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The Sacramento Bee from Sacramento, California • 24

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 26 1930 THE SACRAMENTO BEE TAGZ TtTEXTY-FOCB AUTO AND OUTING DUDS PRESENT SHORTER COAST Back To Earth Traffic Cops Now Traffic Officers Rotarians Told PRETTY SCENES (Continued from Page Seventeen) the Northwestern Pacific Railroad Thence It would follow the west side of the Northwestern Pacific tracks to the Sausalito ferry piers The committee also decided to ask the stat highway commission to complete at once the secondary state highway from the terminus of the new Alto-San Rafael route to Tiburon This the committee stated would permit the Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferries Ltd to inaugurate the promised direct ferry to the foot of Hyde Street A recommendation was also transmitted to the highway commission to put Crescent City directly on the Redwood Highway by constructing a link Knta (H TO BE PROVIDED Redwood Highway Terminal Routing Plan Decided On SAN FRANCISCO March The proposed terminal alignment of the Redwood Highway calling for its extension from Alto to the Sausalito piers was definitely agreed upon by the nine counties highways committee of the Redwood Empire Association The route would extend from the present terminal of the new Alto-San Rafael unit to be completed In July via Sliver Island and across the marshes and right-of-way of Ford's General Sales Manager Resigns Post DETROIT March Fred Rockelman has as general sales manager of the Ford Motor Company it was learned today He made no announcement as to his future plans Rockelman formerly managed branches of the Ford Company in Seattle and Indianapolis He was brought here to become general manager of the Detroit Toledo Ironton Railroad which Henry Ford sold last year to the Penn Road Corporation He had been general sales manager since 1925 end of the valley and Just sixty- nine miles from aacramenio The poppy fields will be found In evidence along the entire route from Esnar'o to Rumsey but the State Selects Prunedale Cut- pHICO (Butte Co) March Traffic cops are not traffic cons any more they are traffic officers So declared Young-blood assistant superintendent of the California Highway Patrol before the members of the Rotary Club of Chico yesterday He outlined the policy of the department in requiring that traffic officers be courteous 6EE WHAT A SWELL PlACP 1 FOR THE CAR TO "BRFAK DOWN' 1W 4 WOT A SV LOOk' AT THAT 4 OUA6RAND NIGMT-y 77? ft Cl LOOk' AT THE" MOOM JACK )J 1 DD VOU FVEB SEE SUCH iff )r 4 I 'ji red bud will be seen only in scat Off Discards San Juan Grade North Of Salinas tered bunches at point away irom tne road lU-ut Beyond Rumwy Redwood and Roosevelt highways The best opportunity to see It close up and in large quantities is to drive a mile beyond Rumsey and Itiillniilll IftiiuNinmnmHiiMejuiaeiiiMmmmiamasmuifliiamiU turn left onto tne jaoniiceno nuau At fhl nnlnt the road skirts a creek hank which is lined with jj WEEK-ENDS 1 TOURS CRUISES the flamlne red bushes PLEASURE AND HEALTH RESORTS HOTELS RESORTS Although the red bud is a special Inducement to make this trip now the Capay Valley is an exceedingly pleasant trip at any time of tne year Nothing appears to the eye as unusually scenic but the pastoral scenes the grass-covered hills DEL MONTE March 26-Mon-terey good roads enthusiasts are rejoicing over their successful battle for the elimination of the San Juan grade and the approval of the Prunedale cut-off which is to i take its place as a principal part of the Coast Highway A survey of the new route will start immediately following the appropriation I of $10000 by the state highway commission The new Prunedale route will till further shorten motoring time to Del Monte and the Monterey Peninsula from San Francisco Oakland Sacramento and all Northern California points The new route will also eliminate most of the curves and cut the grade to a fraction of its present elevation St a cost no greater than that of maintaining the present highway Cut Klevatlnn AND TRAVEL INFORMATION of the lower valley and the water- eroded canyons In tne upper vauey nuHumuuiiusunti comDine to lascinaie uis yiwwi uUiUllMlllllllUllllinillllMIIIHIIIIWMIIIIIUIIHIllimMHM Travel Information Where To Go In San Francisco And Oakland WOMAN IS ENGINEER OP) Amv Johnson 