Zurich Herald, 1956-03-15, Page 7Motorists Dream Coming True
Parking Lots Look for Customers!,
By DOUGLAS LARSEN
TEA Staff Correspondent
The parking industry has fin-
sally caught up with soaring car
plopulation in many parts of the
Country;
In fact, in some cities there
are now more parking places on
parking lots than there are
)parkers. "Lot full". signs have
almost all been burned.
The resulting competition to
pluck the potential parker from
the street is something wonder-
ful for motorists to .experience.
Baby-sitting service for wom-
en who don't want to drag their
kids around to the stores was
started by a lot owner in Sioux
City, Ia. This is spreading to
Other cities.
Not willing to take on full
)responsibility for guarding a
bunch of kids, a parking lot in
Wheeling, W. Va., is making
strollers available to its cus-
tomers,
To beat his competition a
>leuisville, Ky., lot manager be-
gan passing out balloons for the
kids. A lot down the street then
began giving away candy AND
balloons.
In another part of Louisville
Xi parking garage announced
that it would . loan umbrellas
free to its customers when it
)rained. Several lots around the
country serve free hot coffee to
customers while they wait for
their cars on chilly days.
In Portland, Ore., a lot has
begun offering customers spe,.
tial repair and service facilities,
'beyond washing and greasing.
'This idea is spreading. And down
In Washington a lot operates a
ear radio clinic where tubes can
?Detested and other repairs made
at special prices.
In a large New Jersey city a
parking garage owner is study -
bag a plan to add a special heli -
center service to get his cus-
tomers to nearby airports or
Other points.
This competitive pinch, how -
Iver, has failed to launch any
rate cutting wars. Parking your
car is like checking your hat.
It doesn't take long to match the
sale price in fees.
In Washington, for example,
rates in the downtown area
range from 45 cents for the first
half-hour to 30 cents for the
!first hour, and reduced rates for
subsequent hours. Daily rates
range from •80 cents. to $1.50.
That's peanuts compared to
New York City, where rates run
from 75 cents to $1 for thefirst
hour, $2 to $2.75 for all -day
parking, and about $3.50 for 24
hours.
In , some towns there have
been small rate reductions,
These developments are re-
ported by Leonard B. Doggett,
Jr., president of the National
Parking Association and owner
of a string of D.C. lots.
"In spite of increasing compe-
tition for business," Doggett re-
ports, "an investment of more
than $350 million ,in new. off-
street parking facilities is plan-
ned by private enterprise this
year."
Since 1946 the investment in
private parking facilities has
risen from $1 billion to more,
than $4 billion, he claims.
Washington has pioneered two
plans which are being copied
around the country rapidly One
is strictly a good -will gesture of
giving free parking on Sunday
to churchgoers,
All a parker has to do 1s show
the church program after the
service to avoid the -fee. Close
to 10,000 persons there use this
each Sunday.
The other idea is a coopera-
tive plan whereby downtown
merchants pay part of the•park-
ing fee of their customers, de-
pending on the size of pur-
chases.
Theatres, restaurants and doc-
tors and lawyers are getting in
on this plan. It has helped to
revive business in downtown
Washington.
To eliminate the familiar
whine of tires as hot -rod park-
ing attendants race cars up and
down ramps Doggett is success-
fully, pushing the establishment
of training schools for lot em-
ployes.
In anattempt to cut costs the
trend in new garages is to con-
struction of park - it - yourself
types. This system use a little
more space but requires 'fewer
employes.
In San Francisco a new nine -
story park -it -yourself garage
use 23 employes, compared to
150 attendants needed to park
the customers. It can receive
and discharge 600 cars in 30
minutes.
ROW TO MAKE A "BOID"' SING - Airmen of the Strategic Air
Command, stationed at Offutt Air Force Base, keep their turbine -
throated "boid" in tune. Hailed as ane of the most satisfactory
experimental vehicles yet designed to ultiize a low -powered
'turbine, the converted racer is nicknamed the "SACfireboid."
BOB AND BING TOGETHER-Forthe first time in several years,
the famous Cros y brothers are photographed together. Their
careers. have kepf,.them apart. This picture was taken in New
York on 'the sei;Ygf Bing's "High Tor," his one television ap-
pearance -of the'season. Bob, right, who has more TV experience
than "Der Dingle";• dropped in to check Bing's progress during
the rehearsals.
