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Saturday. December 7, 1929 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Page Nine MILLIONS SAVED FOR CAR BUYERS Automotive Research Work Reduces Cost to . Buying Public. tempt ttt determine thy center of tlo (llKluiiutm-e. If t-erluin Ilium tlii'oUKh thn illn-ll-let lire, founil inOKt freiiuemly milijeet to trenioi-B, It In immihlo Unit linen of eonereio jiostM inny ho erected to murk them, nnil In iwe Reodetle cheeks on horizontal anil vertical land movement. Tho survey IneludeH porlluiw of IHIniilx, Aljhuurl, Kentucky, Ten- neNsee and ArkansaK. Car Engines Are Inclined to Loaf In Humid Weather T)iyrnoiT (aim -t- Automobile buyer! -of -tho country are being s;;ved niJUfoiif dollars annually in Hit' cost of their ears through research.' ami HUindardl.ation .of parts ami practices In Ihe automo tive linlust ry. Through standardisation of min or purls and fitting "d other J million of tho automobile, which , ' WASHINGTON' (AP) Uke hu in no way affects thn originality j man beings, automobile engines are of . design, Hip Society 'f Automo- ', Inclined to loaf on the job when live Engineers estimates that thn the weather Ik humid or "iniwiiy." saving to buyer.- Ik $&4O,OO0,oortn Tho bureau of standards has year. Tho calculation As posed on j completed humidity testa with a the total valuation of $-t,7flu.OflO,H!n ; well known type of automobile on- of nil cara nd parts produced but j Kino. The Ions of power the bureau wir. ; ' '- Jound to bp directly proportional to In cooperation with the automo- the amount of moisture contained bile Industry, niulpment manurae turern and others, . the engineers' sorVM' :Mi;t ho I'nltjd Hiatus bureau U' .J,;n)i:rdw have brought .boat n rv;a ; ' Onctioii In tho mul 'iir. iy .r -nines and si'es of : i iits, couplings, and M'-tV iium-h- iiiiings. ' . ( Vi li e I. ; . this might seem ;!: in .'.i-nrrta achievement, hut !i tu.y ),- rcspwable In large part tut' t!- viiuciNin in the price of bis ear .-i'Hl in m-king it possible iui i y i ii much belter ear for the name money he paid few years ago. Standardization, to a certain extent, also has-been ef fected in tins manufacture of atito nt)bllo tires, but further reduction in the.- :num.hor of .. sles Is .'hoped fur. Work In. the automotive labora tories has resulted tn far more powerful engines without Increase in size or cost, engines which will W-tand the punishment of hard use Inns after those of a few years ago would have none to (he Junk heap. UodJes. springs, headlights, fan belts, , ignition systems, ' virlually every .part of the automobile has been improved at. no Increase in cost, oi' at less cost, through re search and standardization. , Standardization has been a two bladed knife in cutting niunufnetur-' lug costs. Multiple operation ma chine! which do the work formcly performed by crews of men and turn out a inn ro uniform Ki'ade of work have greatly reduced the cost of labor, while at the same time re ducing expenses by speeding up production. in tho air. "This does not necessarily moan that the engine 1ms less power when it is ruining." the bureau ex plulned, "as iL Is rpiito possible to have more moisture in tho at- i mosphere on a hot 'muggy day j with no rain than on a cooler rainy ; day. In other words, the loss of j power is proportional, not to the relative but to tho absolute huniid- I ay.