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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1927)
lEwnttt Motoring News Want Ads VOLUME XXV. LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 19. "NUMBETTW 1 k m Si p. TRY OUT OILING IN WEST OREGON Small Section of Highway Near Astoria Will Be Treated This Year ASTORIA', Ore.. Apr. 23 A curt-rul study of the Itoosevelt hletuvuy from Seaside south to tho Ialon county Hue la belnir miido liy highway rnsinecrs preliminary to (lid road oiHne which will prob uhly be undertaken this summer. Consideration of the condition of the road and all available data lias led to u decision not to under take the Rcnerul oiling- to the por tion of the highway from Seasldo to tli annou Ueaeh junction. This is the older portion of the rovd nnU tho engineers bellevo It to' be In better condition for oil treatment, neeortllntr to W. I. -$ry toltade a car 2-wheel brakes next mar 5rrior Quality Now Low Prices Coach Tourinf Cauo StcUn Landau- $625 625 6 5 625 725 7S5 ; f, n. h. firtnrv,' "" apmciticttfonmnvliitct to chin ii h iibmt nuc.co. . O 9 GETTINGS & HANKS Cor. Fir and Jefferson Li .6b NasKlias The extra power that makes Nash a more capable car to drive, particularly 0:1 the hills or in dense traffic, is lircctly due to extra-efficient design. The Nash Straight Line Drive, for instance, diagrammed above. Nash power flows directly from the cnRine to the rear axle i;i a straight inc. There re no angles along the route to waste energy, as there woul.l be if the motor were mounted parallel to the frame, as the ordinary motor is. The Straight Line Drive accounts in part for Nish aggressiveness for the powerful 20 DiSjvrvnt Xuxh Mudcls al it r. ...fno Clarke, division highway engineer, who was in Astoria today. Tho portion of tho Hoosevelt highway front the Cannon iicuch junction to tho Hamlet junction ivc eive a light tlusl-lnylng oil treatment, it is practically been decided that this surfacing; Is too new for general oiling. Ksperienco In Tillumook coiyity under uomewhat similar condi tions have shown that general road oiling Is practical In tho coast region where tho rock surfacing Is In good condition. Failures have orcurred tlFormiy In places where the road was not In the best condition when It was oiled. This hus led to the decision to defer general oiling south of tho Cannon Beach junction for this year. The rock now being crushed for use in maintenance of tho Hoose velt Highway in Clatsop county is all being washed as It comes from the crushers. This is being done because of tho necessity of having the rock entirely free from dirt when It is used In connection with the oil treatment. See what you get! Today's motor car lias 4 -wheel brakes. Speed dictates it. It's safer to be up-to-date and it's good business. In addition, the Whippet offers these features:- ' 55 miles an hour; Unequaled economy; Oversize tires; Snub hers; Adjustable steerina wheel; Force-feed lubrication; Silent tim ing chain; More leg room; Narrow body posts for greater vision. VERLAND Leads the World in Motor Car Value can see extra m pick-up at low speeds (where you need it most). You will always notice it is the Nash that gets away soonest when the trafiie starts. The Straight Line Drive also avoids wear on the universal joints, and thereby pre vents noise and looseness. Of course, it takes a little longer and costs more to builj Nash this better way But any Xqsh owner will tell you it maUcs a lot of difference in the reiulu he r,cs. Trivi a Nash, before you decide which car to buy! from $10:.2 to $2370 JMivcretl TRACHSEL AND TREKELL 80(i Adams Ave. Phone Main 650 rfT - rrx'T-n n a n r 1 Purchasing Value of Dollar Greater ; Now When Used Buying Automobile The analysis of tho purchasing value of the dollar as measured by tho trend of wholesalo and re tail commodity prices this year In comparison to previous yeara una ! placed the automobile Industry, In directly at least, in a, most favor able light, according to Henry Krolin, vice president of tho Paige Detroit Motor Car company. ! As a basis for comparison, tho Detroit executive cites the latest .report of the National Industrial 'Conference