PAGE TWKNTV - EVENING HERALD. Mon., July 16, 1979 Proper Use of Brakes Made into a Science yourvnnr footfnnf tofn thefho floorboardflnnrhnnrrl AnvhoHvAnybody run can Ha do it it,”” ho he aaiH said. theon* car rocketedt n nto U a ni* halt. “Yet that’s what__a we’re > asking i^i..the One is the type who has peeled so By JAMKS V. HEALION That’s the trouble, says Scotti. Assistant John MacDonald "I think it’s criminal for anybody person to judge in the steering of a many people off the insides of cars he THOMPSON (UPI) - There are If you step on the brakes and lock suggested a triai run and explained to have a driver’s license and not car. ’The average person just can’t do won’t go any faster than 20 mph the C ourt Battle Continue$ two things cars can do and many up the wheels, the car won’t turn. If that once the potential for an acci­ be able to do what you just did. I don’t it,” he said. rest of his life while the other thinks In interracial Adoption motorists haven't mastered one of you just turn and don’t step on the dent is spotted, you apply the brakes think there’s any excuse for it. It Scotti leaned on a rail in the bright he’s Indy 500 material. them — stopping. brakes, the car’s not going to slow hard and that locks the wheels. takes 10 minutes,” said Sandy sunshine watching four young men— A successful sports car racer from P a n 0 2 Driving specialist Tony Scotti down. "Vou unlock them and get your Stevens. three of them members of a ruling Cambridge, Mass., where his school shows his clients — some of them Scotti runs the Scotti School of steering back by coming off the brake Scotti shows people how mis­ foreign family — execute anti­ has its American headquarters, the patrol policemen — how to "brake Defensive Driving and has worked swiftly and by again depressing the leading driving can be when he asks terrorist driving maneuvers. ’They intense Bostonian believes in and turn." and as a graduate out a compromise in vehicle brake pedal eight to 10 times in quick them if they can run a tire over an asked for anonymity. experience being the best teacher. engineer he has it down to a science. dynamics. He said poor braking is a succession. eight inch spot in the road at 35 mph. Scotti was keeping one eye on “Once in his iife before he gets out "It's all a matter of time. If you factor in 48 percent of all accidents. MacDonald invited a visitor to try Inevitably, the answer is yes. ’The them, checking the stopwatch, there on the highway, a young man blow it in the first few seconds, the “What we're trying to do here is to it at SO mph, building up to the speed right answer is no — that’s really shouting, “I got that in 6.48 seconds,” should lose control of a car. Just to last few seconds don't matter except arrive at a balance in stopping a car in practice runs at 35 mph and then 40 hard to do because at 35 you’re and at the same time carrying on the see what it feeis iike. You’ve heard of to reach for your Rosary beads," as fast as the car will stop,’’ he said mph, saying he hasn’t dented a car in traveling 52.5 feet a second. conversation about braking. Pavlov’s dog. What’s the next sound Scotti said at the Thompson as a 1979 model car bucked to a halt, six years of showing people how to do “So in a tenth of a second, you go He teaches the panic stop to ail his you expect to hear after you hear Speedway. tires squealing. it. 5.2 feet. And in a hundredth of a se­ ciients — many of them salesmen screeching tires? Crash, right? Say you're moving at 50 mph and a "There’s one thing for sure you We came into a speedway curve cond, you go a half (nch. 1 can’t even whose companies want to reduce “So when we hear screeching tires, child on a bicycle suddenly appears know about an emergency procedure and closed fast on a yellow cone press my finger fast enough on this their accident records and police we get nervous. And it’s really ahead of you — the chances are you and that is if it isn’t simple, it won’t marker, hit the brakes, turned the stop watch to get a hundredth of a se­ departments which have two kinds of nothing. It’s just a signal coming would slam on the brakes and rivet be effective. There’s no trick to it. steering wheel a quarter turn, and cond. drivers. back to us ,teliing us to do something. Family NEWSpaper Since 1881 • 