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THE SUNDAY OTiEGCyNIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 18, 1920 OREGON IS HED ID GET MORE TOURISTS THIS GIRL IS THE ONLY WOMAN TRUCK TESTER IN THE WORLD. FIRESTONE FACTORY HUGE r h Ht "-n v.-ws , IT COULD PROVIDE AIL AUTOS - i IJT JAPAN IJT ONE DAY. 1 ' 8 I - ' ' " vkr 'L I- : '' Dr. H. C. Fenton Sees Great Example in California. TOUR MADE IN CADILLAC Dr. and Mrs. Fenton Guests of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Klelser on California Trip. The sooner tlie people of Portland and of Oregon realize that they have one of the greatest summer resort climates in the world ahd et out to capitalize that fact, the sooner will they be entertaining tourists by the hundred thousands and reaping a crop of tourist dollars. So declares Dr. Hicks C. Fenton of Portland, who with Mrs. Fenton returned home last week after three weeks of tour ing by automobile through southern California. Dr. Fenton was immensely im pressed in the course of this trip by the way California capitalizes its tour ist possibilities and conversely how Oregon neglects hers. Everything in California is laid out to make it pleas ant tor the tourist. At every point of scenic interest and a good many points of no particular Interest there , . . .. V, 1 hAtl9 are roomy ana cuiuiui Thousands of dollars are expended by rtiffRi-pnt communities in aavwiwiu tho ctotn has to offer the tour ist in climate and scenery, dui jubl as important, correspondingly large sums are laid out to make the tourist comfortable when he arrives. Oksob Summer Resort. "There is no reason in the wide world," said Dr. Fenton,, "why Cali fornia and Oregon and Washington, too. should not work right together in this matter of bringing tourists to the Paoinc coast. We should have them in summer, California in winter. Tlere certainly is no room for a clash of interests on such a plan. We should concentrate up here on the summer side of the tourist businesa California has the winter side of it cornered, by reason of her perfect winter climate. "But on the other hand we have a perfect summer climate. Nobody can compete with us there. Portland and all western Oregon are one big sum mer resort. We must realize this fact and take advantage of it. The lesson we gain from California is the thorough manner in which she has organized and capitalized her climatic and scenic resources. She has not waited for opportunity to come and tap her on the shoulder, but has tapped opportunity herself and has made it so comfortable for oppor tunity in the way of tourist trade that California is opportunity's win ter home. "There has been no miracle about it. Merely a case of getting out and letting the world know what you have, through advertising, then pro viding enough good hotels and other attractions to make the world feel at home when it comes." Travel by Cadillac Sedan. Dr. and Mrs. Fenton went to San Francisco by rail and there met Mr. and Mrs. George W. Kleiser, also of Portland, as whose guests they toured 1500 miles in a Cadillac eight sedan. From San Francisco they journeyed to Los Angeles by the coast route, by way of Del Monte and Paso Robles. From Los Angeles they motored to Riverside, Redlands and back to Los Angeles by way of San Bernardino, thus taking in the heart of the orange orchard district. Mr. Fenton says the orange picking season has just be gun and that it is a great sight to travel through this country and see great groves of orange trees with the oranges ripening and the pickers at work. They returned to San Francisco by way of the inland route, passing through Fresno and Bakersfield. The raisin country around Fresno was very interesting to them, but they vote the coast route much the more scenic, for the inland route passes for the greater part through a dry and sun-baked country. However, Dr. Fenton was greatly impressed with the diversified crops raised oranges, raisins, olives and. arter harvesting all these natural crops, tie tourist crop. Right now, he declares, there are 200,000 tourists In Los Angeles alone. Like everyone else who has toured in California, Dr. Fenton has much to say about its fine roads, which make touring a delight. Virtually all the new highways there, he says, are paved with concrete. One can drive hundreds and hundreds of miles through southern California and never be off paved roads. At least that's what the K. XV. D. Truck company aays, for whom h works. Her name is Miss Luella Bates, and the photo shows hsr with an F. W'Jfcp. truck at the New York show. 5 GIRL IS TRUCK TESTER MISS LL'ELLA BATES THE ONLY W OMAN