THE SUNDAY OR EG ONI AX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 5, 1919.
the battery become so weak that their
headhunts fail to illuminate the road
sufficiently to Insure safety. If the ras
ollne tank Is not too nearly empty to
permit of rnnnlna; the engine for half
an hour with the (tear, neutral, this
Announcing
will charge the battery so that the
headlights will give a fairly strong
light for some time.
EIGHT TRCCKS SOLD IX WEEK
Portland Southbound Drivers
Amount Used in Warming Up
Roberts Motor Car Company DcI1t
ers Fleet of Federals.
Ship Their Cars.
Motor Is Small.
Eight Republic trucks were delivered
last week by the Roberts Motor Car
Company, one each In Roseburg. Albany
and Hillsboro and five in Portland.
HIGHWAYS IN VALLEY GOOD
LOW-GRADE FUEL HANDICAP
Five of the trucks were three-quarter
ton vehicles which only arrived Thurs
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BY AUTO IMPOSSIBLE
HIGH-TEST GASOLINE
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day.
Barriers Found on Colombia Kiver
Highway Semr Hood Hirer
and The Dalles.
Several impassable stretches of high
way in Southern Oregon and Northern
California prevent mid-Winter automo
bile trips from Portland to San Fran
Cisco, according; to information re
ceived by the Oresron Ftate Motor As
sociation. Wlllametty Valley highways
are reported In rood condition. Central
"We were ex pectin or a big truck
year, said H. W. Roberts, of the com
pany yesterday. "We have never had so
many inquiries about trucks as have
been pouring In during the last few
days and our sales are continually
mounting. We expect to break all rec
ords in 191$."
TRACTOR COCRSE IS OFFERED
Three 3Iontlis' Instruction Begins at
Corvall Is January 6.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Corvallis. Or.. Jan. 4. (Special.) Due
to heavy buying of tractors in Oregon
Garages Should Be Kept at Temper'
ature of Not Less Than SO De
grees, Says C. Ij. Boss.
Ever step outside on a cold morning
and hear all the automobiles in the
neighborhood straining to get their
lungs warmed up, striving to get a
spark of life in their motors so the
owners could hurry on to their busi
ness?
We all have, and wondered why it
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Meaager mt the Track Oepartmeatt Is Oat the Seat at the Ktve-To Slodel at the Extreme Right.
Oregon roads fairly rood, and the prin
ctpal Eastern highways either in fair
condition or passable.
Many motorists are making the trip
from Portland to Puget Sound points,
driving down the river from Port-land
to Coble, ferrying across to Kalama
and then proceeding north over the
Pacific Highway. The worst roads on
this trip are encountered between Ka
lama and Chehalis. The stretch be
tween Kelso and Castle Kock has been
repaired and it is no longer necessary
to make the detour on the west side of
the Cowlitx Kiver.
Autoroobiliists are advised not to at
tempt to drive over the Columbia River
Highway to Astoria as there is a six
or seven-mile section of highway Just
thin aide of the terminus of the road
that is very soft. The trip is being
made, however, going Inland by way of
Clatskanie. Mist and Jewel. With the
exception of the one bad stretcn ine
highway is in pretty good condition.
Motorists eastbound over the Colum
bia Kiver Highway from Fortland are
chipping to The Dalles, as there is a
section of road Just west of Hood River
which is closed to travel. The bignway
at this point was recently graveled and
is too soft for automobiles.
Once acrosa the mountains to The
Dalles motorists make the trip to Spo
kane br war of Goldendale. ilabton
Kennewick and Walla Walla, and also
drive into Eastern Oregon to x-enaie
Motorists find good roads up the
Willamette River to Salem, Albany,
Knnna and Corvallis. but there are
... 1 t.rriers to making the Port
lanri-San Francisco trip. A 22-mile
tretcn of the Pacific Highway between
Canyonville and Glcndale in Douglas
County baa Just been closed to all
traffic The rotd IS Demg suriacea
with rock.
It is possible to drive south from
Portland to Roseburg. but with the
r-anvonville road closed it would be
necessary to ship to Grants Pass. Mo
torists bound for calltornia wouia
have to ship over at least two other
sections, so shipping the entire way
is advised.
The shipping cost is reduced where
several motorists share a freight car.
George Chambers, of the Oregon State
Motor Association, has been pulling
southbound tourists in touch with each
other, a number shipping from here
during the last few weeks.
