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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1920)
niE SUNDAY OEEOOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 11, 1920 PAVERS HURRY WORK OfjilYHiGHWS Sa!ern-Rickerall-Ballas Road Open to Brunk Corners. DAYTON JOB COMPLETED WHY MOTORISTS CURSE ROAD CONDITIONS BETWEEN PORTLAND AND TACOMA. And Glory of Glories, Koad From 3IcMiiuiviIto to Sheridan Is lioon to lie Jr'iuHlied. S.U.TCMV Or., July 10. (Speciy I.) Tlie road from Sulnm to Rickreall and Jall;s, which h'as been closed for months. h:s heon pavt'd for five miles to I.runk Corners, and will be opened to travel immcdiut rly. This will make H putisiblt- to go from Salem to lnde lii'iidence and Albany without de tours, and will be a boon to tourists, as th.i road from Albany to Salem on tln east .ide of the river is not good. Tho pavins plant at Kola will be rr.oved to Kickrrall immediately and will lay the section from Krunk Cor ners to Dallas. Jt is planned to com plete the road before fall rains be fcin. I'avinjr from Independence to Rick reall via Monmouth is two-thirds ione. Jt is completed from Inde pendence to Monmouth and thence rorlh for three miles, leaving: but two and a half miles to finish. It is planned to complete this section by August 10. This is part of the west tide highway. Snlem-TlrooliM ;ap Cloninc. Kroin Salem north to J'.rooks half the four-mile section has been paved. iind the remaindi-r will be completed by August 1. thus opening the Pa lilic hifrhway from Salem to Portland except the section between Canby and Aurora. More than half of the pavement be tween Albany and Jefferson has been laid. JIcMIXXVlLbE, Or., July in. (Spe cial. ) 1 1 iKh way work in the vicinity of McMinnvillo is making rapid prog ress. The first five miles of new liitulithic pavement from McMinnville Miuthwcst to Sheridan has been com pleted, and is a welcome addition to the state highway system. .V four-mile section will be started Immediately. This will connect the recently completed section with the concrete pavement laid between Sher idan and Ilellcvue several years ago. "Within a few weeks the entire 15 miles between this city and Sheri dan will be open to travel. This is tin tbe main highway to Tillamook, llnnr lcnrly Is C'arHon. To the north, concrete has been laid to the North YamhiH river and is open to traffic; and plans are being drawn for a new bridge. Fieyond the river the pavement is nearly com plettd to Carlton, but will have to be closed for a month to set. Just as soon as possible the machinery will be moved to the section between Carl ton, and Yamhill, which is the end of the projfy.t.. Paving ;Cu the city of Amity has been coiiSjvled, and also for a short distance ioirth, and the grade from Amity t(iVtolmoB Hap, a distnnce'of about einht miles, is ready for hard surface.. The pavintr plant is oper at n"!n M7C"oy, and has about a mile ofTfuving laid. This is a black top pavetneut and will soon be open to twnfic.-- - t : . rYTOtf.-nr., July 10. (Special.) A ijt bchlS vHosed for several months, the Dayton cutoff on the west side hithway ha-s been opened -to travel, and tho - four mites of smooth con crete, pavement is in marked ' con trast to the old 'washboard" mac adam that tried the patience of trav elers in t lie past. p-n Houtr to Snlem. The nfcw-ii"avemcnt furnislies.'a, stitirt cut foi11'. "travel bet-ween Portland to the north and McMinnville, Sheri dan, Amity and Dallas, and also for travel up the west side of the Wil lamette river to Salem. The pave ment was laid by Yamhill county. MOXROK. Or., July 10. (Special.) Hard surfacing of the West Side high way from Monroe, north has been started and about a mile has been completed. The work-will he finished this fall. I" '7 , - M; vt"; v ' ' i ' r ' , SEASIDE WHS CROWDED SQ MANY THERE PEOPLE HAD TO SLEEP OX BEACH. C2322ZT v it' " fiEW ERA BRIDGE IS DOWN EAST SIDE PACIFIC HIGHWAY CLOSED TO TRAVEL. Motorists Warned of 9-Mile Rough Road Detour to Go Only One Quarter Mile. PORTLAND, July 10. (To the Au tomobile Kditor.) Dear Sir: lou will confer a fcrcat favor upon the people of this city who expect to motor to Salem by giving: warning that they should by no means eo the east side Pacific highway by Oregon City and New Kra. The bridge at New Era had Just been torn down and all vehicles are compelled to make a detour up and down over the hills, in many places over bad roads, to get back to the highway at the top of the hill above New Era. That is. you are forced to drive about nine miles over very rough roads to make less than one-quarter mile in distance! Tiie road from Salem to Portland through Woodburn, West Woodburn and St. Paul to Newberg is very fair for