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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. JUNE 13. 1920
GREATEST DRIVERS
WILLDEATTACQMA
Chevrolet, Boyer, Murphy and
Other Stars Entered.
antelope during the three years that
. he spent in the flockies. During that
period his men built roads for him
into many portions of the mountains.
In 1856. General Bela XI. Hughes,
pioneer stage manager, opened a
route between Denver and Salt Lake
over Gore pass, taking advantage of
the work already done by Sir George's
men. A stage company was char
tered to operate vehicles between the
two cities but the stages were never
run.
DE PALMA IS COMING, TOO
BoM Programme in Tatoma's Nine
Vcart. of Automobile Racins
Promij-cd for July.
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TACOMA. June IT. "The greatest
drivers ever seen in the west will
ra at Tmoma Monday. July 5," de
clares V. C Baldwin, president of the , in all directions
Tacoma speedway, referring to the
line-up of stars for the big Indepen
dence day classic at the Tacoma
speedway.
Mr. Baldwin returned to Tacoma
last Monday after two weeks in In
dianapolis, where he watched the
drivers at practice, was present at the
fiualifying tests and witnessed the
Memorial day race that brought
added fame to Gaston Chevrolet and
other stars ot the saucer.
wo art- in position this year to
offer the very best programme in the .
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nine years ot wie .
he savs. "With Gaston Chevrolet, Joe 4
Boyer. 'Miff Diirant. Kddie Hearrie.
Ttalnh Mulford. Eddie O'Donnell, Joe 4
Thomas. Roscoe Sarles. Tom Milton
and Jimmy Murphy already signed
and more to follow, motor car racing
fans have a big treat in store on July
S. Ralph De Talma will also be in the
field, if his new car is ready. Louis
Chevrolet will be at the race with his
brother Gaston, but it is doubtful if
he will take part in the speed events.
However, he plans to bring a car and
may enter.
Driver I.Ike Tacoma Track.
"After watching the Indianapolis
races this year 1 can truthfully say
that the Indianapolis track does not
have one thing on Tacoma for thrills.
Our races bring out more real gener
alship and present a more thrilling
programme than that at Indianapolis
this year. The drivers are anxious to
get "to Tacoma because they have
been told by the men who have been
here that the track is one of the fast
est In the country and that to win a
race at the Tacoma speedway the
driver must watch his job every sec
ond the wheels are turning."
Mr. Baldwin predicts that the cars
will be in far better condition than
they were at Indianapolis, as all are
new creations and follow the rules of
19'jn racing that the piston displace
ment shall not exceed 183 cubic inches.
Several of the cars have not more
than 1S1 cubic inches piston displace
ment not much larger than a Ford
motor.
Kim! Real pred Tet.
Several of the. new cars were not
teen on the track at Indianapolis even
in practice and the fans had their
first view when they entered the race
the morning of Memorial day. This
placed several of the drivers at a
great disadvantage, since they did not
have time to work on their motors.
The cars, so the drivers say, will
he in real condition for the events at
Tacoma. which "thus present the first
real speed test for the new type of
racing cars.
The grandstand at the Tacoma
speedway, to seat lS.fUO people, is
rapidly nearing completion. The seat
sale will begin in about a week. It
is planned to close the grandstand
seat sale about July 1. Last year the
grandstand was sold out a week be
fore the races.
STAGE . BUS1NKSS EXTENSIVE
Highways in General Are Reported
in fine Condition.
MARSH FIELD. Or., June 12. (Spe
cial.) Marshfield is the center of an
extensive auto stage business. Each
morning a person can leave the
Chandler hotel at 7:30 for almost any
point in Oregon, by automobile. Five
commodious, fast cars depart daily
for Gold Beach and Crescent City,
Roseburg, Coquille, Bandon and Sun
set Bay. Connections are made at
Koseburg with north and south trains
on the Southern Pacific and at Gold
Beach with stages running to Cres
cent City and on to Eureka.
The highways in general are in
fine condition and good time is made
The Roseburg auto
travels over the old Coos Bay wagon
road, through Brewster canyon, and
MARMQN WILL LEAD
SHE'S PARADES
Factory Sends Car Here
Imperial Potentate.
for
PAINT WORK IS ARTISTIC
Red, Yellow and Blue of the Sbrine,
With Emblems or the Order,
Decorate Its Sides.
