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THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1952
THE EAGLE, VERNONIA,
ORE.
SporlNmanlike Driving ...
By Sid Sorenwn
Drmag Education Instructor
THE ROADS WE COULD
HAVE BOUGHT
After years of paying for poor
highways through the loss of
ttaae. depreciation, high insurance
du, injury
and death, the
American
motorist
wants
a
' tenge. The bill will be big—
■»»me $94,000,000,000—but the re­
mits will be worth it.
At long last a few faint evi­
dences are beginning to appear
that we, the people, the owners
« f the roads, are working up the
-fact that: You pay for good
roads whether you use them or
not.
Powerful forces are coming for­
ward with intelligent surveys,
convincing arguments, and con­
crete programs to guide and road­
building steps.
The automotive industry, na­
turally enough has set the pace
in these studies. They have set
up the Automotive Safety foun­
dation to find out why the aver­
age car is driven less than 10,000
miles a year, why it costs more
*dian ten cents a mile to do it,
and what should be done about
it. Their answer is this: We
need to invest our money in good
roads instead of throwing it away
rm bad ones. Two question arise
—Where will this money come
from? Is it worth it?
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First, the money will come
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right out of your pocket, let's try
not to hide the fact; however, you i
will be investing it in better pro­ |
duction for the nation's economy |
as a whole and yours in particu­
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lar, in safety for you and your
family on the nation's highways, I
and of increasing importance —
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in national defense.
Transportation is, after all, the
direct link between production
and consumption and truck de­
livery costs ten cents a minute.
When a driver can bring your ,
order straight to your store or |
home without losing ten minutes
in a traffic jam and another ten
minutes looking for a parking
spot, it stands to reason some­ I
body benefits two dollars worth.
Thanks to free enterprise that
somebody, ultimately, is you, the
consumer. Think Of all the let­
tuce being spoiled this minute
due to poor roads, traffic jams,
etc.—al) the salesmen beating up
their cars on bad roads. Who
pays for this? You do! Invest­
ing in good roads begins to be a
sounu investment when you mul
tiply this waste by millions of
such incidents.
Better roads reduce fatalities
from 20 to 80 per cent, could re­
duce insurance more than 25 per
cent, tires last 7 times longer,
engine and body wear is reduce
25 to 55 per cent.
It all depends on whether you
want to pay for construction or
destruction. The money you
would have by better driving
conditions would be put into new
fields and industries, broaden
prosperity. That way new mar­
kets could be created.
There are over 3,300,000 miles
of public'roadway in America. Of
these, hundreds of thousands
should be junked.
Hear this: The appropriation for
our highways this year is only
enough to patch up half of those
falling to pieces, the picture looks
depressing indeed. '
But when the rumble of a dis­
contented public is heard, which
is now beginning to realize the
money it loses because of the
destruction of its vehicles and the
loss of its time could easily be
applied to the building of new
roads and the application of bet­
ter safety and service principles,
then you know that things are
bound to improve! We have been
paying for bad roads for years—
it's time to buy some good ones
for a change. What do you think!
Second Operation'
Expected Soon
Riverview Residents
Change Home Location
• Two-Week Stay
At Home Ended
RIVERVIEW — Mr and Mrs.
Roy Middleton and children have
RIVERVIEW — Mrs. Glenn moved from the Kono house to
RIVERVIEW — Mrs. Harvard
Malmsten and daughter, Sydney,
Mitchell visited her husband at Vernonia.
I of Anchorage, Alaska left Tues-
Miss Myrtis Courtright and
the Veteran's hospital in Port-
j day to return to their home after
land Saturday. Mr Mitchell has Miss Erma
Tatro
of
Port­ I spending a couple of weeks at
undergone one operation and ex- land spent the week end visiting the home of her mother, Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wells and Chas. Ratkie.
pects another soon.
Visitors at the Glenn Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs Ted Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery George home Sunday were her daugh­
two small children of Pasadena,
California have moved into the of Portland visited at the homes ters and family, Mr. and Mrs. F.
of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Rundell R. Barlow and daughter and Mr.
Garrison house on 7th St.
Mrs. Clara Barnett of St. Hel­ and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buckner and Mrs. Bernard Wershey and
1 two sons of Portland.
ens is spending a week at the Sunday.
Charley Davis, who underwent
Mr. and Mrs. William Harris of
home of her daughter and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gibson.
Vancouver, Washington visited I an appendectomy recently at the
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Biggs and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Portland General hospital, came
home last Wednesday and left
children of Kelso, Washington Mrs. E. D. Jerman.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Samuels Tuesday for Corvallis where he
visited his mother, Mrs. Cora
Biggs, and sister and family, Mr. ' and daughters of Wheel r spent is attending Oregon State College.
and Mrs. Clifford Fowler, Sun­ I Sunday visiting at the home of
For Buys—Eagle Classifiedsl
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hawkins.
day.
The steady trend in U. S. de­
fense bond sales in Oregon con­
tinued through the month of Oc.
tober, as series E. defense bond
purchases equalled last year's
sales.
Philip L. Hickey, Columba
county chairman, reported state­
wide sales of $2,119.949 in series
E bonds and county sales of $20,-
256.00. Total state-wide defense
bond purchases in all series
amounted to $2,358,867.
Huey Long was assassinated in
September of 1935.
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Vaatardav Hammy dropped by
•r see na “Cant understand it,"
te aaya “Hardly anybody drove
teara oar street before—but, now,
eamre they put that sign up, there's
h m more rars than ever turning
arauad is my driveway."
Hamilton Beac’.
Mixer
D°rmeyer
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Sunbeam
Mixmaster
way street are the same an those
who automatically ignore a Wet
Paint sign and touch their finger
on a freshly painted surface. But
you can't change human nature.
People like to find out for them­
selves—and then make their own
decisions.
That's why I say "lire and let
live.“ lea eaa drink your butter­
milk. but let me have my glass of
beer whew I rhoooe And let's not
feel we're obliged to “point the
way" for the other fellow.
Freaa where I ait. these people
rate tether Hammy on hia one-
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