macadam road, though somewhat dusty. I have already met a number of people who are planning to go to Salem over the holida-ys and I would like to have you give this as much publicity as consistent. H. W. GODDARD. Ull IGHEASED l'OHTHM) NORTH WEST DEPOT I'oi: scHipps-uoom. WILLAMETTE ROAD IS BETTER Lane County Court Smoothes Out Oakridsc Rough Places. EUGENE, Or.. July 10. (Special.) Motoring to Oakridge and the other upper Willamette river hunting and fishing resorts will now be a pleasure. Instead of a nightmare, as has been the case since the Wilamette highway between Lowell and OakridKe became open to travel this spring. The county court now has smoothed out this portion of the highway and motorists who have driven over it in the past few days report that excel lent time can be made. This will be 'good.newT to sportsmen all over the state, as the upper Willamette coun try is a favorite recreation place. WUITTIER DRIVE IMPROVED Work Progresses on Surfacing of Eugene-Lorane Highway. EUGENE. Or.. July 10. (Special.) Macadamizing W h i t t e n drive, tliTo'ugh the' College crest hills south of J0Ugen. a part of the new Eugene- I.orane highway, has begun and will be completed by fall. This picturesque road winds in and out among the hills overlooking the city. Construc tion work on the cutoff to eliminate Conrad hill, further on toward Lorane on this highway, also has started. When the highway is completed there will be no grades greater than five per cent. liraiich Here Gains Greatly Juiisdiclion After lleng Ojicn Six-Week Perod Only. in The important announcement that, effective immediately, Po'rtlaiul will "hecome distributing and warehouse headquarters of the Scripps-Booth company of California for the entire 3'aiitic northwest territory, including ;ill of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, was made last week by L. A. Ilannan, who, in line with the change, is pro moted from branch manager here to manager for the northwest territory. This increase in the jurisdiction of the local branch resulted from a visit here by II. T. McKnight, manager of the Scripps-I'ooth company of Cali fi'mia, and A. L. Warmington. secretary-treasurer of the company. The Portland branch has been here only f-ix weeks, hut Mr. McKnight took the view that results in that time justi lied the expansion. With warehouse headquarters here for three slates, the stock of Scripps iiootli parts carried in Portland will lie increased at once, Mr. Ilannan said, to 5;i5,000 or $41,000. He also has wired an order for 40 carloads of lien pps- Booth automobiles. captain John II. Eahy is covering Oregon for the company as territory man and Mr. Ilannan will select a territory man in the next few days for Washington. Employes at the Poit-i land branch have been inci eased from there six weeks ago to 14 in shop, sales and service department. W. E. 'Worth has been made retail sales manager in Portland. Seventy-seven per cent of all the motor cars In use in ' the United States cost less than $1000 each. GARAGE REPLACES KARX .New Structure Rises In Eugene Op posite Hotel Osbtirn. EUG!&i? Or., July J0.-!-(SpeclaI. One of the three new garages built In Euiyene- this spring and summer has j u sib ee n completed, bi Ferris M. Hathaway, of the Pacific Auto com pany. ..Mr. Hathaway last winter took a lonsrcifrrse on the lot -opposite the Hotel oVburn and early in the spring began erection of1 a garage. The new building is of hollow tile and rein forced concrete construction. It takes the place of an old barn that had been an eyesore for many years. Buy Now Fid! Guarantee 30x3 Non-skid $11.&5 30x3& Non-skid $14.95 32x3 Non-skid $16.93 31x4 Non-skid $19.85 32x4 Non-skid $24.25 33x4 Non-skid $24.85 34x4 Non-skid ....... $25.45 36x4 Non-skid $33.50 35x4' Non-skid ".$33.00 36x4 Vz Non-skid $33.50 37x4 Non-skid $39.50 37x5 Non-skid $41.00 Special Prices on CORD TIRES Malcom Tire Go. Broadway and Everett Large Buyers Small Profits Restaurants Ran Out of Food and Hungry Folks Had to Go to ' Astoria for Meals. So many motorists went to Astoria and Seaside for the July 4 and 5 holi days last week that hundreds if not thousands of persons were unable to obtain accommodations at the beach resort, even the restaurants having to shut down because the rush had cleaned them out. Never saw anything like it," said Bill Byrnes, sales manager for the Twin States Motor Car company, who drove to Seaside and return in a Chandler dispatch car. "It's no ex aggeration to say 10.000 automobiles went to Seaside and Astoria. There wasn't room in Seaside for the cars alone, to say nothing of the people. and to make it worse, gasoline sup plies were quickly used up. On the return it was possible only to get a few gallons, taking your chaance of being able to pick up a few more drops somewhere along the road. "1 reached Seasid at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night. I sat up till 1:30 and even at that hour machines were still coming into town like a parade. Sunday they began arriving from Til lamook. In a few hours all the res taurants In Seaside ran out of food. Motor busses were taking loads of people up to Astoria Just to get a meal. 