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-j Motoring News Want Ads VOLUME XXV. SECOND SECTION LA GRANDE, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2-t, 1926. NUMBER 137 ? , V it i i s A i : ; REVIEWS DECADE OF ROAD WORK Gross Expenditures of Commission Have Been . $99,001,922.05 HAI.KM. Ore. Dee. 24. CAP) The end of thiH year rounds out n full d ecu do hIiico tho Inauguration of tho present Hlato highway pro Brum by the legislature 'of li$.7, Hiiys the bienniel report uf tho Ktalc highway department. The highway system Is 4,408 miles have heen paved 2,137 miles Improved with crushed ruck or gravel surfacing, and 2.4!) 1 miles by grading. Thin duett nut Include furoHt roads on the stale highway system, which ure constructed un der supervision uf the I'nitcd Sta tes bureau of public roads which reports a totul of 371 -miles of crushed rock or gravel surfacing and 4il miles of grading. Also there has been 'ouslructed on the Htutfi system In (.'rater lake nation- May Xmas 1926 Be a Joyful Day ruout This Broad Land of Ours. LA GRANDE FILLING STATION KUHN & ZWEIFEL . . ,; On Highway to Island City ; : Cor. Jefferson and Hemlock Touch the S IMMEDIATELY, the Buick engine starts. The weather may be bitterly cold, but Buick has a high speed start' ing motor, Automatic Heat Control and Thermostatic Circulation Control. These three Buick features mean easier starting and smoother perform ance 365 days a year. Buy a Buick. You will enjoy driving it! THE GREATESTglJIQIEVERBUILT JENNINGS & SHUMATE Adams Avenue . ?JTZ S'uSrS special government uppropriuuou. j lu addition Home counties have ! improved sect lo ns of utute hlKh-1 way with their own forces or by; contract of which the utute depurt- ment does not have u record. Slate j highways within Multnomah coun- ty und through incorporated cities of more than 2000 population have, been Improved without assist a nee from the state. Gross KxjiciidUliiivs Gross expenditures of tho high way commission in the 10 years, not including market roads, total lMnl. "22.05 of which $12,575, 87U.4U is county funds, $9,K7,4 1 4.- 65 government funds. railroad funds, and 975,U8M56.1 stato fundH. Of the state funds 15,1)40,531.19 has been used in tho payment of principal und In terest of bonded Indebtedness. During tho two years now closing, excluding market roads, $29,314 7 US, HZ has been spent, of which M8.53X.414.20 lx state funds, , U42,y i4.li3 county. $1 11.417.33 rail road and $2,512,0 7. GC federal funds. Stale highway bonds sold In' the i. years louu .-u.uu oi "' " 2,U33,2.-0 has matured and been 1 'when better automobiles are builtTI buick will build them jf Government Estimates 21,627 Died Of Auto Wreck WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. I' I. (Inched table, increased from ft. 850 The department of comiuerccj in lDL'J to 111,148 in 1U-5, and the announces thut in the registration . corresponding rates were 11.4 a(id area of the United States there) 17-4. were 17,071 accidental deaths In t lu the CO cities for which si mi hi r 1915 charged to automobiles and) other motor vehicles (excluding moturcvcInM). und that the death ! I'lilo frimi thin din tun u-nu 17 linr KUi.fioo population against 15.7 In 1!I24. 14.1) In 1923. 12.5 In 1022 and 11.5 in 11121. , . I It should be noted, however, that tho deaths assigned to auto- moblle accidents do n include those due to collisions of automo biles with streets curs und with ruilroid trains. Therefore, as in Lit 2 5 there were 418 deaths due to ..r ,.ut..r..l.llu It It . , ,M due ... sions with railroad tntins. these deaths If added to the 17,571' as- signed to automobile accidents ciueiu is not always repurteu on would make for the registration death certificate. How Impor ureu a grand total of 18.335 deaths "t factor may be. however, due to uccidents in which uutumo-," "ell illustrated by' the figure biles tero involved und would fur Samden which show that more ml8e tne mte from 17 to 18.8 l(ii0U0 population. Only HfM IV (VllL ; Ah fn l'JJo tho rcKlHtriitliin nroill included only 8U.4 per cent of the total' population of tho United Sta tes, by assuming