FRANKLIN OUTPUT GROWS
In the last few months much interest
is being shown in the short courses in
tractor operation and repair which will
be offered at the college this Winter.
Three one-month courses will be
given January C to February 1, Feb
ruary 3 to March 1 and March 3 to
March 29. A three-months' course will
start January 6.
MOTORS BEAR NEW PLATES
CAR OWNERS DECAY OBTAINING
119 LICENSES.
FACTORY NOW TURNING OCT
70 TO 80 WEEKLY,
Company Looks for Little Change
la Manufacturing Expense
for Some Months.
In speaking of the ability of auto
mobile manufacturers to regain volume
production quickly, an otticlal of tne
Frank in Company sata mat mis ac
complishment depended a great deal on
the extent to which difft rrnt plants
were disturbed on account of war work.
It In likely that some manufacturers
those who have had little war work, or
those who have erected separate plants
for war work will be able to adapt
their facilities moot readily.
The Franklin Automobile Company,
which has devoted Its plant to work on
liispano-Suixa and Rolls-Royce air
plane engines, is getting bark to pro
duction again. The first week of peace
showed a production of only four cars.
the second week IT cars, with a gradual
increase up to the present output of
from 70 to SO cars per week, borne idea
of the transition ahead ran be got by
umparing this output with the normal
capacity of the Franklin factory of 225
cars per week.
In line with the resumption of pro
duction. Franklin prices have been re
ljuvted to a peace-time basis. The
Frar.klln Company looks for very little
change for some time to come in manu
facturing expense, which Includes labor
and materials. Recent quotations in
the material market even show a ten
dency for greater costs. Labor at the
Franklin factory has recently been
placed on an eight-hour basis, with a
Bine-hour working day, which scale is
equivalent to a 10 per cent Increase
In wages.
When the Headlights Fail.
Motorists frequently find themselves
In the awkward predicament of having
About 24.000 of 63,0 00 Drivers
Have Orange and Black Tags
on Their Autos.
With the advent of the new year th
1919 automobile license plates mad
their appearance on Oregon cars, and
since New Tear's day have been eee
In ever-increasing numbers. While the
law requires that the tags be put on
the cars promptly the first of the year,
many car owners delayed sending in
their applications so much that about
two-thirds of them are still without
the new tags, and peace officers are
overlooking the fact for a few days.
Secretary of State Olcott said Thurs
day that only eome 24,000 of the ap
proximately C3.000 automobile owners
of the state bad sent in their applica
tions for license tags, and that conse
quently sending out the plates in many
cases would have to be delayed. Dur
ing the last few days of 191S the ap
plications poured in at the rate of about
looo daily. Secretary Olcott s force is
able to handle only 600 to TOO appllca
tions daily, so they got behind in their
work. -All motorists who have delayed
in sending in their applications are
urged to do sat once.
The new tags are of the same size
and design as the 191S plates, but In
stead of the black and blue of last year
the figures are In black on a field of
orange. At the left of the figure, also
In black. Is the abbreviation for the
state. Ore., and at the right 1919.
YEAR'S BUSINESS IS $1,000,000
Yakima Antomobile Dealers Make
Many Sales During 1918.
YAKIMA. Wash.. Jan. 4. (SneclaLi-
Compilation of figures given by auto
mobile firms of this city indicate that
their aggregate business during 1918
was more than $4,000,000. The figures
included accessories, garage work, etc.,
but did not include all the firms.
New Car Owners in County.
Temporary police licenses were issued
In Portland last week to the following
buyers or latest model motorcars, pend
ing arrival of the official state licenses
from Kalem. This list is compiled by
M. O. WHklns, publisher of the Automo
bile Record:
J. I- Fiord. Twelfth and Stark. Chandler.
... e. rdmun, L.ovrjoT. inanaitr.
Mrs. H. C. Arc hum be a. 7ttl ilrUM
F. K. Nichols. ! Clay, Msxwell.
W. J. Kiel. :: Ftnienon. Maxwell.
Mrs. B. 1L Miles, lius East Ullsaa. Ki
tlonal.
a. R. Rlfcs. Albany, Or., Chalmers.
R. W. Cameron. Northwestern Bank build'
lax. Cadiilae.
w. II. Messar. 3ST Sacramento. Dodi-a.
