to — MANCHESTER HERALD^ Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1985 ■'A-> BUSINESS Tenants are invited Make spinach salad Manchester Cycle ' ! Clear, cool tonight; ' to air their gripes summer sophisticate ‘B’ softball champs \ I pleasant Thursday Wasteful driving puts us back in OPEC ciutches ... page 10. ^ ... page 11 .. page 15 j | ... page 2 ■’ S*‘ X1 8M« ' • A » 'A , vm n’’ those years. Once again, we’re risking driving ourselves right But... the average new car purchase price rose 184 back into the clutches of the hated OPEC oil cartel, We CAPPING OPEC’S GUSHER percent — more than inflation or family income. And had cut our average annual car mileage roughly 22 for comparable autos (same size, features, the like) percent during two oil "shortages' in the '70s and the Y o u r purchase prices are up 195 percent, and comparable world inflation those artificiai shortages spawned. ownership and operating costs are up 209 percent. For a decade, we, America's drivers, had reduced our M o n e y 's Hertz — now an RCA Corp. subsidiary but soon to auto travel from the record 10,362 miles per car we ran become a unit of UAL Inc,, parent of United Airlines — in 1972 — the last full year before the first Arab oil W o rth feels that the increasing popularity of rental cars and embargo — to 8,037 miles per year per auto in 1982. Sylvia Porter "fly-drive” vacations has been one factor in helping But now, mileage is inching up as we gaily travel M r ralft motorists keep cars longer and drive them less. more, to 8,317 miles per year in 1983 and 8,586 miles a Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1985 — Single copy: 25<t Families are cutting back from three cars to two or Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm year in 1984, reports Hertz Corp. in its annual study of from two to one, and renting a new, large sedan or m''tor vehicle spending. station wagon for their all-auto holiday to save their Now, a two-year 6,8 percent mileage rise may not own wheels. sound ominous — especially in light of the On top of all this, our heavier travel is also "Drive-fly” journeys are joining "fly-drive” near-doubling of new-car efficiency over the past increasing our motor vehicle ownership and operat­ vacations. You drive a rental car from a southern dozen years. But many of the old gas guzzlers of the ing costs. We shelled out $705.4 billion to run those 1.5 Florida city to a northern one (by any route); then, a early 1970s are still on the road. In 1984, the average trillion miles last year. And we used 113 billion gallons week later, pick up two "fr e e " airtickets back home. age per car rose for the 15th consecutive year, to 7.6 of fuel to do it. Only the improved fuel effipiency and Reagan plea You and I are also reducing per-vehicle car costs via years against 7.4 years in '83 and just 5.5 in 1969. smaller size of new autos kept us from (topping the car pools, passenger-van pools and the purchase of In addition, the Hertz study shows, the number of record gallon use of 1978. used rather than new cars for our second or third set of cars on the road rose by 28.7 million in those dozen Says Hertz chairman Frank A. Olson: "B y keeping years, from 96.8 miilion units in 1972 to 125.7 million in cars longer, driving them less and selecting smaller wheels. So, let’s keep those oil-loaded sheiks shaken up. 2 1984, a 27 percent hike. models with fewer options,- U.S. motorists over the 1t73 1i78 1t77 1 t7 * ,1M1 I tM And we must not ignore trucks. Few a re the gigantic past dozen years have brought their driving expenses Drive sensibly. Maintain your car properly. Use urges major 18-wheel'dieseis we may envision; nine out of 10 are into line with their expanding incomes. alternate transportation when it is practical. Don’t (SourcB: U S. Etwgy InformaHon AdmlnlttratWi) N t A OflASHIC light pickups and vans often used for personal "But the changes since 1972 amount to a markedly buy a car larger than you need. And whatever model transportation. Their number grew 79 percent — from reduced standard of driving.” you buy. keep it as long as possible by driving it less 21.6 million units in service in '72 to 38.6 million in '84. Since the last full year before the first Arab oil and maintaining it. Dwindling demand has forced OPEC to Together, cars and trucks racked up a record 1.5 embargo, average yearly per-unit passenger car It works to your advantage on all sides, for the cut its crude oil production. However, a ownership and operating eosts climbed 124 percent. longer you keep a car, the less it costs. The biggest car weapons cut trillion miles, and this excludes such wheeled move from conservation would play That's under the 148 percent advance in inflation and expense — depreciation — is highest in a car's early conveyances as motorcycles or farm and building right into the oil shieks' hands. 