IfEDFOUD MAIL TRTBUXE, fEDFORD. OFGON". SUNDAY, MAHCTT 8. 1936
"P'A'OF FIVE
CLUBS CAMPAIGN
FOR ROAD SAFETY
WASHINGTON, D. O., March T
Natlon-wlda mobilization of its 162
affiliated motor clubs and a greatly
expanded program of activities In
a determined ellort to reduce high
way fatalities and Injuries, was an
nounced by the American Automo
bile association today.
Following a meeting of lta execu
tive committee, Thomas P. Henry
of Detroit, Mich., president of the
AJl.A., Issued the "safety mobiliza
tion" order and called for an Im
mediate '.'stepping up" of motor club
safety activities from coast to coast.
The A.A.A., Mr. Wenry said, will
co-operate with other groups, but
will more particularly concentrate
on safety education In the grade
and high schools, driver training
through textbooks, driver schools and
practical tests of driving ability,
and pedestrian education and aid.
The A.A.A. president said In part:
"The development of automotive
transportation In this country has
brought many fundamental changes
In the social and economic life of
the nation. These changes directly
affect the lives and well-being of
millions of our citizens. Unfortu
nately, the human element has not
kept pace with the changed physi
cal conditions. We must meet this
challenge primarily through Intensive
and continuing education and not
through governmental edict, restric
tive or hampering regulations or
campaigns of horror such as are now
resorted to In various places. Our
program calls for education along
practical lines, the value of which
has already been demonstrated.
"Our school patrols which now
embody 350.000 boys and girls and
give protection to 6.000,000 school
children In 2000 towns and cities,
and our school lessons and safety
posters of which more than 225,000
are made available every month,
have proven so meritorious that this
la the time to expand and Intensify
these life-saving .activities.
"Even more urgent Is the Instal
lation of safety education In our
(high schools. Many of our clubs
have already launched practical
courses with the cooperation of the
educational authorities. Our new
teaching material. Including the
textbook, 'Sportsmanlike Driving,'
, prepared by nationally known edu
cators, Is now about ready for cir
culation. This will be supplemented
by films, driving demonstrations.
Instruction In car mechanism and
other teaching aids.
"Our new driver program pro
vides for textbooks for the training
and Instruction of persons of va
rious ages and classes those who
are learnlng.to rflrive and those who
want to Improve their driving; the
conducting of driver training schools
under the auspices of our clubs;
the actual testing of driving ability,
with equipment now available. I am
hopeful that by the end of the year
we shall have scores of thousands
of records of actual tests which may
well throw new light on the nature
and the solution of this crucial
driver problem.
"With pedestrian fatalities and In
juries looming so large, no program
can be complete that does not take
this situation Into account. The edu
cation of the pedestrian and the
working out of pedestrian aids is
one of the most important of our
objectives. We shall, of course, con
tinue our other established safety
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No. 1 CURVES AND TURNS
No matter how expert we may be as drivers, we are all apt to fall Into
habits of driving that don't quite measure up to what we really know Is
right. , x
For instance, we all know that we ought to be careful about passing
tars, especially when another car is approaching from the opposite direction.
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the road, and sixteen cars in a row will
a new idea to most of us. If we kept it
unless we were sure that there were
distance ahead.
But turning aside to pass is not the
are interested In discussing here, what we are now
concerned with is taking curves and corners. From
time to time in these discussions we will find that
the same old laws of Nature will be involved. Fore
most among them will be the laws of momentum, and
momentum plays the major part in going around
curves. Because momentum not only wants to keep
us going, but going in the same direction. When it is
trying to make us go straight instead of curving our
course, it operates under an assumed name, if you
please. For then we call it "centrifugal force."
Now of course we all know what centrifugal force
Is. We feel it when we go around curves. Highways
and railroads are banked at curves to offset centrifu
gal force. Aviators bank their planes at turns by tip
ping them with the controls. But even though we all know about centrifugal
Force, few of us realize how powerful it is, and how much greater it gets the
Easter we go.
A 3000-pound car making a turn of 500-foot radius, has to overcome a
sentrif ugal force of only about 156 pounds at 20 miles an hour. But at 30 miles
an hour, that force has grown to 360 pounds, and at
with a turn or even half way around it and we feel Old Man Centrifugal
Force trying to push us off the road.
So what do we do? We clamp down the brakes. It's the only thing we
can do when we find we're going too fast. But just the same, approaching
that corner too fast has kept us from taking it as we should have liked to.
