buyer's guide - San Francisco Police Officers Association

April -May, 1957 POLICE AND PEACE OFFICERS' JOURNAL Page 33
or come close to one. You've been stopped
only on a technicality. That's what most
people find it so hard to understand. The
client says, "I wasn't driving reckless."
Your ready answer should be, 'You are
not charged with reckless driving, my
good fellow."
Traffic laws are important. They must
be enforced. The enforcement should be
rigorous and uniform. Otherwise they'll
be shoveling the bodies into trucks instead
of picking them up one at a time in
an ambulance. The public can't be allowed
when and where to comply with a law and
when to ignore it. There are many drivers
who aren't equal to such an occasion. All
drivers should be able to drive on the
theory that all other drivers are going to
do the correct thing. We must be able to
rely on compliance with the laws by everybody
else on the street. Should enforcement
cease, traffic would be a terrible mess.
Even good drivers would slip into careless
ways.
So while you sit there listening to his
tale of woe, rolling you eyeballs toward
the ceiling, and occasionally looking at the
inside of your eyelids as though immersed
in deep thought, keep in mind that the
common traffic ticket, like the common
cold, is a necessary evil and one about
which little can be done.
—Traffic Digest and Review
Phone 2128
DONS LUMBER YARD
All Kinds of Lumber for All Purposes
Quality at the Right Price
PLUMBING • ROOFING
DOORS • WINDOWS
SEBASTOPOL AND ROBERTS AVENUE
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
Phone 3020
OLSEN CONSTRUCTION CO.
Builder "In the Redwood Empire Since 1922"
Home of "SUPERIOR CONSTRUCTION"
125 BROOKWOOD AVENUE
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
RAPP, CHRISTENSEN & FOSTER
GENERAL CONTRACTORS
We Specialize in Commercial, Public and
Industrial Buildings
Underground Construction and Excavating
Equipment Rentals
705 BENNETT AVENUE Telephone 1492
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
NILES MOTOR COMPANY
BUICK SALES AND SERVICE
Our 20th Year in Sonoma County
965 SANTA ROSA AVENUE
SANTA ROSA & PETALUMA
CALIFORNIA
HE'S YOUNGER, TOO, than Sausalito's Police
Chief Mountanos. He's Chief of Police
Leroy B. Cunningham of Ceres, California,
and is 28 years old. He has a young department,
the ages of the sergeant and four
patrolmen ranging from 22 to 34 years.
Phone 194
MARK HAINES WELDING
Wesley Temple, Owner
Iron and Steel • Light and Heavy Welding
Automatic Rebuilding for Tractor Parts
FIRST AND B STREETS
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
STEVENSON EQUIPMENT CO., Inc.
Since 1912
CONTRACTORS' HEAVY EQUIPMENT
HEADQUARTERS
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
Telephone 5350 J. J. Bussiere
KLEIN'S LIQUOR STORE
CHOICE WINES - LIQUORS AND CORDIALS
22 SANTA ROSA AVENUE
(Across From the Courthouse Plaza)
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATES
STORE
Headquarters of the Redwood Empire
AUTO, HOME AND RANCH SUPPLIES
432 FOURTH STREET
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
MILL'S PATIO
Jimmie and Dot Mills, Your Hosts
HOUSE OF BARBECUE
Dinners-4:30 to Midnight
Cocktails-2 P.M. to 2 A.M.
Phone 3481 CLOSED TUESDAYS
2755 MENDOCINO AVENUE
SANTA ROSA CALIFORNIA
"GOOD OLD DAYS"
Depressed by the bumper-to bumper
blues, you might some day find yourself
wishing for the good old days when cars
were fewer and farther between. Don't
do it, advises the National Automobile
Club. Like most good old days, the good
old days of motoring just weren't very
good at all.
Suppose you did find yourself back in
the noisy nineties, clutching your money
in your wet little palm, and eager to buy
yourself one of those newfangled horseless
carriages. About all you could buy then
would be a steam carriage, which amounted
to an old buckboard with the shafts cut
off, four rubber-tired wheels, and a power
plant under the seat. And that power plant
seemed to have a strange propensity for
either soaking you with vapor from time
to time or blowing you higher than the
proverbial kite.
And the car you got would be little
more than a stripped-down chassis. If you
wanted a top, windshield, side curtains,
battery, or tires, you'd have to go out and
buy these on your own.
Then you were ready to go, almost, If
your trip was going to be more than 20
miles, you had to get out your tools, your
kit of spare parts, and your maps, and lay
your plans like an attacking general. Then
you put on your fur-lined overcoat, hauled
on your heavy woolen gloves, tight-fitting
rubber-lined cap, and oversize goggles.
Away you went, and so did most of the
loosely fitting parts of your new car. Junk
dealers followed you at a respectable distance
to pick up the bolts, bars, and broken
axles, that bounced right off.
If you wanted to warn that junk dealer
that you were about to stop, there were no
signals. A lot of the time there were no
brakes, so you just headed for the nearest
bank, tree, or other solid obstacle and
brought your journey to a crashing conclusion.
If a tire went flat, there was no demountable
rim, no spare. You just took
that tire off, repaired it, then blew it up
with a wheezy pump that got about one
pound of pressure to one hour of pumping.
Had enough? Probably. But don't forget
the charm of those flickering gasoline
headlights that hardly let you see where
you were going but did offer some feeble
warning to pedestrians and cows that you
were thundering towards them at your top
speed of fifteen miles per hour.
Back to those bumper-to-bumper blues?
Alameda, in Spanish, means a "grove
of poplars." The California State Automobile
Association states that the name first
appeared in a report of exploration made
by Sergeant Pedro Amador in 1795.