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Highland Park Press, 26 Feb 1931, p. 23

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Thursday, F LAKE COUNTY SHARE _ | OF GASOLINE TAXES | $184.661 Is Reported Available from State for Highway Improvement Lake county can now draw upon the state treasury for the $184,661 reâ€" cently announced as its share to imâ€" prove and construct new highways, it way revealed at Springfield. That amount is available through the 1930 gas tax collections. Garrett 1. Kinney, director of the state fiâ€" nances, announced that $9,194,193.05 is now ready. for distribution to the 102. counties in the state. The allottment toâ€" Lake. county is based on the motor license fees paid by the county residents,. . The total amount of the gas tax: collected in the state for 1930 was $27,582,679.16. Of that amount twoâ€"thirds went to theâ€"state and was expended for roads built or is obligated for contracts let for roadwork. C Lake county will be able to use the fund on road improvements approved by the state highway department. A number of highway plans drawn by R. M. Lobdell, county superintendent of highways, for the coming year will be paid for by some of the gas tax Urge Golden Rule for New Jersey Motorists fund ‘Motorists in New Jersey are being officially urged. to adopt the Golden Rule as their driving code. _ Russell 8. Wise, chairman of the New Jersey Traffic Commission, puts it in modern phrasing as follows: "The sooner drivers show consider: ation for the rights of each other, the sooner will our accident casualâ€" ties decrease." An enthusiastic endorsement of Mr. Wise‘s proposal to adopt the ancient moral precept to <presentâ€"day mrtorâ€" ing comes from William 1. Chenery, editor of Collier‘s Weekly, who comâ€" ments: "Everybody who uses crowded re and streets knows the truth of Your safety and comfort depend only on your own skill and care also upon the behavior of others perfect driver is at the mercy of fools and criminals and the m« reckless and inconsiderate who use the road. t 60 N. First St. Highland Park J. SMITH JUNK TELEPHONE 410 6 , 1931 Dealer in roads th the rely not but at Three Armed Bandits Rob Bank at Bristol Near Kenosha, Report of Three bandits, armed with machine guns, last week invaded the Holmes State bunk at Bristol, ten miles southâ€" west of Kenosha, looting the bank of between £5,000 and $6,000 in cash, and kidnapping the cashier, Clifford : Jaâ€" ///V < THE PRESS county Jn A She north The thr bank at « customers Jacobs, and the cashier, up the cash, in large bill through the door, pausin ment to force Jacobs t them. riffs posses scoured the entire shore for the bandits. : three bandits walked into the at one o‘clock. Menacing two mers, the president, Lawrence s, and the cashier, they scooped e cash, in large bills, and backed gh the door, pausing only a moâ€" The bandits esc an iped into Lake and bncked‘ only a moâ€"| _ N accompany ! ster the â€"entive o e o e ;’ th Springf Bristol Lake county deputy a few minutes af at the bandits were BC the ling f1 are being mile name for Warc ‘ompanionat« (Ohio) Sun. a small from A seat ake Ant Antio coult he il hun mnC road five 19

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