THE BANNER-COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1922.
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GIVE YOUR AUTO
GOOD ATTENTION
Winter Motoring Can Be Made
More Pleasant by Giving Car
Necessary Care.
WATCH EN3IHE VERY GLOSELY
Hood and Radiator Should Be Kept
Covered and Anti-Freeze Solution
Poured Into Water System
Be Easy on Battery
With the closed car and all sorts
of heating arrangements more popular
than ever, few automobiles are put
into storage during the winter.
But manufactured conveniences will
not make winter motoring pleasant
unless the car gets all the attention
and cure necessary for cold-weather
driving.
Chief Source of Trouble.
The motorist's greatest attention
should be paid toward the engine, for
that is his chief source of trouble In
winter. lie should keep the hood
and radiator covered. The gasoline
should be cleared of water and other
Impurities and an anti-freeze solution
placed in the water system.
The best anti-freeze solution is
about a gallon of denatured alcohol,
or alcohol and glycerin in equal pro
portions, to three of water. This
freezes at about 10 degrees above zero,
Fahrenheit. For colder weather the
alcohol mixture should be greater.
If the engine doesn't start imme
diateJy on depressing the starter but
ton, the motorist should resort to the
priming and crank method. The bat
tery should not be overworked, for
the long nights and short days during
winter mean added current for the
lights. Besides, the battery's efficiency
is lowered with a drop In tempera
ture. . Starting Cold Engine.
A cold engine will start best after
being primed with high-test gasoline
or ether. The crank should be used to
limber up the engine. The choke
should be used sparingly, for overuse
causes the raw fuel to run through
into the crank case.
There is least load on the engine
in starting if the clutch is held out
while turning over the engine with
the starting motor.
Lighter lubricant should be placed
In the differential and transmission,
tor cold weather congeals the oil and
furnishes more work for the engine,
LOOSE SPOKES CAUSE NOISE
Squeaks Become More Distinct as Car
Turns Corner and Can Be Rem
edied Quickly.
Wooden wheels with- loose spokes
mlt a smipnkhis' sound which Is in
tensely annoying. The noise will be j
more, distinct when the car is being
driven around a corner. Sometimes
this looseness may be obviated by re
placing one or more spokes, or it
may be cured by forcing small wood
en wedges between the spokes and
the hub. A wheelwright can do the
job in a few minutes.
Clean Oil Holes.
Whenever it becomes necessary to
examine the interior of the motor, for
any cause whatever, the car owner
should make it a point to clean the
oil holes at the lower end of the con
necting rods.
AUTOMOBILE
Keep a record of the distance trav
eled by each tire.
Tires puncture more easily when
not properly inflated.
The average term of service for an
automobile is six years.
A careful driver seldom gets Into
the hospital or police court.
Chains should be placed on tires
with the hooks to the rear.
The greater number of the new au
tomobiles carrying insurance are val
ued at more than their market price.
If they keep up the crusade to make
everything cash it will soon be im
possible to even get your battery
charged. Banks Herald.
The Toledo Blade says that a tele
phone pole never hits an automobile
except in self defense.
How many pedestrians use the left
side of the road when walking on a
highway. The law says it Bhould be
done and there must be a reason for
it. Fewer accidents would result.
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STUDEBAKER HAS BIGGEST
YEAR IN HISTOTiY IN 1921
On December 31 the Studebaker
company closed the most successful
year In its history, the factory in
formed J. K. Leander, factory branch
manager, last week. Gross sales to
taled approximately 195,000,000. The
company sold about 66,500 cars. Pre
vious record in gross was $90,652,000
in 1920, and in number of cars 65,885,
in 1916, when the company turned out
a large amount of war business.
Studebaker goes into 1922 in the
strongest financial position in its his
tory. It has between $8,000,000 and
$9,000,000 cash and owes the banks
nothing. A year ago cash amount
stood a little - over 4,000,000 but
against this the company owed the
banks $8,500,000. Instead of being
a borrower Studebaker is today a large
'lender.
In the nine months of 1921 the com
pany earned a net of $9,644,000 atter
depreciation and taxes, on the equiva
lent of $15.21 a share for the $60,
000,000 common after preferred devi
dends. With various charge-oifs to
be made at the end of the year yie
full 12 months should return better
than $18 a share for the junior is
sue. During the last three years
Studebaker has doubled its common
share capital, the increase from $30,
000,000 to $60,000,000 including $15,000
000 stockdividend. Record earnings
on the old capital for a full year were
$9,067,425, or $27.66 a share, in 1915.