- Power losses: between a very dry day and a very humid day, it was said, may be as lart:o as 10 per cent. - Other effects of hitch humidity noted by the bureau aro decreased detonation, enriched mixture, and, Ju. effect, retarded spark. These effects, It was pointed out, tend to mako the automobile operate more smoothly. - ' Two Cars Keeping Peace in Family r I m!WlillllllM?MinTM GARAGE GOSSIP TIMBER WORK THIS YEAR IS ON DECREASE I'ltv llntiery Tiliir j lYriodlc. battery lesthm U one of ) the fifi service providcil hy ih ; Willartl Mattery Kiatlon at !I3 Greenwood Htifet. Itallery Usetv I are aluaytt welcome to this ncrvii ! 1'. W, Nine, manager tif tin utatlop t announced today. r , I i I'l-om I'oitlaad j I . A'.d Kno.v, from the Koward Auto i j cotniany In Portland, and I'!. W, ; lb uiubatiKli. Ilwbei body rcpretfeu j tative,' whose heatbiuiirterti are lit I 1'orlland, wort callers at the Jen iiiiiKs Motor company thlM week, ; 4-SPEED GEARS ARE STRESSED 11 Y EUROPEANS K I, A 11 ATM I'WI.I.H. Ore. (AC) Analysis of timber production In the Klamath halit no, far this year shows a decrease of ti n per cent over that ttf the ha me period last year, and Hie total production wll i how the Kiiiiu decrease, tlniber- mcii say. Working time was cut from a HW-day, clKht-hour'shtft to a five-day-day, til iie-hour shift in most of Hie mills, with all plants run Jilntf double shifts throaKhotit tho season. A poor timber market was suppleness. jflven as the reason. Tho total out so far tilts year In the district is about four hundred WASHINGTON' ( Al') Nuropenn manufacturers are hard t work to nvatch the performance of Ameri ca a nuluiuohllcH, Such was indlealrd by tho twenty-third Annual Internatlon salon al 1'arU. I'hivope's most hnpoitaut automobile show, aecordtiu,' to a review received by the department of commerce, Kpeelal attention has hoon kIvmi by foreign manufacturers to obtain power and silonco . characteristic of the American cars. Suppleness Is tho ability of a car lo run slowly or rapidly under million board feet, while In the u considerable pull without shlftlnu' mine period last year 4.10,000,000 ; board feet were cut. It was expected that tho 1020 jpayroll would not exceed $S,000,- Kears. .Much pear shifting has been necessary with most European cars in traffic and on hilts. There was Utile in the salon Flood Study Spurs Search For Quakes Jewelry Tinted By Electric Process NKW YOItlC (Al') Tungsten, familiar in electric light filaments, now furnhhes beads of rare colors In a development uf the jewelry in dustry. Tlu process resembles dipping Hie drah metal In a rainbow and withdrawing It coated with perma nent color. This is illustrated in a glass tank yi'i up at liie Museum of the Peace ful Arts here. Immersed in liquid In the tank, a piece of the metal becomes encircled with u ring of glowing -color when an.elcctrie cur rent is turned on. The colors pass successively through every shade. They are due to a film forming rapidly over tho tungsten surface, an oxide, made o.f oxygen combined with thn metal. It is like rust on iron, except that it Is Intensely hard. Tho film is semi-transparent, no -5M a. ..".wsi Kftvwc? t -z-ssri3-wun.K. war ww i cocono mmmn - tn&xxs'acii-x six BCWMIE. 1RICK '!! George Herriman, famous cartoonist, originator of "Krazy Kat," likes harmony in his family, so he pur chased two cars both 1930 Buicks. Pictured here is the satisfied couple in front of their attractive Holly wood home. At the left is the artist's impression of just what is going to hap pen on his first trip to the cactus land the hoire of his picture folk, ' lll,4lillltor 111',-). . , S. K. KnvreH. of. J'emlletnn. riU- triliutor for the Chrysler motor ) eaiH Western Oregon, waH In l.u if!...H.i 'ei.iia.u.l.... r..illltiw ..I. lm Cl.ryi.ler KtmtKe." lr. Lot. fromf"00 1"H """I"'"'? U" lS.onf..on to l,e eon.sUlere.l revoltttlonury., ef. I .,... ... .. . fur l"t year. No derreano In tho fort iilmarently havlnit heen eon- rolor comiiany In rortl ind m- ! r men employed liaa lieen eentnited on Improved iierforiiymeo eompahled him. ' and more eomforl. speed car with a silent third gear 1 wiifi one of Hie most marked fea tures of the show. Several Kuro pcaii m"nuCacturrs have had four speeds forward for ome time, but It wan only this year that they ! llmiKht TriH'k TO l.ft Orando bakery has pur chased a ton' and one half truck from" the Larteon Chevrolet gar age. ' Sweet Corn Patch Nets Large Profit YAKIMA. Wash. (AIM Ite- - inn rkiitiln i-omiiUm u-oi-n ihrnltuxl .... ..n....t 4 1. 