THE' PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON AUGUST 21, 1931
THE HEW MOTOR
VEHICLE LAWS
Questions and Answers of
Pertinent Interest to
Auto Drivers.
The following list of questions and
answers are from the 1931 edition of
motor vehicle laws of the State of
Oregon, and are compiled by the Sec
rofnrv of State esrjeciallv for ner-
sons applying for driver's . licenses,
though much information may be
gained from perusal by qualified
drivers and chauffeurs. Editor.
(Continued From Last Week)
65. Q. What are some exceptions' to
rules regarding right of way?
Ans. (a) The. driver of a vehicle
entering the public highway from a
private road or drive shall yield the
right of way to all vehicles approach
ing on such public highway. , (Page
125, section 36a.)
(b) The driver of a vehicle upon a
highway shall yield the right of way
to all authorized emergency vehicles
when the latter are operated in em
ergencies, when the drivers thereof
sound audible signal by bell, siren, or
exhaust whistle. (Page 125, section
36b.) .
66. Q. What should you do uponHhe
approach of an authorized emergency
vehicle? ; -
Ans. Upon the approach of any au
thorized emergency vehicle, giving
audible signal by bell, siren, or ex
haust whistle the driver of every
other vehicle shall immediately drive
the same to a position as near as pos
sible and parallel to the right-hand
edge or curb of the highway clear of
any intersection or highways and stop
and remain in such position unless
otherwise directed by a police officer
until the authorized emergency ve
hicle shall have passed, (Page 126,
section 37.) " ,
67. Q. When must the driver of a
vehicle yield the right of way to a
pedestrian?', .
Ans. The driver of any vehicle
shall yield the right of way to a
pedestrian crossing the roadway with
in any marked cross-walk or within
in any unmarked cross-walk at the
end of-the block, except at intersec
tions where the movement of the traf
fic is being regulated by police of
ficers or traffic control signals. (Page
126, section 38a.) .
68. Q. Is it lawful for the driver of
a vehicle to overtake and pass any
other vehicle which has stopped at a
cross-walk or intersection to permit
a pedestrian to cross the roadway?
Ans. No. (Page 126, 38b.)
69. Q. When must pedestrians yield
the right of way to vehicles upon the
roadway?
Ans. When crossing a roadway at
any point other than within a mark
ed or unmarked crossway. (Page 127,
section 38c.) T
70. Q. Is it lawful for any person
to solicit "a ride from a driver of any
private vehicle?
Ans. No. (Page 127, section 41 J
71. Q. Which side tt the highway
outside of incorporated cities or towns
should pedestrians use?
Ans. The left-hand side. (Page 217,
section 41a.)
72. Q. Why should pedestrians and
especially children be taught to walk
on the left side of the highway ?
Ans. They will then be facing thei
oncoming traffic and can step off the
highway, if necessary to prevent be
ing hit. There is less danger of be
ing hit from the rear by a car.
73. Q. Is it lawful to pass a street
car proceeding in the same direction
upon the left?-
Ans. No. Unless on a one way
street. (Page 128, section 42a.-
74. Q. How should you operate when
overtaking a street car?
Ans. The driver of a vehicle over
taking any street car stopped or about
to stop for the purpose of receiving
or discharging any passenger shall
come to a stop; except where a safety
zone has been estiblished, the vehicle
may proceed past such car at a speed
not greater than is reasonable and
proper.- (Page 128, section 42b.)
75. Q. Is it unlawful to drive
through or over a street car safety
zone?
Ans. Yes. (Page 128, section 44.)
76. Q. Is it necessary to stop before
emerging from an alley or private
driveway?
Ans. The driver of a vehicle within
a business or residence district emerg
ing from an alley, driveway or build
ing shall stop such vehicle immediate
ly prior to driving onto a sidewalk or
onto the sidewalk area extending
across any alldyway. (Page 131, sec
tion 49.)
77. Q. Is it lawful to park on high
ways outside of business or residence
districts ? '
., Ans. No person shall park or leave
standing any vehicle upon the paved
or main traveled portion of any high
way outside of business or residence
district when it is practicable to park
such vehicle off the paved or main
traveled portion of said highway; pro
vided, in no event shall any person
park a vehicle upon any highway un
less a clear and unobstructed width of
not less than 16 feet opposite such
vehicle shall be left for free passage
of other vehicles thereon, nor unless
a clear view of such vehicle may be
obtained from a distance of 200 feet
in each direction upon such highway.
