La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, November 23, 1929, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextGENERAL NEWS VOLUME XVII LA GRANDE OREGON, SATURDAY,1 NOVEMBER 23,1929 NUMBER 332 MOTORING NEWS VALUES EXCEED t OTHER PERIODS IN CAR HISTORY Continued Demand Dur ing Winter Indicated Public Confidence Big Factor. to see (five greater automobile vul uo limn ever before. Public confidence in tho Indus try as a whole, him been well oh tablishcd since Hut beginning of the year. ' Values are. considered more stable than ever. No 1m portant mechanical ' or My lo cliangcs arc anticipated for tlio Im mediate future as has oecured since tho advent of four-wheel brakes, dealers say, and nil of these fac tors nro - contributing to a steady sale volume. . '. ' That automobile values this year far exceed, uny other period In mo- . tor car history Is shown by the ' tremendous Jump in wiles in Cn- j ion county for te. months of J 92a. ' It has been the record year In mo- j tor vuhlcle businesa-and the curs ' offered in various price classes in-4 dicaUiy a c o n tl. iitj.-o d.;, dcinaid ' throughout , the i winter,. ; ; I . Public confidence In the present motor car Is held responsible Tor this large volume of buying. Hot- ter motors und performance, with a .greater degree ' of beauty ; and comfort than, ; was formerly be lieved possible have brought about motor. Hules thia yeur to break nil records. . . -r :' ..' ,iAt least 300 new motor vehicles of all, types will, huvu been sold bjr,. Jji Grande deulirn by the end of the year, It, Is estimated from present figures, nilsj.s tyorevthan twice the number delivered In lUL'ff and Is about 2no more, than were sold in the previous high year of 1D2C. : . ,1-ast' year a total, of Aid new cars were.' sold In Union county, ac cording to- Motor Hegistor figures, while In ten months of 1!12U there have been 643 passenger cars and 3 6G trucks delivered by local deal ers. Ijtst month car sales amount ed to C4 in the county and No-i ve.mbiT nnd December buying will closely approach thjs figure; ,- - Sales result .primarily. It is be lieved by many dealers, because of the. big Improvement In cars during .mark. Pioneer Dodge Cars Operating After 15 Years .. K forts tot locate the first Dodge curs and establish,, their, fifteen years' servie0 rocord have been re wanled with the reent ' discovery Unit1 Dodge cars. No. I'Mve. Seven and twelve, arc still In dally serv ice. Number Klve is the proud pos session of T. "J.' O'Hrien & Son, 3 odgo dealers In Omaha; Number Seven has, juaL been reported at, Lincoln, Neb., and Number Twelve rs running In San Francisco. Tho announcement of John Cheek, the first Dodge denier, that the first car shipped to him -In De cember. l!i 14, was still being driven In Nashville, Tenn., - jt nrled the stllrch fdr ' other veteran curs bearing the- Dodge- name. Cheek Is now president of the Cumber land Motor-Car company of that city, nnd has witnessed the volume of Dodge business, mount steadily i year after year.; '' On Novomber 14,' JUM. the first Dodge. car was completed, nnd as ,thn eorporation approaches its flf teenth anniversary, added interest popularity abroad," ways the Hudson Power Desire Is Aid To American Sales In Europe "There were no rudlvul engineer ing departures l:i the new models oi' the Important motors exhibited at the London nnd Paris shows, the manufacturers eon fining their ef forts to, perfecting their production along the lines employed so suc cessfully by .American plants,'' ac cording to Stuart Cll Halts chief engineer nnd a director of thc'Hud son Motor Car company,' who re turned to .Detroit this week,'' . "Tiu desire for power on the part of the Kuropcair has been h. major fad.or In the popularity of "the Amor lew n cur abrpod, for power Is obtainable in tho American moder ate priced car whereas the erluivii'-' lent power is only available in the large and expensive. lOuropeun cars or In the equally -expensive sporty typo of, smaller vehicles; ' . ,. "However, the Americanmanu facturer