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. . . ., . ' . . ' ' ' ' . ' ' - - .. -. ... v . . ' . . '' . ;' ' ' ; " : -r. sV rw - i 1 MOTORING NEWS VOLUME XXV, LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 192k: NUMBER 130 AUTO SECTION O.S.M. A. DEPLORES PACE THAT KILLS Simmers Down Accident Causes and Finds Speed Is Cause bl the Most ' ! -x ! ' . The Oiviron Statu Motor asso eintlon after giving thought to the various causes of n eel dents sim mers the chief causes of accident! to tailing1 tho right of way from the other follow; fuilure to give signal of intent to Ktop or turn; cutting In uheud of he other fel low's car; und exceeding the speed limit. No driver ever Jeft home in the morning " with tho - intention of killing or injuring someone during the day. All accidents happen in emergencies, and any man who drives bo fast that he can not stop in time to prevent the taking of a life when that, emergency arises, is "exceeding the speed limit", no matter what the legal rate of speed may he. ( -In the residence districts where ears are parked on both sides of the street and children are, play ing on the sidewalk or op, the parking strip in front of their homes, any man who drives so fast that he cannot stop in time to pre vent killing or injuring- a child, is driving too fast, even, though the child may run from the sidewalk directly' n front of tho motorist. Children p)uylng in the violnity constitute iin emergency and the car should be under control so that In caseH of necessity it- enn he stopped instantly. In tho trrealest of all laws it Is written, "Thofi Shall Not Kill", and it behoves each and every motorist to regulate his speod and beware of- "the pace that kills". WILLYS AND HIS NEW WHIPPET COUPE 2&,'JBa fl " 1 yiuit""rr7 ""'n'ir ft " '.i.'.oamr'TOW8 "'SEEK AID OF US. 1 TO REBUILD ROADS When John ,. Willys, Toledo ittilninobllc nuiuufuelurer. piweil for this picture with Ills new model lii.p(t vi, ..i.twiiitiblliT ituluniry Inwin iu t(Miciisr n iw iini riniioren "price w iir" on low priced a m os had not actually begun. The i-oiiK shown hem will sell for Just flvcT dollars tho price of tho new Ford coupe. TIIONK 'MYNTKKIOt'S LHAKS It still happens that tires goiflat fur np apparent reason. Hunting fur the leak I'rofiuently is marked by failure. After trying everything else. Including particularly tho valve "insides," it nifcrht he well to suspect the tube wlvre the valve Is fitted into it; If the nut that holds the valve at this point can be turned easily with a wrench, the ehanees are that the leak has been discovered. ui:i;r ncs tight Tire weaf that usually is put iluwn t wheel-hearing looseness or some equally trying deficiency, very often merely is a matter of loose lug nuts. No mechanical op eration about the car is simpUer limn -tightening- them und- the. ro- wults certainly are worth it. Ford Dealers To Gather Here On Next Wednesday Kord dealers of all Kastern Ore gon and Washington will congre-j gale -here next Wednesday, Jan. IK,, at the I .a Grande hotel, when a one-day meeting will be held. (' W liowinkle, Portland branch manager of the company, will be here on that day and will he Iik charge of t lie session, A repre-1 sentattve group of dealers is nnliei-J pated and the local Perkins Motor company expects a worth-while and intersestlng program. which will be an Important one to all Kord dealers, it is said. ' Prices of Gasoline in Wide Range v Over Nation, llecent Survey Shows ' "Gee, your car sounds liko an old wreck. " ,Tlt Isn't tlie cur. It's the rum ble seat." U. of S. Calif. Wampus. No man should be a knocker un less he can stand s , few hard knocks himself. - ' ... , . WASHINGTON, V. C. Gasoline prices In the L'nitod States range all the way from .10 cents a gal lon to 17 cents for straight run and from 13 cents a gallon to 28 cents i for high test gas. . I - This wide variation In tho price, lot gasoline throughout the coun try wits revealed 'in u check-up by 50 motor clubs .affiliated with tho 'American Automobile Association and reported to national headquar ters here, ( The" check-up - by the nallmial motoring body showed that on No vember 22, gasoline was selling al 17 different prices. In order to secure .