board. The board 1 fouud thut tho-dollar hfiH fluctu ated less than five cents cither way In its purchasing value of com modities since 11(21 and may bo considered as having be route stab ilized at this level. The averago weekly wage earnings have mora , than held their own over tho same ! yeara At the same tlmo very sub stantial reductions In tho prices of automobiles havo been made ul ni oat annually. Autos Reduce Trices "In view of the board's find ings, the sharp reductions in tho prices of automobiles . over tiffs period, bringing them within tho roach of virtually -overy wtige earner, arc doubly remarkable," Mr. Krolin said.. "Tho savings ef fected at the factory Y massed production and improved processes hnvq bem passed on to ihc public regularly in lower prices until to day an extended probo would bo required to find an industry-giving the dollar value offered in automo- ; bl'es. -While tho purchasing value of the dollur measured by living cost for tho wago' enrner has re mained unchanged' since 1 92 1, tho value of the sumo dollar in the purchase of an - automobile has steadily reached new high levels. : "These reductions. In spitoof a! vastly Improved automobile! The ; cur of today offers greater com- j forf, safety, beauty and durability i and i In innumerable ways tho superior product. We havo tho Tour-wheel hydraulic brakes for greater safety; , a rooinlor, better finish interior and larger, strong er springs for comfort; improved design and appointment, more at tractive color combinations and equipment for greater beauty, and material throughout which os mre longer life to the product. The four-speed transmission In tho I'ulge""S" peinilts of sustained high speed and relieves the strain of long distance motoring. There arc also balloon tires, full pressure oiling, silent chain drive, buluneed clutch, ulr cleaner, postlvely driven water pump. countcr-balaneed crunltshul't, tlujrmostat. dush gaso line gsugu. automatic locks, super ior Interior and lacquered exterior finish, one-plece windshield, and other Improvements too numerous to mention, KMrleiicy Is Secret "How does the automobile' .manufacturer sell this superior au tomobile at- so greutty reduced prices? Tho answer is efficiency. whv - V. wer v r:rrov xtacu 'JL with' a capital MK Several years ago, at the 1'ulge fuctory, 412 iuon were required In the .final assem bly lino to produce 1(10 curs a day. Today, only 34u men are employed In the same line to produce 350 curs a day. Thus, in this ono in stance, a saving or 188 days wages is effected on every U0 curs, Thia saving is due to a better conveyor system and to the employment of special tools, I'alge formerly had IS grinders attended by, 18 then for grinding bores. Now-a single honing machine, operated by ono man, does the same work and with more efficiency. . A ground cou veyor. until recently, was omiHoyed to carry frames through paint ovens. Now the factory has two ovens, each 270 feet long, suspend ed from the roof, thus saving S3, 000 square feet of floor space. Kuur machines used to work night and duy shtlng the width of the hoH on connecting rods. Today, a single coin press does tills work and Is npt busy all, day. Gasoline has been replaced by city gas in operating motors on block test stiinds with equal results und a Having of 75 per cent. ' "So reads the factory records; a story of greater efficiency at re duced cost! There Is another Im portant factor worthy of consider ation. How many purchases of the nverago American havo a life of service equal to the automo bile? Very few, indeed, in spito of the fact that the automobile invariably faces ' severe tests of weather, bud roads, heavy trafric and careless usage." Use Ford Track To Haul Giant Logs To Mills The Fork truck is put to strenu ous service in the woods of Washington,-where tho fir trees grow to a sle rivaling that of tho sequuhui of the same region. William Sitinke, of Olympla. Wash.,, operates a fleet of fourteen Kord units, most of them truckH. Using tho trucks with trailers, he and his associates dully haul logs Healing fifteen hundred board feet from tho woods to the mill, often i distance of miles over a. dirt