B6 - Sunday News, January 24, 1982 PONTIAC FIREBIRD and many other fine and unusual cars are on display at the PNE Auto Show until January 31. The auto show fs open from 4 to 10:30 p.m. weekdays, 1 to 10:30 p.m. Saturdays, and 1 to 7 on Sundays. Admission is $4 for adults, $2.50 for students 14 years and under, and $1 for seniors.Children under 6 admitted free. | Increase idle if overheating If your car is overheaung while stalled in heavy traffic, step up the idling speed of the car. Doubling the idling speed will increase by four times the fan driven air flow through the radiator. Keep up the higher idling speed until your temperature Ed Broadbent has a plan WINDSOR, Ont. (UPC) - New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent un- veiled a two-part plan recently to revive Canada’s ailing automobile industry through content quotas and a government-financed auto- motive parts company. Broadbent warned that the industry, centered in southern Ontario, was suffering massive layoffs because it ‘was no longer competitive. that economy. He said only immediate, strong measures would halt the industry's rapid decline and the disastrous impact of decline on the “Ottawa has been totally ineffective in limiting the effect of imports on our industry,” he said in a speech Canadian could stay at least as healthy on a national tour to discuss the economy. “We need tough content requirements to recover jobs .... and stop the slow bleeding of Canada’s trade balance.” The content requirements would require auto com- panies to manufacture or purchase vehicles or parts in Canada equal in value to their Canadian sales. The 100 per cent rule would apply to foreign car makers as well as North American companies. “This would mean that the auto industry as our car market, which is the seventh largest in the world,” he said, noting the industry's loss of 30 per cent of its jobs in the last eight years. The NDP leader also Advertisement CRASH PAI . long-term pruposed that the govern- ment create a “PetroCan of the automobile industry,” or a publicly owned company to concentrate on the manufacturing sector. The company, which he called “AutoCan,” would en- courage research and development in Canada, enforce content requirements and negotiate contracts to supply foreign car com- panies. “The auto industry is the key to our manufacturing sector's health,” he said. “It should be treated with the same importance as_ the energy industry. AutoCan would be a window on the industry. Canadians, through their government, would have an_ insider's Vol. 1 issue 12 Small Cars Are Here To Stay and We Love ’em! 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