Ralph Pendleton. Molalla. Rout 1. Ford.
a.ij a. Hosaaa. IV l iainhtll. Hudson.
K. Cow. I. i.'oi Boiaa. Oakland.
8. H, McV.uity. 75 East Kisuth. Bulck.
Mrs. R. B. Long. 716 Ambart street, Chev
rolet.,
Neal swatland. 30.0 Sixty-ninth avenue
southeast. CheTroTet.
K. Mephaa. oo East Fifty-aecond North.
Chevrolet.
C. E. Qremaa. IS Grand evenne North.
Chevrolet.
Mrs. . Olson. 93t& Thirteenth. Elgin.
M. f Oanoe, 111 Nebraska. Ford.
J. E. Wilaoa. Kent. Or., Hudson.
K K. Krusa. Sherwood. Or.. Route 8. H im
mobile.
A. r. Oswald. M East Nineteenth. Max
well.
Dr. P. J. wlley. Henry bolldln. Premier.
J. R. Golririelrf. T.'S Belmont. Ford.
I.anc A Co., First and Ankeny, Ford.
IL C Monsemann. 44 Forty-Ilrst. Maxwell,
lira. it. A. Hushes. SIM East Seventy-third
Southeast. MaxwelL
C. E. Wentwortn. 1139 East Twenty-fourth
North. Maxwell.
rZ. J. Eheasgreen, 135 KeDraska, Olds-
mobile.
M. Melaer. EI-. Nebrasla. Velle.
Be sure to repair little tread outs
regularly.
' should be so much more evident now
Ithan formerly. Poor grade of gasoline
Is the answer. Here is what C. L.
Boss, of the C. L. Boss Automobile
! Company, Hudson distributors, has to
say on the subject:
"Automobile owners who live in ter
ritories where extremely cold weather
prevails in the Winter will be inter
ested In knowing the advantages of
using high-grade gasoline. The com
mon fuel sold as gasoline is extremely
i low test and seems to be deteriorating
in quality each year. As a fuel, it
leaves a great deal to be desired, but
for obvious reasons must be endured,
either until a better grade is manu
factured for universal consumption or
a new fuel is evolved. .
At temperatures ranging from 20 de-
i grees Fahrenheit to 6 degrees below
zero, the low test fuel will be propor
tionately difficult to Ignite when cold
and at E degrees below zero it will
be practically impossible to ignite it.
Annoyance Eliminated.
"It should be borne in mind that
high-test gasoline may cost 2 or J
cents more per gallon, but the amount
of gasoline used in warming up the
motor will be much less, and there
fore the general economy will be in
creased. It will not actually result in
a saving in fuel cost, but it will mean
much less annoyance and, at least,
not more than equal cost.
"With a low-grade fuel, it is nec
essary to choke the motor and fre
quently to prime it before the fuel
will ignite and the motor can be
started. It is then necessary to run
the motor with the choke closed for
two or three minutes in order to get
it hot enough to get the benefit of
the hot air pipe and aid in volatilizing
the fuel and eliminating the necessity
of the choke. Even with the low
grade fuel the carburetor will operate
satisfactorily In the Winter time if the
motor be thoroughly warmed up be-
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FREE TESTING SERVICE We charge and repair all makes of batteries.
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Automobile Electric Equipment Agents
PARK AND DAVIS STREETS
IN OREGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY'S BUILDING
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fore the car is driven. With the high
grade gasoline it may be necessary to
use the choke to start the motor, but
It will be possible to get it into the
hot air position immediately after
atartinff.
"it should be understood that when
the choke is closed the suction in tne
carburetor is terrific and the volume
of gasoline drawn out and used to run
the motor for three or four minutes
under these conditions would ordi
narily run the car a mile. This Is why
casoline economy decreases in cold
weather. The less the necessity for
us ine the choker, the greater the
economy, hence the reason for keep
ing the motor warm whenever possible
and using high-grade fuel.
Seventy-Test Grade Recommended.
"Every Hudson owner should try a
tank full of 70-test gasoline. He will
soon be convinced that it is well worth
the extra cost.
"If the car is stored in a cold garage
and difficulty is experienced in start
ing up in the morning. It would be
well to consider the installation of a
cheap stove or heating device to keep
the temperature in the immediate
vicinity of the engine not lower than
30 degrees. A small thermometer is
a very handy article in any garage in
Winter, as it will usually explain rea
sons for the long time it takes to
start the motor. This must be taken
into consideration before complaining.
