La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, August 23, 1930, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Textlit- Page Six LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. Saturday, August 23, 1930 :;!). l AUTOMORII F NKWS J WRRIC ! : FREE WHEELING IS MORE ECONOMICAL Hupp Is Cited As Leader In Oil Cooling Other Cars May Follow i Hupp Cllnl a l.ruclrr In Oil Cooling creased, engine temperature (and DETROIT. Mien.. Aug. J.& A pre- ! that of the engine lubricant) raises. NEW HIGHWAY PROJECT UNDER WAY So Says M. J. Goss, Auto mobile Dealer Here in Discussing Invention. Approximately $400,000,000 would have been suved motoric of the United States during 1020. it nil auto mobiles bad been equipped with free wheeling, according to M. J. Gosh, Studebaker dealer here. Free wheeling with positive gear control, is a new engineering principle, developed and perfected by Studebaker engineers, and manufactured under Studebaker patents. "Exhaustive tests at the Studebaker proving ground at South Bend, In diana, as well as road tests In prac tically every state of the union, show that free wheeling effects a saving of 12 per cent In gasoline and 20 per cent In oil," Mr. Goss said. "Last year, the consumption of gasoline by automobiles In the United States to taled 13.034,330.000 gallons, and the consumption of oil 450.000,000 gal lons, according to figures compiled by the national automobile chamber of commerce. "Computed on an average of 21.2 cents a gallon for gas, and 26 cents a quart for oil, the amount spent by the American motoring public during the year attained the huge sum of $3,404,077,000, of which free wheeling would have saved $444,480,355. "The saving of 12 per cent In gas and 20 per cent In oil effected by free wheeling Is conservative, and actuully increases In proportion to the heavi ness of the truffle. The reason lor tills Is that, with free wheeling, car momentum never iviixi ub pw wltn postvo gear control, freo The Instant the foot Is lifted off the Wlecllng provides conventional en accelerator, the onglne drops to Idling KK(.mt.nt )n ,i gcB to permit use epeed. while the car continues to gllclo , t)lc ,, lla a broko w)lencver forward freo and unfettorcd. yet In KiTC(i wn)le powcrful nmkes act pos gcar and fully controlled. In conse- u,velyi ni(0nnly and smoothly to quenco, car momentum never forces brl thc cr to n Bt m BwlJUy m tho engine to pump excess gas and Ul0 nced aclateH, oil Into tho cylinders. "Tests at tho factory and on the , - . amn road also demonstrate that, under J U)'U AW(tVU8 SOUU ordinary driving conditions, the car i . ' free wheels an avorugo of ono mile In I J O MU81C 1 edClC)' every flvo. In other words, in 10.000 t miles, cor momentum alono carries I PORTLAND. Aug. 22 W After hav tho car a distance of 2.000 miles with hl( ,CilhcI.Bted tho case 11 hours, mo tno engine running luunn nH j,lry wnicii heard tho t f JfeT ROAD MARKETING IS EsfeSKS MOTOR CLUB AID will become a universal engineering Local moiorisiB who spend ibeir vacaiions driving over the celebrated Columbia River Highway in Oregon will find thc Slate of Washington is constructing a new road way on the north bank of thc famed Columbia River par. alleling the former route. Photograph shows a Diirant 6-14 be dan on thc North Bank with its parly gazing across thc -Columbia into Oregon. Work is Being Accom plished in Umatilla Coun ty This Valley Next. PENDLETON". Ore., Aug. 23 The Oregon State Motor association is deeply Interested In the matter of properly marking the county roads throughout the state, with suitable road signs, and In connection with thir service, Charles Heaney, repre sentative of the association, arrived lr.' the city Tuesday, preparatory to legging tho county roads. Thlc work is done in cooperation with the county court and state highway department. Mr. Heaney met with the county court Tuesday morning and completed arrange ments for the signing of Umatilla county. Fourteen counties have already been signed this year by the motor association, and thc logging of Klam ath county has Just been com pleted, ymatllla is the first county lr. Eastern Oregon to be signed. Un ion. Baker and Malheur following. Work of maintaining the signs afttr they are once placed Is as sumed by the motor association, as lr the replacing of the signs when they become worn or damaged. Maintenance work has been done In three counties this year. Logging of the county roads will require a week or ten days time, ac cording tto Mr. Heaney. The signs will then be made, and placed Im mediately upon their completion. Two Boys Span Continent In A 1917 Roadster ONE CAR FOR 55 jDON'T TALK KISS OVER THE WORLD! TO RACE BRIVER a huso huvIiik In fuol nnd oil uko action brought "Hut not onlv In fuel nnd oil (Iocs .,,,, ,,,, ?,,' Iroo wheeling of feci a wiving. A fur- ton Moor0i Bon of the ormor n8ur. thcr Important mivlng results from UI1C0 commimmne,, returned a ver- tho materiel reduction In wear ana uin lml nl(fnl awurin(! Mra AtWool tear on engine. tranimlMlan. cnaBM ,600 ,,,,,, dmKCH to cover hospital III1U mun uuw v-v v... ftn(1 (locl0r 111118. i me (loo.ooo dan.