La Grande evening observer., June 23, 1928, Image 9

Saturday, June 23, 1928
FORD PLANT NOW
' IN 26TH SEASON
Company 1 Celebrates Its
' 25th Anniversary
on'June 16
7VKTHOIT,, June 21. The Ford
hitnr cum puny hdtl n rwenty-flfth
birthday .Tone Ifi, Thin wllvor nnnl
virsnrj comos rtt a tlino when the
riirii:iy mn iho ljirutMt number of
men nnployfd in its Kptrntt lilunrs
Mncp it iH fivut oi-K'iitized, on '
.Juno Hi, 1903. Tho oml uf the
cjiiiirur-rfniiiry fintln the kIkuhUc
Ni;k of retooling the eompiiny'H;
phtnlH fir the production t the
now Mmhd A car neariiifc oomple
liun, nnd with on Incrc'iitflim rate of
production from day to day.
Within llM existence of only 2"
von the roo u rreH of the Kord
Motor company have jrrown from
nn original invosiment of a ft-w-tliotiKtindx
of dnlUttn to liundrodH of
niilllutiH. The first little factory
nivpretl Uhh tlian a nuurter of an
iicro. Tho lV-trolt plant area of tho
company today is more than 1 !(,
ncijcH of ground. The ail em
ploye who opernted that first fac
tory have multiplied until today
more than L'on.oim people in ninny
foiiiitrios are to he roomed on Iho
Bord payroll. Jn the I'niited Htaien
alone fhi-ro nre 30 modern plants
J n Soul h Anu'iiiii, t'uha, .Mexico,,
.urope, Kypt a mi Jupnn, foreiKii
ottjeeH 'or aHK'iuto oompanies are
located. J -Yum the plant of the
Kurd, Alofor .oompnny of Canada,
Ltd., the iJrHlsh Knipire in mip-
plled, with the exception of the A J. "I f K k mA
BrJlUU IhIkh, where other , great
plant Are located. -
The company durinB Its first year
produced J7iK curs. But In nine
teen yearn of production , of the
-Model T alone it made fifteen mil
lion enra of thin one model, nnd
u muny im 9000 cum have been
produced In n tdnjde day and more
than 2,im,iMM in one year. Henry
li'ovd htm Htated, 41 nee the work of
converting the plnnm for rhe manu
facture of the new Model A iepan,
that he confidently expects topro
duoe more than fifteen million of
the new model (cnr8, In much lenH
.than nineteen yearn.
' In the Detroit area alone, the
rnmpany'H plant expansion haa
"been characterized an the world's
inoMt unusual Industrial develop
ment. Krom the oriKinal little one
Mtory building ft. hus spreud to the
Highland 1'mrk plant, where the
radiator plant ts located: as. well
!ih the Kord textile and rubber re
elniin departments, the wire plant,
machine shops, artificial leather
pla.it, i hip drop fori a shops, and the
Henry Ford Trade School. At
J'Vrdaon, where most of the produc
tion operations are now centra listed,
tho company has its own blast fur
naces, power plant. ( the world's
tartest foundry, the machine shop,
motor assembly plant, coke ovens,
open-hearth furnaces, steel plant
and rolling mill, paper mill, cement
plant, kIiihs factory nnd other -activities.
J lore are also the Ktorajje
bins for coul, ' ore nnd limestone,
cajiahle of holding 2,0a0,uM -tons.
