Evening star. [volume], November 02, 1958, Page A-28, Image 28

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LAW IN THE NEWS
The Long Automobile
Becomes a Target
By PHIL YEAGER and
JOHN STARK
Special Writer* tor The SUr
Most of us are acquainted
with the guy who is always
muttering that “there oughta
be a law’’ against this or that.
And there are probably only
a few of us who do not do it!
ourselves from time to time.
One of the favorite targets of
the “oughta be a law" fraternity ■
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V Don't mis» It!
In recent years has been the
long automobile.
As cars have stretched ... and
stretched .. . s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d,
the “oughta-be-a-law” advocate
(who cannot quite get into his
driveway or close his garage
doors or squeeze into the
average downtown street park
ing slot) has become madder
and madder and MADDER!
'i Auto manufacturers still say
S the big cars are popular or they
I wouldn’t build them that way—
and so we find the 1959
J Cadillac Is now 18.75 feet long;
the Chrysler Imperial Is 18.85
feet; the Lincoln Continental Is
18.92 feet. The width of these
cars run about 6.7 feet. More
over. as everybody knows, it is
getting pretty hard these days
to tell the supposedly smaller
cars—the Chevrolet* and Ply
mouths and Fords—from the
higher priced cars.
Whether or not the public
really likes the longer, roomier
cars land there seems to be
evidence both ways), the situa
tion could well turn into an
excellent illustration of the
manner in which private enter
prise often solves its own
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 2, 1958
problems without having to get
another law on the books.
In St. Louis, Mo., for in-;
! stance, the manager of the City j
! Auto Parks Co. has Just re
cently banned all cars from;
his lots which exceed a certain
length. He simply explains that
these cars cause more trouble
than the patronage of their
owners is worth.
In Washington. D. C., mem
bers it the local parking asso
ciation have been studying;
plans for scaling their parkir\-
rates according to the size oi
the automobile. The longer
and wider a car is. the more
its owner would have to pay to
park it.
The problem which the pub
lic garage people face, as well
as city authorities responsible
lor downtown meter parking,
is apparent from figures re
ported by* parking zone man
agers. Parking stalls .they say.
used to be about 7 by 17 feet;
1 today they have to be closer
1 to 9 by 20 feet. In addition, the
bigger buggies are more likely ;
1j to get dented or scratched in!
the smaller spaces, and repairs
are more cbstly.
It,may be that legal length;
restrictions could be placed on
cars via sptecial taxes, highway
regulations or the like. But
chances are the auto industry,
and its satellite businesses will!
adjust the matter themselves;
1 if given time.
Tuesday: Testimony of a
wife. *
Newlin Will Speak
Michael H. Newlin of the of
fice of United Nations Political
and Security Affairs of the
State Department, will discuss
“The Soviet Challenge and
American Education’’ at a
! meeting of the Women’s Army
Corps Veterans Association at
8 p.m. tomorrow at the Hotel
2400, 2400 Sixteenth street N.W.
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