A new series Marmon 34. especially
made for the occasion, will be a fea
ture of the parades in Shrine and
Rose Festival week. The car will be
used by W. Freeland Kendrick. im
perial potentate. It arrived in Tort-
White Horse creek, eight miles this
side of the park. His party will be J
and the latter's workmen and teams.
ana me i wo parties win orca.K mo
road from White Horse to the park
headquarters at Anna Springs camp,
five miles this side of the lake, and
on the Klamath side, on which Mr.
Grieve has the contract for con
structing several miles of road.
SATURATION POINT NOT NEAR
Edward S. Jordan Doesn't Believe
There Can Be Too Many Cars.
In reply to the question. "Where
is the saturation point In automobile
sales?" Edward S. Jordan, president
of the Jordan Motor Car corrfbany.
says: "When everyone drives and no
automobiles wear out."
"The tendency, however, is defi
nitely toward standardization of the
industry. With production still far
behind orders, every effort is being
made to bring the number of cars of
each individual factory to the maxi
mum of production. Labor condi
tions, lack of materials and a tight
ening of the money market have
caused many plants to fall below
quotas set for this time of year.
"Consolidation of plants is a prob
lem of the future. The need that
confronts the automobile manufac
turer is not the market saturation
OLDSMOBILE USED IN CARS-WITHOUT-DRIVERS FLEET.
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1'hcHe fl r (MiNmohilr Mixrs and elhtu were wold recently by the Olds mobile ronptvy of Owi to AM
hoff & Rennett of the Army garage, 250 .Tytor street, which rents them to persona wanting cars with
out drivers.
is the roucrhest of the several routes,
but no trouble is reported by the
drivers in ma kins time.
HiO RIVER AUTD GAMP
ANOTHER OHLT.OX TOWN PUTS
PORTLAND TO SHAME.
LICENSES FOR DRIVERS
NEAV
LAW KKFECT1VE FIRST
OF NEXT MONTH.
Atlra-lMe 3-Acrc Tract Equipped
for '1'ouris.ts, When Portland
Hadn't Even One Acre.
HOOD RIVER, Or., June 9. (Spe
cial.) The new camping park for
motor tourists, just Opened to the
public, is already winning the plau
dits of travelers. A partv of tour-
Every Pilot of Motor Vehicle Must
Have Card Officially Issued
by Secretary of State.
SALEM. Or., June 12. (Special.)
Preliminary plans for the registra
tion of between 2500 and 3000 drivers
of motor vehicles in Oregon under a
law passed at the s-pecial session of
the state legislature last January,
are under way by the secretary of
state, and actual registrations will
start soon after July 1. This an
nouncement has been made by Sam
A. Kozer. secretary of state.
The registration law provides that
no person under 16 years of age shall
operate a motor vehicle, nor shall
cars be entrusted to men and wo
men physically defective unless the
applicants obtain a special permit
from the secretary of state. The reg
istration fee is 23 cents, and all
drivers, whether or not they own the
vehicles in their charge, are subject
to the law.
Inasmuch as approximately 100,000
motor vehicles were registered in
Oregon for 1920, Mr. Kozer believes
between 1000 and 3000 persons are
affected by 'the Bo-called driver's
registration law. Application cards
are now being printed and these will
be sent to all motor vehicle owners
In the state. Upon the return of these
applications, properly filled out and
accompanied by 25 cents, a card will
be Issued by the secretary of state
showing that the applicant has com
plied with the law.
Mr. Kozer made it plain, however,
that it would be futile to send in
applications for these licenses at
present, as the law does not go into
effect until July 1.
ists here last week from southern
California declared it the best they
had encountered on their long jour
ney. And the Hood River park to date
is only par'ly completed. W. T. Price,
city water superintendent, has just
completed installation of lavatories.
Six ovens have beev- provided for
cooking and neat tables have been
placed under shelter of oaks that
grow on nearly all parts of the three
acre tract. Other conveniences will
be needed at once and the plot will
be leveled and attractive shrubbery
planted. The Hood Kiver Woman's
club has offered Mr. Price the co
operation of its members to make the
camping park one of the beauty spots
of the city.