IN THAT JOB. Also She Was the Only Woman on the Floor at New York Truck Show. BE CAREFUL OF NEW CAR ESPECIALLY, DON'T IiUG IT ON HILXi CLIMBING. It Easy Matter to Ruin Motor of New Car by Carelessness at First. Always drive your car slowly and cautiously until you are thoroughly familiar with its control mechanism and the methods of stopping it. This is some of the advice given to new car owners by a writer in the cur rent issue of American Motorist. Among other things, this writer says wnen driving grades on the higher ratios, if the motor shows any tendency to labor, shift back into lower gear ratio which has been pro vmea lor mat purpose. Many mo torists believe that the best test of a car's ability is to rush all hills, or bad spots in roads, on the direct drive. It should be remembered that the lower speed ratios were provided for use at all times when employing the third or fourth speeds might pro duce strains in the motor. "One should never attempt to drive cars at high speed unless the tire casings are in perfect condition and the road surfaces good. In driving on clay or muddy road, or on wet asphalt, care must be taken in turn ing corners, and the car should always be driven cautiously to avoid dangerous side slipping or skidding. "When driving on unfavorable highway surfaces always keep one side of the car on firm ground if possible. Brakes should always be carefully applied, especially if the road surfaces are wet. An automo bile should never be brought to a stop in mud, clay or sand, snow or slush, if It can be avoided. When ever road conditions are unfavorable, the smooth tread tires of the driving wheels should always be fitted with chain tire grips to insure having adequate traction." KE? YORK, Jan. 17. At the re cent annual motor truck show in New York there were many interesting ex hibits, some so novel that they at tracted crowds of curious sightseers, but. after all. every one dwarfed into commonplace beside a pretty girl in a natty oxford gray uniform, close-fitting coat, trousers, puttees and jaunty overseas cap. Amidst the many men mechanics, demonstrators and drivers connected with the show she was the only wom an and looked small and out of place. Make no mistake, however; this rath er lonesome looking young woman was not at the show for the simple novelty of being there among men, but for business reasons solely, hav ing been stationed at the exhibit by her firm as an expert motor truck tester. She is the only woman in the United States thus employed and she knows as much about the makings of motor trucks and how to handle them effi ciently as ninety-nine men out of a hundred employed in her line. This young woman is Miss Luelia Bales of Clintonville, Wis. During the war, said Miss Bates, telling how she took up the work. the big auto truck manufacturing company out my way by whom I am employed hired many girls in the plant to release men for war duty. We learned all about trucks from the radiator to the rear axle. Finally several of us were tried out as test ers, but the other girls did not ex actly take to the work, and now the war is over most of them have left the plant for so-called feminine oc cupations. But I liked it and conse quently stuck on the job and I guess I have made good or I would not still be retained in the road-testing de partment when they can now get plenty of experienced men to fill the job. In a year s time I ve tested about 150 trucks, averaging 70 to 75 miles per truck. I test them for a variety of things lubrication, adjustments. road tests for gasoline and oil con sumption, country roads with sand mud and clay; take them up steep grades, through narrow roads and put them through speed tests, real joy rides. I do all my own repairing. and know every part of the truck and where it belongs, down to the small est detail. People look at me. when I drive through city streets and wonder how I can do it, small as I am, especially through the long, cold winters out our way, when the roads are fre quently icy or heavy with snow. But honestly, in my opinion, driving truck, even in winter, is real sport compared to the average job a worn an gets and the work she has to do to earn a living. "Before I started to drive a truck I worked in a store and stood behind the counter for eight or nine hours a day. Believe me I used to be tired when I finished a day's work. Be sides, I lost weight, my circulation was poor and I had no color." OLDFIEIiD FAVORS LONG TOUR Barney Speaks for Proposed Trans- Continental Event. First of the big tire manufacturers to support the proposed 1920 national automobile tour is. Barney