1 ... I.'liystom; ItepH'M'mniKo .r wjlh HWf,(.t 0(irn- th,H m.nlMln -,lv Nonm.l Woo, representative or j 1rummom,H- of thll TlWonvl(.w oo hmfdrcd and sixteen makes tho KIrestono l Ire and Itubber ; (,UIr,,.t ., n lhlw ,, . ... n(l nne-hatf acreii hu produced six American, were shown at tho tons and' H pound k. . The corn Salon, liight natloiiH were repro was given the best of care and seiped by exhibitors, yielded at the rftfo of five to seven j . r- cars to the hill, while., on . most tracts tho nVerago wns three ears to tho hill. ' Tho crop at five cents n. pound returned the grower $37 or $li2 ' an acre. coiniauy,' was hi I. a tlrande ihlrt i week on business, calling at the; l'erkln's Molar company. ' t'nrlomi ir oil A carloail of Quaker State oil has been unloaded, the l'erkln's Motor compauy. announced yesterday. m:akx xi:w wor.n concert and ST. LOl'IS (AIM St. Louis uni versity this fall began search for in the nrea that om-o was visited!""1': Klt refleetH both from its by the worst earthouake ever re corded on the Xonh American continent. This search, strangely enough. Is not so much concerned with earth quakes as with flood control. ' If the location and the causes of the tremors can be ,'iscerlnlned accurately, the Ilov. Kat her .lames 11. Macehvane, S. .1.. head of the university geophysics department, s:lys the findings are likely to in fluence the placing of earthworks for Mississippi flood control. The studies are mnde In the "Xew Madrid" district, comprising a territory 130 miles long and 50 wide froni southern Illinois well down Into Tennessee in the river valley. ..In- 1811 and 1N12 there were disastrous rpiakos which opened huge fissures near New Madrid, Mo., and to which the formation of tho Ilcelfoot lakes in Tennesee urn attributed. ' About 2,000 lesser quakes fol lowed. The tremors now occurring in this area are unnoticoable ex cept on seismographs. They occur a)ont once a nronth, : Kalher Mticehvano will use two seismographs set up at widely sep arated points in the district to at- surface and from the metal under ncath, and the reflected light waves ovarian and break up into colors. , I he color depends on thickness of the oxide coat. The electricity can be snapped off at any desired color, which remains permanent, unless washed with a caustic solu tini. Tantalum, and columbium, a still rarer metal, are said to take ex quisite color effects. Tantalum is used for making necklaces, brace lets nnd other Jewelry. to'Takk si;nati: SKAT n-lKYKXNK, Wyo.. Dec. C (A IM ratrick J. Sullivan, appointed to the I'liitcd States senate to tem pt1nrily fill the vacancy caused by the dea-ili of the kite Francis K. Warren, left for Washington today. i:r;i:.i; .motohikt kiixi:i NI XDAY JMtOCSHAMK Tho National Jtroadcastlng inn pany program for Sunday ftllows: 1 L M to I, Youth conference: I to 2. Cathedral hour; 2 : S o to 3:3n, music: A, concert; f, nlebulles; 5, concert; 5:15, novelty hour: t!:l"'. concert; 7:15, popular music. The Columbia ilroadcasling sys tem, program for Sunday follows: fi to 7, Theater of Air; 7, Jesse Crawford, poet of organ: 0 to !i:30, and 10:30 to 12,, dime