Exhaust systems faulty
GM recalls cars for repairs
DETROIT (UPI) - General Motors Corp. yesterday announced the most massive recall campaign in U.S. auto-making history, the callback of 4.9 million cars and trucks for corrections of hazards of exhaust fumes—which have been blamed for four deaths—and sticking throttles.
GM said it had received reports of four deaths due to exhaust fumes, three of them at one time. Several other persons were reported to have been overcome by the fumes, a GM spokesman said.
An additional 2.5 million 1968 and 1969 model Chevrolets, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, Cadillacs and GMC trucks will be recalled because a carburetor cam could break apart and cause a throttle to stick in a partly open
position, the GM spokesman said.
The recall will involve more than twice as many vehicles as the largest previous recall. The previous recall record was set three years ago, in February, 1966, when GM's Chevrolet division recalled 1.8 million 1965 models to install splash shields to prevent freezing slush from jamming the throttle in an open position.
GM, the world's biggest automaker, emphasized that "very few" of the cars being recalled "may be unsafe."
The 2.4 million Chevroletls in the current recall included certain Biscayne, Bel Air, Impala and Caprice models for the year 1965 through 1968, and 38,000 of this year's models with optional 350 cubic inch engines.
exhaust emissions into certain of the Chevrolet models involved occurs only when the exhaust pipe is substantially out of design position or deteriorated from use." GM said.
Three conditions had to exist to allow fumes into the car-"a neglected exhaust system, the development of a nearby body opening and a negative air pressure in the interior," GM said.
"However, to prevent the possibility of such entry, GM dealers will reseal the nearby body joints and replace a drain plug in the body which was used to remove surplus bonerizing solution during manufacture," the announcement said.
"The replacement and servicing will be made at no cost to the owners," the announcement said.
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Open meeting bill set aside
TOPEKA - A bill to require meetings of public governmental agencies and their subdivisions to be open to the public was set aside yesterday.
The measure was defeated with a vote of 11 to 7 in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee. In contrast to previous years, the vote came on a showing of hands instead of by the usual secret ballot.
Elmer Both, KU journalism professor, earlier testified before
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the committee in favor of what he termed "the long needed open meeting law."
The bill would apply to all bodies spending public funds and require that all final, binding decisions by such bodies be reached at open meetings. The measure would have included all state school boards as well as Board of Regents meetings.
Beth said he told the committee the proposal was "mild bill" in view of what was needed. He said he designed with a provision of the bill which would permit executive sessions of the bodies.
Beth suggested an additional measure to the committee to give district courts the authority to nullify any decision taken by a governmental body at a closed meeting.
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