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*J‘ Results of a study for the Minnesota Department of Highways on ‘the ‘efâ€" fectiveness of studded tires, dated two months ago but not generally made public, have now been disclosed. The report confirms the safety benefits of studded tires. Earlier this year the Minnesota _ legislature allowed the law permitting the use of studded tires in that state to expire. The study, dated September, 1971, was not released during a special session of the legislature in October when lawâ€"makers again looked at studded tires, passing a law that permits outâ€"ofâ€"state cars to use studded tires in Minnesota for a limited time. The study, conducted by the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory of Buffalo, N.Y., showed : Cars with studded tires were involved in fewer acâ€" cidents than cars with other types of tires. The accidents involving cars with studded tires tended to be less serious than other accidents. Injuries to occupants and damage to vehicles tended to be less severe when studded tires were used. Studded tires improved vehicle directional control, loss of which was termed a primary problem. ‘"‘This study corroborates what most groups concerned with highway safety always have stated â€" that safety studded snow tires do make a major contribution to inâ€" creased highway safety during £azardous winter driving cenditions,"" Ross R. Ormsby, Chairman of the Tire Industry Safety Council, said. ‘‘The data offers evidence what the use of studded tires yields _ observable‘> adâ€" vantages over other types in terms of accident precipitation, _ vehicle behavior in emergencies and driver injury." Summarizing the findings in the 78â€"page report, which was prepared by Kenneth Perchonok of the Accident Research Branch of C.A.L. it was stated: The C.A.L. study, which cost over $60,000, was authorized by the Minnesota Legislature in 1969, along with;ia separate $245,000 study to determine the degree of extra wear studded tires bring to various types Studies show studs eHective of pavement. The purpose of both studies was to help the 1971‘ legisiature ~decide whether safety benefits outweighed the pavement damage. This pavement study, conducted by the American Oil Co. at Whiting, Indiana, and supported by several other states, showed extra wear due to studs. The results _ received _ wide publicity, and the Minnesota Legislature allowed the law permitting the use of studs in that state to expire last May. The results of the C.A.L. safetyâ€"benefit _ study reportedly were not made available to the legislature. The study, titled "Safety Effectiveness of Studded Tires," was based on analysis of information from two sources â€" accident reports compiled over part 2 6 20 ACCIDENT RATES FOR STUDDED TIRES : COMPARED TO OTHER TIRES 0 A Fat estimated accident rate for triggering an accide due to sliding Dotting the dayâ€"toâ€"day work records of Ontario Hydro‘s eleven helicopter.pilots are unusual incidents â€" from, being shot at by hunters to helping combat forest fires. Choppers have assisted in searchâ€"andâ€"rescue operations for downed military and civilian planes, and on occasion have rescued injured or lost hunters. Motorists stranded with burning cars have profited from fire extinguishers carried as standard safety equipment. Hydro, with the first helicopter fleet in the Toronto area, played a major role in the ai@finuth of hurricane Hazel. Helping police direct traffic from the air was only one involvement. Toronto‘s airborn traffic watch is an offshoot. The thirteenâ€"helicopter fleet saves Hydro over a million dollars a year on ling patrol‘alone. Whirlybirds work on transmission line construction, surveying, ice flow studies, transport of equipment â€" and new uses are constantly being found. Flight over the province isn‘t indiscriminate. Hydro pilots have turkey farms marked on their maps. The birds will stampede at the sound of a helicopter and in the crush damage or death can result. Mink ranches are avoided in spring when upset mothers will kill their young. of the past two«winters by the Minnesota Highway Patrol as well as several coâ€" operating â€"pelice departâ€" ments and the responses to 84,000 questionnaires sent to Minnesota_drivers last winter over the signature of then _ Governor _ Harold LeVander. Penitentiaries and missile installations are on restricted lists but nudist camps are left to the pilots‘ discretion; Ontario Hydro Photo. The questionnaire asked drivers to describe driving conditions and experiences on the day before the questionnaire was filled out. A key question was: "Do you think studded tires help one to drive nearer the speed limits on slippery roads?" Seventyâ€"one per cent of all drivers and eightyâ€"four per cent of the drivers with studded tires replied yes. Thirtyâ€"six per cent of the respondents stated they used studded tires, twentyâ€"six per All in a Day‘s Work & SNOW TIRES STANDARD TIRES cent used nonâ€"studded winter tires and thirtyâ€"eight per cent used standard tires. To get the accident data, police were asked to fill out supplementary _ accident reports dealing with tires, damage and road conditions during Februaryâ€"April and Octoberâ€"December _ 1970. M‘t attention was given to veMMcles which triggered accidents by sliding on slippery roads. Participating city police agencies were Minneapolis and its suburbs of Brooklyn Center, Edina and Richfield; St. Paul and one suburb, Roseville; Duluth, Grand Rapids, Mankato, Rochester and St. Cloud. ‘*Approximately one out of five accidents was triggered by vehicles involved due to sliding," the report said. ‘Fifteen per cent of all inâ€" juries occurred in accidents triggered by sliding." The accident reports covered 4,551 mishaps inâ€" volving 7,151 automobiles. A total of 124 persons were killed and 3.086 injured. Repair costs and property damage was estimated at $3.3 million. Of the reported accidents, 79 