onust" bo 'able to donion-, ri.rate his rnr, for the ' British, French, Germans nnd all ; Euro peans judgo a great deal on actual demonstration. Outside both Paris nnd London exhibitions, manufac turers had cars .ready to. demon strate to every prospective pur chaser. oit.cn thus closing the sale while buying enthusiasm was at lit height. This demonstration Idea was also apparent In a BOO mite race held at the Brooklands, ISng land, t rack, when every ' type of model, large nnd small, was enter ed under hundlcnp rules: "It is to this demonstration plan that Hudson and Kssox owe their is attached in locating theso eaily models.. Production in 1914 tola led only 243 cars, but 1hc next year It jumped to 4r,o:iy units, and today thn total number of shipments since l'Jll Is approaching the 2,6(10,000 the last three or four yenrs. Own ers who have been driving cars of that age have discovered that tlm iW automobile Is a vastly differ ent vehicle. Hiding comfurt and speed are to important eonHldcra 1lons. .'The now can; handle on the ' road with far greater case than the. old and, they have the flash and power that the 'modern driver de sires ! : : ; , ' ', .Appearance is' another Idg ltcin. A choice, of colors unci a richucMH of ftiterlor appointments arc ob.. vipus arguments-that arc hard to resist when n driver such Uuynrw model. Klne . upholstering,, deep and comfortablo cushions, refine ments in deln and in cinipincnt: these have urovided sales argn men ts that buyers have been quick Only the serial number on the engine would convince an experi enced automobile mechanic of;lho uge. of Dodge Car Number Seven, The touring cur body hits required no reflnlsh since It left the factory and niechanicttlly U iippcurH ready for fifteen yenrs more- of service. Nomine knows how many thousand miles Uie car: has traveled, since Hpendomelers installed In Ihe earn then would not register, oyer-10,-Oua iiillt'i. ' , , : iKrrrioNs issi:i;i today 1 " PHNDLKTON, Ore. Nov. 32 (A P) rt'etllions asking for county court to call o special election for setting aside1 $100,000 -yearly, for throe years " to construct a new courthouse and jail wore submitted to the county court today. engineer, "for nfter the winning of the Lyonnals cup.- the Pyranees cup, the Atlamic cup, the Cup of Uriltuny nnd the Cup of.thc North, ther0 wari a notable Inc'renso In Kssex KileH. Kvactly the same re Milits were obtuim-u after an Kssex won 'tho-famous 'Circuit of the Ports' tests in tho vicinity of Mad rid." ; v ' '"Tlin American ': mannfaelurer muVt be willing tto demonstmle the ublliiy of his cor In every kind of lei4 ," saya Mr, HaltH, "for, on the average, the man with sufficient money tto own a- car is renlly u better, mechanician tth;in his broth er in ihip country.": Travel Now Permitted Over Paved , Road Just South Of Oregon City Truvel was permitted for the first InchcH In the center of tho road lime recently over a four and a way. To prevent- tho pavement hah4 mile section oi concrete- pav-" from cracking half-inch expansion lug. Just aouth of Oregon City, which has been under construction since Wxl June. Thin Improvement 1 1 considered by many mad experts to be the finest and fastest strip of paving surface In the state of Ore gun. It also contributes materially to the safety o.f'tho roulo south of Portland in that a considerable portion of slippery black-top pave- "ment la now eliminated. Prior to the completion of tbis Pacific High way link, traffic -was detoured over a rough flve-mllo road across Mt. Pleasant., ' A scout party In a PontiUe. big six sedan, was one of the first Jotnttt huve been placed at intervals gf 60 'feet nnd theso are scpuruted by tar contraction joints set 10 fqot apart. 