-an nee urate picture of the gasoline .price range on a given d)iy( identical forms were sent to every. A. A. A. club throughout-the country: the local clubs in turn checked the prices U their respective areas and return ed the forms U Washington. ' lowest Prlco J Cents The lowest price, on tho date of THE OMLYGAIVOF V ITS KIND IN THE WQKLD For numberless puzzled motorists Dodge , Brothers new Victory Six will simplify the problem of selection, for nowhere in the world is there a car like it. Greater' expenditure will not duplicate it. To possess this car's unique advantages ' you must possess this car. . A Radical Departure i:i Body Design In The Victory, for the first time in his tory, the body sill is eliminated. Body and chassis are built as a single integral unit. 1 Thus, the wide, deep chassis- frame of The Victory, now flush with the lines of the body, avoids the customary overhang of a wide body upon a narrow frame; and the chassis itself, rather than the body, supports all weight body, floor, seats ana passengers. ; Amazing Results 1 , The results of this construction are . astonishing. 330 body parts are eliminated. , 175 pounds of superfluous weight are cast off. The all-important CENTER OF GRAV ITY is materially lowered. Without the slightest sacrifice of head room or road-cleararkc, the over-all height of the car is also lowered one of the secrets of The Victory's great beauty. The amazing resources of the car's brilliant 4-DOOa SEDAN. F- O fi. DETROIT power plant are multiplied still further by perfect distribution and economy of. weight. . Power in relation to load is materially increased pick-upquickened fargreat cr flexibility achieved. 2 1 valid miles per gallon at 2 5 miles per hour is made possible FOR A IX! Incredible smoothness at high speed is anodier great gift of this new design! Elimination of back-wheel "chatter" when the 4-whecl Lockheed-Hydraulic ' brakes are quickly applied is still an other! And thanks to The Victory's low center of gravity and wide chassis frame, sway ing, skidding, tipping each a factor of weight and its proper and improper placement are reduced to a new and negligible minimum. Another New Safety Feature Yet Dodge Brothers have taken a further ' revolutionary step to insure the safest motor transportation it is possible to create. For the first time in automobile history,, they have applied the so-called battle ship construction to closed car designj In other words', the body has a double steel shell, locked together, with an air space intervening is actually TWO . bodies, one within the other yet lighter by 1 75 pounds and the safest body known. , the check-up was 10 cents for straight run and W cents for high test gasoline, at 1'coria, 111., and the highest was tl cents , for straight run and 2t cents for high test, ut i'hocnix, Ariz. . Proximity to sources of supply appeared to be a negligible factor in determining current prices, says tire A. A. A., since prices were in many instances higher close to the oil fields than they were al points to which a long haul was neces sary. I'rices at tidewater were on the wjiole higher than those charg ed at Inland points. The average price at pdinls along the Atlantic seaboard on .Novem ber Z'Z, the date of the nationwide check-up, was VI cents n gallon Tlie average price in the Missis sippi vulley region was li cents u gallon. 'J' he average prlee on tlie Pacific coast was 20 cents a gallon. I'rices Chango ltapidly( One of -the most striking feature's of the A. A. A. survey, Is its dis closure of the rapidity with which i prices change within small areas where basic conditions such as ! 'rentals, supply and -demand are the n:i 1110. Says tho A. A. A. state- !' meat: "(in the west coast of Florida, j for Instance, there was a range of prices varying five cents In a. dis- tauce of If- miles. Casollne sold ! for J H cents in Tampa. 20 cents in riant City, 21 miles away, und for, "K cents at Jikelaud, 11 miles! from riant City. Another instance, j in Indiana, disclosed that straight run gasoline- sold for Jfl.S cents anU-1 high test gasoline for 'I'l.'i cents, at I Columbia, while it sold for and IK. H respectively, at Kdtnburg I and Franklin, ten and twenty miles away." Wido Itaiigc in Illinois The widest price range was in Illinois whero tho price of gas ranged from-10 cents a gallon io cents, fort straight run gasoline and from 13 to 'it cents jl gallon forhigh test. Illinois has a two cent gasoline tax and in this, us well as In other stales where the price fluctuated widely from city to city and town to town, it was shown, that tho lax Is negligilile hh a factor in tho wide, fluctuation of prices. ( Tlie A. A. 