) After engineers in Houston spaceship to rely so heavily on com- were disappointed by the launch split rubber. Then it would $10.00, but you'll find flares — A puzzling problem in the space reported "no joy” in an attempt to puters to perform critical delay. be to your advantage to which burn for about 15 shuttle’s vital electronic brains clear up the computer problem, operations. There are four redun­ Young and Crippen remained in Business dant main computers and then the have what is known as a minutes just as effective. today forced a probable two-day launch director George Page and the cockpit of the Columbia while delay in the launch of astronauts Richard Smith, director of the backup which could take over to per­ engineers sought the cause of the dif­ Finance John W. Young and Robert L. Kennedy Space Center, made the form the most critical functions if ficulty. Crippen on the first orbital test flight “scrub” decision. all the other units failed. The pilots ran through a series of Photographers set up remote cameras Thursday, getting set of the Columbia. The Columbia is the world's first Harris said Sunday was the switch and communications checks for the launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia at Cape Young and Crippen spent more reusable spaceship. Its launch had earliest launch date because it takes with controllers at the Kennedy Canaveral, Fla. A computer malfunction has delayed the P&WA gets order than five hours lying uncomfortably been set back more than 2(4 years by Space Center firing room and the launch. (UPI photo) on their backs in the shuttle’s a variety of technical problems. mission control center in Houston. cockpit, only to team that they will Today’s problems, however, were of The weather was excellent for the from Air Canada have to do it all over again. the kind not unexpected on a new maiden flight of America’s new The problem concern^ one of five spacecraft during the final hours of space transport. computers in the revolutionary the countdown to launch. Astronauts EAST HARTFORD - First deliveries of the # YAMAHA The astronauts’ heart beats of 75 spaceship, the most advanced United Technologies' Pratt JT8D-7 kits are scheduled It was apparent as the morning per minute indicated both crewmen manned spaceship ever built. The & Whitney Aircraft has for August, 1981, and the dragged on'that the astronauts were to wait again were calm during final flight Rivosa tol<d received a $105 million JT8pi5 kits in August, pesky computer was unable to com­ getting tired of waiting. preparations, mission control order from Air Canada for 1982. Installation of the kits municate ^ith the other computers. "How are you holding out up spokesman Hugh Harris said. JT8D engine performance will be performed by Air The countdown had come to within there?” Page asked the astronauts The 184-foot-taII space machine improvement kits that will Canada during regularly BELIEVE YOUR EYES nine minutes of blastoff at 6:50 a.m. at one point. weighed 2,227 tons on the launch pad provide significant fuel scheduled overhaul. EST when the computer problem “Just laying here, you know,” 24 hours to clear the ship’s external with its solid fueled boosters and savings for the Boeing 727 The JT8D is the most And Please Your Ears! developed. replied Young, the veteran flight fuel tank before it can be filled again external fuel tank attached. he must use and McDonnell Douglas widely used turbofan Hugh Harris, the launch control commander who was strapped on his with more than 500,000 gallons of Young, 50, a veteran of four DC-9 jetliners operated by engine in commercial avia­ Now^ you can own some of Yamaha’s finest stereo equipment at Never Before - Never spokesman, said the earliest date the back in his spacecraft seat, a posi­ frigid liquid oxygen and hydrogen. spaceflights, and space rookie the airline. tion history. Introduced in Again" prices. Yamaha found these discontinued models in their warehouse, and we bought astronauts could take off on the tion doctors have said the crew could The initial weather forecast for CYippen, 43, crawled into Columbia’s Air Canada ordered 128 1964, the engine currently shuttle’s maiden test flight was 6:50 hold for no more than six hours. Sunday was encouraging. Air Force two-level cabin at at 4:19 a m., after kits that will reduce fuel powers more than 3,500 air­ _____________right. All new, all fully warranteed, all top quality. o f course. a.m. Sunday. However, the problem "Getting uncomfortable at all?” meteorologists said conditions smiling and waving to space port must be resolved before the ship can Page asked. volunteers consumption by as much as craft operated by some 175 similar to the excellent weather workers when they left their be cleared for takeoff. “We’re getting there, George," 5.5 percent on JT8D-15 carriers worldwide. 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