THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 3, 1919.
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NEW HIGHWAY LINK
NIG OF ILL
MOST SCEI
Work Fast Progressing Along
Hood River-Mosier Section.
GORGE VIEW WONDERFUL
Jfew Part of Columbia River High
way Cuts Through Cliffs High
Above the Great River.
BY JOE D. THOMSON.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. Aug. 2. (Spe
cial.) Far scenic grandeur and the
appealing views afforded from lookout
points over the Columbia, the Hood
been applied, holding the tread firmly
in place.
"As to the guarantee given with
Thermoid tires, we believe it is the best
offered, being 6000 miles on all sizes
with the exception of the Ford sizes,
on which a guarantee of 7500 miles is
given. The tire is constructed to
stand all hard knocks and is especially
resistant to stone bruises, which have
been the ruination of many tires.'" ,
AIRPLANES ARE SELLING FAST
Chicago Auto Dealer Takes on Line
and Sells 40 in Week.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2. At the end of the
first week of selling airplanes an au
tomobile dealer who has added planes
to his stock announced that he had
sold 40 machines and declared himself
satisfied there was a field for the com
mercial planes. The dealer, a veteran
on automobile row, added airplanes to
his sales floor exhibits by purchasing
150 Canadian army training planes and
made Chicago the first commercial air
plane selling center in the country.
INDIANA FAVORS MUFFLERS
Driver Who Uses Cut-Out Likely to
Be Stuck for 9100.
There has recently been passed by
the Indiana senate the anti-muffler bill,
BETTER TIMES ARE AHEAD
DEMAND FOR TIRES INDICATION
OF PROSPERITY.
Head of Star Rubber Company Sees
Good Sign in Heavy Call for
Quality Tires.
With peace with us again,, it is fair
to assume that the so-called reconstruc
tion period has been successfully passed
or at least the first phase of it. The
Becond phase seems to promise an even
more widely distributed volume of business.
Many business men have felt that the
reconstruction period was purely
"mental" condition, and nowhere is this
more surely thought than in the auto
mobile tire business.
A year ago production had been se
verely cut and the reduced production
could not take care of the demand. To
day production is at top capacity, but
the demand for pood tires outstrips the
supply. Much of the "reconstructive
prosperity belongs to the sudden im
petus, or rather unrestrained impetus.
of the automobile and allied industries.
The leading tire men think there is
much greater prosperity ahead. Crops
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PU1 B. Dana, aalesnuut for the Fields Motor Car company, likes an Inclosed car. So does Mrs. Dana. Here to the new
brand tnnroltt aedaui they bought for themselves the other day.
River-Mosier link of the Columbia
River highway will be the equal of
any stretch of the irreat scenic road
between here and Portland.
Emerging from a pleasant dell about
a. mile and a half east of Hood River,
the new highway route-to Mosier, now
tinder construction, passes along" the
precipitous side of the Columbia's
rug-ged canyon at about mid-height.
The view of the lowland farms of
"Bingen on the Columbia." on the
Klickitat county, Washington, side of
the river, might almost be that from an
aeroplane. As the traveler progressea
east, the topography of the country
changes, and the bare, brown hills
back of Lyle and around Granddalles
gives the motorist his first intimation
of the arid regions of Eastern Ore
gon and Washington.
The contractors have completed the
new six-mile grade, except for about
a mile on either side of the Hood
RIver-Wasco county line. Here the
construction work is as difficult as
any met with in Multnomah county.
Indeed the entire six-mile stretch is
the heaviest for its length ever un
dertaken by the state highway com
mission. At the east end of the two-mile link,
which will be cut through almost solid
rock in the side of the cliff, are twin
tunnels. The smaller of the tunnels, a
bc-re of 65 feet, is completed, and hard
rock men are now well on the way
into the second, which will be 245 feet
long with two open windows, afford
ing an inspiring glimpse of the Co
lumbia. The new grade of the highway six
months ago was almost impassable to
a goat. Today it is walked over by
scores of Hood River people attracted
by construction work and the views
from the new grade.
prohibiting the driver or owner of a
gasoline-propelled vehicle from using it
without a muffler and forbidding the
use of a cutout, providing for a fine of
from $10 to $100. As a result of the
activities of justices of the peace, a bill
was introduced by Senator McCray, in
Indianapolis, with a view to protecting
motorists, to the extent of limiting the
jurisdiction of justices, providing for
a preliminary hearing of cases pertain
ing to the motor vehicle laws and giv
ing them the authority only of binding
the accused over to the circuit court
for trial.