A wide vaj-lety of valuable by-products
are also made In this plant,
which is really one mammoth in
dustry composed of muny smaller
plants, end, one n huge example of
its-type,
Turning to Lake
Transportation
have shown an Increase over, thej
correspond tnjr monUi uf t he pre- j
viouri year, in the, United HtHtett,
Muy ilellveiies (o customers were
the lai'Kt'Ht In five .veal's, and the
'lust 10 days of, the month the lars-
ietU.of any corresponding period in
j ( . i history '
DETROIT CAP) Tho quest fori May increase was
economy In frelKht rates one of "unim-u uti a me wmi
the len.ilnir fncior nontflit bv Be-' "Veries tor toe uutouiotive
GARAGE
GOSSIP
A Standard 6-Volt
B
ATTE1Y
Your old battery taken in trade
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DALE COX
Graham Trucks ;
Are Changed To
6-Cylinder Line
A complete line of slx-cyllnilcr
trucks and commercial cars with
hifffer capacities, lonffor wheelbase,
.four-wheel brakes and many im
provements In motive power, con
struction and nppenrnnco has been
nttnpitnced by Qrtham. r-Brothors,
the trttck division' of Dodfi-o Uroth
ers. Inc.. SuppluntliiK tho four-cylinder
trucks In nil capacities, tho
new lino ranging from tho Pnck-
&K) hxpross to tho two-and-otie-
.J ,aHilf-ton sizes, offers greater power,
speed and . flexibility to fill the
transportation -demands of 05 per
Electrical
v Work
Speedometor
Work
Oil
Purolators
trolt's KiDnt' motor .industry is
turning steadily toward Qrcut
Lakes transportation. ' 1 ,, , ,
; Eaob new year gees an increas
ing number of nutomobitcs Bhipped
from ietrit flocks by nutomoutie
ferries frelKhturs anil ore carriers
as competition with the railroads
rises. , ThiB year, Qroat Lakes ship- ,
ping offlolals say, wlU see tho larg- 1
est number , of automobiles ever
shipped moving through the lake
regions to key bit ins on tho lake
shores. , 1 '. ' .
' The ' newest scheme utilizes
"wosto space" on freighters. It
embodies a plan for loaslng deek
spnee on. ore carrhira returning to
lmluth and Rtrperlor points after
the oro lias lei) unloaded ,at ae
trolt. The bouts wilt return from
Detroit luden with automobiles,
some of them carrying as many as
800 cars. Beveral companies havo
been organlze.d to transport auto
mobiles by this means.
Next to Detroit, Cleveland hns
become the greatest kautomobllo
distributing point In the world.
More, than 'U.0U0 automobiles will
be shipped from a single lakeside
pier during the present navigation
season, all of them ferried from
Detroit via Lake Krtc. One steam
Rhlp company alone operates daily
bouts to Cleveland with a capacity
of 600 cars. Overnight service is
maintained and cars loaded onto
tho , carrier at night nre delivered
to tho dealers at the pier in Cleve
land next morning. ) r
Boats'-from Detroit have an aver-
jago of eight and one half months'
I shipping time to Cleveland and
nuflalo. On tho northern lake
routes to Milwaukee, Dulnth and
Chicago tho navigation period is a
month less. An average of four
trips a week, with from 300 to 4"0
cars a trip, is made by one com
pany over the- northern route.
Other carriers make weekly trips.
The dangers of shipping automo
biles by water, always a great fac
tor In the past, are being reduced
by new loading and handling ap
pl lances, Only one. loss has been
reported this year In lake shipping,
when, a carrier ran Into a wind and
lndus-
tiy as a whole remained stationary.!
and notwithstanding tha many
people withheld purchasing new
Hiudebukcr and luqskine cars in
anticlimtlou of the tax reduction.
Oakland-Pontiac
Sales 128,305 In
Last Five Months
?Ho returned and Joft for noise' was ..purchasei from tho Oldsmo
I where ho makes his headquarter, bttu Hales company here.
j lluiw OMsmoldhv , ', lltnys Itiilck (
J. I). Stewart of La Grande H Korest ityder. of Elgin. 1s driving
the owner of nn Oldsinoblle which n new Ituick cote which lio pur-
Uuys Iltiittk
any ratten la driving a new
Buick coupe which he purchased
from M. J. Closs.
chnsedrom SL J. Oos Jva pranTdfl ,
denier.
Went lo Kiitcrprhie
W. K. Rnqhsnan, of thf Wka
& Buchanan garage, wgg th fcnter
prise on Chrysler 'business gamWy.
Hero on Oaklaiul-Poiitlao IIiisIiicsm
; R. O. Peterson spent Wednes
day In La Grumlo In tho Interests
of Oakland-I'outlnc. He went on
to liaker and stopped hero on his
ny back to Pendleton Friday. Mr.
Peterson expected to lenvo Satur
dny for California where ho will
spend a few weeks.
Pales of Oakland and Tontine
Sixes during the first five months
of this year reached a record total
of I2i.:!05 cuts, according to fig
ures released at the factory this
weik.
