THE SUNDAY OliEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 9, 1920
PENDLETON TO GET
WALLA WALLA ROAD
roads and surfacing: with first-class
macadam. These, three roada are
tributary to the main Pendleton
Walla Walla highway, and hereto
fore have been very bad during wet
weather, and rough in dry weather.
WESTINGHOUSE SPREADS OUT
It FT (FT""1 rg epp I
Plants to Be Placed on Job
in Summer.
CRUSHERS NOW IN ACTION
(several Miles of Construction
Eliminated by Changes la
Highway Lines.
TEXDLI'.TON. Or., May 8. (Spe
cial.) Hopes for a hard surfaced
highway between Pendleton and
Walla Walla will' be realized in the
coming: summer.
At the close of the year 1919 the
Big Electrical Company' Goes Into
Storage Battery Game.
PITTSBURG. Pa., May 8. The for
mation of the Westinghouse Union
Battery company at Pittsburg marks
the extension of the Westinghouse in
terests to a new industrial field. The
new company nas been organized to
manufacture storage batteries for
every industry in which batteries are
used. Starting and lighting batteries
for renewal on automobiles will be
featured, although the new company
will make batteries for other auto
motive equipment, including trucks,
tractors, motor boats and airplanes.
Their full line will also include bat
teries for home lighting: systems, train
lighting and railway signals. '
The company is at present occupy
ing three floors of the Union Switch
& Signal company's factory at Pitts
burg. Initial production will be from
1200 to 1600 batteries a day, with
working force of about 500 employes.
The company is planning to build a
factory on adjoining property of from
ONE OF THREE FORD RUNABOUTS IN INSURANCE MAN'S
FLIVVER FLOCK. .
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Some men raise chickens, but W. R. McDonald of W. R. McDonald Co.
' raisea Korda. He has three of them. In which his salesmen chase Insur
ance prospects, this being; one of the three and one of the salesmen.
Ion could hardly call Fords a fleet, but they might be a flock. Mr. Mc
Donald buy 'em young; and dolls them up with spotlights, picture and
such.
highway was paved from Pendleton
to -a. point about a mile east of
Athena, with the exception of a sec
tion about a mile long just west of
Milton hill north to the state line.
There was also about a mile of hard
surface near the Walla Walla end,
on each of the two main roads from
the state line to Walla Walla. The
total mileage of hard surface was
26, out of a total length of road of
4 miles.
During the dry weather in early
spring, the paving plant at Freewater
paved another mile from the foot to
the top of Milton hill, which has long
been a bugaboo to travelers. The
contractors have considerable work
in Milton and Freewater, paving city
streets, so that no more highway
paving work will be handled by the
Freewater plant. It will be moved
to Bluo Mountain station in a month
and will start paving, from the top
of Milton hill toward Weston.
F'looded Pavement Repaired.
The Athena plant began operations
last week patching the places broken
in the old pavement by the winter
floods. There were a number of small
sections where the banks were
washed out and the paving cracked.
These have been repaired and the
paving is now in progress in the mile
section Just west of Athena. Ae eoon
as this is finished, paving will be
laid from east of Athena toward
Weston to meet the paving from the
Blue Mountain plant.
In addition to the paving plants,
the contractors have several rock
crushers operating. All the paving
plants and crushers in this section
are operated by electricity, which re
sults in considerable saving of time
in moving from place to place, be
cause boilers and engines do not have
to be installed.
There rare several changes of line
rn the highway between Walla Walla
and Pendleton, which will eliminate
nearly two miles of road, most of
the changes being near Weston. The
finished road will be about 44 miles
long", of which over 27 miles are now
completed.
Walla' Walla county has a compre
hensive!,: programme calling for two
paved roads between the state line
and the .city. Contracts have been
let for an 18-foot pavement, and
work will soon be under way. It is
understood that the first road to be
paved will be via College Place, so
that this route can be opened for
travel before the other road is closed
Sew Concrete Bridges.
Further north. between Walla
Walla and Waitsburg, about seven
miles of concrete road is being built.
so that .there will be excellent going
for more than 60 miles from Pendle
ton toward Spokane.
Several very substantial concrete
bridges are being built on the Walla
Walla-Pendleton section of the state
highway.-' These bridges are well
designed., and great improvements
over . the old bridges. Many sharp
curves nave been eliminated.
.In addition to the state highway
work, there are three .important
county jobs under construction. These
are theHavana-Helix road of about
10 miles, the. Milton - Walla Walla
river road of about five miles and
the Freewater-Umapine road of about
10 miles.; All this work consists of
straightening and grading the old
two to three times their present ca
pacity.
