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Automobile speed will be electri cally tuned in the town of Farm ville. That is the warning carried bv signs on each of the main roads leading into Farmville. The purcl ase1 timing device was authorized by the town council two months ago. as a means of making Farmville a safo- place to live. “We don't intend to make Farm ville a 'speed trap' ". said Otto S. Overton. Farmville police chief. “Our only objective is to keep the cars at a safe and reasonable speed " Overton pointed out that the speed 1 mit in Farmville is 25 miles per hour, except at school zones and other places that are marked. In testing the new equipment Wednesday morning police officials demonstrated that the timing device mcasuies the speed if automobiles exactly The first five cars that drove by the check zone on First avenue at Edmonds street indicated two speeders, and three well within the law. The top speed hit 47 mph. and that person would have been given a ticket if the signs had been posted. The signs have been posted at the entrances to the town and Overton said the machine will go into of ficial operation immediately. The mechanics of the timing de vice are simple. Two electric wires are strung across the road 88 feet apart The wires arc run to tiic machine which can br as much as a block or so away One police officer operates the machine, while another either wines down the approaching speeder or pulls in behind him and stops him with thr police siren The machine can measure the speed of automobiles traveling in either lar.e up or down the street. It keeps a permanent record of the speed until it is reset. The system is fool-proof as far as the local angles are concerned. One of the best feature, of the
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