-; A Year Ago the Ratio was iln Rich Lingo of the Speed $?' 2ocs iaciw ""am"" VMyr" j One Car to Every Sixty-1 Track, it is Something Hn""- Une 1'ersonB. ' Bad Indeed. nil revemlonal trnln during decelera tion. The objectlonanie pinng up antiitnt.inn nxnerianecd In the conven tional car wnon mo loot in '"" . 10 have occurred nt a party on KlnkH ino ncccieruLor in uuiiijiu.ijt wii,.. Cd. PORTLAND, Ore.. Aug. 23 ThorJ ALTOONA. Pa. in Th ..... Is one automobile to every fifty j tend automobile races are warned not with bovlsh enthusiasm when seen live pereons throughout the worl.rf to speak of klM.Ing" ' before a n In New York. "Thi, rr T m Zr. u, j TOLEDO, O., Aug. 22 In an age ln which youthful endurance en 1 thuslasts sit in trees for days Just for the sake of publicity, the modestly .conducted exploit of two California youths who crossed the continent In a 1917 Overland sporu; roadster In twelve days driving time has aroused the interest of motordom. Unherald- these two boys. Lewis Patmont. of Santa Rosa, and Ronald 19, of the same cltv. re cently arrived In New York with one of the most novel motoring records of all time tu their credit. "We had some trip." Patmont said practice in the automobile design of ! tu boriv ns Its temuerature Is raised and conversely to thicken as its the near future is voiced by Automo- j "''"'"' h L .,h i,,i of oils. bile Topics of January 28. 1930. " -- In describing the apparent neces- i "Hence today's automotive engine slty for some provision to reduce the era face the problem of providing a temperature ol the lubricant In high . lubricating system whereby a some powered, high speed motors, this well- times doubtful grade of oil must be known trade paper says in part: 'made to effect a seal against greutly "OH cooling is one of the newer Increased pressure, working at higher features of automobile design about, flame temperatures and In a greater . ... . j I i A mtiiMriBt-c nnrl rtrriilntlmr wnicn a gooa aeui muie i uwu,im .huuiki w. .... - . to be heard In the next year or two more rapidly than formerly because until It comes Into fairly general use. : the nigner rate oi revumwu as apparently It will. it is more crankshaft Involves more frequent familiar In the aviation Industry than changes of oil throughout the sys- in the automobile business but it is tern not a leaf borrowed from the book Home Accidents Vie With Motor Mishaps Recent statistical reports received by the Oregon State Motor associa tion indicate that accidents in the heme are maintaining a close race with motoring mishaps as the cause of fatalities. While much emphasis Is being laid upon automobile ac cidents, reports for 39 cities dur ing a recent month showed that in 11 of them there were more homo fatalities than auto deaths. Among the entire 39 -cities with a population of 11.000,000 there were nine acci dental deaths in homes to every ten motoring fatalities. Nearly 60 por cent of home deaths were caused by falls, mainly involving children under five years of age. of thc alrplano designer. "Oil coolinu came into tho automo bile picture because of a rather con sistent progress in engine design of hirh the trade at larne is prooobly ite capitoi. inappreclative. It appeared at tne Be ginning of this year in Hupmobile's 133 horsepower straight eight "H" and "U" series where a section of the radiator itself is devoted to cooling the oil. It will probably be seen on all of the better grude cars in due course. ' Hence the questions, "Why is oil ccollng desirable?" "Why more so at this time than heretofore?" Briefly, oil cooling not only tends to increase the uselullness of the en gine and especially to postpone the need for grinding out the cylinder bores, but it also tends to promote more uniform performance under all conditions, and especially to hold up the power curve during extreme weather conditions. OU cooling is more necessary now than heretofore because the