The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-07-06
COTJNCIL SETS
LEGISLATIVE
MILL RUNNING
Automobile Owners and Junk
Dealers are to be Put Under
Regulations
MILK COWS MUST BE TESTED
n,d;nances Intended to Protect Public
Against Gasoline Buggies, Thieves
and tuberculosis

The city council, which for severa
voeks has been doing nothing more
strenuous than paying bills and mark.
mo time, oiled up the wheels of the
legislative mill and started grinding
at an adjourned meeting last evening
When they have finished the job, un-
less their plans miscarry, automobile
owners will have to behave themselves
like other ordinary white folks who
have not discarded walking as a means
Of locomotion.
An ordinance regulating travel and
traffic on the city streets was intro
duced and given its first reading. All
tho not as exacting in its provisions
IS are city traffic ordinances it fol-
lows the general regulations that are
in vogue in the larger places. 1t pro-
yides that all vehicles shall be driven
on the right hand side of the street
and no vehicle shall stop with the left
ide to the curb; vehicle meeting
another shall pass to the right; a We
hicle overtaking another shall pass to
the left; slowly moving vehicles shall
allow more swiftly moving vehicles
going in the same direction free pas
sage to the left; a vehicle turning into
another street to the right shall turn
the corner as near the right hand curb
as practicable; vehicle turning into
another street to the left shall circle
around the street Intersection; a We
hicle crossing from one side of the
street to the other shall do so by turn
ing to the left so as to head in the
same general direction as, the traffic
on that side of the street; in slowing,
stopping or turning driver must give
proper signal with the hand; no We
hlcle will be allowed to stand within
ten feet Of any street crossing nor in
any position that will interfere with
Tree passage Of traffic; no vehicle
snail stand backed up to the curb ex-
eept when actually loading or unload
ing and if vehicle is horse drawn and
mas four wheels the horses must stand
parallel to the curb and faced in
ne direction of traffic; every motor
wncle or bicycle must be equipped
nsa hornAo bell and give proper sig
nl before crossing any street; no au-
umoblle will be permitted to stand on
ne street between the hours of sunset
.ao Sunrise without one white light
i0rward and red light in the rear;
40 motor vehicle will be permitted to
run In the city with it's "muffler" cut
WV vehicles going in a northerly or
@utnerly direction shall have rightof-
way at street intersections and cross
4ss over vehicles going in an easterly
westerly direction; at street inter-
'@1ons and crossings pedestrians
~: sasii nave right of way over all We
.4,es out between street intersections
'en,eies are given the rightofway.
Inc speed limit for automobiles is
!. go at Is miles an hour on Second
sseet between Pacific and Washing
= and at 18 miles on other streets,
AZ the intersections of Yakima,
.se0laa and Pacific streets with Sc
''n0 the limit is 10 miles.
Junk Dealers
-. u'er the city fathers had paid their
e.1S TO the automobile owners they
s. s.lned their attention to the second
.s asla and junk dealers. At present
=. soao-nand dealers are under license
~ s .ne new ordinance puts junk deal
~ III tne same boat. AS Q further
D,.ss. uard against the too common
..rs 'lee OF dealing in stolen goods the
,h,,, law provides that each dealer
nd md. y notlfy the police of his purchases
ph;.. .ne police shall have "a hours in
n TO release the articles for sale. |
Milk Dealers
= a:u - ordinance regulating the sale
,ivau a and butter in the city was
,l.oa, M IT'S third reading but was not
sea S on final passage. At the time
no 80 arafted the state was conduct
nn,. y .ree tuberculin tests. The state
h p,.atlon has been exhausted and
op,o;' ofulnance was held up until the
Sn Tan ascertain tha coef ~ mol