road. . The fir block on the truck In me accompanying photograph meas ures but two Inches less than seven feet in length, and bus a diameter at six und a htilf feet. Five-other blocks were tal en from the same treo; the smallest was of the Kit-nre lenglh and but five Inches less In diameter. "We wouldn't have anything but it Kurd declare Mr. Zutike. Kurd und Kordson haulage units find wldn application in Washing ton. which has become the great est lumbering state in the union Klvo hundred mills cut more than four and a half billion bourd feet yearly,' and three hundred mills manufacture seven nllllon huiii'mpm. : There are1 three hundred cstabllsh cd logging camps and numbers of planing mills and woodenware , plants. "Tho camiis employ a to tal of nearly seventy thousand ItiLlloon tire ure sufrhienily dif ferent In cousl ruction to reiiulrt different repair treatment, even . when making roadside repairs. For J instance, u close-woven fiibrk patch should not be used In bal- loon tires even though It Is very satisfactory when used In regular I ! tires. - A close-woven fabric patch tu iittuiiiiv hiaw und stiff and does I not flex easily enough to become un Integral purt of the balloon tire unit and as a result may cause srrlous injury. Speclul balloon tire patches may be purchased which are light and thin, yet possess great stream h with suppleness und flexibility. X plaster cord patch has been designed for balloon tin" which serves the same put-pom: as u htowout pulch In regular tires. Cattle Goverr..T.i l-olorado Iibh hlrrd a pilot 11 years olrlrr than tho statoCov. 'rnnr William II. AdMma. know:i lo Colorado pcoplo bh Oovrnur Hilly. Tho now executive has dl vlded niont nt. hla lis yeara be tween the ranrh saddle and a S.M!-: ate seal, lie was lint clivied In Ihe k'Elrlalure In 'Ji.'i. He has wore than 4oou eattlo oit" his ruuclic. lit fMi S. P. Goes Into The Bus Business BAN KItANCIHCO, Apr. S3 Al') ,Thu Southern 1'iicMo company entered tho highway motor trans port Hold when it filed with tho secretary of Btuto at Haeramento article of Ineorporatlon of tho Southern I'aclflc motor transport company, a California corporation to operate as auxiliary to tho rail road ucllvUtes. , The articles numed Sun Francis co as the business center of tlm proposed new corporation and tho purpose as beiitfr "to own, hold, control, lease, purchase, sell, op-" erute und mumiffo motor stuKcaund motor trucks on streets and hlgh wuys public or private, within und without tho stato of Culltornla." Lock washers can be a help or u hindrance, depending upon how tightly thi nut Is drawn up. - In one Instunce a very heavy washer was used to hold a nut that could not be drawn up very tight be cause of the difficulty of applying wrenches. Thus the spilt ends of the washer were free to scrnpo against the side of tho nut and tho frame on the car; causing a not so that wus difficult to locate. The remedy was to use a lighter wash er. . ., . ' -Fll say she does! It seems to us this ad is a good place to air a few remarks on the in creasing value of time. A fellow who dropped in here the other day to buy a tire summed it all up about as well as, anybody, could. " .. "In the old days," he remarked, "when we traveled by stagecoach, things were different. It didn't bother a man much if he missed one coach, even if it would be - two or three days before the next one came along. "Today, you'll hear the same sort of citizen bawl like a bee-stung bear if he misses the first compartment in a revolving door." Quality That Saves lime What has all this to do with Good year Tires? Well, quite a good deal. A good part of our retail tire busi ness is with men whose time is worth ' something. They can't be fooling around with unreliable equipment. They want to be free of annoyances and delays caused by tire trouble. So they buy Goodyear Tires. They know by experience that Goodyear quality and Goodyear serviceability W. H. Bohnenkamp Co. TAXES INCREASE ON AUTOMOBILES Up 16 Per Cent While Registrations Rise Only 10 Per Cent WASHINGTON, Apr. 23. While the total Increase of motor vehicle I registrations for tho United States ilu lfll'O was 10 per cent, tho In crease In the