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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1929
Page
13
A new Senate Bill No 16 enforces the destruction ban along public roads within 100 yards of roadways in West Virginia. It forbids damaging trees shrubs and flowers including flora and fauna with penalties up to 100 dollars fine or three months in jail per offense.
When 200 bankers left Bluefeld for Elks Garden for a picnic and address by ex Governor Henry C. Stuart, the service truck from Service Garage assisted with five to six trips and kept delays to a minimum. The same truck later ferried the ladies to Robins Rest, Pinnacle Rock, and South Gap from Friday’s committee outing.
The Bluefield Automobile Club touring bureau reports 850 routings and 45 000 travelers aided last year. Members carry AAA cards with emblem, receive up to date road information, and enjoy services from affiliated hotels garages and service stations. Membership costs under three cents a day and applications start the year upon joining with a ten dollar dues payment.
West Virginia will be well represented at the twenty second annual convention of the American Automobile Association to be held in Buffalo New York on July 1 and 2. The meeting will tackle federal aid highway funding and the AA A safety responsibility law with New Jersey New York and Rhode Island having adopted it recently. It will also discuss extending motoring services reciprocal emergency road service and strengthening motor club facilities nationwide.
The Bluefield Automobile club secured connections in Princeton West Virginia to provide emergency road service to AAA members and visitors. Matney service stations will deliver gasoline and oil anywhere, with a modern wreck car and a trained mechanic, located on Main Street opposite Princeton Pharmacy, telephone 388.
Tourist baggage insurance is now offered providing protection against damage or loss of insured property by fire flood cyclone tornado earthquake sinking standing collision derailment or breakdown of any conveyance. It covers damage and loss of baggage containers from rough handling and theft or non delivery of the property. This insurance is becoming popular with travelers.
The June West Virginia detour map shows minor updates with detours on route 8 from Jaeger to Gilbert and along U S 19, 8, 21, and 19 near Beckwith to Fayetteville. Several detours are listed as fair or passable when dry, with work continuing to keep routes open and a December target for all weather completion on key segments.
The Detroit Automobile Club with police aid conducts a campaign against short measure gas stations. A test of 391 purchases found 54 stations, about 13.8 percent, sold less than five gallons. Weights and measures, aided by plainclothes testers, used dummy tanks to verify short deliveries.
The article notes a bumper travel season with Americans planning trips to California New England Canada Niagara Michigan and Wisconsin resorts Western parks and Virginia’s Blue Ridge. Canadian government tourism promotion through maps literature and price lists fuels cross border vacation flux despite tariff talk as travelers favor Great Lakes tours Niagara Falls Thousand Islands and Yellowstone to Grand Canyon itineraries.
C V Nowlin of Bramwell joined the Bluefield Automobile Club before a westward trip. A collision near Charleston required hospital care, after which the club assisted with insurance of 40 and he praised AAA membership. Virginia’s highway expansion boosts tourism with higher tourist counts and more hotels along routes.
Virginia census data show more than one in five cars in 1928 came from out of state, a rise from 15.63 percent the year before. Gateway figures from Washington and Harper’s Ferry indicate thousands entering daily, with an estimated 3,010,177 vehicles from other states and about 9,050,000 visitors in 1928 spending roughly $90.5 million in Virginia. Traffic remains heaviest on US Route 1 and the Shenandoah Valley corridors.
The Bluefield Automobile club teams with Pocahontas Airport Transportation to inform the air minded public about airport facilities. Standard index maps with air trails will be available at club headquarters. Information on trips flying schools and airport data can be supplied.
Faced with seasonal business declines, hotels banks railroads steamslips retailers and manufacturers formed a cooperative in 1921. They raised 59000 and by 1929 pledged 600000. In 192? nearly all of the appropriation funded advertising boosting summer patronage. The downturns are said to be a thing of the past as business curves leveled.
City traffic officer C N Wilson criticizes motorists who pull out of line to pass slower cars. He says the habit is more dangerous than speeding and causes jams. Motorists should stay in line and wait. traffic will flow gradually and faster with patience.
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