THURSDAY. DEC. 11, 1952 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
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Second Operation
Expected Soon
Sportsmanlike Driving . ..
■y Sid SorfnHn
Drrviag Education Instructor
THE ROADS WE COULD
HAVE BOUGHT
Arter years of paying for poor
hlghwaya through the loss of
tune. depreciation, high insurance
i«* rs,
mjury
and death, the
Aaaencan
motorist
wants
a
■hnnge. The bill will be big—
some $99,000,000,000— but the re-
Rilts will be worth it.
At long last a few faint evi
dences are beginning to appear
that wet the people, the owners
f the roads, are working up the
"fact that: You pay for good
roads whether you use them or
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Powerful forces are coming for
ward with intelligent surveys,
convincing arguments, and con
crete programs to guide and road-
Ouilding 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
than ten cents a mile to do it,
and what should be done about
H. Their answer is this: We
need to invest our money in good
:<>ads instead of throwing it away
■ •n bad ones. Two question arise
—Where will this money come
from? Is it worth it?
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RIVERVIEW
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First, the money will come
right out of your pocket, let’s try
not to hide the fact; however, you
will be investing it in better pro
duction for the nation's economy
as a whole and yours in particu
lar, in safety for you and your
family on the nation's highways,
and of increasing importance —
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
body benefits two dollars worth.
Thanks to free enterprise that
somebodyi ultimately, is you, the
consumer. Think bf all the let
tuce being spoiled this minute
due to poor roads, traffic jams,
etc.—all the salesmen beating up
their cars on bad roads. Who
pays for this? You do! Invest
ing in good roads begins to be a
sound 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 1
paying for bad roads for years—
it’s time to buy some good ones
for a change. What do you think!
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RIVERVIEW — Mrs. Glenn
I Mitchell visited her husband at
| the Veteran's hospital in Port-
| land Saturday, Mr Mitchell has
I undergone one operation and ex-
I pects another soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Williams and
I two small children of Pasadena.
California have moved into the
Garrison house on 7th St.
Mrs. Clara Barnett of St. Hel
ens is spending a week at the
. home of her daughter and family,
I Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gibson.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Biggs and
children of Kelso, Washington
visited his mother, Mrs. Cora
i Biggs, and sister and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Clifford Fowler, Sun
day.
Riverview Residents
Change Home Location
RIVERVIEW — Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Middleton and children have
moved from the Kono house to
Vernonia.
Miss Myrtis Courtright and
Miss Erma
Tatro
of
Port
land spent the week end visiting
Mr. and Mrs. George Wells and
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery George
of Portland visited at the homes
of Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Rundell
and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buckner
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. William Harris of
Vancouver, Washington visited
Sunday at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. E. D. Jerman.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Samuels
and daughters of Wheel r spent
Sunday visiting at the home of
I Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hawkins.
Two-Week Stay
At Home Ended
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RIVERVIEW — Mrs. Harvard
Malmsten and daughter, Sydney,
of Anchorage, Alaska left Tues-
day to return to their home after
spending a couple of weeks at
the home of her mother, Mrs.
Chas. Ratkie.
Visitors at the Glenn Mitchell
home Sunday were her daugh
ters and family, Mr. and Mrs. F.
R. Barlow and daughter and Mr.
and Mrs. Bernard Wershey and
two sons of Portland.
Charley Davis, who underwent
an appendectomy recently at the
Portland General hospital, came
home last Wednesday and left
Tuesday for Corvallis where he
is attending Oregon State College.
For Buys—Eagle Classifieds!
Bond Sale Trend
Continues Same
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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 years
sales.
Philip L. Hickey, Columtfia
county chairman, reported state
wide sales-of $2,119,949 in senes
E bonds and county sales of $20,-
256.00. Total state-wide defense
bond purchases in all senes
amounted to $2,358.867.
Huey Long was assassinated in
September of 1935.
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From where I sit
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UNIVERSAL
8-Cup Coffee
Maker. Fully
Automatic
Ay Joe Marsh
THE YEAR!
s299s
They'll Do It
Every Time
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lea knew where Hammy Jerk-
meai b»ea o« that amall dead-end
Mreet ef Maple Avenue near the
Mbrwry ? Well, about a month ago,
•be Sewn tnally pat up a sign oa
Ske ear a er there saying: "Me
*MMghfare . . Head End."
Tmetordav Hammy dropped by
•r earn as. “Cant understand it,"
be says “Hardly anybody drove
di wi oar street before-but, now,
oamre they put that sign up, there's
haem more cars than ever turning
anmiwd in my driveway "
way street are the same as those
who automatically ignore a Wet
Paint sign and touch their Anger
on a freshly painted surface. But
you can't change human nature.
People like to find out for them
selves—and then make their own
decisions.
That's «hy I say "live and let
live.” You can drink yoor butter
milk. bnt let me have m» glass ef
beer whew I choose And let's not
feel we're obliged to “point the
way” for the other fellow.
Fran where I sit, these people
who bother Hammy on hie one
( spingAr. /•$?, Ceded
Hamilton Beac
Mixer
Dormeyer
Meal Maker
Sunbeam
Mixmaster
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Vernonia, Oregon