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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C.
Friday, July 17, 1959
Free Wheeling
By BILL CROWELL
Dept, of Motor Vehicles. State of North Carolina
LONG AGO . . . Mr. Frank Dury-
ea was an automobile maker. In
fact he and his brother built the
first successful gasoline powered
motor vehicle in America. They put
their one-cylinder creation on the
streets of Springfield, Mass., in
1893 and set the whole town on its
ear. Two years later they raced
their chugger over a 52-mile course
in Chicago and at an average speed
of 5.05 miles an hour beat every
thing in sight.
Another race held in 1896 at Nar-
rangansett Park, R. I., had seven
vehicles entered—two electrics and
five Duryeas. The event proved so
dull to spectators that frequent
cries of “Get a horse” were heard
repeatedly and is probably the orig
in of the famous phrase.
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Evinrude Outboard
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Pleasure
! through the archives of pre-war
American motor car lore reveal
that in:
1896—The French word, “auto
mobile,” began to appear for the
first time in published references
to motor vehicles in the U, S.
1898— Electric taxicabs began op
erating in New York.
1899— Police in an effort to re
duce accidents caused by runaway
horses closed all Boston park be
tween 10 a.m. and 9 p.m.
1900— The Saturday Evening Post
carried its first automobile adver
tisement.
1901— New York State .slapped a
license tag on all autos and collect
ed one thousand dollars in revenue,
the first year.
* 1902—The AAA was organized in
Chicago, March 4.
1905—Several innovations this
year among them the Gabriel ex
haust horn. Weed tire chains, pow
er tire pumps and ignition locks.
1907—Humps were purposely
built into the streets of Glencoe,
111., to discourage speeding.
1909—Mrs. Alice H. Ramsey be
came the first woman to make a
trans-continental journey in an au
to. She drove a Maxwell from New
York to Oakland, Calif.
1914—The Dodge appeared and
Cadillac developed the first eight
cylinder V-type auto engine.
1916—Hand operated windshield
wipers, stop lights and rear-view
mirrors become standard equip
ment on a few models.
1919—These new makes were in
troduced; All American, Argonne,
Betz, Cleveland, Climber, Day-Eld
er, Defiance, King-Zeitler, Martin
Wasp, Noma, Porter, Service, Tex
an.
1924—Headlights that could be
deflected were introduced, due to
twin filament bulbs.
1928—Coast to coast bus service
began.
1931—The industry produced its
50-millionth vehicle and the De-
Vaux, Mercer and Rockne came on
the scene.
1935—Think rear engine cars are
something new? An experimental
car, the Stout Scarab, came out
powered at the stern.
1937—Ford offered choice of 60
h.p. and 85 h.p. engines.
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1939—^Automatic transmissions
began appearing.
1941—The entire industry mobi
lized for war production. Buick
built aircraft engines, Oldmobile
produced artillery shells, Chrysler
built tanks. Ford combat cars, Pon
tiac began work on anti-aircraft
guns, Willys started delivering
Jeeps and Studebaker produced air
plane engines.
1944—Gasoline for civilian pur
poses was reduced on the ration
schedule to two gallons a week.
:H
SUDDEN THAWT ... A good
way to get a lot of sound advice
is to drive the wrong way on a
one-way street.
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GUILTY . . . A California city
judge, W. W. Sheahan, has a stand
ard fine of $200 for drunk driv
ing and he makes no exceptions—
even for himself. After having some
difficulty in making a turn in his
car following a party, the consci
entious magistrate had himself ar
rested, signed the complaint against
himself and pleaded guilty before
himself. Next he fined himself
$200 and warned himself not to ap
pear in court again on the same
charge.
LOST EFFORT
' And some sermons are so long
that the preacher never finds time
to practice what he preaches.
BUSY HANDS
The handwriting on the wall
usually means that there’s at least
one small child in the family.
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Since 1905
248 CRAVEN STREET
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The best in seafoods and regular dinners served with Foleys
Famous home cooked pies, fresh daily. You can get your barbecue
fine or coarse cleaver cut.
For Your Convenience When We Are Closed, Pick Up
Our Barbecue Next Door at Hayes Food Center.
MOORE'S BARBECUE
Phone ME 7-2276
1216 Breed Street
Having their car overhauled by
an alert highway patrolihan is one
of the unforeseen expenses that
New Bern motorists would like to
do without.
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Craftsman
National Farm Safety Week
To Be Observed July 19-25
“The only way to lick farm acci
dents is to think safety, talk safety,
and practice safety,” states Miss
Nettie Day, acting chief of the
North Carolina State Board of
Health’s Accident Prevention sec
tion, in commenting on National
Farm Safety Week being observed
July 19-25.
“Safety is largely at matter of
education and Farm Safety Week
is a golden opportunity to stress a
few important lessons—lessons
which can and must be practiced
year around. It is an everyday job
and not something we can think
about for a week—then forget,”
Miss Day continued.
In commenting on fatal farm ac
cidents in North Carolina, Miss Day
stated that 99 farm accidental
deaths in North Carolina were re
ported to the State Board of Health
in 1958. This figure, of course,
does not incfiide the accidental
deaths that occurred in farm
homes.
Of the 639 home accidental
deaths reported in 1958, it is esti
mated that approximately 50 per
cent occurred in farm homes.
The leading cause of farm acci
dental deaths was drowning, ac
counting for 38 deaths; machinery,
16 deaths; firearms, eight deaths;
fire and explosion, seven deaths;
blows from falling objects, six
deaths; electric current, five
deaths; all other accidents, 19
deaths.
There is no data available to in
dicate the number of temporary or
permanent disabilities resulting
from non-fatal farm accidental in
juries; however, it is safe to assume
that the number of injuries would
be many timies the number of
deaths.
“Farming remains one of the
most hazardous occupations,” Miss
Day conclud^. “Farm accidents
still remain a serious threat to our
farm population. The immediate
purpose of National Farm Safety
Week is to arouse interest in the
farm accident problem and partici
pation in farm safety activities.
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