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“Keep in touch” usually means you want to talk to someone at a future time, but for winter motorists those words mean safe driving.
Many Virginia motorists prepare their car s for winter with tune-ups, a shovel in the trunk and an ice scraper for the windows, but they forget to check the condition of their tires, says Glen H. Hetzel, a safety specialist.
"Winter driving can be made safer if motorists remember the most important factor is maintaining control of their vehicle,” he says. "That means they need good ties to maintain contact with whatever surface they are driving on. That’s not a startling fact, but it is a very important one."
Using regular tires as a base, the National Safety Council determined through testing on loose snow that snow tires increase traction by about 300 percent.
Many motorists, however, don’t want to spend the extra money for snow tires. A number of tire markers now
Park Travel
Up in 1980
Travel in Shenandoah National Park for 1980 showed a slight increase over 1979. according to statistics released by the National Park Service.
Visits to the park in .1980 totaled 1.769JQ0. a rise of 8.8 per cent over the 1,625,700 in 1979. Overnight stays were also up 474,950 in 1980 compared to 462,226 in 1979.
For December. 1980, in contrast to the same month in 1979, however, visits to the park declined by 45 per cent from 43.700 to 24,000.
As measured at Big Meadows Weather Station, the high temperature for December, 1980, was 61 degrees and the low minus ' six. Precipitation and snowfall both totalled one inch for the month.
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