This volume of sales shows an
IncrcuBC of 4!,0li oy nearly C3 per
cent over the7;i,sSl Oakland-Poji-tiao
alios recorded during the first
five months of when the Oak
land Motor .company was moving
up from -ninth to fifth place' in
the uutoiHotlvo'fndustry. '
Ouklnnd executives are 'making
no predictions as to what position
the company mny nttain by the
end of the Veiir. They nmrely
point to the figures. One illumin
ating bit of data shows that when
the year-. 1!2S was only three
months old, the sales of Onklund
and Pontine Sixes hud reached a
total of 74.1 IK. which very nearly
equals the sales registered by tho
company during tho cnUro first
five months of 31127.
W. It. Tracy, vice president In
charge of sales, states that recent
ly Increased factory facilities now
ore udequute to take cure of tho
growing volume of orders.
Traffic Cop: , Come on. What's
the mntter with you?
Truck driver: Km well, tha'hks,
hut my engine's dead.
Detroit Motor News.
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Buys Dictator
Otto Hunter, of Enterprise, la
driving a new royal dlctntor Ktudo
Imker. The deal was made through
hi, J. Qoss.
Vialph Hallgarth. of Elgin, ,hns
purchased a WhipP't cabriolet
ooupo from Gettings fc Hanks,
Ilnys CVmnuindoi
' Kd Iterland, . of Hnterprlse, Is
driving n new commander Studn-
baker which ho purrhawd from,
M. J. (loss, dealer lir tho two
bounties, .
Oarogt' 1 Progressing Nkjely
Construction on tho new service
station nnd show room which Get
tings & Hanks oro Jmlldiug ut Kn
terprifio Is progressing very nicely
according io W. 1). Ha'nks . who
spent Monduy at lOiiterprlse whero
they have brunch hendmtarters. He
anticipates that It will be opened
by July 1.
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Ilnys OliryHler
K. L. Miles Is driving a new
.Chrysler '72 coupe which he pur
chased this week from Weeks &.
Buchapan, dealers In this section.
"Tls all rigHt then," said Mac,
as lie Rgepped politely out of way.
"I got orders to let no' traffic
through because of the rotten
bridge; but seetn' It's you, yer Hon
or, 'tis a pleasure go right ahead,
sleet storm early In the shipping
season. Ice formed on the decks Bfr!"Anierlean Legion Weekly.
ana in tne gate anu pitcntng or tne
ship 21 curs broke loose from their
holdings and skidded over boar.
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Growth
Must Be
Earned!
From one state to all states.
From a sectional product to a
nationarpi'oduct. ,
. Texaco is sold from coast to
coast. Wherever high quality
gas and oil are sold, there you
will find Texaco.
Such multiplied growth must
have been well earned, well de
served. The
Texas Co.
AUDMER PLAYLE, Agent
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cent of all business.' The new de
signations arc Merchants Express,
Commercial Truck, one and ono
qunrter ton, one and three-quarter
ton, nnd two and a half ton.
The new trucks are now on dis
play and factory production has
I been speeded -up to meet the in
creasing demand for six-cylinder
engines In commercial cars. Fine
appearance, regarded as a definite
business asset for the truck owner,
marks tho construction of the new
trucks throughout. Graceful lines
of the engine hood and cabs, with
bodies lacquered In attractive
colors, havo been .combined with
sturdiness and dependability long
associated with Graham Brothers
trucks,
Four-wheel brakes on nil models,
radiator shutters oporatod from the
dash and temperature Indicators
on tho instrument board' on all
models except tho Merchants Ex
press nre outstanding features.
Adoption of an Internal gear, four
speed transmission,-in tiio one and
one-quarter ton and heavier capa
cities, Insures two quiet high
speeds, longer 'engine life and
greater fuel economy.
la there any speed
'Motorist:
law here?
Native;, TJnw, you fellers can't
get through hero any too fast for
us.
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224,094 Autos
Delivered Last
May By Dealers
NEW YORK, June 23. During
the month of May 224.094 cars
were delivered by General Motors
dealers to consumers, according tto
nn announcement by Alfred P.
Sloan Jr., president. This perform
ance establishes a new high record
for the third consecutive month
nnd compares with deliveries of
171.304 fur .May, 1927, a gain of
52.730 cars, or 30.8 per cent. The
best previous month was April,
Ht2X, when 209,3i;7 car were de
livered. '
Hales by General Motors divi
sions to dealers totaled 207,325, or
an output of 34,143 cars or lfl.7 per
cent. This figure also constitutes
a new high record.