that tho number of automobile fatalities reported In the registration area comprises Kit. 4 per cent of the number uf fatalities In tho United States it has been estimated that tho total number of fatuities in that year due to accidents lit which au tomobiles were Involved was ap proximately 21,627. In the 34 states for which Until are available for the five year por i iod 11)21 to 1125. the number of tlieso deaths as shown In tho at- ..,,1,1 loMvlnir ImmlM .mtHtumllni; 111 i... ....... ..r fin tic.ti Ami. . ittfiiixl lmiiiiin Tho anticipated income Of tllO t.iomnlnm i.f dcparlmeut for tho 11127-28 Is: State funds 17,3Kti, 507. !8. county cooperative funds $1,10(1.00(1; federal uid $2,212,272. 68; miscellaneous cooperative funds $120,000; total f20.8U.780. In the estimated receipts from state funds motor vehicle license fees are e.vpecled to yield $9,271. j $1)0 and gasoline taxes $7,104,300. Total obligated expenditures for 1027-28 total $17,923,415.02, leav- ing u balance of $2.81t5,3i5.iU j available for construction work ! dining the blennlum. The commission recommends that no new state highways be added to the state highway mup , until the present system Is coin .pletcil or furthw: advanced,. Injuries During 1925 data are available, the number uf deaths Increased from 4.415 in 1021 to ti,3.'.S In'liiiTt, and tho rate Increased from 15. X to 21.2. Ah has been frequently pointed out, uncoirec'ted automobile fatal ity figures, especially in cities, may be very misleading, becuuse fatal accidents frequently occur outside cliy limits, though the Injured are hurried to tho city hospitals und so Increase tho city death rate. The second column in the table shows how many such deaths are known to have occurred in the year lit 23, though for many of the cities these figures should undoubtedly bo much larger, fur the place of uc- per -than hair or the deaths were uuo I to accidents which occurred oul sldo of tho city. ' OroKim HI iipiwiiim (Uom ft autu Injuries In 1125, compared with 144 In 11)24 and 120 lu 1123. The percentage ' per ltl,0(Hl popu lation last year was ltl.7 com pared with 17. 3 fur 1124, a decrease for this state. I Sales Outlook Good," Packard Manager Finds I'Jvery Indication Is that business activity vlll continue on a steady level UltriUg U1C WllllCl" 111 UIO op- I Inloii of It. 10. Chamberlain, sales "manager of tho 'Packard Motor Vr tumimin. imiiiuciiuni nun JllSt fiulHlied II Il'lp . Ul'Olind the United States during which he dis cussed Voiulltions with . JNickard representatives frtm every retail sales district lu the whole country. "The outlook for general Indus try appears quite favorable," he said, "The Industrial activity of the country is steady und Is being carried onv with none of the over expansion that often 1h regarded as it danger signal. Confidence of automobile manufacturers in tho general business situation is shown by the fact that the Industry will make 4.500,000 cars this year us compared with 4,'JU0,000 last year. Packard business has been uni formly good this year, . ."Throughout thu entire country un a trip Just completed we found only two loculltles In which gen eral business was not good. - One was In the northern part of the center portion und the other was lu the south. Tho low price of cot ton In the south, however. Is pot nearly as serious as many persons believe because of the generally good condition of other things." ("hambetialu found, he said, prospects very bright for even greater business In aulomobilo sales in the spring with low stocks! of curs lu the hands of distributers to meet it. 