THERMOID GIVES WEAR
SFECIFICATIOXS SHOW ITS SU
PERIORITY TO OTHERS.
Tire Built by 3Iakers of Thermoid
Brake Lining Guaranteed
to Make Good.
The best and longest wearing tire
for the least amount of money to be
spent in the long run was the slogan
of the Thermoid Rubber company when
tt set out to build a tire for the motor
ists of the world," said Robert E. Allen
of the Allen & Hebard company, dis
tributor for Thermoid crolide com
pound tires. "After several months of
experimenting, the chemists and tire
experts at the Tnermoid factory dis
covered a compound which they call
crolide. This discovery is compounded
with rubber and adds greatly to the
life of the tire.
"A few Thermoid specifications will
ehow the superiority of the Thermoid
tire. In many sizes one more ply of
fabric is put than in standard tires.
For example: SVir-inch tires are built
with five plies of fabric and 4H sizes
with seven plies. The fabric used in
Thermoid tires is woven from 17l4
ounce long smple Sea Island cotton
and between each layer of fabric is a
special blend of crolide compound rub
ber. The cushion is made of a special
blend of crolide compound rubber as
well as the breaker strip, which is
niade of specially woven fabric.
"The tread, which must be especially
strong, is of crolide compound rubber,
extra thick, and because of crolide,
toush and resilient. To add to the
streiiglh of the tread a special Ther
moid inierlockinir arrangement has
BTASH 5LL GETS PROMOTION
Walter W. Smith Advances to Assist
ant Sales Manager.
Walter W. Smith has been promoted
to assistant sales manager of the Nash
Motors company. This has been an
nounced by Charles B. Voorhis, general
sales manager. Motors company to dis
tributors of the organization.
Mr. Smith got his early training in
the automobile business with the old
Speedwell Motor Car company of Day
ton. Later he became identified with
the sales organization of the Thomas B.
Jeffery company before that company
was taken over by the Nash Motors
company.
Last January Mr. Smith was pro
moted to manager si passenger car
sales. His work won for him the high
esteem of Mr. Vooris and resulted in
his present promotion.
are big, prices are high, and, although
living is high, wages are also higher
than ever before in peace times. Men
and women have money to buy mer
chandise hitherto out of their reach.
President Firey, of the Star Rubber
company, commenting on the situation,
said: "Our faith in the future is shown
more by our action than our opinions.
We are building and extending as fas
as we can, but still the demand for tires
keep9 ahead of us. It seems like
stern, never-ending chase to catch up
with actual sales.
"In that hive of the rubber industry,
Akron, all the factories are working at
high pressure from wnistle to whistle.
"And more good tires are being
bought today than ever before. People
are buying the best they can get in
spite of price, and that's a very healthy
indication.
IF YOUR AUTO GETS ON EIRE
Keep Engine Turning Over by Means
of Electj-ic Starter.
Q. In case of a fire under the hood,
ought the gas to be turned off and the
hood then be removed? How else can
the fire be checked?
A. The gasoline should be turned off
and then the fire extinguisher should
be turned on the blaze. Try to keep the
engine turning over by means of the
starter. This will tend to draw the
flames into the manifold and cylinders.
Don't start your car with a Jerk.
Always engage the clutch gradually,
and see that the car starts off easily.
ON THE NEW HOOD RIVER-MOSIER LINK OF THE COLUMBIA
RIVER HIGHWAY.
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The Superfine Small Car
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90 North Broadway
Wray Motor Car Co.
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5. &
Stretched as In the tire, good tabes do
not rip when cut. They cat but do not rip.
The slightest cut in an inferior tube
Rip! and the tube is rained. Make
your dealer prove that the tube he
sells will stand the Norwalk test.
The Scissors Test
Reproduces actual service conditions. You
hold the rubber at tension exactly as the
air will hold it. The scissors snip is like
the edge of a puncture.
This test proves the truth of the Norwalk
guarantee: Norwalk Tubes do .not rip as
other tubes. Cuts can al
ways be repaired. They
do not spread.
It proves before you
buy, the mileage you can
get from Norwalks.
Norwalk Tubes, red
and gray, are made of
highest grade floating
stock.