Studebaker is now operating its
South Bend plant at capacity. Produc
tion schedule calls for 8000 cars this
month, 700 in February, which con
tains two holidays and 8000 to 8500
in March. This means a minimum
production in current quarter of 23,
700 cars, a ne wthree months' record.
Previous record was in second quarter
last year at 22,305 cars. The third
quarter of last year ran slightly un
der 22,000. Production in the last
quarter approximated 11,000.
At Studebaker turned out only 11,
000 cars in the first quarter of 1921,
a minimum production schedule of
23,700 this quarter means an increase
of considerably more than 100 per
cent
FORD COMPANY SOLD
MILLION CARS IN 1921
Retail sales of Ford cars, trucks and
Fordson tractors have again exceed
ed the million mark for the year of
1921, according to a statement by the
Ford Motor company.
The Ford factory - and assembly
plant production figures reached a to
tal of 1,050,40 cars, trucks and tract
ors for the year with retail sales by
dealers approximating 1,093,000, which
in the United States surpassed the
1920 retail sales record by 104,213
Ford cars and trucks.
The Ford company says the outlook,
for 1922 is decidedly optimistic. In
fact, concrete evidences already exist
in that car and truck retail sales for
December, 1921, exceeded December
1920, sales by almost 25 per cent and
Fordson tractor retail sales for lhe
same periods show an increase over
100 per cent for 'December, 1921, as
well as an increase over the total
tractor sales for the month of Novem
ber. Another point brought out by a com
parison of production figures for the
past two years shows that Ford en
closed cars are gaining in populari
ty as 23 per cent of the 1921 produc
tion were sedans and coupes as
against a total of 18 per cent for the
year previous. .
The recent price cut was the fourth
in the last 16 months . During that
time the price of the touring car has
been cut 40 per cent Reductions
on some of the other types have been
even greater.
Ford is giving employment at pres
sent to approximately 40,000 men in
his main plant at Detroit, the impor
tance of which is emphasized when
consideration is given to the fact that
nearly 20 per cent of the city's popu
lation is directly dependent upon the
Ford Motor company.
Chevrolets Are Selling.
The Clackamas County Chevrolet
agency, of which Bert Hall is the rep
resentative, with, headquarters in Ore
gon City, reports a decided demana
for the popular new light car, with
eight sales last week. Mr. Hall pre
diets that the coming season will
be one of the biggest yet for the light
er autos.
Ralph Parker Takes
Portland Position
Ralph Parker, formerly of the firm
of Miller Parker has accepted a po
sition with the Covey Motor Co. of
Portland and will leave Oregon City
with his family in the near future.
Mr. Parker has been a resident of
Oregon City for almost ten yea's and
has been active in promoting the busi
ness interests of the county and city.
He has been a member o the Com
mercial club and the Live Wires and
it was largely through his efforts that
the Oregon City Auto Park was i stab-
lished.
Automobile!
Painting j
Now is the time to lay !
up your car and give it
a new appearance and:
this is the shop to do itf
for you. Our prices are?
Between You
and Me hXlly
The Elevator Pilot.
City jobs have their ups and downs
the mayor's seat is not so soft men
have been known to refuse a chance
to be chief of police. But it's a vis
ible fact that nobody gets more ups
and downs in the work of a day than
Jack Straight, the city's faithful ele
vator pilot
Jack has staid with the old ship
through summers frazzle: he's the on
ly pilot who doesn't get seasick and
desert his post.
Jack fondly cares for that old lift
with its groaning, sobbing cylinders
and ugly tower. He grooms the cold
oozy machinery that makes our home
going so .much easier than it used
to be and worries when some careless
attendant throws a wrench into its
vitals, compelling Jack to hang out his
most unpopular signal, "Elevator
Closed." He stokes the winter fire
that heats the shaft and keeps the
valves and pistons from freezing when
Alaska atmosphere moves down into
Oregon.
Moreover, Jack's human; that's
what really counts. He is a friend
of the kids, which proves it every
time. He's always decent and friend
ly to everybody, but, being in the
uplift business, he will tolerate no
roughhouse in his cage. Just take
time to appreciate his courtesy and
cheer.
An Apology to the Pioneers.
