Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 5 Dec 1930, p. 50

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sd since te iaw was in New Yoon jit la hôped experience1 is typical. be adopted LIIe, <ThseNewElectric Parking G res are a real deight for busy shoppers .say women everywhe Located at3W Quincy Street and at Harrison and Wabash, they end the parking. problem for Loop and South of the Loop shoppers. You meêrely drive in a wide entrance, lok your car and leave it. Electicity parka it'for you, untouched by human hands. No greasy mechamic sits in the diver's seat. The famous State Street stores and smart Boulevard shops are close at hand. You shop-and have your packages ielivered to the garage, where an attendant signs for them and places them in your car when you are ready to leave. Electricity returns your car quickly to you. You drive out a broad exit without confusion. or delay. and check rooms, are The use a car for transportation to and from school. No night driving or driving in restnicted districts un- der any 'considératioun is permitted on this' license. The operator's license is awardedi to. the owner of a motor car or member of bis fam- 141Y who desires to drive. the car, The fee is $1. The chauffeur's license is for the operator who obtainsbis live lihood by driving a privatelyr owned aiutomobile, taxicab, delivery, car or truck. Examnination. of applicants for l- censés is leftto lthe discretion Qf. the Motor Vebicle, Commnissioner., Firet an eyre test with a 20-40 rating is re- quired. Color blindness, however, docs flot exclude the, applicant. Next.te driver is given an oral examination on the state traffic laws and is- re-ý quired to read. Then cornes the road test. A person must be able to bandie his car-properly under ail conditions. At any time duing the test if the physical or menital contdtion of the driver excites suspicion the exam- iner unay at will deniand. a mental or physical examination. The New York law also contains suspension and revocation. clauses.' Fully 25 percent of the applicants for licenses are rejected at the first examination in New York state. Many of these, after further training, pass a second examination and ob- tain licenses.. No ex-convict is licensed to drive a car until he bas been out of prison as long as he served ' and then only. when'he is recommnended by the trial judge, prosecuting attorney and prison warden. 'No person is permitted a iiceuise who is suffering f rom extreniely poor, eyesight, no matter' what the excuse for wanting to use a car. Ail drivers must be pbysicati- admetal equipped to. act in emiergencies. Constant offenders , although their actions do not prove fatal, are ruled off the road. No person can obtaifi a license wbo bas used an automobile in the commission of crime. Repeated, displayed. by both manufacturers and wholesalers, according to W. S. Ish- erwood, sales manager of -the AC Spark Plug company, and prominenit in both associations. "Not oncedid I hear a pessimistic expression, front anY: of those1 in at- tendance," Ur. Isberwood stated. "Tbe wholesalers were exceptionally optmisicmany' repotting that col- lection and cei weire much better tban a year ago. " it' was the general opinion of wholesalers and manufacturers thatý 1931 would be an exceptionally good yrear lu the equipment: and mainteun- ance field," Mr., Isberwood said, "be- cause of the growing recognition on the part of the public, that.it is eco-* noinical to keep -one's Car in good operating condition.» Packards Spin Along on WorId's Worst Hig&iway A fitet of Packard cars operatmng fromn Armenia to Ibague on regular daily transport service as a part of the only ocean-to-ocean transporta- tion systemn in Columbia lasaimd, to traverse the worst automobile road in the world. From Armenia the, road runs for 18 miles up a grade of 125/2 percent. The steady clinib is unbroken, except for the many hair pin turns and, breatb-taking curves on the brink of precipices hundreds of feet high. At the top of the grade the road con- tinues along the crest of one range of the Andes for more than 30 miles. For the whole distance the way it> rocky and rough. In rainy weather the long grade cannot be negotiateci at ail.byV an automobile. SThis,*ro ad ila alink in the. present, systemn which connects; up Barran- quilla on the -Atlantic coast witb Bo- gota ln' the interior and Buenaven- tura on the Pacific. Bogota, which is th e capital of Colombia, is located at an altitude of 11;2W feet. It is reached by boat or plane fromn the inud !IThe rest of the wav to Bue- UNTfl OF L PARM~NG GARAGES. RINC. IThe Bible and Works of Mary Baker Eddy and ail otâea authotized I Chitian Science Literature may be read, -bortowed or purcbased at te I R.eadng Rlomi.j I THE PUBLIC IS COJtDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND THEI CHURCH SERVICES AND VISIT THE READING ROOM.I muIUINIIMuImNII1IUlfhBfllnIflUNUIlhUi*hIIlIUMlluiUUI ncv Park-'

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