Oldfield, former speed king, but now head of the Oldfield Tire company of Cleve land. "It is the duty of every automobile and tire manufacturer In the country to get behind the revival of national touring and to boost for the 1920 event," declared Mr. Oldfield In a let ter to Chairman Kennerdell of the American Automobile association con test board. To show he Is ready to do his part, Mr. Oldfield has offered Mr. Kenner dell, on behalf of the Oldfield Tire company, the entry of a tire service truck to accompany the caravan from New York-city to Los Angels, carry ing a complete outfit of tires, sup plies, help and air under pressure. "The revival of national touring under A. A. A. control will be a splendid thing from every point of view," Mr. Oldfield declares, "and a transcontinental route is the only adequate choice for such a celebra tion. "Nothing could better illustrate the tremendous improvement on the roads. Nothing could do more to prove how simply and easily such a trip can now be made. The changes of the past ten years in transcon tinental highways have been a rev olution. Gone forever are the days when a man started such a trip with fear in his soul, a cargo of spare parts under his rear seat, a pick and a shovel, ax, ' ter bags, block and tackle and similar tools on his run ning boards. 'I can remember several trips where we needed all those implements, but times have changed. Only the novice carries such stuff now. The last time I made the trip I came straight through from Los Angeles with Cal ifornia air in all four tires and every one of them as well inflated as at the start. . "Will I drive across with the tour? You can tell the world I will if busi ness does not keep me away and I don t believe it can. FIRMS TO BE SEPARATED FRANKLIN TO DO DIE-CASTING IN NEW FACTORY. Capacity of Great Plant at Akron Tire Making Center Rated at. - 86,0 00 Tires Per Day. Making a new set of tirea for each I motor car In Japan would require but I half of a working day at one of the big tire-making factories of the) United States that of the Firestone I Company, at Akron, for Instance, which has a rated capacity of 36,000 1 tirea dally. After finishing the job for Japan's 4500 air-cushioned motor vehicles, the I Firestone factory oould In the same day meet all the needs of the motor I cars of China and Siberia, with enough left to make a liberal distri bution in other quarters of the far I east. But 9 working days, or more than three years, would be required for a I factory equalling Firestone's enor-1 mous output to make four new tirea I for each of the 7,602,000 motor vehi cles operating In the United States I today. Those who like to stagger their im agination may be able best to build up I a fair mind's-eye picture of the Im mensity of the annual tire consump- I tion of the United States by compari sons based on the annual production of only one of the several big facto ries of the United States. They can obtain pictures of the annual produc tion of the Firestone factory, for In stance, by multiplying pictures based on the capacity of 36.000 tires dally. Well, then, these 36,000 tires If placed end to end would cover no less than 50 miles on a straight line. Or con vert them Into a single tire and you would have a circle of rubber which, standing on its tread, would tower 15 miles into the air, or, laid on its side, I would easily enclose New York and I London together. AUTO DECISION MODIFIED ARMY CAN GIVE SURPLUS TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Bureau of Public Roads and Post- office Department to Get Many Trucks. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 17. Motor- vehicles can be turned over by the war department to other govern ment departments without charge, ac cording to a decision by the depart ment of justice. The effect of this -decision will be to permit the transfer of nearly all the surplus vehicles from the war de partment to the postoffice depart ment, treasury department, bureau of public roads and other government divisions. The transfer of these vehicles was started immediately following the armistice, based on the postoffice appropriation bill of 1918, which au thorized their transfer without charge, but which ,was halted by the passage of the sundry civil bill, which con tained a clause prohibiting the trans fer of war department equipment with out charge and which was interpreted by the judge advocate-general of the army aa a prohibition' of further transfer. The attorney-general's decision as reported here Is to the effect that the judge advocate-general made an erroneous interpretation and that the