La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, July 11, 1925, Image 11

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Newspaper Page Text1 Saturday, July 11, 15)25. THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Pace I'iloven UI"T" IBHIiHT" I T T Tr f T2 T T TTT ' T"OT A 7"C "i,pSSl R HEAD TAKES TRIP erieral Manager of, Du raht Motor Co. of Cali fornia Reports Favor able Conditions Exist ing All over Pacific Coast Territory. ;OAKI,ANI. Cul. July 10. Kor ean J)e Vaux, vice president and tneral manager of tlit Durant Mo r company of California and nc Ire hi'iid of tin entire Star und Iu ,nl organization in the west, hun llurncd from an extensive visit tu ( east where lie conferred with . C. luirunt and other executives ! tin Durum interests. Besides siting the general headquarters of if- Star ami Durant fores at tin: New York offices, I)C Vaiix paid a, visit to tunny of the large center' throughout tlu country win-re the .Siur und Inirant lines are making great headway. From hit headquarters m Oak hind, Dc Vaux went to I'ortlu wlp-re he spent several days with C. 1,. (tons, i'ortland Kiar distribut or. On the first part of his tour of inspection. Du, Vaux was accom panied hy Guorgo it. Scott, assistant general manager, und K. T. Tullep, Kales manager, of the Ktar Pacific Coast factory. Heott eccompanled his chief to New York, but Tulle reinuined in (he northwest and cov ered every point In the lerlrtory lor l ho purpose or niuking a, care ful survey of conditions. From l'ortiumi, j)e Vaux and his aides went to Seattle where they remained for a few d-ays going over conditions with the Stur distributor of (hut place, heaving Seattle, the party motored to Vancouver. H. ", in one of the new Star couches. The Seatlle dealer insisting that they tnko In I he scenery from an auto mobile instetid or" from the train, De Vaux was only too glad to ac cept the motor trnnspoi tutlon as It gave his the opportunity to call on all the Stur dealers between Seat lift BALLOON TIRE ADVICE GIVEN It's Great to Own and Drive "That's the new Jcvett Coach I " You hear it wher ever you go. Admiration greets this great car on every hand. Because of its beauty of line and color. Because of its advanced features of design. Because its every detail bespeaks genuine quality. Beyond the striking beauty of Jcwett Coach beyond its championship performance greater even than its advanced engineering is the following fact: Consider It Well! Paige has put the experience of fifteen years of build ing into the Coach sacrificing nothing to achieve low price improving the quality for which Jewett cars are justly respected. This fact alone more than justifies the enthusiasm that has greeted Jewett Coach nationally I ' Drive this great car yourself. Prove its value for yourself as no one can tell you. Just phone for a .Muny molortata whoso cura oro inulpiH'tl with ri'sulur IiIbU pros sum liros iirr nnxioua to chauen ovit to tiros i-iiibodyinp tlo balloon principle, bul t hoy do not know Just what course; to follow to sot Iho. Ijost rosults. Tho first quostlon to be consid ered Is cost, ucoordlnx to tho ud-vk-o of Avory Harrison, dealor in I'nltod States tiros. lr tho cur sllll bus several years of life In it und tho ownor expert to keep II, it would probably pay best to get full balloon equipment. This, of course requires that now wheels and now rims of suitubte diameter be sub stituted for those now on the car. Hut if the car Is-nearing lis end. and tin: cost of the wheel chango Is prohibitive, very i:ood results can be obtained by uslne "bulloon type" tires Insteud of full balloons, t'nited Stales Italloon Type tires are desiKnod to fit the rims used for hiifh pressure tires und there fore require no wheel or rim changes. The full balloon equipment is preferable, of course, but balloon type tires afford sufficient balloon ing quality to maek a change over to thnt type udvlsable where it is not practical to make the full bal loon Installiillun. Balloon type Hi t's give, to a considerable degree, all of the advantages to be found In bulloon tiros. demonstration Jewett V. O, B. Detroit, t citra Palgf -Lockheed 4-wheel brtkca at flight extra coit HARRIS FRENCH- and Vancouver. At Vancouver Tullcr left th? party and returned to Seattle, From there he went to Spokane and otflcr eastern poinls'of Washington and Oregon while le Vaux und Scott crossed Canada to Toronto, where they visited Mob Mulch, manager of the Durant plant - which supplies star and Durunl cars for the entire Dnminlon-of Canada. Mulch will be reim inhered on the Pacific Coast us the former sales manager of Hie Star Motor company ami It was his record us G-I to lie Vux Unit, won for him the appointment to the place he now occupies. l'Von Toror.ro. Ie vaux and Scott went to New York where they spent some time tn conferences with pro duction and sales executives as well as with V. C. Durant. lie Vaux was proud of the record lie carried back' to general lteudUnr1er but when he was praised for the show ing of the" Star' 'oh the Pacific Coast, he pave (he