A limit will be put on the time of
tourists using the plot. Otherwise it
would soon be overrun with straw
berry harvest hands, many of whom
come to the valley in their own auto
mobiles. Additional land adjoining the au
tomobile park may be acquired. At a
recent special election citizens gave
the city council authority to expend
funds for park purposes.
The park property was donated last
year by the commercial club and the
volunteer fire department, the mem
bers of these organizations obtaining
sufficient funds to buy the place from
proceeds of Fourth of July concessions.
CORK PASS TO BE OPENED
Motors to Travel Oldest Highway
Across Continental Divide.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Cold.. June
12 Gore Pass road, probatily the
oldest wagon road across the con
tinental divide but over which, it is
said, no automobile has ever gone
soon will be opened to motor traffic
The state and Routt county have
each appropriated $10,008 for the
improvement of the road and work is
scheduled to begin soon. Only a
mall portion of the road on top of
the Divide is in poor condition, but
that portion makes the pass impass
able for automobiles. Gore pass road
connects Toponas in the southern
end of Kgeria park, with Kremmling
in Middle park.
It has easy grades and is said to
be clear of snow a month later in
the fall and a month earlier in the
spring than any other road crossing
the Divide in this region.
Gore Pass road was first crossed
with wagons in 1856 when Sir George
Gore, an Irish nobleman, and an army
of servants and retainers, traveling
in 30 wagons under guidance of Jim
Bridger. penetrated the wilderness
beyond the pass in search of game.
Sir George is reported to have killed
thousands of bison, elk, deer and
One pint of gasoline contains
enough power to lift six tons 750 feet
into the air 200 feet higher than- the
top of the Washington monument.
land last week and is now at the
salesroom of the Northwest Auto
company, distributors for the Mar
mon. At the Shrine convention in Indian
apolis last year a Marmon was placed
at the disposal of the imperial po
tentate and made such a hit among
the Shriners that the Nordyke & Mar
mon company, manufacturers of the
Marmon. arranged with the North
west Auto company to tender the use
of a Marmon car for the potentate
for the coming convention. The of
ficial chauffeur for Mr. Kendrick
will be Roy Fike, salesman for the
Northwest Auto company and mem
ber of Al Kadcr Temple.
This Marmon is one of the finest
examples of automobile painting that
has ever come to Portland. It is
painted In the colors of the Shrine,
red. yellow and blue, with Shrine em
blems decorating the hood and door
panels. The car is a f our-passenser
model with top and upholstery har
monizing with the color scheme of
the body. After the convention it will
be reoainted to standard colors.
A. H. Lea, potentate of Al Kader
Temple, will come second in the pa
rade, driving a Cole aero-eight, now
in the paint shop of the Northwest
Auto company, being decorated like
the Marmon. The Cole aero-eight is
a four-passenger model and was pur
chased by Mr. Lea at the auto ehow.
The Northwest Auto company is
making preparations to house a pa
trol of 25 or 30 Shriners at its sales
rooms. Several tents, each accommo
dating two men. will be set up on the
salesroom floor and the sands of the
desert will cover the floor to remind
the vistors of their journey to the
oasis.
CRATER. ROAD TO BE OPENED
Pass lo Be Cleared ot Snow to Per
mit Passage by Shriners.
MEDFORD. Or., June 12. (Special.)
Present indications are that by
June 25 Shriners returning this way
from the Portland convention and
hoping to take a side trip to Crater
lake will be able to do so by being
able to drive by auto within three
fourths of a mile of the lake and
walking the rest of the way. Every
thing possible will be done to break
up the huge snow drifts and clear the
road.
Superintendent Sparrow of Crater
National park, 'with a force of men.
teams and trucks, left today for the
lake region to clear the way from
but rather how to produce cars to
cover orders already on file. No
doubt the time will come when the !
automobile industry will shake down
to a few great controlling companies.
This is seemingly a long way off.
however.
"When the day comes when auto-
mobiles will be bought rather than
sold, then the test period will have
arrived to determine how many of.
the cars built today can survive with
out consolidating with other car man
ufacturers.
"Such a move would bring produc
tion to a higher degree of efficiency
and would minimize financial diffi
culties, always so prevalent when sup
ply exceeds demand.