7 equipment. also below the 181 percent surge in family income in years, lower later. By John A. Callcolt tions as a crucial first move in United Press International reversing the major power arms race. " I believe that verifiable limitations Court upholds Firms find GENEVA, Switzerland — President on nuclear testing can play a useful, Reagan today asked Moscow to join the although more modest role. " the United States in building a stable and president said. more cooperative relationship, starting Like Gorbachev, Reagan reaffirmed ban on liquor right time for with radical cuts in nuclear arsenals. his commitment to the Non- The president issued his call in a Proliferation Treaty, calling it "a message delivered to delegates attend­ critical cornerstone" in curbing nu­ ing a conference reviewing the 1970 clear weapons and In sharing the pricing ads going pubiic Non-Proliferation Treaty on preventing peaceful benefits of the atom. the spread of nuclear weapons. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation The Reagan message was read to the Treaty has 130 signers and is seen as the PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UPI) - The Rhode Island By KatsumI AAatsubara conference by U.S. chief delegate cornerstone of efforts to stem nuclear Supreme Court has ruled that advertisemenU such United Press International Kenneth L. Adelman. director of the Weapons. Non-nuclear nations bitterly as, " I t ’s Miller Tim e," or "This Bud’s for you,” are Arms Control and Disarmament criticize the major powers, however, just fine — as iong as the price of the beer is not NEW YORK — One entrepreneur, after success­ Agency. for failing to make progress as mentioned. fully taking his company public, advises others to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in a promised on curbing their arms race in Ruiing in cases involving Connecticut and Massa­ analyze whether or not going public will meet similar message Tuesday, urged Wa­ return for restraint by other countries.> Herald photo by Tarquinlo chusetts, the court Monday upheld the state's right to individual business goals. shington to join Moscow’s unilateral The message came as the mi ministra­ prohibit liquor retailers from advertising their prices. "Going public is not a situation I would recommend moratorium on nuclear testing and tion has reportedly told the Soviets it In two split decisions involving the Woonsocket Caii Cheers to every company,” said Steve Rablnovici, president renounce the first-use of nuclear arms will reconsider resumption of direct air newspaper and a package store in Westerly, the of Animed Inc., a New York-based veterinary Reagan, in his message, emphasized travel between the U. S. and the Soviet new student orientation Tuesday morning. Two justices ruied the 21st Amendment of the Constitution Being a cheerleader is not always a peppy services company which went public in 1984 under the Union, the New York Times reported gives states the power to regulate the advertising and U.S. proposals at the new superpower experience. Manchester Community College cheer­ orientation sessions this week were well attended, name of Cardio Pet Inc. arms talks on cutting actual weapons today. distribution of alcohoiic beverages. according to MCC officials. Another picture on " I think a company has to really look at what it reductions. President Reagan cancelled all land­ leaders Karen Mancino, left, of Windsor Locks, and In the first case, the court ruied that S4S Liquor wants and how best to get it,” he said. ing rights for the Soviet state airline. Kathie Retartha of Manchester seem to be looking page 3. Mart in Westerly, a southern Rhode Island liquor "My central arms control objective A Animed was listed as one of the most successful has been to reduce substantially and Aerrflol. after Poland imposed martial for something to cheer about at their booth at MCC retailer near the Connecticut border, could not initial public offerings for 1983 and 1984 in a recent law in 1981. advertise its prices in the nearby New London Day ultimately to eliminate nuclear wea­ survey by Alexander Grant & Co., a major consulting pons and rid the world of the nuclear The decision to go ahead with the newspaper. firm headquartered in Chicago. talks next month prior to President In a follow-up case, the court ruled that the threat." Reagan said. "Y e t another Advisory questions removed Rablnovici said his firm had "two equally Reagan's November summit meeting Woonsocket Call, a newspaper located in northern critical objective of the United Slates is important reasons” for going public; raising growth with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Rhode Island, could not accept pricing advertise­ to build a stable, more cooperative capital and fueling growth through acquisitions.