A. L. Humphrey, president of the
Westinghouse Airbrake company and
active in the management of all of its
subsidiary organizations, is chairman
of the board of directors of the new
battery company. D. F. Crawford,
vice-president and general manager
of the Locomotive Stoker company, is
president of the new company, and T.
R. Cook, formerly chief engineer and
general production manager of the
Willard Storage Battery company, is
vice-president and general manager.
T. S. Grubbs, vice-president of the
Union Switch & Signal company, is
also vice-president, secretary and
treasurer of the new organization.
TRUCK MOTTO CHANGED
SHORT HAULS FAVORED FOR
3IOTOR VEHICLES.
Spirit of Bureau Is Not One of
Competition, bat Mainly
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of Co-ope ration.
From the Firestone ship-by-truck
bureau comes the notice of a change
in the ship-by-truck emblem to read
"Ship by Truck for Short Hauls." This
is not a change in policy, but rather
a. broader definition of their original
policy, and1 Is the result of a sugges
tion by the Rational automobile
chamber of commerce to representa
tives of the ship-by-truck when their
support was asked for national ship
by truck-good roads week that the
fact be emphasized that the motor
truck could be used more econom
ically for short hauls.
This suggestion, strengthened by
a request signed by some of the big
gest men in the motor industry to
Mr. Firestone has resulted in this
change of insignia.
The addition of these three words
cannot fail to make clear to all con
cerned that the spirit of this bureau
is not one of competition but rather a
spirit of co-operation with and good
wm towara an iorms oi iransporta
tion. including railways, water ways
and air ways. The keynote of its
policy has always been co-ordination.
not competition, and to this fact alone
Is due the splendid results thus far
accomplished, and with this good will
thus further defined by the new'in-
signia. "Ship by Truck for Short
Hauls," the revolving wheel con
tained therein will continue to spell
ever-lncreaBing success.
Water in Crank Case.
Not all truck operators realize how
much water collects in the crank case
especialy at this time of the year,
when the cohJ causes condensation.
This water mixes with the oil, form
ing an emulsion, which has a low lu
bricating value. All this Jto empha
size the Importance of refilling the
crank case with fresh' oil every 1000
miles or oftener, if possible, after the
era ink case has been thoroughly
fxushedi out with kerosene.
The Famous LEE Cord
"The Wolfhound
of Tires"
...
Symbols of
Speed and
Endurance
both
XjEES
The speed limit in the cities in Chile
Is 25 kilometers (15.5 miles) an hour.
HERE'S THE MODERN FORM OF THE ANCIENT GAME OF
- PIGGY-BACK.
$ ;s i ..ten k uMWimi
Mhty Ai'l fry
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Yhree and-one-half-ton Jumbo truck, with Goodyear pneumatic cord fires.
carrying; Monarch tractor for delivery from Portland to longing flfm In
Rainier, Or. Hauling It by truck Is cheaper than sending; It by rail and
four times as fast. Both lines are handled by the Mitchell, Lewis A Sta
ler company
yWjcb ik
Chanslor & Lyon Co.
PACIFIC COAST
JUISTRLOLTOItS
Largest Distributors of
Automotive Equipment
in the World
Dealers Write or
wire for our exclusive
territory proposition.
Portland List of Lee Tire Dealers
Gerke A Jackson, 320 Lombard St.
Ward A Koraythe, 386 Second St,
Emtiick A Verblskl, 9th and Couch Sts.
Tracey A Company, SI JVorth 9th St.
Climax Garage, 38th and 1'bnrmin Sts.
Factory & Motor Car Co, 21st and Kearney
Sts.
Godbey A Stevens, 12S 5th St.
P. W. Kinney, 1050 Corbett St. .
Red Cap Garag-e, 11th and Stark Sts.
A. G. Onslow, 23d and Washington Sts.
Kinney Bros-, 53- Washington St,
Broadway Auto Inn. 243 East Broadwsy
Interstate Garage, 110O Union Ave.
Eagle Garage, 5820 2d St.
Cassady A Hansen, 746 Derby St.
Motor Inn Garage, 8SO Kant Bnrnslde St.
Hebestreet A Holm,. 103d and Foster Road
Monarch Motor Co., 843 Vancouver Ave.
Eleventh Street Garage 333 11th St. So.
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MOTOR'S HEART IS HEARD
BEAT OF EXG1XE TELLS STORY
OF POSSIBLE AILMENTS.
Stethoscope Employed by Expert to
Diiagriose Trouble With
Astonishing Success.