(Page 131, section 50a.)
73. Q. Are there any exceptions to
the law against parking on the high
ways?" ; ..
'Ans. Such law shall not apply to
the driver of any vehicle which is
disabled in such a manner that it is
impossible to avoid stopping and tern-'
porarily leaving, such vehicle on the
highway, nor to any emergency ve
hicles when being operated in any
emergency which necessitates a viola
tion of this law. (Page 132, section
50.)
(To Be Continued) .
Walla Walla Valley Prune Crop
After extensive surveys of the
prune orchards of Walla Walla val
ley, estimates of different persons as
to this year's probable crop vary from
500 car loads - upward. Memory of
the crop of a few years ago when
500 cars were predicted and 900 ship
ped makes many people wary of ac
cepting the lower estimates for this
year, says the Milton Eagle.
Early Frost Reported
Weston Leader: Lionel Davidson,
Earl Gould and Glenn Johnson, mem
bers of Otis Gould's surveying crew,
were in town Saturday and Sunday
securing suppliesfor the camp larder
and visiting with friends and rela
tives. They report chilly weather
where they are stationed, with heavy
frosts appearing frequently.
Death of Mrs. Nelson "
Mrs. Caroline Nelson, for 27 years
a resident of Weston, where her hus
band, Nelson H. Nelson was station
ed as section foreman for the Union
Pacific railroad, died August 5 at her
home in Oaksdale, Washington, af
ter a long period of failing health.
Licensed To Wed
Harold Piersol of Weston, and Violet
Trump of Athena, obtained a mar
riage license Saturday.
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Coronation Ball for Queen
Betty Is Really Begin
ning of Show.
Bryce Baker, Proprietor
Pendleton. Things are happening
this week at the Pendleton Round
Up grounds that are anticipatory of
the more spectacular things that
will happen there Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of next week.
Cowboys from the Horse Heaven
to Wagontire mountain are sunning
their moccasins daily at $2.50 a fall
in trying out the bucking horses that
will thrill spectators from 'most of
the states of the Union and several
foreign countries next week. Texas
longhorn steers have been running
across the arena learning the differ-j
ence between entrance and exit.
Gayly decorated streets are meet
ing places for top hands whose name3
are known where folk couldn't tell
the difference between a longhorn
and a Holstein cow.
Girl riders and their horses are
coming in daily to enter the cowgirl
greeting troop. All nearby com
munities will be represented and
several girls will come from Portland
the Willamette valley and even Seat
tle and San Francisco. The caval
cade is expected to number 75 or
100.
Round-Up week really begins Sat
urday night with coronation ball for
Queen Betty. Next Monday when
Johnny Robinson's Varsity Vaga
bonds arrive to play for six nights of
dancing at Happy Canyon. This
group makes records for Brunswick
and has finished engagements at the
Olympic hotel in Seattle and at Seaside.
The Canvon's bar and tramine em
porium will also open Monday night.
Bv Saturday nieht everything will
be in readiness for the Round-Up.
Almost all of the contestants will be
here; there will be about 1050 head
of horses and cattle in the barns; all
equipment will be in top condition;
Happy Canyon pageant will be so
ready it could be presented that night
instead of waiting until next Wed
nesday, and all parade jeatures wm
be worked out.
Westward Ho parade this year will
be at 10 a. m. the closing day of
the show.
TVio management has declared that
it considers the line-up of contestants
for the show one of the greatest in
years. And its contest horses are
the finest. Not since the days of
No Name has the program boasted
a hnr with as clean a record of
thrown riders as that of Midnight
who heads the bucker list.
Tho trnnliv list Is lonzer than
usual, too. The $5000 Sam Jackson
trophy and the roping saddle, or
course are the big prizes, ine lat
ter will be the finest silver decorated
nrizfl wer offered at Pendleton, ite
iHp these, f 100 belt buckles are pui
up for the best all-round cowboy
and the champion calf-roper. A cup
haa heen offered for the Star cowpony
First of the Indian teepees will rise
Tin rounds the latter
part of the week. By Monday the
village will have a population of up
wards of 2000.
