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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1926
Page
22
The Bluefield Automobile Club is a business organization of motor car owners devoted to personal member service visiting affiliated members collecting and disseminating up to date road information and safeguarding and promoting safe driving practices.
The Bluefield Automobile Club vows to fight a proposed one cent per gallon gasoline tax endorsed by the Blainey ton city board. Club officials say the tax would raise total state and city excise on gasoline to four and a half cents, burdening motorists and coal deliveries, harming Bluefield’s and West Virginia’s prosperity.
A historical note explains driving etiquette with the slogan Keep to the Right. It compares roadhogs to boxers who strike unfairly and urges drivers to stay in the right-hand lane for slow traffic while faster vehicles use the next lane left. Keeping right minimizes danger and maximizes freedom on the road.
Uniform Vehicle Code supplemented by state rules promotes a uniform system for enforcing traffic laws. It advocates safety education in schools and public outreach, accurate accident statistics, and national research into accident causes. It calls for city level traffic investigations, transit plans, and official traffic commissions with community representation.
Organizations to serve in advisory capacity discuss voluntary rationing among road jurisdictions. Emphasis on highway planning to improve safety and eliminate grade crossings as quickly as possible with proper protection at crossings.
The May 30 Columbus Dispatch extols a Midland Trail trip across West Virginia with vivid, humorous prose. It highlights Hurricane Heights, Kanawha River towns from Charleston to Gauley Bridge, Hawk's Nest, Sewell Mountain, Lewisburg’s 1796 church, and White Sulphur Springs as a fitting, scenic finale to a motor tour.
A list of individuals fading from life through roadway incidents is presented with brief, somber lines. Names include Tom Jones Ted Small Amos Boss Tony Dix Jim Henry Ben Gray and others, each noted for unsafe driving or roadside tragedy. Georgia Highways referenced through Dallas News.
In London a deaf worker with thirty years at the Galesburg city water department developed a leak locating method. He places a key on a water main and uses vibrations felt through his teeth to determine leak positions.
Percy B. Lucas, 10, of Sandwich England, is believed to be the world’s youngest golfer to ace a hole in one. He holed out on a 154‑yard tee shot.
An old essay explains that grains of star dust reveal visions of Bluefield’s future. Follow a seaside journey to a mountain overlook then observe star dust sparks forming patterns that foretell homes, resorts, factories, and blossoming business districts across the valley.
The American Automobile Association releases a bi monthly detour map detailing road conditions for the Northeastern States. Readers are advised to check current routes before travel as construction and dirt sections, tolls, and narrow mountain roads create challenging conditions for motorists.
A fragment describes several regional routes around Hern don and Charleston, noting the recommended main path to White Sulphur Sneger Gilbert Logan and Charleston. It mentions improved east dirt roads and dry weather viability to Roanoke, with a detour from Blacksburg to Elliott being shorter if taken from Blacksburg.
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