output per unit of cylin der volume has been Increased Just about to the limit capacity of the present lubricating systems." Thfl tMthniml writer for this maga zine points out in his article that compression ratios in automobile en gines have been greatly increased in the past five years so that the aver age has increased approximately 11, . He further states that this develop ment has come about through the constant research oi engineers w uu taln and uttliEO the maximum in power per pound of fuel consumed and per pound of power plant used. He continues: "Interpreting this change in terms applicable to lubrication Involves mprelv exDressintc the trend in terms of compression pressure rather than presslon ratio would Increase very nearly in proportion to tne increase In compression pressure. In 1025, the average compression pressure of all engines was, roughly speaking, around 80 pounds per square men. ny con trast, present practice reveais an averaee of almost 100 pounds per l square Inch with a maximum of lfJO Eight largo murals, depleting out standing historical events, have been placed in the aome oi mv niuuumu Tho Chinese government is teach- . ing fishermen western methods to Improve their catches. p Thc first major window glass plant m Mexico has Just .been opened. Italy is spending $4,000,000 on port Improvements. CHRYSLER P wire wheels extra) "Free whecllntt also permit the driver to shift gears easily and silent ly between second and high nt any speed without touching the clutch. Tho clutch is ompioyeu oniy m ituum opolls. Is dim on l certain to break Mm Amnrlnit A.umrhiHnn 'hntno run and back up. As a result, tho neces- , ronol of 43 slty of tlresomo pedal pushing as woll as the fear of geur clashing are gone forever. a .i "vu uitbuiih inrouKnoui tne woricn to snt'iiic nf it-ttcin.r" (,fh. "WWY. ?,w n"".c,vu ienmnirirl trt on,. t- nvorir ul.lv.m, i, , " "V"'? " w iurR. i nis car is id yea a uruKen irg uuring an aiiompicu as- j "'Z .. . i, " "i nuns oi uounciug nut Dei I eve me its a dandy. It aver- sault by Moore. The assault is sold , 'L' " "r .'" 11 Broaso D011- nged more than 20 miles on a gallon TI"" ' " Lu17r. Y.V AtT, y.wBi,,0w, miLu. w.nwjatiuii. in. Por .ki88nff. to thp ruM . fM - of easolUie and used verv little oil. Wp P'""' " . "V. "'c"""": "I.r fashionable Portland neigh-; .S iLZ Aln. , lles bXlthe S chMP'y on1 mmc Nick CUHop. who couldn't Btlck j tr ..-ti..?1 . ln "urea-se ball" 4a the mcchaxilo who oulclcly tlian any way I know of. wltn tho Yankees, now with Mlnne- " , . Li ' '"""r ; makes the wheels go round. , Some days we made more than 300 compiled by the automotive division 1 Drivers tuning up their mounts for m If " wo never speeded. In prac oi the dopartmont-of commerce, j ' 2-mllo race here Labor clay are Jlcally every town we reached we at- AssiuiUng o . world, population o!noI""K ". won't have to "unload" trctl lot of attention. 1.0U,000.000. the department census I hop from a 'moving car1 bcWo it! 'The 1917 Ovcrlond car was pur- RhowH there is an automobile tb ;crnnes. -chased ono year ago by Patmont for I Jaak fitoale manager of the Llttlo Rock Traveler, Is' culled "Captain I Magg." around the Southern As'jo- 'Tree wheeling has been unanl- clnUll,. clroull. He Is said to bo mously endorsed as a safety factor by Laurence mailings'. many niRilwiiy ruiiiiiiiHNiuiiem. r.tpup- p tlH' flesll. J I every 210 persons ouusldo the- United i 'ney Have an averslpri to the twenty-five dollars. It functioned per .bellicose hero Your Buimper ' ;. - - is roor Protection! rjWlK licst lmnipr in thc world will not protect X you from tlu risk of law suits nnd damage claims. You may not ho able to prevent acci dents, hut you can prevent tliom, from ruininc your hank account. Come in Ik-fore you drive any further, and let us explain how you can have com plete protection now, and spread the cost over a period of months. UNITED STATES INVESTMENT CO. 0. W. WAHNOCK. Mgr. United States National I'ank lUiildinj; La Grande-, Oregon States, compared to one' to every 1 "Ol'hooley." too. for the careening u fectly throughout the Journey despite 4 5 persons In this country. l :car 8ora through in righting itself tho fact that It was driven all over vermin, in southwestern Arabia. Is ,'lt' " "P111 is rather nerve-racking. ,Mnu nosa lor a year prior vu iw cross-country trip. When the boys arrived In New to after a spin Is rather Mne-mnHn. i ouutwi ijj. mo. . rcpuri vj nave only ., '" yuue nopes his motor's I ono car registered to evcrv 104.1(1(1 8"oplng