"It is not a very difficult matter to
construct an instrumentthat will en
able the owner to listen to the very
heart beats of his motor and find out
what alls It," writes an automobile
expert in the American Motorist. Con
tinuing the writer says:
"One way Is to secure a stetno-
scope, such as is used ty physicians
in listening to the beating or the pa
tient's heart and the working of his
breathing apparatus. This may be
made suitable to the purpose by
lengthening the central tube. The
other end of the device may then be
held against any part- of the motor
without the necessity of removing
the receivers from the cars.
"Another scheme is to secure from
the junk man or local telephone com
pany a telephone receiver body into
the closed end of which Is screwed a
steel rod 3-16 Inch in diameter and
about 15 inches long. The rod should
lie threaded for about 114 inches from
one end and a nut and lock washer,
should be used on each side of the re
ceiver so as to hold the steel. rod se
curely in place. When the rod is
held against the engine and the re
ceiver to the car all sounds in the
motor are "telegraphed" up the rod
so that each bearing or wrist-pin
knock stands out clearly above the
noise of the operating parts of the
motor."
NEW XATIOXAIi PLATGKOUXD
Little Zion Canyon in Utah Be
comes -Park.
. Three hundred miles south of Salt
Lake City and reached by automobile
from Lund, Utah, is Little Zion can
yon, the newest of American national
Playgrounds.
The canyon derives its name from
Salt Lake City, which about SO years
ago was known as Zion, says the
Detroit News. Brlgham Young and
other Mormons visited the district
and the inhabitants decided that they
would call the carfVon "Little Zion,"
evidently considering Salt Lake City
a big place.
Within the last few years Little
Zion canyon has been visited by a
large number of tourists and some of
them have termed it "The Rainbow
of the Desert."
There are deep canyons with cliffs
of blood red and cliffs of cream
white rising to a height of 2600 feet.
Huge natural bridges and level
topped plateaus with precipitous cliffs
and picturesque amphitheaters pro
vide a picture that strikes one with
awe.
Barker's Bakery
Has Just Ordered Another
G M C Truck
Another Truck Owner Is
Convinced of GMC Quality
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Wentworth-Irwin, Inc.
Second St., Cor. Taylor, Portland, Oregon
Popping Back.
A backfire or slight popping back
through the carburetor may usually
be accepted as a sign of insufficient
intake valve tappet clearance. When
the intake does not close, the burning
charge escapes through th valve and
ignites the incoming charge in the
mandfold. Loss of compression causes
loss of power and the gas blown back
deranges the carburetion momentarily.
T" i i , "j i" iim"'Ii'I"''ii Tn .. , . " $ ,,.".",.".I-'.-."T.'L " ' " . I, mini t i i'
Performance Equals Appearance
Original lines, splendid color,
and seating " comfort mark the
Lexington Thorobred as a dif
ferent type of sport car.
It is a refreshing departure in
the sport car trend.
Like all Lexington cars it has
the many exclusive mechanical
features which mean greater ser
vice and economy.
Exhaust System to give it more
power on the same fuel ration,
and the Lexi-gasifier, hailed as
the solution of the low-grade
gasoline problem.
The famous 2 -Way Head
Lamps give full light without
glare; the Equalizing Cable Brake
acts' evenly on both rear wheels;
the Lexington Emergency Brake
actually operates with one finger!
There is the Moore Multiple Letusshowyou the Thorobred.'
Thorobred (Sport Ifodel), $28$! Touring Car, $2iS$; Lex-Sedan, $2583; Sedanette, fjijo; Coupe, $3IJ
AU Series "S" models equipped with cord tires
BRUNN MOTOR CAR CO.
Distributors
28-30 NORTH BROADWAY
Sold by the followlag dealersi
B. A C. Motor Car Co.. Salem, Or.
Colombia Highway Auto A Storage Co.,
.flood River, Or.
Riley Meier, Corvallla, Or.
n?I1 A Lemon. Arlington. Or.
William Motor 'ar "o.. Pendlrton, Or.
C. . Williams. Klamath Kail., Or.
Lexington Motor Company, ConnersvUle, Indiana, tJ. S. A.
Preserving Washers.
Spare asbestos washers should al-
ways be treated before being placed
in the toolbox of the truck. . A six
hours' sop king in olive oil, followed
by draining and a biref drying and a
final rubbing in fine black lead, will
give a good tight washer that will
come adrift cleanly at any time.
Can you stop in 20 feet?
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I1., 3V, 5 Tons
Repeat Orders
Spells the Success of a Product
The Willamette Valley Transfer Co.
added the THIRD S-Tori Fageol
since January 1, 1920
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Will overcome the delays in
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your goods.
Speeding the goods on their
way to the buyer may be the
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Federals are designed and
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the Pacific Coast.
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