25-vear-old elrl member of the Lon dnn Alrnlane Club is the first woman to be given a ground engineer's license by the air ministry The new route will cut the grade elevation from 1015 feet to 500 feet Distilled water for the batteries or less than half of Its present ele should never be poured through a metal funnel It Is absolutely nec vation It will Increase (he radius Of curves from 100 fert to 1000 essary that this water be kept free feet and the minimum visibility on curves from seventy-five feet to from all mineral impurities STEWART HOTEL On Oesry street lost oft Unlosi 8quar close to best stone csfos thettras Good seconunoiUtiou at modrt rites Beit known auls In United States Breakfast SOe OOc 7Se Lunch esc (Ssadajs 75c) Dinner SI (Sundays 1188) Municipal car paaaes door Stewart Bus meet! trains and iteamera SAN FRANCISCO 600 feet On the San Juan grade there are 113 turnB The new route will have but thirty-eight The new route will have advan AVIATION NEWS tages for the pleasure car driver as well ns the commercial shinncr The driving tlmo between Salinas and Snn Franelnco will be cut about twenty minutes and a stretch of "Looping Mildreds" Vie wh you tproof Hotel fine ne 4howet tortuous dangerous road will be DIRIGIBLES TO eliminated making driving a pleas I very room hc(j Drive into For Honors In Stunting WHEN IN SAN FRANCISCO ure instead of a nerve-wrecking rdioelegn-v tlejIO I ST -It took a Mil STOP Columbia Hotels dred to take the woman's looping strain Approved Plans The plan given approval Is AT record from a Mildred Mildred Stlnaff 18-year-old pilot Relocation of the highway west of me present grade starting from a made forty-two consecutive loops in a plane at Akron Ohio but 411 O'Farrel! at Tarlor St Single rooms 11 per city outelde rooms Iiit: rooms with bath 12 per day: 50o extra person Attractive week-! and monthly ra'ei In the center of theaters and shopping Garages within ha If block British And Germans Plan At point norm or juan and re 7n taay m'-i twenty days later Mildred Kauri- joining the highway at a point south of the present grade the An amendment to the air traffic rules of the air commerce regulations prohibiting the towing of aircraft by other aircraft except by special permission of the secre man 21 years old boosted the rec lanta Flights This Spring present highway to be maintained ord by four to forty-six Miss Kauffman may have added as a part of the state highway system ag an extension or the Hoi LONDON March 28 UP) The fifteen loops to Miss Stinaff's rec lister-San Juan route the short British dirigible R-100 will attempt tary or commerce has been promulgated by Clarence Young assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics piece nf the nresent hlirhWAV north to bridge the Atlantic this Hprlng ord but hnze obscured her ship from Schory official observer for the National Aeronautic Association and the count was re of San Juan to be maintained by Hotel Carlton 1075 Sutter St San Francisco At Lerkln Phone Prospect 024! Cafe and Garase In Building Rates 13 60 day eingle $100 day double Weekly rates loo Rooms with Bath and Shower Class A Fireproof Bulldlnc From Ferry cats 1-2-3 to Door the first step toward the English Hotel Roosevelt Saa Francisco' New and Fine Hotel Jones at Eddy Street Erery room with bath or ahower Rates 1200 to $250 einarle S300 to HISO doa hie Special accommodatlona for families Radio In Rooms Gernte under same roof Write for Illustrated folder oan eenuo uounry as a county dream of an air-llnked empire Meanwhile the Graf Zeppelin will stricted to those he could see The "looping Mildreds" almost start on Its sixth trans-Atlantic trip road with the understanding that legislation will be enacted making It a part of the state highway system Funds for the construction of the new route are not available at doubled the previous record of twenty-eight loops made by Dor The United States focal point or former air liner crossings will ne neglected for the R-100 will point Arctic Flight By Graf To Be Pushed For 1931 Plans for a 1931 polar cruise by the Graf Zeppelin are being formed by Aero-arctlc the international society for- the exploration of Arctio regions by aircraft The expedition will be undertaken for scientific Investigations jirrm-ni oui me commission Ap othy Stocker of Houston Texas Flying Field Specialists for Canada and the