'A. statement con tinues: "in the New Knglaud stale, far from the oil fields anil one of the greatest consuming sections, the priee of gasoline varied seven cents, ranging from 1 5 conts a gal lon to 22 cents for straight run and from 18 cents a gallon to 2f cents for high test, gas." American Motorists' As j sociation Urged Recon struction Appropriation - WASHINGTON . (AT) Apro priutiona for reconstruction of ledoral aid and statu highways In the flooded ureas of the United States ure recommended to con gress by tlie Autericun Motorists' association und various Interests within tho uffectcd states. Kfrort Is concentrated chiefly behind the so-culled Uowell high way bill, which would provide $lti5,0oo,000 In federal aid for tho fiscal yearn of luiio and 1131, There has been omo question over whether tho government should make additional appropria tions for repair of damaged roads, taking over the cntlro expense, or should shift the usual federal aid funds within each uffected state to the reconditioning of highways recked by the floods. Tho latter plan. It is feared, might deny as sistancu in other sections of those states.- J. ltorton Weeks, president or tho American Motorists associa tion, bus insisted to Iho house committee on roads that the flood ed slates are entitled to more us sistanco than that provided under the regular federal aid program. Under present provisions of tho law, he says, none of tho money set aside for federal aid may bu expended except in 1 ho manner prescribed by the government, und tho recent emergency has made special aid neeesssnry, "The value of highways. ' Weeks declares, "was demonstrat ed in tlie .Mississippi valley when rail .transportation was wiped out entirely and travel by water over the swollen streams was difficult, dangerous and slow. Without i good highways near the luundutcd j lerrnory, ineasun's oi renci wouiu i have been almost entirely Impos- j bible. . "Solution of the flood relief problem should include tlie con- st ruction of modern highways In j tho stricken areas, of a type sult uhle to withstand emergincy con- ! ditlons of the future. These high- j ways should tie strategically lo cated so as to be lie of maximum ! value and to be of greatest aid In evept of future disasters." In All America I -: no Better Built Car at the Rice ! More putter . , . tiiuro prI . . , more ntooilinrsn. A brilliant rhilnge uf pace. You Instinctively expect them. .Yon eotm-how know that's whrft you get in tho All Amcrlcaa Six, Dut conaiilrr these other rea rona for lis lirrinK stieeeaa. The ixactlng caro and crufianiannhlp with wrhlrlt the ear ia Iniilt. How marvrloiialy It survives the tests anil trials of time. ' ( Hero are stamina and endur-om-e that result only frinil All Amerinan rii(iuecrinR. rilg. ged, ovcrsiito unit. Ilulun w and simplicity of design. Month nfler month of pitiless tcstinj on Gcn- ' i erul Motors Proving Ground . . ami BUH-r-prccision construction throughout! That's why Its power, speed and smoothness ure mcusured !u tens of thousunds of miles. Why econ omy and dcncmluhlllty ore Oak land owners' by-words. Why All Americai! owners will tell you "No lieller built ear at the price!" landau Sriorl lluatl.t.r ' R ICES 4-tnor .1013 S2i....llM5 .1075 :br.oui.'1155 Un.lnti H(.nn..12f)5 AW.SVriW Potittar Six, l-ftoor Silan, $?4St All prict at factory, Mitwrd prlcoi In cud minimum handling ctutrgm. Katy to pay on thm liberal Central Motor Tlma Payment Plan, Special Sport Equipment A v I labia oa all body typtut. A wire wbecU lth tint pcla! front fen iter w 1th lira wrllsj ... two srrfM rlul lira lock and Jwklng rings . . . eullaiMlblff trunk rank f KM itra on open cura ... 9110 on Umm1 car . 6 diaa tfheoU wllh aama qulp men I, $H on onrn cars . . . HA5 oa doted modeLsw $1 04 ' ' - 'S?' i . . . i . --T-t'irrtffcjaa'T'. tirarr' ssssamr" SH,IH.. ii .laiM Bodirbyruhtr ' -1- JENNINGS & SHUMATE Pontiac and Oakland Dealers ' AlAMERICAN SIX XIP ritouucT of CENEHAL MOTORS Lire is puftzllnir. A rtit la Hoiiu-thln a inuii npf-ndH lialf Ills ttmo mitprlnir and tho other hult trying to keep Otlt. of. LOOK OVER OUR WANT ADS FOR BARGAINS GOODY A TTT W ' GOODYEAR the greatest name in RUBBER. Ihansi When No.ih sl!"I the waters Uldv. He Iiad his troiibh'S, Mfinie ns yon, Tor forty dnys lie drove the Art, Before tie found a ptnee to mik 'lli..r. iu ul,,1 in !.. ii lit!,, r,..- ..ir.,rfll.li!.' I .lit u ti u II don't liuve lime to reuli.t; it. Tunc in for Dodge Brothers Radio Program every Thursday night, 9 to 9:30 (Pacific Time) NBC Pacific Coast Network L. C. SMITH 5th and Depot Phone 175-J VicTOKY Six DODGE BKOTII tio, inc. THE SENIOR SIX AND AMERICA'S FASTEST FOUR ALSO ON DISPLAY le y aUWmaaTPHTaJI dASBaaaaBBBBMa Sec The NEW FORD i Coupe On Display At The Siiow Ilooms Perkins Motor Co. TUST look al this proof of Coodycar traction! See how the thick, sharp-edged blocks of the new " type All-Weather Tread engage the road in a safe and slipless grip! Sec how the heavy ribs on cither side of the tread's center insure smoother going and longer wear. These are some of the worthwhile things that make the new GOOD YEA It Balloon "THE WORLD'S GREATEST TIRE"! THE SPEEDWAY 30x3 K CI. Cord $5.75 made by Goodyear W H. Bohnenkamp Co. Superior Hardware