For if conditions permit, it is often desirable to Increase speed as we go
around a curve. As long as our rear wheels are not being retarded, but are
actually pushing us around the curve, our steering is effective and our car
is under cqntrol.
The long and short of It is that we can't take liberties with the laws of
momentum and centrifugal force. Man's speed laws may not always be
observed, but Nature's speed laws always arel
activities, such as the promotion or
uniform laws and regulations, bet
ter enforcement methods, and en
gineering studies in the Interest of
the better handling of traffic and
the provision of better road facili
ties. "I am glad at this time to make
public recognition of the fact that
the expansion of our safety work
was made feasible by a. financial
contribution from the automotive
industry which raised a substantial
sum of money to enable ourselves
and several other national organiza
tions to concentrate more effectively
on activities from which we hope to
secure prompt and permanent re
sults. The participation of the auto
motive Industry makes it possible
to secure a degree of integration
for the street and highway safety
movement that would otherwise be
all but. Impossible." 1
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who hasn't, at one time or another, moved
over in the road to pass a car, and then
wondered if we would get around in time.
Now here's an Interesting thing about
that. When we try to pass a car that's
going forty miles an hour, it's just the
same as if we tried to pass a standing
string of cars 126 feet long. In other words,
it's like passing eioht cars parked bumper-to-bumper
in the road. If we try to pass
one going sixty, it's like trying to pass a
line of more than sixteen cars standing in
reach half a block. This is probably
in mind, we would never pass a car
no oncoming cars for a good long
particular kind of turning that we
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60 it is nine times as great as at 20 . , , over fourteen
hundred pounds trying its best to push us off the
roadl The only thing that keeps us on the road in the
first place is the friction between our tires and the
road. The minute the centrifugal force gets stronger
than the force of that friction, off the road we go.
The trouble is that we often don't realize how fast
we're going. On road trips, for Instance, after we
have driven at a certain speed for a long time, it
seems a small matter to increase our speed a few
miles an hour. Then after a while we may do the
same thing again. In other words, we keep putting
forward our basis of comparison till by-and-by we
have lost our usual sense of how fast we are going.
Then, the first thing we know, we are face-to-face
f Commenting on the AAA. pro
gram, Alvan Macau ley, president of
the Packard Motor Car company,
and president of the Automobile
Manufacturers association, said in
a letter to Mr. Henry:
"I am greatly Impressed with the
scope and the objectives of the ex
panded highway safety program un
dertaken by the American Automo
bile association, covering as It does
education among grade and high
school students, driver training and
the education of the pedestrian in
safety habits.
"I am confident that the long
experience of your organization and
Its component clubs throughout the
country In safety activities, will re
sult in the securing of substantial
gains from every feature of the work
you have undertaken."
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KONOMT CHAMPION
MOTOR CAR BUYER
OF 1936 ECONOMY
"Questions asked by automobile
prospects in all sections of the
country these days, Indicate that Mr,
1S38 Motor-Car Buyer Is more than
ever economy conscious," says C. p.
Simpson, assltant general sales man
ager in charge of the West for Pon
tlac Motor company.
More important, however, accord
ing to Simpson, is the further indica
tion that Mr. Buyer also fully appre
ciates the fact that gasoline mileage
Is but one consideration when de
termining true economy.
"The 1936 Pontlac Is an economy
leader from every standpoint," says
he. "To those planning to buy cars,
savings In original cost are import
ant also savings in operation. Pon
tlac cars have many economy fea
tures. "Oil economy Is assured by: 100
per cent full-pressure metered -flow
lubrication, pressure-suction crank
case ventilation with oil preserving
baffle at the outlet pipe, full length
water packeted cylinders, rear main
bearing oil seal on crankshaft, com
pression rings that are grooved to
prevent oil escaping into the com
bustion chambers.
"Precision construction and bal-
All This
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It is a satisfaction to drive
when you know your car has
been properly Lubricated.
You are never in
doubt when you
have your car ser
viced here. We hon
estly know we have
the best equipment
in town.
Ol R STATION 18 YEARS AGO
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cost of repairs of any engine.
"The cross-flow radiator, exclusive
with Pontlac, besides being an effi
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pensive antl-freeze solutions by re
ducing the possibility of their "es
cape through the overflow pipe.
"Voltage control with the fan
cooled generator assures long life of
batteries, lamp bulbs and other elec
trical equipment.
"Low piston travel in any engine
means that In a year's driving pis
tons wilt trawl many mles less than
those in high speed engines, which
Increases the life of many parts sub
ject to the wear and tear of constant
high speed friction.