'Sleeping" Girl Commits Suicide H.U.KM, Ncbr., Die 24 (AP) Irene Kelly, IS-ynar-old student j r Per in. Slate Teachers college, W host loilf spells of Sleep have bulTlerl pbyslclniis In this vicinity, uas found d(ad, UMKifently a sin cid", on Hit! Purlington t racbs here yesterday. About six weeks ago the gh I fell asleep and wtis not awakened for 24 lpmrs, Two weeks biter she again fell usleep, remaining In a coina-toso condition fur 6 ' bonis. rl'en days a Tier aualfenlir; from t hat sleep, she again r lapsed and was not awakened for 72 bonis. Kxumlning pbyslcbins milrl slie wns not siiirerliig from sleepln-; SlcltllCHS. Eastern Prexy j Meet ihe newly ftwui president ef ih Ki'iern lsirue. flcrinad1 J li'eisiriMn of U'utfrliiii v Conn. Wets num. m former Y (. mM n ,, n,j a promin'-m iiorney in the fst. uc ied th leie ln O Neil, who ws one of the country's Itest mronned lnsei;itl men Wf-ismsn is in yvurn elrt uid the voiiiikcsi to ver hlil (he omf in Jh- esstern cireuit. Me was preMident of ihe Wulfrbury club In M. IU24 and lli2u. his teiinm win nii two pvi.tiuni duiinj tl.ai Unio, Opera Star Bum it (Iracey. of Geneva, N. Y., won Hf-hoUirKhlp at the Kustmun School of Music. Rochester, N. Y nnd went fibn-ud to continue his study, lie has Just tlnlshed ft short viHit home, with the triumph of a debut lu grand opera ut Naples to tell the folks about. , , General Motors Sales Abroad in Year 86,596 Cars "The sales of our overseas deal ers," says Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General .Motors," in the first nine months of this year totaled 86,510 cars, compared with 67,760 cars Inst year, an In crease of approximately 28 pet cent. "It will bo noted that the unit sales In the third quarter of this year, and the atimo remarks apply to previous years, uro loss than Iho previous quarter and. us a matter of fact. In tho case of 1126 are less than tho corresponding quarter uf 1125. This Is not duo to any change in trend of export operations, but Is due to delay In getting new mo dels under production on account of the Increased number of assem bly plants that have been estab lished during tho past year or so lu various places throughout the world. These figures are the sales to dcnlers of Chevrolet, Pontluc, Olds mobile, Oakland, Uutclc nnd Cad illac. In all countries of the world, except the United Stalos and Dom inion of Cunadi, und do not In clude sales, .of i(Vuxhall Motors, Tit'a.i . or" -overseas sales'of tlVo, pro-' ducts of Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing company." Chrysler Demand Said Very Heavy "An unprecedented demand for the Chrysler Model ,''0," latest four-cylinder model from thp cor poration's plants thut has exceeded nil oxccotatlons of eoniDiitiv offi- r-hil rw.i.tlt.iu.u I.. Ii.ul 11. n l.r.wtnn ' tion facilities for this model In the company's Detroit fuetorlcs," de clares Tj. W. Weeks, local dealer. "Company officials Indicate that present orders on hand und future orders bid fair to continue at the record breaking point for this full sized cur until curly spring of 11127. "An analysis for the reasons for this uuproecdented success, ac eurdiug In J. Fields, vice presi dent In charge of sales of the Chrysler corporation, reveals the fuel I hat one of lite prilieipul fac tors 1m (he unusually roomy ac comodations lu the Model "50." Motoring Mother ioose .Mary hud u little car, litilll very long and low, And everywhere that Mary went The (Nir would Iry to go, , i A rallrniid crossing she espied- (Her faiills, oh. please excuse 'Mil I She tried to beat the train and now Kite rc.-ilM in Ahr-um's booxum. It Is a bad praeilee this one of believing that yoti cannot drive so well when the flash light's rays ure darling about In the driving eoin pjirlmciil. There ulways Is. the chance that the oil pressure gunge or the ammeter will be registering trouble that might become serious before the driver rcalfx.cd It unless he has , his dash light burning. Furl her mure, the speedometer cannot be seen and ope Is robbed of all defense In event of arrest for speeding. Wc suppose a cur Is the only place where that tired finding' Io n-ally nu advantage. And while you're oiling und greasing the car, you can take out the promiscuous sojieuks. Dumb Mechanic: Mlsb-r, they ain't no promiscuous on u Cadil lac. Oflen tt (s possible to gel away frttin glaring lieadlightH by driving behind unother cur. The baek of Die first machine retlerls your own light's rays and affords a handy guide. It might pay to try this wbeiiie some dark rainy night. Xo matter how well one may know a. road, It doesn't pay to lake fitmiliar curves and hills at too high a speed. One may know the