'ho concrete pavement is border ed by a six foot serf ion of gravel five Inches thick which, it Is ex pected, wilt be eventually oiled. There is alnon four-foot dirt shoul der of roek-tulim material tWt, ac cording to Arneg. permits an un usually well-packed nnd even out face nfter rolling. Gravel for i no new section of ihe Pacific Highway was, obtained from the Willamette river by special (ireuge. ana screening plant eon groups to go over ihe new highway . structed expressly for tills project, unit following Itti official opening. Ah the washed rock was delivered or -measured a method which Is said t lopermll a mnro scientific and accurate mixing of eonerete. according to tho La Orando Motor to Ihe trucks it wus weighed hmread company, local onklanu-pontinc dealer. It was found that this pavement hus ellmluuted lielween fifteen and twenty comparatively bevehe curves that existed on the former bluckw.op road and now contains only twelve minor turns that do not Interfere in any manner with driving at the legal speed limit. j . According to Edward Arnez, the engineor In charge of construo Ion work, the total cost of the improve ment will bo approximately $150, 000,' He pointed out that the new highway section was parUculnrly noteworthy becuuse nil bad grades havo been eliminated. Kadi curve Is well banked, carrying a on to one and five-tenths super elevation. Substantiating the opinion that Mhls section of the Pacific Highway is one of the most sturdily con structed in the state. Arnez ex plained to. tho out lac. parly that tho concrete surface Is twenty feet wldo and is composed' of two ten foot strips wilh a mortice point in the center tto, emdicnle the possi bility of her side giving way. The concrete has beer: effectively rein forced with stel bars nnd Is nine Inches thick on the edges and seven De Soto Bodies Tested by Wind Driven"Storm" A terrific wind-driven rain, natu ral 'in every characteristic except source, is the new method used by thQ Do Soto Motor Corporation as an additional tent of the stability of the bodies used on tho Da Soto to keep out nil moisture from tho outsldu elements. This new device la a water-throwing apparatus consisting of a tterles of pipes In which have been drilled Htuall holes. Through these holes many streams of water nro forced under high preaaure. The pipes arc and in constantly providing oven closed and tho body la thoroughly rained on. At the frame time a close Inspection is mado of the in terlor to finally inauro Us ability to keep out all molature. ' The lop deck moulding, tho drip gutter contacts, and tho recesses around the windshletd, side win dows and rear windows are the pos sible wuter-entrunco points towards pnrficularly directed. All must ad mit absolutely no moisture. The installment and use of this additional tent of the "waterproof-. nesE" of Do Soto bodies is a re sult of tho policy of the De Soto Motor corporation nnd its parent organization, Chrysler Motors, of exercising even greater vigilance In tho Inspection of Its products be fore they are offerd to the public, Motorists Buy Different Gas For WH erected und tho holes so located that tho siren ma of water nro di rected onto every part of tho auto mobile body, particularly the doorH, windows and wlndahleld crevices and "recesses. ' '; , ' ' i DeSoto bodies are wheeled Under this new water-throwing device be. foro mounting on the chassis. Tim wlndowr. doors and windshield nro greater, quality und satisfaction. Cut's meat, sold to fond owners of household pets over a period of many years, has' made -a foriuuu for one London man. A Rhode Inland woman mild she hrewod beer to hold her hUHband. How otd-fnshlnned! TTT-r RtarPng troubles battery strains and delay during the winter season . Is often blamed to the cold weath . or when it Is really the kind ot gas that Is used In the car, accord- ing to automobile men. During the summer a heavy Vwet" gas is used, and operates satisfactorily because of tho hot weather; in the1 . winter auch gas is said to bo thick; and wasteful. , J Lighter and "dry" gas is being: manufactured by many companies which will function. properly, etnrfc instantly, and -burns more cleanly; and more completely Into tho an? glno,, Heavy gasoline mixed with nlr floods Into the motor and run down into the oil. In five hundred miles of cold weather driving, tho oil is apt to bo 60 or 60 per