Deliveries Of
Studebakers In
May Sets Mark
SOI TFT URN!), Ind., June 23
Retail deliveries of Htudebnker and
Krskine cars throughout the world
during the month of May exceeded
deliveries for the same period last
yrar hy 34.5 per cent, according
to a statement Issued by the Htude
hnker Corporation of America to
day. May wuh the ninth consecutive
inum It tint Htudebaker deliveries
STOP!
Here Is The Place
Foiv
Expert
Brake Testing
On a scientific ma
chine. Adjustments
and Re-lining.
Rusco Station
Brandt & Jennings
Bohnenkamp Bldg.
Ilrliixo (r lliidk
V. . Hitnka flrovo to BoIhp
TufRduy. I'eturliink Woilnowlny
with a cm from tho territory hi'tul
riunrters. Mr. tnnlH uml K.
Oottlnffs nro Joint Willys-Overlnnd
(h'alci-H for Vnloii nnd Wullowa
counties. '
GttoH (o IN'ilillotoll
W. K. llurti'anun, rhl"'nlpr di'nliT
with I.. W. Wcnln. wcnt to !VmHr
ton Krlilny In tho IntornntH of hutU-na8.
from
ave
the Start
COME INI
SeeforYourtelf '
Wliij Experienced
Otvneri Demand
ttodiej by Flxher.
Vlitt our showroom
during the special
Fiiher Body Demon
itratlon now belnji
held. Dbn'ImlMlhi.
opportunity to gain
a aound underftand
Ing of iuch an lm
portant part of your
automobile. .
: From the day you cake
delivery, -ownership of
; a Pontine Six is an expe
rience in economy. ,
, Yoa save in first coat
because the Pontine
Six givea you those
advanced feature uou
ally found only in
higher-priced cars. .
You save In upkeep, be
cause of its oversize'
dimensions developed
on General Motors
i Proving Ground and
IN FIRST COST
IN UPKEEP
INKE-SAIEmiJS
because of Its basic "
design which result
in low operating costs.
And you save In resale' J
value because used car ' ; ' ; "J
buyers everywhere are 'J .
willing to pay mope for
every available Pontiac, .. ,
Six. ; '.. : t
If you value your dot ". ;, ' '
lars, you will drive at
Pontiac Six nd learn ; -the
full meaning of
motoring economy.
E.n't Cnra
A curloud of WhlppRtH nnd Wll-lya-KnlKhta
lo exported to nriivo
here next , Wednoadny. W. IX
llnnlta reports.
Territory Itlnn llore
K. C. TttMiinioll, territory mon for
WHIya-Overlnnd apont Thuraduy In
l.a Grnnde, Kolnir on to Enterprise.
2-Door Sedan, $74 St Coupe. $741 Sport Roaditer, $74St Phaeton, $775; Cabriolet. $79 fi .
-Door Sedan, Sport Landau Sedan, $H75. OuHand Ail-American Six, IIDti t
9126S. Ail prices al uctory. Check OuMand-Pontiac delivered prices they include low
C4l hundlinf chursei. General Motor Time Payment i'lun available at mtwatum roMk
War tax removed ---Delivered Prices Reduced , ''
JENNINGS & SHUMATE
SIX
PRODUCT t OBNBRAL MOTOR S ,
PONTIAC
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Glass Work
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We do all kinds of
glass work on auto
mobiles. Windshields
Windows
' Doors ,
n
La Grande
onstruction &
Supply Co.
Charles Harris, Prop.
1501 Madison
Ml
RE IFILECTE B UKL RLECUIDP DDEMAPiD
THE punt five months the greatest in Willya-Over-land
history bear overwrite mine; testimony to the
tremendous impresuon Whippet values iiuve made..
The Whippet Four swept anide all previous 8tanditrd of
Cylinder pcrformunee. It introduced tobuyentof liht
fount auch mechnnicid superiorities h 4-whd hruken,
full force-feed lubrieation and silent timing chain.
The new Wliippct Six is the world's lowent priced Six.
Yet it offers such fine car features us u 7-bearina;
ratuVnhuft, full force-feed lubriealioti,, invar-tttrut
pistons and many more. ,
We invite you to see these popular cars.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE!
U. S. auto tax
repealed
Buy Now at
Lower Prices!
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