Irons" rnn,,, -.. ! persons; Ethiopia has ono to every I will hold up while he's utmhlnu York they drove down Broadway lli,7Bl; while the rate for Afghanis- it speeding up to tho point the Woolworth building whore the ; tan Is sliowu to be one for every whore th- car is "unraveled" the young Callfomians parked their car ll-77u- . motor running Its fastest. .while they visited the Woolwortii , Ueventy-clght per cent of all pas- "Bc.lo;ney" and 'hoops" are sourcas tower. When they returned to the : Bcngor cars and sixty-two per cent of trials to most drivers. Both are cor they found such a large crowd oi all commercial cars arc credited j tires bologney the small ones, and gathered around the 1917 Overland to the United States. Prance is hoops (hose of normul size. Those that they had considerable difficulty shown second In total registration. ; trials hold whether the nice Is on a In driving away. v . followed hy Ungland and Canada I "monkoy track" or In a "bullpen." Both boys plan to drive back to I ho siiltunte or Oman, In south-I the first a small speedway, tho sec- California In the same car despite tho coMernArabla, and Bermuda are tied ond a small dirt track. foct that they have boon offered j lor last place with ten automobiles The curs of course, have their clas- ' funds to purchase a new car for tho : C!"ch- I situations other than those listed on trip. tho programs. A "jalopoy" Is a smull "This little old boat Is good enough ',.. .. ;,.... ri rnce car. a "Job" a goodlooklng one of for us." they told officials of the IsliUllfl II l(JHWCtl) J O I any size, a "crate" a blj racing ma- Willys-Overland Co. in New York. y) ir,,,,,l fl 7iichne. I "We had a picnic In It so far and we . C ISJellHtl UCl. IV I Nor are drivers "Jockeys" ex- can't get up courage to part with It. ! ompt from slang. Tho fast driver Is Why should we? It might bo a 1917 HAVANA The second section i " "h'ad foot" to the ruclng world, model but It goes over hills and it of La Carretera Central Cuba's new I his opposite a "balluon foot" because shoots right along day in and day oiuti.uuu.uuu central highway will be dedicated October 10. tho anniversary of the opening of the ten years war for Cuban Independence, it has been announced by Dr. Carlos Miguel de Ccsppdes, director of public works. Uy I hat time Cuba will have com pleted about 600 miles of the beau tiful road which will link the cities and towns between Pinar Del lilo. at the western extreme of the Island, and Orlente province at the eastern end. a distance of approximately Huo miles. presslon pressure per square inch In live vears. "When It Is recalled that lubrica tion must not only provide a film be tween pistons and cylinder walls, but also a compression seal in each cylinder, It is plain to see that the oil is called upon to perform a much more difficult duty today than here tofore. Moreover. It is Implied that the limit of progress In this direc tion has not yet been recognized. "As compression pressure Is In- EIGHTS and SIXES Greatest Performance in Every Price Field r $79'5 aryCr, UPTO $95 1 49 5 The New chrysh Egh up to $ 665 $2495 "gtftSr $2895' Imperial Eight AH prices f. o. b. factory LW. Weeks Greenwood & Jefferson of hla caution In feed tiie "o fust" out. Wo would rut her have It than mitny of tho new curs." A new public library costing $300,- j Hungry Is expected to grow ooo, with 00.000 books lias been open- 70.000.000 ed ut fcun Antonio, Tex. ' yea pounds of tobacco this Jay Salzman Is Offered Albany District Post SALEM. Ore., auk- 23 (.11 Lieuten ant Jay Salzumn. state traffic officer In cha rue of The Dalies district, 1ms been utiorett thi captaincy In charge of the Albany district. Secretary ol Statu I loss said Friday. The Albany poit became vacant when Hoss disentitled Captain Ken neth 11 loom at the same time that he removed Chief T. A. Knffcty. Kalman entered the trallic service ol the stats Annual 1. 10J0. nnd tui been In the service loiwr thuu uny other num except Ituffety. 1 "Snlinim," Hotts said todny. "is one of the otllcers whonc dlsehurtfe from the service was sought by Haffety. I woultln't consent to this alter mak liiK a very thm-mih investinatlon of Kaffriy's charges against him. Includ hii a trip to The llalles where 1 cun I erred with a number of prominent persons." ge&fo S DUMP BODY TRUCKS ADDED TO FORD LIS K Addition of five dump body truck to the line of utandard model AA ; one-and-one-half ton trucks was an- j nomn'fd today by the Ford Motor . company. 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