total umount of spe cial taxes (exclusive of the per sonal property tax) collected from motor vehicle ownors by tho forty eight states und the District of Co lumbia wus 10 per cent. This is ono of the significant facts brought out in connection J with thy issuanco from the na j tlonal heudquarters of the Anieri- can Automobile nssoelutlon today of its motor vehicle reglstrutlon and taxation map for tho year 1920. Among other things the map shows; . - i Average for Country G-I.Gtf I First, The average per vehlclo tax levy $21.60 In 1926 as compared with $20 In 1925, an Increase of 8 per cent In a per Cud of twelve months. The per vehicle tax hits Increased K3 per cent , since 1119 When It stood at 8.65. I Second. Bpeciul taxes collected from car owners : by . the slates I reached a new high peak last year, with a total or $475,885,bB3 as (compared with $408. 877, 70s In 1926, an Increase of $ti7, 007.875. Third. The states' revenue from' the gasoline tax increased 27 per cent In 192G, the total being $187, 003,231 as compared with $148, 258,087 the previous year. Seven "Million" States Seven states lius boro than a million registrations in 1026, these maintaining tho' same order as they hud the two previous years. They' were: New York, 1,815.434; Cali fornia. 1.600.475: Ohio. 1,480.246: Pennsylvania, 1,455,184; Illinois, ' 1,370,503; Michigan, 1 .IJ and Texas. 1,049,809. Indiana, with 772.320 registrations, was tho next in line to the seven leading states having more than one million reg istrations. j In ' state fees, drivers' licenses jand gasoline taxes, tho highost j fivo were ' Pennsylvania. $35,327,- 131; New York, $28,780,421; Michi gan. $27,035,461: California, $24, 979.350, and Ohio, $23,076,139. In the amounts collected from the gas tax, California with $16, 502,123 led the list; next came Ohio with $13,257,266; Pennsylvania, $11. 78!. 87a;' Florida. $11,431,486 jund Michigan. $10,081,770. I Tho five states with the highest per vehlclo lax were: Florida, '$45.30; North Carolina, $44.60; I Oregon $40; South Curoliua $35.00; j jand Arkansas $34.50. Illinois with $10.20 had the lowest per vehicle tax levy, are about the best safeguards against tire trouble in this world. ' They know, too, that when all is said and done, they're buying mile age at about the lowest quotation on the market. Men whose time is valuable usually buy Well. , . . Value That Builds Volume So these men buy tires as they buy other things from a responsible merchant who handles nationally known goods of established reputa 1 tion and value. . That's the basis on which our busi ness here in La Grande has been built. We carry now the largest stock of tires in town. Our prices are frank and fair and based accurately on cost. We know nobody can beat the values we offer Don't' you think our lineup af fords advantages that you can prof it by? Don't you think it better to buy goo'd tires this way than to try to dicker and outsmart the other fellow at his own game? ; Sure you do. you 11 find it'll well as time. ,; save Proper Inflation Means More Miles "Tiro mileage, life and service depemt on several factors," ac- cording to W, C Perkins Klrostono, -deuler, i "Thf'Be factors Include tho tire, k driver, cur, roads; and last hut not least, on using tires largo onough for the hcavlost load . placed oa them at any tlmo and koeplng thorn Inflated to tho correct pres sure ' . 'Nearly every day some one will say to us," 'Why do some people get 26,000 miles from their tires when tho best I. ever cot la around 10,000 miles? How do you account for that?' , "Tho trouble Is not with tho tiros, but with tho way they aro overloaded or underlnflated. Noth ing man, beust or mechanical do. vlc3 car, Btand up under great abuse. The remedy is to provide tires lurge onough for tho maxi mum load that may b placed on them and to keep them properly inflated. "Rcusoiinblo care And regular In ppection of tires for minor In juries und checking of tho air pres sure will enable thu motorist to get tho most in mileage and useful service" .. . f Kxperiments havo shown that slow milking may reduce the per centage of butterfal In the milk. And in the end ' you money, as & :
