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The Weather Report Huntsvillian,
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logra- condition, they could withstand
the peculiar stress.”
snt is Auto racing requires a degree
who of physical conditioning unsus
>iness pected by the average specta
tor. Some physiologists contend
i Los it is the most demanding of all
1 Co- sports.
iy on 70 Showers H if HI Wright said that when he
ns of heard of the strange physical
reactions of some of the drivers,
:used FORECAST njjb' he decided to telephone astro
dver- 70 naut Tom Stafford at the Hous
well Figures Show Low Temperatures Expected!1); ton space center. Stafford agreed
d a
Until Saturday Morning that the reactions were similar
\sso- 1 to his own experiences in NASA
holaud Precipifatson Not Indicated— Consul! Local Forecast test vehicles. Wright said he
were
commented:
ated Showers are forecast Friday for the Cooler temperatures are expected in “If I were at Talladega, I
Southeast, Southwest and Northwest, the Great Lakes area and Northwest. would not try to race tomor
row.”
(AP Wirephoto Map)
It apparently was then that the
ALABAMA: Becoming most ening Saturday. Lows tonight above normal. top-drawer drivers decided not
ly cloudy and cooler with 50s and low 60s, highs Sat Highs yesterday, lows last to go.
scattered showers or thun urday mostly upper 70s. night and 24-hour precipitation Hazards Blamed
dershowers today, tonight Sunday, partly cloudy and ending at 7 a.m. today:
and Saturday. High today mild with chance of afternoon Atlanta 90 70 0 Today, the drivers who with
84 to 92. Lows tonight 64 showers. Boston 62 48 0 drew said they did so because of
to 70. Highs Saturday 78 to 84 ★ ★ ★ Chicago 64 60 0 hazardous and non-professional
north, 82 to 86 south. High Thursday: 89; low: 70. Denver 78 52 0 racing conditions and the refusal
★ ★ ★ Normal High: 86; low: 62. Houston 91 72 .01 of track management to take
TENNESSEE: Variable Sunrise Saturday: 6:33 Los Angeles 77 62 0 necessary corrective actions.
cloudiness through Saturday a.m.; sunset: 6:46 p.m. Minneapolis 62 55 0 The PDA, in a statement, scor
with slight chance of show Precipitation: 0.19 inches New Orleans 89 71 .01 ed Bill France and NASCAR for
ers south portion today and Thursday; 2.39 inches in Sep New York 68 51 0 what they called “indifference to
tonight, over the area Satur tember. St. Louis 74 52 0 the drivers’ safety.” They said
day. Showers most likely Total precipitation: 47.27 Seattle 67 55 .46 they had told France as early
during the afternoon and ev inches, which is 11.12 inches Washington 73 54 0 as July 24 that the track layout
was extremely rough.
Yet Ken Rush drove his Ca
2UX I
rn ar o 400 miles at speeds over
|New Era Dawns Cities League 175 mph last Saturday to win
the GT race at' Talladega. And
he said he did it on one set of
Firestone tires.
Still Opposed
;he And Sunday’s winner said he
In Defense Cost ments.
be suffered no physical impair
la Brickhouse said yesterday that
in To Bonds Tax Larry Rathged, engineering co
lU- By H. L. SCHWARTZ III from the emergency fund. ordinator for Chrysler, had ask
ir- Associated Press Writer Although they lost all other at MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)_ ed him if he wanted to go to
ie WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen tempts to chip away money for The Alabama League of Munic Houston for tests. The North
ate critics of defense costs say a hardware, they did get written ipalities has restated its position Carolina farmer said he told
new era has opened in public into the bill some restrictions on Rathged, “not at my own ex
awareness of Pentagon spend chemical and biological warfare of opposition to the taxing of pense.”
ing despite their crushing defeat materials. municipal bonds. It also called Brickhouse said he has “driven
on attempt after attempt to trim They also won approval of on U.S. Sens. John Sparkman a lot of tractors rougher than
a $20-billion bill for military some safeguards on defense and James Allen to work for the that track.” He admitted odd
s hardware. contractors, a $2.5 billion ceiling vibrations and said he changed
1- on aid to Laos and Thailand and defeat of a proposal to do away right tires without curing them.
r “We have made a good fight,” with the tax exempt status. When he changed all four tires,
said Democrat William Prox- several studies on the future
mire of Wisconsin, a leader in role of weapons approved in the “The very fact that Congress he said, the vibrations stopped.
Brickhouse added that when
the two-month battle that ended bill. is even considering it is running
interest rates for schools and he moved to a higher groove on
Thursday night with passage of
h municipalities to their highest the track where others weren’t
the bill. point in history,” John Watkins, running, it got smoother.______
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