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Show Junked Cars Cluttering Highways Called Menace ! There nre scores of thousands of I automobiles on the highways today which were nctunlly disposed of by J their owners as Junk, but which were I salvaged, put In running condition and sold by Junk dealers, according to the safely division of the American Auto- j mobile association. The American Automobile association associa-tion points out thnt It Is a common practice throughout the country to buy ! Junk cars for n few dollars, put them In some degree of running shape and sell them back to the public. "Those mechanically ungood cars," says the American Automobile association, asso-ciation, "produce three very bad results. re-sults. First, they create a serious harard and Intensify the safety problem. prob-lem. Second, Ihey clutter the highway high-way and Increase congestion by reason rea-son of their Inability to mnlntaln anything any-thing like an average rate of speed. And, third, since these salvaged cars are almost Invariably the first venture of their buyers In car owning, they get badly stung and oftentimes get soured on automobles In general." |