'Don't Fence me in'
Is Slogan Here
They Beep a newspaper pic-
ture at Kruger National Park,
South Africa, of a large, black -
maned African lion dozing
dreamily on a bouncy, new `in-
ner spring mattress. It is just
an advertising stunt for - a local
mattress compasy, ' of course,
and lions in the Kruger Nation-
al Park do not ordinarily enjoy
such luxury.
Nevertheless, they do come
pretty close to a Utopian sort of
existence which might well fig-
ure in the dreams. -of other wild
animals in less -well -sprung sur-
roundings.
There are no fences, there
for the lion, elephant, or giraffe.
There are no cages, no white:
hunters with barking rifles, no
native poachers with silent, poi-
sened arrows. Thousands of Af-
rican wild animals live by the
simple law of the wild. And
the rangers' only task is to pro-
tect them.
Some people call this the "zpo
without bars." But it is not even
that. It is simply a 200 -mile -long
slice of Africa up to 60 miles
wide decreed untouchable in an
industrializing nation for the
preservation of rapidly dimin-
ishing wildlife.
It is a normal zoo in reverse,
for here the visitor is "caged"
- tourists may travel the simple
dirt tracks by closed cars, but
must remain in them at all
times. There are camps for night
stops, but even here a curious
elephant or lion has, and fre-
quently takes, the right of way
to amble through their midst.
There is something of a gen-
tleman's agreement - provided
you leave the animals alone and
stay in your car they, are harm-
less. Rarely do they associate
automobile smells with human
beings. And sometimes they lend
a hand. There was the agitated
motorist, for example, whose
car stalled and refused to start
immediately in the path of half
True happiness
springs from
Moderation
- GOETHE
(1749 - 1832)
/lien who think of tomorrow practice moderation today
a dozen notoriously bad-temper-
ed African elephants.
The agitation was "unnecessary.
The leading elephant gave the
fender a nudge, and another, and
another. As the car jerked for-
ward the quick -thinking "motor-
ist slipped his car into gear, the
elephant gave him another push,.
and off he went.
- Then, too, there are the rule -
breaking tourists who leave
their ..cars to snap lions 50 yards
away, to find later when their
films are developed that they
include shots of another lion
perhaps 12 feet from them, so
' well camouflaged that they never
saw it when the photograph was
taken.
' From the animals' point of
view, it is all so natural here.
The animals . have no artificial
fears. They have the sun and
they find their food and drink as
they always have. As one of the
rangers said: "It's just as it
should be."
When you park your car in a
'glade and listen to the noises
of the bush- a couple of hun-
dred red buck champing softly,
the footfalls of a herd of zebra,
the treetops gossip of a pair of
monkeys, the rustle as a haughty
buffalo arches his neck the bet-
ter to look you over - the free-
dom and peace of it all sweep
over you.
So unafraid are many of the
animals that while hippos and
crocodiles remain near water,
according to the rangers, lions
will often sit on the road edge
watching the cars go by. And of
our own experience we know
the graceful impala buck put
out "school patrols" to make sure
everyone gets across the "street"
safely.
Lions are the most sought-
after animals, and it is said that
some. of the younger visitors go
to sleep at night counting lions
instead of sheep. By all accounts,
the lions are, getting so used to
the tourists'. that the one on the
mattress in that newspaper pho-
tograph may have been going to .
sleep counting cars.
Just How Good
Is Your Spelling
How's your spelling? It's prob-
ably a little better than it used
to be, for some education ex-
perts are saying that the stand-
ard of spelling is slowly but
surely rising, although men are .
still better spellers than women.
You're a very good speller if
you can correctly spell super-
sede, paraffin, liquefy, dipth-
theria, kimono, rarely, tranquil-
lity and naphtha, say the ex-
perts,
Here's an apparently simple
sentence of nearly all one -syl-
lable words which has often
beaten good spellers when dic-
tated to them:
Hugh, will you see whether it
is a wetheror a ewe that the
weather has driven under a yew
of the deepest hue?
Nobody has ever beaten the
record of Professor David Jones,
a schoolteacher of Missouri,
U.S.A., who became the world's
champion speller. For thrity-
three years he issued an annual
challenge to all comers to spell
against him. Many tried to
wrest the title from him, but in
vain.
His record is 15,000 , words
correctly spelled straight off the
reel, Re used to say that he had
benefitted from a good educa-
tion and owned his flair as a
speller to his love of 'reading.
FOOTNOTE: Were you ob-
servant enough to note the de-
liberate spelling error in this
article? The word "benefited"
has only one' "t"i
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