And there's a Norwalk
Casing too.
If your dealer cannot
supply you write to.
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Toosiifo Cam
$925
The Scissors
Test
Take sample piece
of tube 14 in- by 3
in. Stretch to 9 in.
or three times its
original length.
Cnt on the edge
with scissors. The
cut should not be
feore than 'a in.
across the sample.
If the strip tears
apart the rubber
is inferior.
BEARING RUSHED BY PLANE
BEARINGS SERVICE COMPANY
MAKES QUICK DELIVERY.
Photos by Judson G. Ruggles.
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mrsr the Hood Ktver-Waseo const? lime, snow lew, from the aew high
way, of '", Wash BlBgc u the Colombia
Auto Parts Supply Co. Portland, Or.
Auto Parts Supply Co., 812 E. Pike St, Seattle, Wash.
Distributors
NORWALK TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY
Makers of Cosines, Cord and Fabric; and of Tubes, Red and Gray.
Norwalk, Connecticut
'Floating stock means rubber so pure that it floats. It is the stand
ard. It meant what 24K gold means. To you it means mileage. File
away dated sample of Norwalk Tube and others and compare
them at the end of a year.
You are going to learn lot more about Norwalk quality. But
don't wait. Start saving your tnileagemoney now. Get the stuff
- that's in the tube. Ask us for a sample of Norwalk rubber.
(iJL- . Casings Adjusted
&fZgy 8000-Mile Basis
NOKWALK
TUBES anaCASUSTGS
You have observed that we frequently
emphasize the accessibility and sim
plicity of Dart design.
We have good reason to believe that
no car on the market is of more
simple and accessible construction.
Perhaps the best way to make clear
the value of Dort accessibility is to
say it this way:
When you desire to "tune up," or
"dope up," or adjust this or that part
you can do it yourself easily and at
little cost
And of course mere's no need to point
out that Dort simplicity means
TPflTimnni freedom from mechanical
trouble.
Prices F. O. B. Factory
Wire Wheels and Spare Tires Extra
Northwest Auto Co.
"The Line Complete
Alder at Eighteenth
COMPANY
D O W.T
MOTOR CAR.
Airship Csed to Hasten Bearings to
Tommy Milton in Time for
Uniontown Race.
How Tommy Milton, winner of the
Independence derby at the Unlontown
races on July It, was kept In the race
by quick delivery of a front wheel
bearing by airplane from Detroit. Is
graphically described by A. K. Hebner.
general manager of the Bearings Serv
ice company of Detroit. The plane left
Detroit at 6:30 A. M. on the morning
of the race, and the bearing was deliv
ered to Milton at 12:15 the same day.
two hours before the race.
The flight was the result of a last
minute request by Milton's mechanician
for a front wheel bearing to the Pitts
burg branch qf the Bearings Service
company, wnen it was discovered tnat
the branch had completely exhausted
its supply of this type of bearings, a
request was immediately forwarded to
the home office in Detroit to find
means of supplying Milton with the
needed bearing. The wire arrived late
Friday night, too late for the bear
ing to reach Unlontown by mail in time
to keep Milton in the race.
The emergency was met by J. T. Pat
terson, general manager of the Uni
versal Aviation company, who supplied
the company with a plane and pilot, to
take the bearing to Uniontown. The
plane left Morrow field, Detroit, carry
ing H. J. Detterlch, representing the
Bearings Servioe company, at 6:30 A. M.
of the day of the races.
Landings were made at Norwalk and
New Philadelphia. O. Near Wheeling
the plane developed engine trouble, and
a hazardous forced landing was made
on a hill top about 50 miles from
Uniontown. The bearing was then
hurried to Milton in Uniontown in an
automobile borrowed from a nearby
farmer.
The change of bearings was effected
in time for Milton to enter the race,
and two hours later he smashed all
previous Uniontown track records when
he drove his car around the course at
a rate of 100 miles an hour.
Don't get arrested for violating rules
if you do, don't blame the police officer.
Did You Ever Have
a Blowout?
IF SO THIS AD WILL
APPEAL TO YOU
Would you like to know that
when you contemplate a trip you
can make your tiree the least of
your worries instead of one of the
big worries?
Would you like to feel that you
can travel with safety without rim-
cuts or blowouts 7
. Would you like to cut your tire
bills H to H?
If bo
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