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KU<MIS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C. Thursday, December 2, 1965 Free Wheeling This will be our annual survev vey of those inevitable days of anti freeze, snow tires and winter driving conditions, soon to be flth us again. Winterizing the family ear is Important but no more so than winterizing your driving habits at the same time. Highway pati>3l maintenance experts endorse these winteriz ing tips which will increase your comfort and safety from now until the first warm breezes al March- ANTI FREEZE Flush the cool ing system, check the radiator and hoses for leaks and install recommended amount of anti freeze to coldproof your car. TIRES Heavy snowfalls are not unknown in North Carolina. But don’t wait until the first flurry to have your snow tires installed, if you plan to use them this year. Also check the other times at the same time. CHAINS A set of studded tire chains in the trunk is extra in surance /against getting stuck when and if that big snow hits. WINDSHIELD WIPERS Be sure that the rubber of your wip er blades has not become worn or brittle. Have the arm pressure adjusted to one ounce of pres sure for each inch of 'blade length to sweep off wet snow and sleet. Windshield washers ere a big help, too. DEFROSTER The defrosting system should b e powerful enough t o keep your windshield clear of fog and should melt ice in a very short time. LIGHTS When you check your headlights also check the tail- lights, brake lights, turn signals and license plate light. MUFTXER A muffler and ex haust system in good condition is vitally important during cold weather when we are likely to have the windows closed much of the time. Make sure you are not getting exhaust fumes through the heating system. A muffler does not have to be noisy to leak. At least one win dow should be left “cracked” for proper ventilation, no matter how cold the air outside. And some pointers on winter izing your driving: UGHTS With early darkness many of us drive to and from work in the dark or in the sha dows of dusk. Use your head lights, not the parking lights, under these conditions. At twi light you may not be able to see much better with your headlights on, but other drivers and pedes trians will be able to see you A good rule is to use your h«d- llghts whenever the sun isn’t out, especially on the open highway. VISlBIUTy: If your wind shield is fogged up you might as well be driving with your eyes closed. On those da>:s when ice forms on the windshield, scrape it completely off before starting out. A little peep hole is danger ous. Equally important are clear windows to the rear and sides. S'TOPPING STAR’HNG On glare ice—the kind of ice that’s almost transparent — stopping distances are Increased as much as 10 times with regular tires. Snow tires help somewhat, but even with reinforced tire chains it takes nearly four times ae long to come to a complete stop. At icy intersections, a princi ple of physics takes over. It de fines why ice is especially slip pery and best demonstrated by holding an ice cube in your hand. When you first grasp it as it comes from the refrigerator it is not very slippery. But as the heat from your hand begins to melt it, it becomes hard to hold. Ice at intersections is constantly melting from the passage of traffic and then freezing again. Wet ice is far more hazardous to the driven than compartively dry ice. This Is The Law BT BOBEBT £. US rot tba W. C Bat Basarliittnn) :kfobcemu OOMTBACTS or MiHoin froi avKi EMERGENCY STOPS Avoid them if you can by increasing the distance between you and the car ahead and by staying alert for pedestrians and cross traffic. If you have to stop suddenly on packed snow or ice, pop your brakes rapidly off and on. Lock ing the wheels will only catme a skid and possible loss of control. Letting air out of th« ^es, ind- dentedly, does not increase trac tion. TURNS Turns on snow or ice should be made gradually. Mo mentum will cause your car to continue in its original direction unless spee<l is reduced sharply. Turning with the brakes off will have no effect on the direction of your movement, so slow down before you begin to turn. GETTING GOING FTom a standstill on slippery pavement you can get the best traction by starting off slowly Wheel spin ning does no good and may cause you your car to fishtail. Pedestrians too have their troulbles in bad weather. For one thing the pavement is likely to be slippery and older people, ee- peciadly, are unsure of their foot ing. Cold winds or blowing rieet and snow will cause walkers to May an adult enter into an an- fofceable contract with a minor? 