music. , Tacnhia IfVr (7(!4kc) (i:l(i to 0, silent; 0, (MIS; !! :30, Sicilians; ti):30, CI'.S. Spokane j KI1Q (TiiKike), 12, NIK"; 8, nuis leal programs. Portland KOW (f.20kc) 12. NI1C; S, mus- ' ical programs; 10. little symphony.; , . . Oakland ' ; K I ,X (RSnkO Silent night. ; K.f i O ( 7 !i 0 k e ) 5:1 5 , X IK ' ; "i . : ! news; 15:15, XISC; 8:15, pilgrims;-; ' i, reader's guide; !:3o to 10. little symphony. ' j I, oh Angidcs ! I KXX (inriiikc) it, talks; 7, fen- tures; 8. Presbyterian church : !t. records; f):15, l.uboviskl trio, j K11J (iiftokc) G, CHS; S, musical . features. j KKI totfikc) 5:15, NliC; 8, Sun- ; day program. Kan Francisco j Kmc onnkc) t;. CHS: 8. mus ical program: 0, dance music. i KI'O (tiSOkc) 5:15, X1IC; 8, mus ic and word. i Salt Lake City KSI. (113okc) 5:15, X11C; 8, T.. , 1). S. church -services. sym)honists; 8:30, Amos and Andy. CHS: 8 to 10, KKlt( Illue Mon day jamboree. Portland KOW S, NHC ami features; 0, concert. . Tacoma KV1 4:lfi to ll, silent; . CHS; I 0, orchestra : 11. Serena dors. . Spokane KIIQ 8, NI!C and features; !), concert. , Suit JjikoClt.v J. Watbly Tate, mayor of Dallas. Krth (i. NHC; 8:15, features. i favors a calendar of 13 months "if - scribed ll l.os Angeles hill holidays would fall on Monday, j ; KXX 0. organ: 7, features; 10 church services were held once a The Tunneys have set satl 1. dance music. 'month and workers received an home. It Is reported; KKI t:. XHC: It. musical nro- extra month's nay for that extra you know, Is grams; 11, news. I month." Seattle KOMO (5. XHC; !l musical programs. . San Francisco KI'MIC (i, features; 8. CI1S; 10 to 1 , dance music. KI'O fi, Nltc; H, concert; 10, dance music. Oakland KOO ll, XltC; 8:15, studio program. A. A. A. ) 'Mrs. Charles Devlne went to, . Pemlletim yesterday afternoon on ! A rtlCtl0ke8 OrOWfl i business trip concerning A. A. A matters. Imperial Sedan Krank Jones. of Illlgard, has purchased an Imperial sedan front tho Larhon Chevrolet garage. Some of the writers cnverlng the stock market recently seem to have seen things differently. Home called it a debacle and others de- is a readjustment.- LOS AXOMLKS, Deo. 5 (AIM "Maggie." Mrs. Mildred Human n's parrot, 1ms learned, a new word. Mrs. Ilumann ran the needle of her sewing machine through her , bund, and unable to extricate her Hilf utleinotod to call for belli. A t Hermikton. Or p.. i "miwi" bi her head on one ' ul.l i PKNMMJOTOrV, Ore., (AIM Handlers In Uie lleriulsloli section of Cmatlllu county next year will devote u large area to the raising of Jerusalem artichokes. The land In that ' particular territory was found suitable for growth of tho tubers. Hanchet-H have contracted fi.lfi acres' and will receive 115 a ton. side, digested the new syllable and I went Into uctlon. i Help immediately wan plentiful, Including the fire department. Mrs. Humana was extricated and lu ken to a hospital for treatment. ' Scientists still reek film posit iv "An 10ra. of Cluiiwe,";1 trnyiH a headline over a story describing nettles in Wall street, Tho word left, out was "fat."; Henry Kord has bought n west- i sued. for ! Mr. Tunney, ; stero. our Men of that would be tr, ern gidd mine, says a. newspaper the man who was : copy of Xenophon's Anabasis In n. dispatch. That mukes two he. has i : football dressing room, ' now, Including the one In Detroit. LET CHRISTMAS BRING TO YOUR FAMILY -- he Key AMlANY, Ore., Dee. C (AIM -When his automobile skidded on a fog-slickeiicd highway near here:, 11. I.. Spencer. Co, Eugene. Ore., was killed yesterday and Mrs. Ad- MONDAV PlIOOItAMS NliC: 8 a. m.. Happy time; 10. "Woman's magazine; 1 Vaga bonds; 3. 1,. p. 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