"I mentioned gasoline mileage at
the beginning; said It was but a
small part of true motor car economy.
"However, It Is an Important part,
particularly from the sales stand
point. "Here are a few of the features of
car construction contributing to gas
economy: vacuumatlc spark control,
gaselector, high compression cylinder
head, and down draft carburetors!
features that enable owners to report
sixteen to eighteen miles to the gal
lon on the Pontlac eight and seven
teen to nineteen miles on the six.
"Pontlac Motor company and Its
dealers welcome the trend to econ
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Relief Chief Goes Fust
PORTLAND, Ore.. March 7, (AP)
Elmer Goudy, state relief adminis
trator, entrained for Washington last
night, armed with Oregon's four
point social security program formu
lated to obtain federal participation
in assistance for children, the blind
and those over 70.
Month-
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GRANTS PASS, March 7. (Spl.)
After over six" years as manager of
the Grants Pass Copco office, V.
Ward Hammond has been transferred
to the general Copco office in Med
ford to manage a new department.
He will go there later this month.
The new division Is now in process
of formation and has no name. In
general It will be a central main
tenance department, Hammond said.
A man to manage the local office
has not been named, but Hammond
said Friday that whoever he Is, he
will be here the first of next week.
During most of this month, then.
Hammond will assist the new man
ager In becoming acquainted with
the work here. Hammond Is to be In
the Medford office on or before April
1.
In his work Hammond will be di
rectly under J. C. Boyle, vice-president
in charge of operations.
It Is planned that Mrs. Hammond
and the children will remain in
Grants Pass until school la out In
Inns. '
Hammond came to the Grants Pass
office January 15, 1030, to succeed
Jack Kerr. He has been with Copco
12 years and for five years before
We Are Celebrating Our
Because of Goodyear 's high
reputation for quality, many
people mistakenly suppose
Goodyear Tires are high-priced.
They are not. Because Good
year is the world's largest tire
builder, its products are always
competitively priced, and it
can offer you the greatest tire
value per dollar you can find
anywhere, .
coming here was assistant to the
then superintendent of construction.
Always active In civic affairs here,
Hammond was president of Rotary
for the year 1934-35, Chief Bighorn
of the Cavemen for the year 1933-34.
and serve,) several years as director
of the chamber of commerce.
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Mrs. B. J. Palmer was back at her
home on the Old Stage road yester
day after being confined for several
weeks In a Salem hospital as the re
sult of an automobile accident.
Mrs. Palmer was reported to be
well on tho way to complete recovery
but though she Is abla to be about
for a while each day she will stll.
require special care at her horns for
some time. Sho returned to Medford
by train Friday night, belnt; accom
panied by her daughter, Mrs. Edwin
Thomas of Salem, who will remain
for a brief visit here.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer were return
ing to Medford after spending the
Christmas holidays with Mrs. Thomas
when the accident occurred, another
machine colliding with tholrs. Mr.
Palmer was Injured slightly. The ac
cident happened ten weeks ago yes
terday. 4
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SEASON RIGHT WITH
4 ALL-WEATHER
C. C. FURNAS, Proprietor
TO RESEEK SEA!
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Moore Hamilton, prominent coun
ty Democrat, wss prepared yesterday
to wage a campaign to rotaln bl
seat In the lower house of the etato
legislature.
Having served one term In tho
legislature, Mr. Hamilton filed for
renomlnatlon. No other Democrat has
filed for the otilce as yet, though
W. P. Rector, Mall Tribune linotype
operator, has declared his Intention
to do so.
William M. McAllister, attorney,
filed a few daya ago for the lower
house nomination on the Republican
ticket. Oienn O. Taylor. Incumbent
Republican, remained non-committal
yesterday, but It Is known hla
friends aw urging him to seek re
nomlnatlon and In Informed circle
It was believed he would file.
L. R. Shurtleff, prominent leader
In the Townsend ranks, has Indi
cated his Intention of filing on tha
Democratlo ticket for the nomination
for county commissioner.
NEWBERO, Ore, March 7. (API
Mrs. Archie Davis received critical
burns about the upper part of her
body when her clothing caught fire
from a stove In her home.
t'pon the completion of 18
years serving louthem Oregon
people, we wtsh to express to
our patrons and friends our
sincere appreciation for their
generous support that
has enabled us to
constantly Improve
our facilities and ser
vice In pace with the growth
of this community.
C.' C. FURNAS, Proprietor.
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