per cent occurred on snowy or iceâ€"covered roads. And the report showed that as road conditions became poorer, cars with studded tires were better able to avoid triggering an accident by maintaining vehicle control. The estimated accident rate® for triggering an acâ€" cident due to sliding was shown on a chart as about 0.7 for studded tires, 2.1 for snow tires and 2.7 for standard tires. "The results reflecting sliding _ accident _ rates showed marked benefits for studded tire vehicles versus snow tire vehicles and for snow tire versus standard," the report said. ‘‘We hope that other states now considering possible action against studded tires will study this new evidence of extra safety benefits very carefully," Ormsby said. "We always have mainâ€" tained that the safety adâ€" vantages of studded tires outweigh the pavement wear involved and the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory report certainly supports that position," he added. The tip ‘"That market is just gigantic,‘ he says in the December issue of Executive. "We only nibble at it these days with television and radio repair services." In an exclusive interview with the monthly magazine, read by 25,000 senior executives and government leaders, Butler says the whole service industry "has not been well managed." Using the management techniques of a large and @stablished company, he thinks this can be changed. ‘"Wouldn‘t it be a delight if your wife could just pick up the phone and say: ‘I‘d like to have a windowâ€"cleaning contract for the next 12 months‘ and the store would give her a price. She can forget it and we will do it. She‘d pay for it through her account, and never have to worry about quality or inâ€" tegrity. # ‘"When you multiply that many, many times, it opens up a whole new potential. It could even include cleaning off your snow or painting your walls," the first nonâ€" Eaton head of the retail company says. Butler contends _ that services are but one area in which Eaton‘s will expand in the future. The company recently opened in Montreal Studs studied The damage done to streets by _ studded winter tires is not substantial enough to require banning them at this time, a study presented to Metro Winnipeg council has concluded. The study‘s findings indicate> that _ the damage to the street system results in an additional $60,000 to $107,000 in maintenance costs to the streets and traffic department. Council _ voted _ to recommend to the new central city council that the study be continued and expanded for two years at a cost of $12,600. The study was carried out at four inâ€" tersections last winter. If continued and exâ€" panded, it would take in nine intersections. The study recomâ€" mends no change in the Manitoba â€" Highway Traffic Act. The act was amended in 1966 to allow studded tires. The study was done jointly by Metro Winâ€" nipeg, _ Underwood McLellan gnd Associates I,imite(? and Western Photogramâ€" metry Limited. It includes an analysis of traffic accidents on streets last winter. Cars with studded tires were found to be involved in fewer collisions. In 2,752 rearâ€"end coltisions â€" between November, 1970 and March, 1971, 412 in volved two vehicles with studs; 1,230 involved one vehcile only with studs: 1,110 involved two vehicles without studs. It is estimated that 45 per cent of the vehicles in Greater Winnepeg are equipped with studs. At the four separate intersections studied, it was found that studded vehicles increased pavement wear by 100 to, 150 per cent at‘ inâ€" tersections with traffic lights or stop signs. At intersections where a full stop is not required, wear was increased 42 per cent. Stopping distances on glare ice were judged to be decreased by studs on rear tires and sharply decreased by studs on all four â€" more than twice the reduction with rear studs only This month, the country‘s largest computer company was launched at Toronto‘s *Sheridan Research Park. The Canada Systems Group is owned jointly by Eaton‘s, The Steel Co. of Canada and U.S. owned TRW Inc. Butler sees this, too, as only the beginning _ of _ several openings for the retailer. an experimental lowâ€"price clearance store for surplus goods, mainly clothing. Previously, these were sold only at intervals through special sales. The president says Eaton‘s is looking at ‘"convenience outlets" and "‘specialty store qhaing" as other retail opportunities. "There‘s a fantastic opâ€" portunity under a wellâ€" written computer program to approach segments of (EatonԤ 1.3 million charge accounts) _ with _ merâ€" chandising offers, and also to set up communications with advisory groups." Butler says one group of carefullyâ€"picked customers are being used as an adâ€" visory group this year. The computer would allow "a sophisticated approach to learning what our customers want, what things we can do better, what kinds of goods they would like us to offer." 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Among the best read publications in the country for more thanâ€" 100 years, the Eaton‘s catalogue now has a larger circulation in the cities than in rural areas, despite the presence of several Eaton‘s stores in the urban centres. The pictureâ€"phone will be a m ajor catalog ue breakthrough when it comes. Says Butler: "We haven‘t been putting pressure on the telephone industry to acâ€" celerate the launching of the pictureâ€"phone. We‘re very conscious of it, however, and they keep us very well inâ€" formed. We believe that it‘s going to come." Butler _ believes _ the common thread between all of these potential activities is the company‘s management capabilities. ‘"There are many, many brilliant men in this world. Most of them go into research and teaching. They‘ve got ideas by the carload. But you don‘t get very many men who can take those ideas and tranâ€" slate them into action. That‘s the trick; finding the tranâ€" slators." 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