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Recognizing the fact that touring speeds are increasing materially from year to year, the Illinois highway department is adopting new engineer-ý ing practices which are. epected to resuit: in increased safety and com- frreports the Chicago Motor club. kRepresentatives of t .he club re- centlv.were informed by H. E.'Sur- *man. engineer 'of design, state highway deépart-ment, that new hiïgh- *ways, must meet with more, exacting standards for smoothness; that curves and turns are being 'banked *higher, and that, the crown of the road is now eUiminated, at railroad crosng ., The crown at these points formerly was responsible for a sud- * den difference of an inch or more in the grade of the road. * . "Highway ýcontractors fiow, must not. allow, a ,deviation of moré than one-eighth. inch rise or fali in ten féet of road," declared Engineer Surman.'. "Fornrly, deviation of this sort up to a quarter-inch was allowed. Road builders in the future who deviate slightly more than one-eighth inch will be severely. penalized through the withholding b y the state of a portion of the contract price; if the deviation be serious, the state will demand that the contractor' re- build the road. "Beginning twenty feet froni the rails, the crown of new highways will gradually' be flattened, so that the road will bc perfectly level as it mneets the rails. No altowance form- *erly was made for the one-inch crown of twenty-foot roads and the four-inch crown on forty-foot strips. Thus, 'either the center or the edge of the road was either slightly above or below the, top of the rails. This * difference now wil b spread gradu- ally, over twenty feet." Chevrolets Manufactured in JIbruary Total 67,318 February production of the Chev- rolet- company was 67,318 cars and truckei according to W. S. Knuen. electric system, the, "éecaping". elec- tricity usually generates sufficient heat te start a fire. Because of this, safeguards in the form of circuit breakers or fuses are installed. As most everyone knows fuses in homes seemn to- have an almost un- canny ability te pick out the, most inoppor tune time to blow out, plung- ing the bridge game into darknessin the midstof a grand siani or switch- ing off the, dining room, lights. just as the soup is. being; placed in front of. the most important. guest, For- tunately, electric systems have beèn se greatly improved that, short - cir- cuits do notoccur often. -Engineers of -the Packard Motor Car company have adopted an' im- portant 'safeguard for the. electric systems of Packard cars. 'It keeps the head lights going in case a fuse shÔuld > blow out and enables the driver to see tbe road ahead if the fuse blows out at night. A resistance coul, mounted beneath the fuses,. al lows just enough electricity to flow through the system te keep the lights going but dots 'net permit the pas- sage of enough current te cause harni at the point where the ýshort circuit bas occurred. Warrn That Death Lurks Near Carbon'Monoxide Mild weather this winter has prob- ably been responsible for feweý deaths by carbon nionoxide poisoning. says the National Safety council. De- spite repeated warnings ove-r a period of years, the Council is neot opti- nhîstic eneugh to believe that inotor- ists have become well educated to the danger of keeping the engine of an automobile running in, a closed garage.. For a number of %iears',this type of, death b as been on a rapid increase, regardless o>f the weather. _We: have not, however, had as mild a winter- as this one since. the records have been kept. ýShould zero or sub-zero weather mnake its appearance for anv )o aNew Ferd l'lm susnial worîth of the. new Ford: I. rellecteil la ils good performance,,,economy mand reliabiiIty. :IDe stamina ,mand eàdutraece are particularly apparent li sections where Lad roads and sévere weather put a heaiy xtlra hurden ôo, he.automobile. In lesuthan. a 'year a new Ford Tudor Sedm was driven morn than sevetythreé thousand. milesover a difficuIt route. The operating cost per mile was very lew Mid praclicaily hé only, expensé for repafrs was for new Piston ringsmuid a nzew hearing for the. geerator. *The cal' earried an average load of 1200 pounds of mail mand was driven 250 miles daily. "Tii. Ford ham neyer failed'to go wheu 1 was ready,"" write. ouie of ithe thre, mail carriers operating the. car. "Tii. starter dld the. trick Iat winter even at 34 degrees below'-zero. The. gas runs about 20 miles per galion. At limes 1 pull a trailer whenever 1 have a bulky lod" Many other Ford owners report the saniesaisfactoty performance. Eivery part ham been made to endure - to serve you £aitbfuliy mand wUl for miay thoussuida of mue. TEM NEW FORD TUDOR SED4< buildings last Week, on the basis of1 bids Peceivedi February. Tw Automobile accidents headed the were for connecting stretches of slab list of causes of accidentai deaths in near Virginia and Chandlerville, on Illinois last year. In a summary route 78.: They total more than based on actual figures of the first $150)000., A bridge on route 48, in 10 months of 1930, compiled by the Ford-county and anotherz ea st of state departmnent of public health, Ware ' in Union county, brought thils there were 27.3 automobile. fatalities, letting up to $181,146 worth of work. to! 1each 1000 population -last year.