physfcul features of the road per fectly, but traffic conditions al ways present an entirely new pic ture un any well traveled highway. AUTO SHOW SET FOR JANUARY 29 San Francisco Event Will Be Held Earlier to Benefit Coast Automobile dealers and distribu tors In Hun Francisco are already ut work and the .preliminary de tails ure under way preparatory to the opening of the elovonth unnunl Pacific automobile show In the Kxpusltlon auditorium Jan. 20. This was the announcement mucin by Oeorgo A. Wahlgreon, veteran impressurtu of automobile shows, who is in full chargo of tho Larratigements. The Han Francisco Motor Car Dealers' association, through Its executive committee, announced the 1127 show would be much earlier than usual lu order to care for.a number of matters: first tho early date would provide California und Pacific coast motorists with first-hand views of all the new stuff almost as soon us It couldbe shipped to the ooust from the Now York show the first week in Janu ary; second, It will afford motor oar und uccessory dealers through out tho coast territory un opportunity-of mooting and fueling the pulse, us It were of the coast uuiu mobiio merchandising field. Anol her Factor Told An additional factor, It Ih said, is the undercurrent of - rumors and unconfirmed . reports from tho eastern automotive centers of elab orate color schemes, special body design and of radical changes in certain lines. 'The motoring public Is cuger to r.ee tho very lutest, whether the now stuff a p poti is to the Individual or not," said one leading motor car man, "Tho sooner he boos all the various Hues, the soonor he will be able to decide upon his new car." . . , According to Manager Wahl-' green, a stuff of artists and design ers already Is at work upon tho layout of the 1127 show. 1 "We do not want to fall behind our record of ulways having the most beautiful motor car exposi tion in the world," said Wahlgreon. "The decorative plan will be as elaborate as any of past years and ! am confident tho blending of the colors und the setting will bo more beautiful than any uf those thut huve gone before. , OiH'ii One Week The executive committee of tho San Francisco Motor Car Dealers iissoclutiuii, under which uusplcoa the event will bo held, aunounco that the display Will bo open from Saturday, Jan. 29, to thu evening ! of Sunday, Fob. 5. This, they be lieve, will give every motorist und every dealer within hundreds of miles of San FrunclHco un oppor tunity of visiting the show and studying its displays. Officials decluro tho coming event gives promlso of attracting greater Intorost than usual und point to the fact thut many of the larger distributors und dealers who I space in tho H,udon-Ksscx garage plan on exhibiting lu the show al-1 in the Uosech building on Adams reudy uro ut work on tho designing avenue. , Tho movo was muda be nt tholr exhibit spuco und planning chuhc. of tho bettor location on its decorative scheme. llesldos tho neuutiful exhlhits of w" "v-in spuco ux me joii motor cars there will bo u veryurson ltttloii. ; . ' comprehensive display of uccesoi- Th" "hop, which lu owned by les und fitments such as tho motor-j l''W"k Kolly. has been oporatinn; 1st of today demumls for his cur.!0"1 short time, liesldos all vul Applicutlons for space in both pus-1 L'ttnlzlng' and tiro repairing lino senger car and accessory divisions' WUH added - to tho business this already tentatively placed with thoWeolt management Indicate an over-sub-! Tires will bo collected from anv scrlptioit lung before the dates' when reservations ordlnurily would floBO. yi:wvv XMAS 1926 May It Be' A Merry One To All Itll HEASTY'S FILLING STATION, 1 ' Corner 2nd CHRISTMAS The Season of Happiness . Good Cheer We Extend Our Greetings to One and BUNTING TRACTOR COMPANY Dealer ' 'jilcrplllnr" Tturloi's "Mitlt" (OnibiiUNl llartvlers lcffcrsMi ami J.lni htrecbi Kelly Shop Is Now Located in Roesch Building Tho Kelly Urn ahop lien ' moved from 1312 JMfnrnon avenue to Adums uveiiue und becuuso thero place within the city limits brought to tho shop and repaired und returned. Kelly unuounces. and Adams . f and AH Hit