All this activity is working Pendle
ton iin ta a hiirh Ditch of excitement
The tnwn can hardly wait Until 1:30
n. m.. next Thursday when a bomb
ovnlnHpa. the La. Grande bands slays
the Star Spangled Banner and the
22d annual fiouna-up nai itarao.
American Legion Head
Denies Carnegie . Claim
That Vets' Plan Unfair
Portland. "Erroneous and unfair"
were the words used here Monday by
Ralph T. O'Neil, national commander
of the American Legion, when he
read quotations from a report of the
Carnegie Foundation for the advance
ment of learning, flaying the Legion's
so-called "pension" policies.
O'Neil referred to statements cred
ited to Dr. Henry Smith Pritchett,
president emeritus of the foundation,
in his section of the report.
"The American Legion never has in
the past or, in my opinion, ever will
in the future ask anything that is
unfair or that will place an unjust fin
ancial burden on the country," the
national commander said.
"The real objective of the Legion
has been to get disability compensa
tion for disabled veterans. It never
has asked a pension for able bodied
men.
"There originally was an adjusted
compensation certificate bill passed
by congress, providing for insurance
for veterans and adjusted pay. This
bill never was officially indorsed by
the Legion, although most Legion
members and citizens thought it was
just;
"The new adjusted compensation
loan bill . which President Hoover ve
toed and which congress passed at its
last session was indorsed by the Le
gion after it had passed congress and
before the veto. The only thing this
bill does is allow veterans to borrow
their own money at a rate of interest
profitable to the government. If the
bill had been bad, it would not have
passed by such an over-whelming ma
jority." ,,
FARMERS TELL OF
PARCHED RANGES
They Are Sacrificing Their
Herds Rather Than Let
Them Starve.
Salt Lake City. A picture of burn
ed up ranges, insufficient grain and
water, farmers and stock raisers as a
result sacrificing their herds far be
low their normal value, was drawn by
delegates from vestern states at a
conference here.
Other conferences told of a surplus
of feed in their states. ' To the prob-.
lem of getting the hungry cattle and
the excess grain and hay together the
conference devoted a good deal of its
first day's session.
A plan prepared by the Utah de
partment of agriculture at the re
quest of Gov. George II. 3)ern, who
called the conference, provides for
low freight rates on livestock of
ranges and feed yards and on concen
trated feed to drought stricken areas,
assistance for needy farmers and
stockmen from the federal drought
relief fund, and reduction of federal
grazing rates.
Discussion of the latter point in the
program produced a clash between
Frank J. Hagenbarth, president of
the National Wool Growers associa
tion and State Senator W. D. Cand
land, Utah, wool grower, on the one
hand and Robert Y. Stuart, chief
United States forester on the other.
Ford's Edison Institute Gets
Millionth G. E. Refrigerator
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THE Edison Institute of Tech
nologypart of Henry Ford's
vast Detroit museum, which houses
articles and products symbolic of
America's Industrial and social
progress now has on permanent
exhibit the one millionth refrigera
tor manufactured by the General
Electric Company.
Presentation of the refrigerator
was staged in a dramatic manner
Saturday, June 20, over a nation
wide radio hook-up. Gerard Swope,
General Electric president, present
ed the gift from the National
Broadcasting Company studios in
New York, and Ford accepted from
the i,dison institute in Detroit.
Floyd Gibbons, radio celebrity and
war correspondent, described the
Kcne at the Detroit instituti to the
radio audience, while John S.
Young, of the National Broadcast
ing Company, announced the pro
gram1 from New York. Many lead
ers of the industrial, business and
scientific world attended the cere
monies in Detroit and New York.
The manufacture and sals of
more than one million electric re
frigerators in less than four years
was pointed to as an outstanding
achievement, Inasmuch as it was 22
years before there were a million
users of electricity in this country;
it was 32 years before the first mil
lion telephones were in use; it was
25 years before a million automo
bile trucks of all makes were regis
tered, and, it even took Henry Ford
much more than four years to pro
dues his first million nutos.
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