cent) gasoline. Studebaker Car Again Justifies Its Championship rmu;i! womiii:.v kim,i:d NHW YORK- Noy. 22- (AP) ,-r- Three wdrkmeii who were cleunlhg the Interior of a huge smokestack In Hrooklyn fell to their death yesterday, but the fact' wafl not discovered until today. Inquiries by tho wife of one of the Victims,- who failed to reach home . Inst ..night led to the. discovery of the bodies. CDNIFDIDIENCIE ,DtL!S'D"DtfDD:D) m,1 .ass -'v v" 4 vke2J. "j B. Boa-, V This Claim Was Paid 6 DAYS AFTER ADJUSTMENT to the entire satisfaction of the Assured ' This is The "SERVICE PLUS" That you get when you buy Insurance from ; LA GRANDE INSURANCE AGENCY. II. V. COI'SKV, Mgr. " Main 86 113 Elm SI. I 11 1 Hi t ,.St udebaker's again Justified lis. championship rcptl ai lon by Vvlhnlng rirsl place in recent road races In Krance and South Africa, according to M. J.' Goss, .'Studebaker-ISrskino dealer here. , - , . ' ' "In the first instance,- a stock Commander Eight brougham von first place In its class in the recent Routes' Payees stock car 4-hour raco I n non hern l'"ra ncc. The ekifs included several competing cars of greater horsepower. The Routes Pa-vX'es race is a leading an? nual liiotor event H)o:isored . nnd controlled by the Automobile Club of Northern France. It is con rined to slock cars and Is run over hard surfaced country roads. ; "Shortly thereafter, a stock Com mander fcllght regal tourer won the two highest honors In the kilometer race held at Lounda. South 'Africa. The, race was made from a stand ing start, jn addition to winning class honors, the Commander was awarded 'irst pluce in the general classification. . , "In Ihe Rarberton Reliability Trial in South 'Africa an Krskine sedun driven by (J. C, Canfield was a warded tho gru nd mi t lona I cu p for completing the, Mnrberton Trial this year with the highest standing in tho amnteur class. The trophy va won last your by nn Hrskluc sedan piloted by Alex Mackintosh. "In the professional add general r hiNnlflrniioiiK, th. Krslcltio proved Itself just us successful. An Krs- khu. wed n n. u'll Ii ( !. Keltztim n at ! the wheel, was awarded first place In the race for professional drivers., Krskino entries In the general eluwi won fli'Ht, suond. fourth and tenth places In the trial. There was a difference of only five points among llio five leading cars." riNR woman ri;ati;x, CIIOKKD KANSAS CITY, Nov. 22 (AP) Miss Mautle Smith, 4"i, was found beaten and choked lo dealh here today Jn lnr room on the t hird rtpor of a rooming house on K.isl l-'irih street. The body was found by a neigh bor woman who arrived for a Cull on the victim. I.. If. Dolan. deputy county cor oner, said Miss Smith had hern dead two days. ih:ath mst at o Washington, Nov. 1:2 tAP) Tlie ileath lint in tho explosion un der u five and ten rent store yes. terday rost to six today with th( dth of Mr;. Klorenn; Darlington, aged fi", who succumbed to I I mil lujiirh'S. Kvi olTierK died witty n u few hours aftt-r the explosion and wv eral oth. r vtcKms lire, bi-lievd 1y pliysleians lo b near thath. .MAY IIAVIi MII.H ORIMNA.VCB PMNIMtiTON.'Ore.. Nov. Z'i fAP Th- posaibllity tliat pen. dleton will sooil hnvif a M'nudard milk ordinance proposi-ij by th 1'niled States i:Jblte lieallh wi Wee Is Hv.cn In th" appearance lam nlgbt of 14 milk deakr:i btfon; tin. Replace Those Tires That Slip with Tires TSiat Grip For Safe Winter Driving There is Nothing Like : TEE FAMOUS ALL WEATHER STT3 READ "Diamond Shaped, sharp Edged Blocks that Grip the Road v Under All Conditions" " ' Play Safe-Ride on Goody ears 1 . Driving in winter through rain, slush and snow puts an added strain on both tires and driver. If your tires are worn smooth don't take a chance on going th rough the winter with them in such a condition. You need . traction and safety a blowout is far more danger ous on a balloon tire than was the case with the old , high pressure type. Put on Goodyears now avoid skidding and chance of blowouts. Now! Buy Them at the Lowest Prices in 30 Years W. H. Bohnenkamp Co. , city council.