credit to his as sociate who have assisted lifiu in the development of tho Star to the point 11 has attained during he few months since l)c Vaux becumu the active head of the production and sales brunches of the line in the west. I ' Dc Vaux reports thii'. the Slur is showing gains in the Kasl and Mid dle West us wass al on the ('oust; but he points with pride to the luct that the registrations show the Star is making th greatest gain in Cali fornia that has been scored during the sweeping campaign that has brought the Star car to the front a '. one of tin- most popular uutomo biks In the entire world today. J. i Morelock, Star imd Oldsmo blle dealer for Vnion und Wallowa counties has done his bit In run ning up the Star's great sales rec ord. Since the first of the year the number of Star cars on the streets of La Orande and on the highwuys in the two counties has been constantly growing. Oil Production Is Increased The olt Industry of the country. appears to be undergoing another! of those transitions which make it. unique umung Industrns. At the moment of writing, the production of crude oil is on the upward tr-'iid due to discovery and development of new fields of oil principally ! Siiiiickuver, In Arkansas, which Is yielding some 400,000 barrels of crude oil dally. Inglewood and itosccrans, new fields in southern, California, are adding some 70.000 barrels daily to tho nation's grow ing total. Ordinarily a growth In produc tion of this magnitude could not be looked upon without considerable concern as to its eftrr.t upon the oil markets of the country, includ ing the market for that primary product gasoline. Hut it happens t hat this new production consists mostly of u heavy oil, with snmll gasoline con tent. So marked Is the prcpon d. ranee of heavy oil In the current supply that it Is no longer possible intelligently to consider the oil situation in terms of total produc tion of crude oil alone. The gross volume of oil must be divided in to two parts light,, with its large gasoline content, and heavy, with its small gasoline yield. The figures on what has happen ed are Interesting. For the week ending May floth the crude-oil pro duction of the t'nited States reach ed a record ot 2.34(1,900 barrels dally. This represent a tfuin of 381,600 barrels dally average over the first of the year. The gain has been in heavy oil. In fad, the stntistlcs show an actual decrease of 12.0U barrels dally In the pro duction or light oil from the wek ending January 3rd to the week ending May 30lh. In other words, light-oil production throughout I he country shows a small loss - and heavy oil u great gain. A similar com) it lou Is shown in California, Light-crude production has been falling since March, heuvy-crude production has been lucnvislng. Were the situation reversed with the supply ow light liigh-gasoline content oil predominating, there would 1)4- u great increase In the supply of gasoline. Hut this Is not the case, as Is shown by a very interesting report just issued by the United States Hureau of Mines, This shows that during the month ot April, In the face of lucreatiug crude-oil production, slocks of gasoline decreased 1.1S7.U00 bar rels. A decline tl tiring April is most unusual. The customary per formance is for stocks to Increase until May or June, when tncreused consumption causes drafts on stocks. This is the first April uin- ce 1 1' 1 8 showing a decline. It is also the first month of April which has ever failed to show an Increase In storage over the same mouth m( the previous yir. The answer is not far to seek. April's consumption of gasiline set a new high record. The mouths of August Is usually the mouth of greatest use of gaso line. 1 Hiring April consumpt ion was 7000 barrels dully in excess of August last year. It was also thirly-four per cent yrealer than April. So, the curious condition exists thut while crude-oil production as a whole Is breaking records, the supply of gasoline is actually not up to the growing demand. Con sumption for thn year seems like ly to be the greatest in the his tory of the country, with conse quent further drafts on Inven tories. The Standard Oil Jiulle-tin. test and that the lights must be focused In such a way (hut at a distance of -5 feet the light beams are not over 3- inches from tho ground. At the present tlum the local stations are awaiting the action of the secretary of state who In turn is wulling for a report from tho t'nited Htutes hureau of standards where lights, tenses, reflectors and other equipment is being tented. NEW OFFICES ARE OPENED Gas and Oils "Just Naturally Better" Watch for This Sijjn You Can Buy Veltex At These Stations LA GKANDK: . La Grande Filling Station Square Deal Filliitf; Station Auto Electric Service Co. Oregon Tire and Battery Co. Jennings & Shumate Orchard Filling Station Gihbons Filling Station KAMKLA: Guy Noideii LLGIN: E. F. Hug & Co. ! SUMMKRYILLE: ' J. J. Wagner ' , ' ! PALMER JUNCTION: Frank Baker ' -T J UNION: HjA Oregon Trail Garage Brown's Garage LMBLEIt: , V A. I'ngc & Son ALICEL: "jr J,' Bryant & Bryant COVE: t W. F. Breshears I-conaid Towle " " MINAM: " ('oft and Fleccr ISLAND CITY : T" " Clyde Kiddle W John Lindsay ,.3 FLETCHER OIL COMPANY T. R. MAXWELL, Mgr. A' HOME COMPANY The Chevrolet sales organization, endeavoring to keep pace with de mand for the new car, has opened two more zone offices, one at Indianapolis, Ind., and another at Jacksonville, Kla., an uddition.il connecting links between factory and dealer. The company now has :'; zone offices In the Tailed Slates. Inn ing the summer the Jacksonville branch w 111 erect u large brick storage building. The Indianapolis office, known as Zone office has been es tablished at M Monument Circle, Indianapolis. 