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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1930
Page
17
A highway education board survey estimates operating costs per mile for cars on high type roads at 5.44 cents, intermediate roads at 6.43, and low type roads at 7.50, noting an average 2.06 cents higher cost on poor roads. It warns motorists about fake motor clubs, urging reliance on genuine AAA backed groups and avoiding imitators.
The West Virginia state road commission estimates over a million dollars annually from gasoline tax receipts in exchange for road condition information. Last year the gasoline tax neared $5 million and is expected to rise. The commission promotes travel by providing maps, letters to travelers, weekly route condition reports, and corrected maps via the American Automobile Association and other publishers. Total program cost about $5,800 yearly.
A long tract praises the American Automobile Association for member benefits including emergency road service, touring guidance, maps, safety campaigns, and advocacy for road funding. Letters from members praise service, renewal, and the club’s impact on driving safety and laws. A note notes four wheel brakes and the need for new brake testing methods.
A sequence of city and county place names across West Virginia and Virginia appears as readable fragments. The text lists Athens Bluefield Bradshaw Daniels Dante Freeman Saeger Kimball Mullens Northfork Pocahontas Premier Princeton Tazewell Wyco and ends with garbled trailing letters.
Based on an annual mirage of 11,000 the year's motoring will cost car owners who drive on low type roads 226 more than motorists who drive the same distance on high type roads. This wide difference in the cost.
The automobile club touring bureau adds city directory national used car market report postal guide official monthly railway guide and Bests Insurance Guide to its information services. These reference works aid tax time valuations insurance inquiries travel planning and railroad steamer schedules for members and out of town visitors.
An old warning discusses fake stock sales and fraudulent automobile associations targeting drivers. It notes 26 million U.S. car owners and a $25 million swindle last year, urging motorists to trust only clubs identified with the American Automobile Association The Three A.
A promotional piece urges readers to examine verifiable facts before joining or purchasing services. It highlights stability of the local A A A bank balance, dependable national service since 1902, and wide motoring aids, naming officers and directors.
The Bluefield Automobile Club board will meet Tuesday June 17 on the mezzanine floor of the West Virginian hotel. The agenda includes brake test plans, safety discussions, road matters, and a key chain with member registration numbers to be issued within the next week. Full attendance urged.
Officers of the local A A A are making a special appeal to each of the 850 members. The board has set a 71 percent renewals target and a 30 percent net increase in new members, aiming for 1,085 total by end of 1930. Only about 4 percent of local car owners belong to the club. about 29,200 prospects remain. Who will first bring in a new member as the club pledges to beat the Dutch this year.
The Blue Field Automobile Club plans a brake test in the near future. Preparations are underway to finalize plans. The piece stresses the critical role of reliable brakes for safety amid congested traffic and higher speeds.
Boston University president Daniel L Marsh offers ten commandments for road safety. He urges giving others the benefit of the doubt, obeying rules, looking both ways, driving discreetly, avoiding envy of faster cars, not presuming on the highway, focusing on actions, using one's head, loving fellow humans, and enjoying life. The list culminates in a Golden Rule for traffic as the overarching guide.
The Bluefield Automobile club plans to file United States Weather Bureau daily weather maps and forecasts. The aim is to provide weather information for trip planning, aiding the traveling public and expanding AAA services connected with weather reports.
Stockbridge Georgia June 14 4 Gordon Bellah the so called flying farmer testifies aviation helps farming. He says owning a plane cost a year's crop but has paid for itself several times over in three years. He uses the aircraft mainly to dust cotton fields against boll weevil and to distribute fertilizer.
In spring, a farm plane is used to deliver young cabbage plants to nearby cities. The farmer, Mr Bellah, notes that young plants are delicate and require quick transplantation for best results. Air delivery enables handling a large volume of business from many sections of the state.
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