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ROSEBURO NEWS-REVIEW. WEDNESDAY. MAY 21, 1924.
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STAR THE 27 FEATURE CAR
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jfrF- STAR COMPETES !N
W 4-WHEEL brake test
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The Touring Car
F. 0. B. Detroit
Demountable Rim
nd Starter 85 extra
Evey Motoring Need
At Lowest Cost
The Ford Touring Car meets
every motoring require
ment at the lowest possible
cost. It is sturdy, depend
able, long lived; easy to drive;
convenient to park and
possesses the highest re?
sale value in proportion
to list price, of any car built.
C Detroit, Mkhloa -
Runabout $26S Coup 1 525 - Tudor Sedan $S90
Fordoor Sedan S6SS All prices f. o. b. Detroit
SEE THE NZAREST AUTHORIZED
FORD DEALERS
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
You can buy any model by making a email doum-payment and arranging eaey terms for the balance. Or you can buy
on the Ford Weekly Purchaser1 Ian. The Ford dealer in your neighborhood uMl gladly explain both plans in detail.
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' PROPER REPAIRS
Prevent Trouble
After our Mechanics go
.over your Motor, you need
not worry the car will
purr along just like she
was brand new.
Maxwell-Chrysler Service .
WE STAND BEHIND OUR WORK
STEPHENS AUTO COMPANY
323 North Main St Phone 582
ASGOOD AS NEW
if repaired by us!
Master Mechanics do all
of the work that's one
of the reasons. All classes
of work quickly done.
WE SPECIALIZE IN CYLINDER REBORING AND HONING
The highest form of compliment la
paid the Star Motor Company of Cal
ifornia by the Riikeubacker Motor
Company 'of Detroit, Mich., In a six
hundred word telegram reaching Oak
land Friday, accepting Star's defiant
answer to the open challenge broad
cast three weeks ago by Rickenback
or to all cars, both two wheel and
four wheel brake jobs, to deceleration,
or braking tests.
It Is now certHin that the motoring
public of America is to be treated to
a real comparative test between au
tomobile ' manufacturers, ' over the
burning question that has sounded
from one end of the country to the
other, regarding the equipment of
many cars with four wheel brakes.
Rlckenbacker's original challengo
was not definitely clear as to Just
what type of contest was desired,
but the Star Motor Company of Cali
fornia, drafting an answer to the
Rickenbacker wire, suited that it was
accepting all of the terms of the
contest imposed by Rickenbacker of
ficials, stipulating only that if, after
sixty, days grace, other automobile
manufacturers have cot entered the
fight," then a definite comparative
test will be arranged for, as Boon as
possible, between star and liicken
back er after July 1, 1924.
The terms offered by the Ricken
backer Motor Company are briefly
these, according to the telegram to
DeVnux: that the tests will be check
ed by public officials and newspaper
men, and by the American Automo
bile, Association, as planned by De
Vaux, but that an official test also be
made by the United States Bureau of
Standards, with a deoelerometer, an
Instrument that will show up "trick
driving" in any form.
Rickenbacker company says that
It had "hoped other manufacturers
would enter the contest," and Infer
red that they were certainly not
looking fur an answer to their chal
lenge from Star, or a car In Its price
class.
Rickenbacker Is willing that the
contest, or test, be held any time or
place, and urge the Star executives
to Bee if they cannot "coax or coerce"
any other or all makers of two and
four wheel brake cars to enter the
test.
"Regardless of who wins," the wire
continues, "The test will prove that
there are certain to be more ncci
dents, due to Insufficient braking,
among the light cars with two wheel
brakes, because they are so many in
number." Weight of the car certain
ly makes no difference, they state.
Rickenbacker'g Intention Is obviously
to prove that all cars must eventual
ly be equipped with four-wheel
brakes. 9
There Is unbounded admiration for
S'ar "spunk" in the answer of Rick
enbacker. "Certainly," It says, "have the po
lice supervision., aud the newspaper
men, in the interest of the public,
and the A. A. A. and the Ilurcau of
Standards to tako the official deceler
omcter readings for the public."
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DETROIT, Michigan, May 21.
Retail sales of Ford cars and trucks
In the I'nited States rose to 2 1 1 .-4 1 II
during April, a substantial increase
over the record-breaking deliveries
of .March, the Ford o.Mlor Company
announced here today,
Af the same time, It was stated
which hud been steadily increasing
since the first of the year, exceeded
12,00 in April.
Further, In the hlgh-prlc.ed car
field, sales of Lincoln cars, which
are produced by a division of the
Kord Motor Company, reached a new
monthly record with a total of Tfii
retail deliveries. During the firt
OAK STREET GARAGE
Phone 508
C. W. LAWSON, Prop.
Oak and Stephens Sts.
raacaaazsasvi
SURE WE HAVE IT AT
SARFFS
Auto Wrecking
House
329 N. Main St -
if not it is sure worth
your time to come and
see what we have got.