In my last week's mention of fire
proof construction, I chanced to refer
with seeming irreverance to the
crumbling ruins of antiquity left
standing here in Oregon City. How
ever unappreciative such a reference
might seem, it should not be consid-'
ered for a moment that the real in
tention was to discredit the achieve
ments of the early Oregon settlers.
We are the tardy builders who have
not kept pace with the times.
Taking into consideration the hard
ships which those sturdy pioneers en
dured in establishing a few frame
buildings and keeping them establish
ed till complete civilization arrived,
the energy now required to erect a
modern structure might appear child
like in comparison.
The real fact is that their work has
made our results possible; "we are
building on the foundations which
they laid. The epoch that's now in
the making is far from complete, when
completed, their part will surely ap
pear greater than ours.
To really understand and appreci
ate how pale are the sacrificies that
most of us make today, folks should
absorb Eva Emery Dye"s "McLough
lin and Old Oregon."
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Dr. .Welsh's Ayrshires. '
It would seem strange that a strain
of cattle originating in the Scottish
highlands, then adopted into the moun
tainous regions cf Canada, should be
found grazing on the rough and brushy
slopes near the Sunset school above
West Linn. Dr. O. A. Welsh is a
great admirer of the Ayrshire breed
and has imported several head from
British Columbia, which, with others
the increase of his original venture
make up a desirable herd of thor
oughbreds. The Doctor especially
prizes a couple of handsome yearling
heifers granddaughters of the famous
"Grandview Rose," champion milk
producer of Canada.
Ayrshires are scarce in Clackamas
county, there being only one other
sizeable herd, besides the Doctor's.
There is pleasant diversion in stock
raising, for a busy man of affairs, and
satisfaction in propagating a race of
thoroughbreds. Whether or not tho
venture is a financial success has ab
solutely no bearing on the essential
benefit the importation of such stock
will bring to the county. Meanwhile
we wish the Doctor continued success
and cannot help noting how a noble
group of cattle never seem to clutter
or mar a landscape. They are na
ture's picturesque accessories.
About Billboards.
There -were times in the not so ter
rible remote past when our citizens
were laboring behind horses or oxen
when salmon were teeming in the
western rivers and everybody produc-
A report has been circulated to the effect
that we are about to discontinue the sale of
Ford parts and in order to correct this impress
ion we announce.
We shall continue to carry, the largest and
most comprehensive stock of genuine Ford
parts in Clackamas County and will wholesale
to garages at the regular discount. Get our
proposition before ordering a Ford car, truck
or tractor.
At Elevator Oregon
"EquiDped to
Always "Eauipped
ed or gathered what they, needed to
eat and wear. Folks were a lot
healthier, huskier and happier in those
days without knowing anything about
"The national joy smoke," or Spear
mint gum. Reading "was confined to
small printed pages of which people
selected what best suited their taste3
and pleasures.
Nature provided much material for
reflection and thought and men were
inspired and broadened by such un
defiled environment. These staunch
inhabitants put forth sufficient effort
in cultivating their minds and their
fields to create a type of manhood
which is the foundation of our present
age and race.
Today our brain, food is selected,
cut and dried, then diluted to terrible
dimensions and spread over the land
scape so that reading may be without
effort unconscious painless, so to
speak. They dose us with such as
these: "Yon can have prosperity if
you wanted it;" "Keep that schoolgirl
complexion" and others. It is mar
velous how it is no longer necessary
to select our own literature or think
our own thoughts.
But there is one offensive practice
in connection with this and that is
when they plaster a glaring signboard
right blank in the face of our famed
northwestern scenery. There are oc
casions when we would prefer to feed
on unembelished nature rather even
than on bread, ice cream or tobacco
advertisements.
The Temporary Span.
On Friday morning, the 20th of Jan
uary, the suspended cables, prepared
for our temporary structure across
the Willamette, first felt the weight
of man and material. In the raw, cold
and dreary atmosphere of a severe
winter day, men clung to those steel
strands and tied on the suspending
threads which support the floor of the
cross beams which they pushed out
over the river, fashioning their own
floors of double twelve inch plank as
they advanced. Tirelessly they
worked, though numb and cold from
the icy blasts, spanning the 500 foot
gap in thirteen working hours.
Citizens, who observed the work,
when partially completed, enjoyed a
rare and spectacular sight The fig
ures suspended in mid air and the nar
row walk which ended so abruptly far
above the stream, while workmen car
ried material out over the swaying
skeleton of the bridge, provided a
thrill of daring and danger. The fa
bric which had previously been mea
sured and fashioned, joined together
smoothly and speedily.