Graf for South America April Or May Weather conditions will govern KING GEORGE HOTEL Mason tt Gearjr Street San Frandaco Ael under origiinl sgsinsntrf WALTER SEJTZ aaoRooeu loo Baths EunpeuPlea Fnepnof lUtw hom Uoo Kuala focn Uy double Will Consider Problems BUFFALO tfP Problems of Hotel Raford 111 TAYLOR ST COB TL'KK ST SAN FRANCISCO 125 Sonny Rooms Ail Modern Con-enlenee Batee II to KM per day Ask for weekly and monthly rates the time of departure probably late in April or in May proved a recommendation to include approximately $800000 for for the work in the next slate biennial budget Although actual construction will be delayed until funds are provided for In the budget the commission announced that the survey would start Immediately and that engineers will be at work in a few days For the K-100 gigantic dirigible building and managing landing fields will be studied here May It was origlnalJy scheduled for completed last November this will 14th-16th when nearly 1000 engi be the acid test It was built at a loss of $950000 tho total cost be- April and May of this year but abandoned when the Zeppelin company could not obtain underwriters' Insurance on ship and crew With all preparations made in neers city officials and builders convene for the second national airports conference ng $2500000 The performance of the R-100 may determine whether Britain will carry out its plans for Divided into eleven committees cluding the fitting of a landing field at Fairbanks Alaska the ven a fleet of dirigibles linking the far-flung units of the empire by air SPEAKING OF GAS The average motorist in the United States used 571 gallons of gasoline last year and paid an average of $1836 in gas tax according to the American Motorists' uontroversy has dogged the ture will be pushed on to completion according to John A Fleming the delegates will consider finance and accounting hangar construction surfacing and drainage servicing and storage legal and legislative aspects and problems of sea-piano and amphibian bases The conference will be sponsored R-100 ever since it was built In parliament recently Montagu acting vice president of the American section of the society under-secretary of state for air re fused to reply to the question whether It would not be best to i fWmT I TERE where lofty moun- I Al tains beckon is the great wtW £tL I Vacationland you've dreamed of AVT rTI'1 surprising different Is? Mil JV luring- Exult in the sublime jp atrT" 1 panorama of Alpine peaks 60 Sj -iSr-'-ir living glaciers 250 sparkling I li lakes Park opens June 15 I Vl Come ride hike motor fish I ik camP or just relax Fine hotels i I Jll I'll t0 Glacier Park IL sp this year or make it one of many ijj i Mi wonder points to see on a trip IJ3st East the clean cinderless scenic fVr Great Northern Way via the evcrgrecn acuc 1 til I Uf IE GOUlDMOUNTAfflMOUmJOStnilSI by the aeronautical chamber of commerce admit frankly "that neither the 1450 Beacons Operated Nightly To Guide Fliers Operated from R-100 or R-101 would be of any value for commercial purposes" NO TOWN FOR CROOKS Fewer automobiles are stolen and a greater percentage are recovered in Denver Colo than In any other city In the United States according to the Automobile Club of Southern California Women Pilots Unwilling rne iwuu will begin its flight at Cardington where It is housed with its Bister ship the R-101 and Its sunset to sunrise 1450 aeronautical lights guide night filers over To Fly Passenger Ships DALLAS Piloting pas destination will be St Hubert Airport near Montreal where a 200-foot mooring mast higher than the nation's airways All but 12S of the lights this number being furnished by private Interests have been established by the aeronautics branch of the de senger and mall planes In the Southwest apparently is not very attractive to women fliers Aithnnch licensed women pilots any in the United States has been -siii iwnsrn erected Later the R-101 will head for a mooring mast that awaits it In South Africa while other masts have been erected In Egypt and India partment of commerce Lights serving a community conform to a standard feature a fixed HEALTH PLEASURE are becoming more numerous the largest Texas passenger line has not received an application from an avlatrlx during its existence and not a mall plane In this section ever has been piloted by a woman While aviation company