"Especially must it be remembered
that constant cranking Is a severe
drain on the storage battery. It is
also interesting to note that the stor
age battery is affected by tempera
ture and will not operate as effi
ciently at zero as it will at 60 de
grees, which is the ideal temperature
for a battery. At 6 deerees below zero
the efficiency of the battery is con
siderably reduced. This is unavoid
able with any style of storage battery.
"We therefore urge every Hudson
owner who has a private garage to
Install some heating system to facili
tate starting and save gasoline and
the storage battery. If a stove is not
desirable a 100-watt tungsten lamp
placed under the hood and left burn
ing every night will go a long way
toward keeping up the temperature.
A blanket thrown over the radiator
will help to retain the heat generated
in the lamp. A thermometer will prove
very handy for comparison in case of
trouble."
TRUCK GASOLINE TESTS MADE
Bettef Planning, Routing and Oper
ation Effect Saving in Fuel.
A saving in gasoline three times as
great as that of our motorless Sundays
could have been accomplished during
the year by the motor trucks of
America
This significant fact was developed
through the three months efficiency
test conducted by the Packard Motor
Car Company, and is based on the in
creased efficiency of the winning con
testants. If every owner and driver
would make this same improvement
easily possible through better planning,
routing and operation gasoline total
ing many millions of gallons could be
saved each year.
The Packard test also showed that If
every truck owner could reduce the
cost of his hauling as much as the
winners did during the period of the
test America's 400,000 truck owners
would' save in excess of $140,00,000
ench year.
SGRJPPS BOOTH SIX DOWN
PRICE OF CAR NOW DOWN TO
PEACE-TIME LEVEL..
pert careful workmen who have speci
fications to follow, the cost of which
is prohibitive to most manufacturers.
"As the Scripps-Booth is now made
by one of the largest motorcar manu
facturers in the world, it can afford
to put materials and work into the
car which would be impossible for.
smaller firms."
Manufacturing on Large Scale As
sures Big Value, Says Local
Distributor.
J. H. Graham, distributor for the
new Scripps-Booth Six, has announced
a price reduction for the touring cars
and roadsters to J13S5 f. o. b. Portland.
This brings the price of this light six
down to the peace-time level. Mr.
Graham says he is pleased to be able
to make the reduction, declaring that
it gives the prospective purchaser of
a light six the opportunity to obtain
greater value. r
"Considering the tried units entering
into the chassis of the new Scripps
Booth Six," says Mr. Graham, "to
gether with the well-made body, the
Scripps gives greater and more last
ing value than any other light six on
the American market today. In the
body alone we offer a quality found
only in much higher-priced automo
biles. Every part of the body has
apparently received the labor of ex-
TWIX STATES IS REORGANIZED
All Stock in Company Now Held by
R. E. Murphy and A. H. Knaus.
Stock of the Twin States Motor Car
Company, distributors here of the
Chandler, which has a paid-up capital
of $20,000, is now owned by R. R.
Murphy and A. H. Knaus, each holding
an equal share of the stock, It was an
nounced last week by Mr. Knaus. The
company formerly was a corporation,
the stock being held by Mr. Murphy,
Mr. Knaus and one other person who
has retired from the firm.
Preventing Tools From Rnstlng.
A simple way to keep tools from rust'
ing is to give them a coating of vase
line mixed with a small amount of pow
dered gum camphor. Before applying
the two substances should be melted
together over a slow Are. When applied
to the tools a soft rag should be used.
Don't drive fast on slippery street.
strikes the dominant note of the day. A "military" car in its trim,
debonair gracefulness, efficiency and ' 'conservation" advantages.
Scores another tremendous success for the producers of the big
Moon Six-66 represents the utmost the expert designer, coach
builder and mechanic can accomplish at the price no more than
you -would be ashed to pay for a "quantity" Four.
' A glimpse at the car value we speak of: 7heelbase, 114
inches double cowl and high honeycomb (Fedder) radiator
walnut instrument board, front and rear solid; beauti
fully finished windshield smartly slanted Spiecr joints
Timken bearings Continental motor.
See this truly lihtwei&ht Moon light Six let us demon
strate for ycu.
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Complete at
Portland.
The C. H. S. Co.
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