204 Single Copy • 15C Home Delivered Nixon Docked me., aaa - MnehiMT. conn.. Tueiday. JulylytiTe WASHINGTON (UPI) - 'Hie House, taking a critical look at I expenee allowances fori Burros presidents, past and present, has I voted to d o ^ Richard Nixon his I Sol^oza Heads for U.S. Exile $66,000 allowance for a year and I It was decided that if we can the Miami area today, where he owns Need make President Carter qiend his | said Somoza would bold a hews con­ Congress by a secretary of his expense money or give it back. MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) — bring peace to the country, get a at least one mansion. Anastasio Somoza resigned as presi­ ference at-1 p.m. EDT at El Camino Liberal Party. At the end of the brief Reporters and photographers were But efforts to eliminate the $35,-1 message, most deputies applauded cease-fire and aid equitable agree­ dent of Nicaragua today under terms Real Hotel near Las Mercedes Inter­ barred from Homestead Air Force 000 travel allowances for former I nation Airport and then depart. ^ some openly wept, a legislative ment, I will resign,” he said. Homes of a U.S.-me(Uated peace plan, en­ Somoza paved the way for his exile Base near Miami as authorities p ^ d e n ts — Nixon and Gerald | Dr. Francisco Urcuyo Maliano, 55 attending the session said. ding his family’s 4^year reign of Monday be retiring the nation’s sealed the base and tightened securi­ Ford — failed. president of the Chamber of "The people of Nicaragua are not power for a plu^ exile in the United military elite, including his entire ty in advance of Soraoza’s expected WENDEN. .Ariz, (UPI) The actions came during House I Deputies, the lower house of throwing me out,” he told a reporter States. general staff, so that they would be arrival. - The federal government 1 I consMeration Monday of a bill to | Congress, was elected as interim by telephone less than three hours ,? ar "I am presenting my resignation to Under terms hammered out in I fund White House operations. free to leave Nicaragua before is altcmpting to find homes t r .m bring peace to my people,” Somoza head of state until the Sandinista- before he resigned. “The ones trying U.S.-mediated negotiations, Urcuyo 3*5 3 In Nixon’s case, the House I to throw me out are the ones giving backed junta assumed power. for 600 wild burros it is said in a message read to the backed provisional government takes was to turn over the government to voted to deduct from his official I the arms to the few mercenaries and Somoza’s place of exile has never rounding up in the western Nicaraguan Congress,” and history power. been officialy announced, but the Sandinista-backed provisional Arizona desert. I yearly allowance $86,000 to repay I Somoza’s four-paragraph resigna­ the few dumbbells who are fighting the government for im-l will say I’m right. military sources said he would fly to junta. The burros, which weigh A close aide of the ex-president tion statement was read to the around in Nicaragua.” about 600 pounds, are cute provements made to his San I in appearance, but at Clemente estate while he was! times, deadly to the fragile president. His yearly allowance— I desert landscape where pinned hy law to current salaries I for Cabinet officers — is, coin-| Town, District they live. tl The "Adopt-A-Burro" cidentally, $66,000. program of the Bureau of Carter’s allowance came under I Land Management Cannon Monticello Are from recent revelations that I originated two years ago ‘Santa Cruz’ Velour he had spent only a few thousand | In Court Again with 650 of the animals Towels with Elegant dollars of his $50,000 annual I Jacquard Border expense allowance, and hast adopted. Last year, there MANCHESTER — As expected, District officials had protested the was no roundup because of Color-Mated Pastels pocketed the rest. I BATH The House approved, 294-90, an I the Town of Manchester and the rates that the town set for the 1979-80 lack of funds. Our Rtg. 3.39 and ‘Good Morning’ Print Eighth Utilities District have ended fiscal year. Letters received by the 2.66 amendment requiring presidents I 0 Q Twin, Flat and Fitted up in court again. The appeal filed by LaBelle BLM from the adoptive Gentle pastel towels mix to return to the Treasury any uns-1 and match with any color g a ) O Our Rag.