Now the bridge stands completed,
making a very fair appearance, con
sidering the haste In which it was
constructed and the transient use
which it serves.
Our Navigation.
Supposing the river is at the 35
foot flood stage; a steamer, heavily
loaded with paper, drops down through
the locks headed down stream. If
the pilot is a careful navigator he
backs up the river a short distance
for a start, then kes a run for it
and slides .under fnV SLthe new
bridge easily enough
piers and a vertical clearance of 73
feet. The Claire, tallest of the pre
sent boats, rises 70 feet above the
water which misses the bridge deck
by three feet And the time which
we mention is during extremely high
water. It would be painful to think
what would happen should a boat push
her nose out of the lock3 and then
"let her drift" But the supposition is
that good boats like snappy human be
ings, are not mere pieces of drift
wood. Captain JReed, in charge of the U. S.
engineering at the locks will tell you
that only a very few short years ago
steamers were not using the locks on
a 25-foot stage or over: Navigators
were tied up because the locks were
useless right then and continually un
til the waters lowered. Such had
been the eustom for 25 years prior
to the time when the U. S. engineers
ereted a four-foot wall at the upper
lock entrance thus holding back the
upper river from flooding the gates
and giving lower river navigation the
benefit of another 10 foot rise. Now,
when we see a big steamer get a
full speed start and hit the lower
lock entrance, running the risk of
crowding a pack of flood trash through
her slats in that narrow and walled
waterway, we haven't much fear for
her safety down at the 190 foot bridge
City, Oregon
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to Serve YOU Best"
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clearance with flood waters at 35.
It's a good old fleet that runs the
Willamette and the boys In their tops
will put them through or die. Clear
ance of 190 feet is not nearly so con
venient as the comfortable breadth of
a river but the. public has found out
tha tthey are not squawkers when a
good thing like a new bridge comes
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the
Truth
About
Battery
Dope
There are a lot of
places offering to give
your battery a fresh
start in life by putting
"dope" in it.
As a matter of fact
there isn't any kind of
dope made that will
take the place of re
charging and proper
care.
If your battery does really
need acid it is far cheaper
and safer to come to Bat
tery Headquarters to have
it put in. Whether your
battery is a Willard or not,
bring it to us if it can be
done at a saving to you,
we'll set it on its feet in the
quickest possible time.
CONHILGERS
Storage Battery Rebuilding
and Repairing
12th and Main St
Jfcgr esenting
Willard Storage
Batteries
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We can deliver to you a Fordson Tractor all filled up with kerosene gas, motor
oil and transmission grease, complete with No. 7 Oliver 2 bottom plow for
Park-Shepherd Motor Co.
Main at Fourth
DODGE BROTHERS M0T0
Dodge Brothers Reconditioned cars are offered NOW at
prices which make it possible and unusually profitable for you
to own one. v ,
DODGES
1921 model. $800
1920 model . 725
1919 model. 650
1918 modeL 575
1917 model 500
along. Possibly they reflect how
it's gettin? so that the automobiles
tike more room on the river than the
steamers us. However, the boys all
drive, good autos so what's the use?
"If it kas a wringer
it isn't a Laun-Dry-Ette"
Vhe washing machine
without a wringer!
YOU need no wringer with the Laun-Dry-Ette. In
one minute the clothes are whirled dry. It is the
washing machine plus! Saves work, saves buttons,
saves fasteners and hooks, and eliminates red hands!
How? Come and See! Or phone us and arrange for
demonstration.
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and Power Co.
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Capital Garage
Less Crawford, Prop.
TERMS OR. CASH
OREGON CITY, OREGON
GUARANTEE
We guarantee each Dodge
Brothers reconditioned
car against defect in ma
terial and workmanship
for a period of 90 days.
TERM PAYMENTS IF DESIRED
The ready response to the ferry
proposition is a credit to progress and
good business. It is encouraging to
both city and county a genuine ser
vice to both.
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FORDS
1920 Sedan $525
1920 Touring 340
1919 Touring 245
1918 Touring 245
1918 Touring 245
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Oregon City,
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now and avoid the spring rush
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Phone 77
City Auto Paint Shopf
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Every need of an automobile,
With Miller-Parker Co.V