officials are at a loss to explain the sltua-Hnn thev cite the difficulties of a pencil of light pointing to the nearest airport or landing field and a revolving beam making six circuits a minute OUR FLAT PRICES Take the high cost out of your Spring auto repairs We never close ALLEN'S GARAGE Opposite Auditorium on St SPECIAL PERU BUYS 8 PLANES WASHINGTON UP) Four Mx4M BALLOON TIRES 80x83 I I SCO TIHES 80x82 TUBES (Guaranteed) $450 95f Richardson Springs THE HOME OF HEALTH For your Spring tonic partake of Nature's wonderful waters Modern hotel and housekeeping accommodations In the mountains on the highway near Chico Butte Co Cal Address: LEE RICHARDSON American mail and passenger planes have been purchased by the pilot's job In the Southwest He must buck strong winds go up in all kinds of weather and fly despite poor visibility and he bears the responsibility of several Peruvian government inns De- tween sea coast and Interior now Del Paso Tire Exchange 171 1 Del Paso Blvd requiring twenty days by mule EMPIRE BUILDER Ufie luxurious ORIENTAL LIMITED Has nowI Inqnlra for dMnlpMn litr-tun fun Itiawmrtot sal rwwntiou Y4JSXJTOZB 0JTICT! e7 II AH KIT IT riuotioe will be shortened to ninety DESERT AIR AMBULANCES WASHINGTON C4) An aerial ambulance service with eight Tim la- JSlJjonnat on tht Otnt Noclhm tmplti Balldu't tadla nmmtn tht Wnl etfir thi NBCi thain wity Uanixi tvtninf or JtiO LET THE BEE FOLLOW YOU planes operated by Algerian military authorities plies over the Sa THE SUNNY "LET'S PICNIC OVER THERE!" hara Desert In the hot season pilots are not allowed to fly except in the eariy nours or tne oay ana then at no great hlght PARACHUTES UNUSED SEATTLE W) Parachutes are "excess baggage" for Boeing pilots for In 9000000 miles of operations See tLe roof of the Rockies -on your summer trip over the San Francisco-Chicago and Los Angeles-Seattle routes with mall and passengers no flier ROUTE TO EUROPE from 2ALVESTON AND HOUSTON to HAVANA VICO BOULOGNE AND BREMEN OQ LIOTD CABIN UffBBI May 1 has ever "gone over the side" or used a parachute In a jump Rags with a llnty surface should never be used for wiping Internal parts of the motor states I Evans director emergency road service National Automobile Club One small particle of thread may EAS1 Crossing Canada at the lewtst altitude of an transcontinental railway in America you see the glistening Canadian Rockies' bightst peaks! Take the Jasper National Park route for your vacation trip this summer Stop over a few days at luxurious Jasper Park for golf on one of the world's three finest courses or Swiss -guided hikes and tours into a glorious Alpine wonderland It'l the cool way East and may be associated do no harm out a general accumulation of small particles may cause serious stoppage of the oil Has AlaoresnJareereia from New York England- Ireland Fraace-Gersuay Travel Information J-aT S-w with the great Triangle Tour of British Colum- Market St Hsui'l-ranclsco Call! or your loeM sent irMJfeT tia at almost no extra cost Free scenic folders DE LUXE STEAMERS FOR SAN FRANCISCO IXCtlTX 6:30 (i VSUNDAY 7 Trains Daily to San Francisco and Oakland Leave Union Station 6:51 A 8:58 A M04S A 440 St 8:00 Denotes Dlnlnf and Ohserva tlon ear on tbls special 85c Dinner Sacramento Northern Railway Phone Main 6720 luttir MM QUEEN" JhJK "YVTHEN springtime Bides are blue and the open road beckons it's a strange man or woman that does sot feel the urge to relax behind a steering wheel and let 'er roll A good used car will satisfy that healthy craving will satisfy it at the lowest possible cost You'll find splendid used car values aplenty in the WANT AD Section of The Bee The Bee is the accepted medium of transfer for automobiles just as it is for nearly every product or service 3f 1 UZVSl Thh Summr I III I CalVoAsla BUY A GOOD USED CAR FARE-One Way $180 Bound Trip $300 1OT0I0BIIES One Way 1900 Round Trip (750 CALIFORNIA TRANSPORTATION vJ I lj- VancoumPrnct Sgtf ALASKA I A Cap An easy tide-trip fjV tX going Eut ot turning FOR BEST VALUES READ BEE WANT ADS rAHADiAH National 9Ae Lmytsi Ttaihoay Syrian in America WJ GILKERSON Gen Afa 689 Market St Telephone SUttcr joja San Frucitco Come to the Tourist Community Center for Free Maps and Literature CALIFORNIA TOURIST ASSOCIATION 720 EYE STREET COMPANY STREFT WHARF PHONE MAIN 4t0 i.

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