TRUCK MAKERS GIVE HELP
KISSEL FACTORY HAS AGR1
CULTURAL DIVISION.
REPUBLIC TRUCK RUNS 1300 MILES TO STOCKTON. CAL., AND
RETURN ON FIRESTONE PNEUMATIC TIRES. -
OX THE PACIFIC HIUHWAY JN" CALIFORNIA.
This truck, owned by the Portland branch of the Firestone Tire & Rubber
company, was sent with the Northwest Ad clubs caravan tour by L. J
opurKs. inniiitser ui ine oiancn, as a oaggage transport trucK. It was
driven by Carlton Olmsted, of the advertising department of the branch
Equipped fore and aft with 36x6 Firestone cord tires. It made the round trip .
on the original air, and without trouble of any kind. The picture showing I
the truck beside a palm tree was taken on the Pacific highway Just outside I
of Marysville, Cal. I
Purpose to Aid Farmers Through-!
out Country Solve Problems
of Transportation.
'A step that indicates the scientific
manner in which the motor truck
manufacturer is providing dependable
transportation to the farmer is the
formation of the agricultural division
of the Kissel Motor Car campany fac
tory at Hartford. Wis.," says H. J.
Mcintosh of the Mcintosh Motor Car!
company, local distributor for. Kissel
autos and trucks.
This division has been utilized by-
farmers from every part of the coun
try, helping them solve problems and
advising with them on the basia of
actual facts and figures.
"The Kissel agricultural division
is composed not only of the regular
engineering corps or the factory, who
for the past 14 years have been de
signing and constructing motor
trucks, but also the factory's trans
portation engineers, who have been
giving special study and analysis to
the farmer's requirements from every
angle of farm truck transportation.
"Their experience ranges through
the whole list of transportation de
mands, their services have been used
by farmers not only in the New Eng
land states, but in the eastern, south
western, middle west and southeast
ern and Pacific coast sections.
"The efficient hauling of grain, cat
tle, tobacco, dairy products and every
other farm produce demands not only
adaptable farm truck bodies, but the
truck itself must be designed and
geared to perform satisfactorily on
farm lands and country roads. To
do this the engineers have had to de
termine the proper gear ratios, axles.
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The S. F. Goodrich Rubber Company Ikron, Ohio
Adjustment 3J sis Silvertown Cords, ZoooXtiten Tabrie Tires, fioooMiles.
frame, springs for country usage, all
parts strong, durable and easily ac
cessible. Different body combina
tions as well as differently designed
truck sizes are necessary to solve the
problems the farmer must solve to
secure efficient, dependable and econ
omical transportation of his produce,
livestock or supplies."
NEVADA TO CURB THEFTS
That State and California Unite in
Common Auto Policy.
RENO, Nev., June 12. Steps to curb
automobile thefts in California and
Nevada are to be taken by authorities
of the two states. A conference was
held here this week among Secretary
of State George Brodigan, G. S. Mor
rill, superintendent of the California
state bureau of Identification, and B.
W. McKay, investigator of the Pacific
Underwriters' association, at which a
plan of action was outlined.
Morrill is to be furnished with the
number of every car licensed in Ne
vada, to assist in detecting stolen cars
here. It was found three Nevada
licenses were issued by mail to the
same person in California, and it is
believed they are intended for cars
stolen in that state.
TOURIST TRAVEL NOT HURT
Number of Autoists Around Uma
tilla Apparently Normal.
UMATILLA. Or., June 8. (Special.)
To judge from the number of auto
mobiles that cross the ferry at Uma
tilla, leaving the Columbia highway
for points in Washington, the gaso
line shortage is not hampering tour
ists in this part of the state.
The local supply Is not seriously
low, but may be at any time.
Gasoline and lubricating oils in Mo
rocco may be purchased at virtually
the same prices as in most European
countries.
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REPAIRING
MANUFACTURING
20,000 in Stock
Compare the quality, workmanship and finish of LAHER SPRINGS with springs shipped into this
territory from the East; most of which are made up in quantities for jobbers who, in turn, call
themselves spring companies.
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with bronze bushings and finished to fit perfect. All auto springs sold with a written guarantee
for one year against breakage or settling.
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trade mark on the box.
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East Burnside at Seventeenth
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