W'e have the most up to
date wrecking house from
Portland to San Fran
cisco. Phone 553
Prices of Models
Hm-Th and Freight Paid
Roadster ... $662
Touring Car . 667'
Coupe .... 846
Special Sedan 1076
Touring Car
$525 .
f. o. b. Lansing, Mich.
An early start happy faces lunch in the hamper then
off for the winding trail to happiness in your new Star Car.
To sylvan glades and mountain crests, the new Star Car
wit.S four-wheel brakes takes you quickly and comfort
ably, for the Star Car is built to give the maximum of
motor satisfaction to the family of modest income.
Its beauty of line plus its faultless" meclianical performance
due to its 27 Feature Reasons make the Star Car not
only the ideal family car, but tAe lowest priced high grade car
in the world.
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RAPP BROTHERS
Douglas County Distributors
Drain Garage
Sutherlin Garage
PRICE REDUCTIONS
No better Indication of the In
creased demand for Willys-Knight
and Overland closed cars during the
current whiter Can bo given than
the announcement from Willys-Overland
headquarters that prices on
two of Its most popular enclosed
types have been slashed as a result
of a factory output in excess of all
original anticipations.
According to the announcement
the price reduction affects the Over
land Champion model, which has
been reduced to JB55 from $1185. a
cut of 4'i, while the YVillys-Knh:ht
standard sedan has been reduced
I1U0 to f I .'. All these are Toledo
four niou'lis of the present. year.
Lincoln Sab s showed an increase of
appro!niaie!y fi.l per cent over the
tamo period a year ago, the company
says.
While the sales figures of the
company craphlcally illustrate the
constantly grow-ing popularity of all
Ford products, they likewise present
an optimistic business outlook.
A review of the sales records
shows that fur two years retail de
liveries of Kord cars and trucks in
the I'nited States have exceeded
lhO.OOH a B'.nntb, the company s.ivs.
while for nine of the months during
the past ear sales were well over
the Jao.fing mark, and the big de
mand during March and April this
year carried salon for -ach of those
months considerably over 20(1, nuv?
Despite late spring wcathi r in
many section, the demand for Ford
son Tractois for agricultural use
continue to trow, while a noticeable
Increase In the prc-ntace of Ford
sons goini; into Industrial u,-e is ac
cepted as reflecting general pros
perous conditions.
Annlsis of the sale reports re
ceived from its various branches,
th company says, ludhatcn an In
creased volume of business lor May.
factory prices.
Accompanying the announcement
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rwillys, president of WHlys-Overlund,
setting for tne reasons ior una -markablo
action:
"January and February produc
tion has exceeded all expectations.
During the first month of the new
year wo manufactured 21'.04K cars.
i more than double the ouipui oi
year ago. In February wo maintain
ed an average shipping record of
more than a thousand cars dally.
Icloslng the month with total shlp-
I incuts of 22,130.
"ti,i. rumarkolilp inrreaso In do-
'nand has stepped up production to
; a point where our production costs
per car have been lessened. In tho
case or the Overland Champion, for
i example, we find that we aro able
I to maintain Its position as tho low
est priced enclosed car on tho mar
ket, with doors Iront and rear, be
I cause of the Temendous demand
that has ensued since the original
! announcement of this model last
! fall. We have stepped up our
I schedule on this model and even now
tare unable to copo satisfactorily
with our dealefs demands."
"In no single year of the (ndus
' try has the sale of all-weather mod
els advanced so rapidly as It has
i during the pas; six months. Our
! plants have been fairly swamped
1 with orders for this type. The re
sult has been an Increase in closed
car nroduction, with a proportlon-
1 ate decrease In production costs, in
1 which we are desirous of allowing
the public to participate."
IlllsilK-Mt i:paildllis
! With the completion of tho New
land bullding.on .Stephens street, W.
It. Drown, who conducts an automo
tive electrical shop at Fine and Oak
i Streets, will move his establishment
I to the new place. Mr. llrown will add
new machinery and electrical ap
pliances, and when he gets the plunt
; sit up will have one of the finest
I shops of the kind in the state. H.
i L. Il'iucoi k. who also occupies part
of the building at IMnit and Oak,
1 will move the Auto Electrical Sta
tion and Wlllard service at the same
tlni", and will establish his ,bHttry
station in the new Ncwland building.
I Mr. lloucix k .has a complete plant.
These two lndtiirlal concerns both
have a well established business, and
In the new location their field of
service will broaden considerably.
Kills lUtilonako
While hunting up Farrott Creek
Stindav. 1.. F. I-angenherg killed a
rattl snake having four rattles and
a button. Mr. 1-angenberg has killed
several rattlers in that vicinity und
claims that there aro a lurge num
ber of them there.
Visiting I'nrciits
W. K. Ilelt, who has been teach
ing school at Wheeler. Oregon, has
arrived in Itoseburg to spend tho
summer nt the home of his parents.
Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Mutt, lie has
been employed to teach In the Myr-
tlo Crcuk hlt,n school next year.
To Visit Parent
Miss Myrtle Weathorford who hns
been attending tho high school In
Hopeburg during tho winter left tills
morning foi Riddle where Bhe will
visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
M. C. Wenlherfuid for several weeks.
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