provision in the postoffice appropria tion bill is still valid. The bureau of public roads, depart ment of agriculture, had already been allotted 20,619 trucks and 7000 other motor vehicles, many of which have already been allotted to the various states in lieu of the cash or appro priations under the federal reserve act. Oily Plugs. , There are several causes of oil col lecting on the points of the spark plugs. One of these Is the use of too heavy a tubricating oil. If this trouble Is persistent try mixing a pint of kerosene with each gallon of OIL This may cure the trouble. Business Conducted in Automobile Plant Since 18 93 Now to Be Divorced. The formation In Syracuse, New York, on. January 1, of a new corpora tion known as the Franklin Die-Casting corporation, reveals an interest ing, bit of automobile history. Back in 1893, H. H. Franklin began to manufacture castings by a process first used by him, which was a wide departure from any method previous ly employed. By the use of this proc ess, which later became known as die casting, it was possible to pro duce for the first time irregularly shaped parts both accurately and in volume, which required no machining before assembling. The business, begun in a very mod est fashion, continued to grow slowly but surely, and in 1902 the H. H. Franklin Manufacturing company be gan the manufacture of automobiles in addition to die casting. The two distinct lines of manufacture have continued to be made in the Frank lin shops ever since, although each so far as organization and personnel are concerned has been independent of the other. To further the expansion plans now under way at the Syracuse plant where 4400 persons are employed, the die casting- business and the manufac ture of automobiles will travel separ ate paths from now on. The die cast ing business Is of no small propor tions in itself (orders now on hand will take four months to comoletel ana orrtciais or the new corporation win lane steps . at once toward se jecuon oi a suitable site ni t ha erection of buildings away from the automobile factory. n The area of the present Franklin factories, covering a floor space of more than 23 acres, is In sharn con trast to the small back room whr Mr. Franklin first began business a quarter of a century ago. NEW FACTORY FOR FRANKLIN Ground Broken for 7-Story Ware house at Syracuse. wround has just been broken by th? "ranklin Automobile company for a new seven-story warehouse and manufacturing building with a floor space aggregating 200.000 square feet. according to word from the factory at Syracuse. The structure will cost $600,000 and the necessary machinery and equipment will represent an ad ditional Investment of IZlO.ooo. it will be ready for occupancy by Sep tember 1. The Franklin company has just completed another seven-story build ing with a floor space ot l&u.uuu square feet at a cost of $400,000. A $100,000 addition to another- manu facturing building is being rusned to completion, as Is a new heating and power plant costing 200,000. By tne end of 1920 the total 'loor space will aggregate more than 34 acres. NEZ PERCE CARS NUMBER 160 7 Auto License Report of 1919 Shows Heavy Gains. LEWISTON. Idaho. Jan. 17 fKn cial.) The 1919 report of automobile licenses collected Indicates an Increase of about 450 In the number of n n Nez Perce county, and Ifionn in th. license fees collected. The number of cars for 1919 Is 1607. of whlnh una are classified as touring, 149 as road sters and 155 as trucks. There were 26 motorcvcla licensm granted. About 200 dealers' and chauffeurs' licenses were also Issued. The total collected in fees during the year was zs.3t!, as against about $22,000 in 1918. The local and county road districts will obtain 75 per cent oi tne sum collected, the remainder going to the state. FURNITURE MAN BUYS WHITE TRUCK. Thl handsome two-ton White truck, with double-redaction gear drive, was purchased recently by the Edwards company from the Portland branch of the -White company, of which C. W. Cornell la manager. The body was especially built to order. A duplicate unit, also a White truck, soon will appear in tne Hiawarua fleet.- HYATT BEARINGS ' Don't fail to set your brakes when you leave your car. Complete stocks of genuine, new Timken, Hyatt and New Depar ture bearings for repairs or replacements. Portland Branch. 24 IV. Broadway Phone Broadway 1799. A-2444 Bearings Servige Company General Officz Detroit, Michigan imiiiimiiimiimiimmiiiimiimmm'j VL EVE RY QSZ GARFORD consistent, honest performance in the hands of owners is the result of quality. 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