'The general rule is that an adult cannot -make a contract that la binding up<m a peiacm less than twenty-one years of age. A contract for necessaries Is an exception to the general rule. Legally speaking, persons less than twenty-one years of age are Infants. They do not have the necessary legal or mental capaci ty to make an agreement that Is enforceable against them. The ordinary contracts of an infant are voidable at the op tion of the infant An adult party to a contract cannot by an act on his part escape his obligation to perform; but an infant may at his option, disaffirm or elect not to perform his obligation. An Infant can secure the advantage of a good bargain and relieve himself of one that is bad. When does a minor become an adult? I A minor reaches his majority I on the first moment of the day ^preceding his twenty-first birth day. ’Thu Is said to result from the fact that the law does not take into account fractions of days. As the law has been forced through necessity to fix an ar bitrary time limit for the defense of infancy, a person Is an adult with fall capacity to contract on the day befsre his twenty-first birthday. Motor Company as a heap of I junk and demands the return of hie money. During the past eight ; months Jones has made monthly I payments under the oondltlonal I sales agreement amounting to $500. May Jones recover $2,000 from the Smith Motor Company and refuse to make further pay ment towards the purchase price of the automobile? Yes. The automobile was not a necessary for the partlcului in fant. ^■aid: “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does any- : thing about it.” This is no longer true. huddle within their warm coats and turn their faces away from the wind to k«p warm, thus making it diffltmlt to see ap proaching cars,' Winter is a. rough time for pedestrians. ’The Christmas chop ping season m4y hot turn out to be a time of Jpy for many—un less... well, you know the rest Charlie Jones, age twenty, rep resents to the Smith Motor Com pany that he is twenty-two years of age. He looks to be twenty-two years of age, and the Smith Mo tor Company, relying on the rep resentation, sells to Jones a new I automobile at a price of $3,000. I Jones pays $1,500 In cash and I gives to the Smith Motor Cora- I pany a promissory note secured : by a conditional sales agreement I for the balance. Jones uses the I car for eight months, wrecks It, and brings the car into the Smith Not only have we for some years been air (xmditloning our automobiles, homes, and build ings, we are now turning our at- : tention to modifying the weather of the great outdoors. If properly administered, artifi cial mucleatlon can trigger pre- I clpltatlon in a cloud or storm ! bafort it might otherwise have osouiTsd in aaturs. An infant may disaffirm Iris contracts lor items of personal property other than necessaries at any time before he reaches twenty-one or within a reason able time thereafter. The fact that Charlie Jones lied about his age is immaterial un der the court decisions of North Carolina. Weather modification is an es- pect of our society that has ar rived and will grow. The meteor ologist has brought forth a new science Most of the work of weather modification Is now be ing dpne cjmmerclaJiy in tlie semi-arid southwestern .«tates of this country. I Althougb many chsmtoal a- gents might be developed for I this werk, the two jtost com- i inonly used to date are (1) dry lioa ^ppet by an airplane to 1 piouu,, ,,ce crystals aiiu ) an- , ;ver iodide smoke dispersed into: ! the cloud by au-plane or from ! ground generators and carried ' into the cloud in natural up- i drafts. I Fay • Try spreadiiMf slant coffee A minor borrows money from an adult. Subsequent to reaching twenty-one year-s of age, he promises to pay. May there be a recovery of the money he bor rowed as a minor? Yes. After reaching liis ma jority a person may ratify and thereby turn a voidable contract created during infancy into a valid and enforceable contract. The particular contract has been ratified. Ratification cannot be effectually made until the infant has reached his majority. RAINMAKING Mark Twain has reputedly Hundreds of cornmercml oper ators now collect fees from thou sands of satisfied customers who seem to have no doubt of man’s 'ability to produce weather changes. 'The number of acres I five years ago under contract for rainmaking was already eix- ' teen times as gieat as the num- ’cer of acres under irrigation. Many of these contracts stipu late that no payment shall be i due unless positive results are 1 shown. I The cost of ramjtnakmg is rela- , tivaly low, For example, in the 1,-<00,000 acre watershed area of the Santa Anna River, in Cali fornia, it is said that for a cost of $40,000 rainmaking activities added 20 per cent more rain than would have naturally fallen in the target area. This meant wa ter for lees than three cents per acre-foot The problem of the rainmaker is to find clouds of sufficient size with proper temperature con ditions in their upper layers. When this oondition exists, the cloud may sometimes be “seed ed” by inducing muclei into it. A small number of experi- | manta also indloatc that voria-. tlons of modem cloud seeding I techniques can be applied in sup-; pressing tornadoes, snowstorms, | hall, lightning, smd hurricanes either by overseeding (triggering them off In unpopulated areas; under control. spoon instant coffee OTor roast beef before baking it. The coffee really adda to the flavor. e When baking, sift the dry ingredients onto paper plates. The plates can be bent up in the middle tor easy pouring, then dusted off and saved for the next baking venture. i # For a vegetable treat,- ; pour a small amoiint 4f i Italian oalad draonlM oner ' cubed, ceeked faets t (eanned, B’erfi ar fmen): j let tbeoi slaBd tor abeut I hour. 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