11 Is in charge oi Charles K. I.ee, who w ill ass inu the responsibilities heretofore spread between three 7.0m? offices in adjoining states, his Jurisdic tion covering alt except one or two counties of Indiana. It'-cause of the geographical convenience o( nearby Chevrolet parts and car slocks, the Indhinapolis offices carries no slock. According to C. K, lawson, as sistant general stiles manngi'r of the Chevrolet Motor company, In creasing volume of sales through out Indiana necessitated establish ment of the Indianapolis office to assure prompt attention to t !) needs of the 87 direct dealers und the 34 association dealers now In eluded 111 the zone, The new factory branch at Jack sonville, now Intemporury quar ters at IHC Main street, was open ed recently as Zone Office ( when it became apparent that " Hit: fa cilities of the Atlanta, tin., zone office were inadequate for the rapidly Increasing Florida trade, t'ndcr the direction of Zone Sabs Manager Chesli,- A. Smith It will serve as the distribution center for Florida and southern (Georgia. Pluns art1 being draw 11 for it two-story building to provide re serve storage lor curs und a $uu, 000 stock of parts. LIGHT TESTING STATIONS ARE BEING PUT IN Several garages and service sta tions about the elly are installing equipment for testing and Certify, lug lights in compliance with the new slate law. A'ery briefly the law requires that all cars be equipped wit h lenses, jrlobcs and reflectors that pass the Notice! KOOll AMI 'WINDOW S'Itl''.l:.NS All bliA'H, lllfUlR III our tsliop I'rUin IjOW. C. L. Fi.sk, Prop. 1 HIS Ji-rri-rsmi St. Farmers! Attention! U-FT. STRAIGHT BLADE WEEDER! $110.00 Caslu La Grande Iron Works BRING US YOUR STARTING (UXGHTING BATTERY DO nut neglect your utartlntt and lighting battery. It requires cure and attention. We are battery . expert una win innpett anu huvisg you Mnoui 5 your battery free of charge, regardless of its make. nepairs muoe at moucraie rates. The "Extoc" Startinz and Lighting Battery SiajitK for tiifilitj- ami f made la nil for any cur, llrlng ik jour hallrry trouble, FRED T. ISLRGESS laos JeffciHon Ave. The stations in I.u Grande thtt have applied for appointments from the slate us official testing stations are 1. C. Smith, I'erkius Motor company. Auto Klectric Service company ( Kd Kiesland). and lib- Willard Mattery sla::?u (Dale Cox). HAS N V.W CAIt Cecil llolton of the (Irnnde ttonde Meal Company Is the own er of a new Chrysler Four. Coach, purchased this week of Leo Frcncli Chrysb-r nnd Franklin denier. ItAOIATOIt YVOItK ri:.M)i:u wo it it UODV WOltK W. V.. Com m 111)1 Jefferson Ave. Keeping Up With Racine We sell a great many tires, more and more as the months go by. This is partly due, of course, to the kind of service we believe you have learned to expect from us. It is due, even more, to" the kind of service we know you have learned to expect from RACINE Multi Mile Cords. Our sole ambition is to prove as satisfactory- as the product we sell. La Grande Filling Station Wins liy Fair Dealing" J. F. HEASTY, Prop. WILLYS. TTvT"r?"L anu '"" t'"li'"liJ"lii""!1 'W"o"t'o r.1! CARS You Can Count on Keeping Your WillysKnight Two or Three Times as Long as Other Cars yjNY one of the more than X 200,000 owners will tell you that buying a Willys-Knight isn't merely making a car purchase . . . He will tell you it is the best investment you could make in present and perpetual car-satis-faction. From the first mile smooth, running, quiet, powerful. Better on every count at 10,000. Still smoother, more silent, more and more powerful at 25,000. And at 50,000 your Willys-Knight is a quieter and more efficient car than the day you bought it. To this exceptional engtn eflFI ciency is added another exclusive advantage absolute lack of vi bration, due to the Lanchester Balancer. The Willys-Knight is the only automobile in the United States equipped with this device ... No valves to grind. No carbon troubles. The patented sleeve valve idea gets rid of both, com pletely . . . The only motor that actually improves with use ... In 14 years, a Willys -Knight engine that has ever warn out has yet to be recorded. WI KN LLY IGH rur-ryllnJrr miJtlimm $129! fa $1695. Slt-cylinJtr irWfj fnm flHS to $249!. Ail prtcu . a. i. Toltde. H'l mint (A, rff At It change pricu and iptcificatiani u ::!k-jI nnlic. Gettings & Hanks J3L J 312-1 1 JEFFERSON ST. LA GRANDE, ORE.