'The highway w-as in fair condition going down, though that Scappoose Deer Island stretch is an execration and a crime. Between Clatskanie and Astoria the going was fair, though the road had been torn up consider ably preliminary to paving. 'But on the return all this stretch was in miserable condition, due to the great number of ca rs that had used , tribe vc--. jr "C2ZJ- These picture of a couple of nice. Inviting Hcenen on the detour road on the went lde of the CovtlltK river, over which Pacific hielnvay travelers In WaNhinKton are routed durioe new construction work between Kelso Castle Rock and the C'owllts-Icw Is county line to the north, were taken only a week bro on n trip to the Tnromn races In a Chevrolet KB tour Ins car. rt even then, after a couple of weeks of c,ood weather, there was still a mud hole left, as the upper picture shows. This particular mudhole is at milraee 77.1 from 1'ortlund, between Castle Hock and Yader, on the west side detour. The lower pliolo shows plank construction. up a hill on the detour between Kelso and Castle Rock. This west side detour Is passable now, though very rnuich and rutty for four or five miles. The pictures make It clear why ft was so had during; Shrine week that ears had to he towed to itet through. Keep off it in even moder ately wet weather. f ZONE QUARTERS ARE HERE PORTLAND GETS IMPORTANT CHEVROLET PLUM. New Northwest Zone in Line Willi Plan for Ruildiug Large Structure Here. A new Chevrolet distributing zone, which includes Oregon, Washington, most of Idaho and western Montana, has just beenformefl and Portland will be its headquarters. This an nouncement was made here last week by Clifford M. Steeves, assistant sales manager for the Chevrolet Motor company of California, who was in Portland for a brief period. The new zone will be known as zone 20, Mr. Steeves said, and will bring Portland many advantages. Among others the fact that from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 will be cleared through Portland banks that previously has gone to California or the east. I'p to now Portland has been in the Cali fornia zone. In charge of the new northwest zone the Chevrolet Motor company has sent M. D. Douglas to Portland as sales manager. Mr. Douglas for merly was assistant sales manager of the Chicago zone and prior to that was retail store manager at Milwau kee. He has been with the company lor the past six years. Charles L, Dunham, who has been manager of the Portland branch, under the new zone arrangement will be assistant eales manager to Mr. Douglas. "One main purpose of the Chevrolet company in establishing this new zone, with headquarters in Portland," said Mr. Steeves, "is the .desire to bring service and have general offices closer to point of delivery. This new zone will mean that a very large-stock of all Chevrolet parts will be carried here so many in fact that it would be posssible to assemble completely perhaps 100 Chevrolet cars from this supply of parts alone. "Establisnment of this zone head quarters here is right in line with our previous announcement that Portland will be Pacific northwest headquar trs for the Chevrolet. Our plans to erect a large building here with 60 000 square feet of floor space are In abeyance only pending success of our efforts to obtain site and proper build ing arrangements. This is all that Is holding up immediate work on the building project." Cracked Porcelain. AVhen the owner removes a park plupr and finds the porcelain insulator broken, the portion which has fallen off may have mudo its way down be tween the piston and the cylinder, where it will cause scoring of the metal. This possibility should be taken into consideration, thotiirh more often the broken pieces will blow out with th3 exhai-st. It. The road was cut up and dusty. I don't want to make another trip like that one coming home. Monday night, crawling along in the dust with so many cars on the road? it was like a procession." J. E. Maxson, salesman for the Olds mobile Company of Oregon, was an other who found conditions not only crowded, but jammed and packed in Seaside over July 4 and 5. "There were anywhere from 20.000 to 40,000 visitors in Seaside " he said. "It seemed as if the whore city of Portland had motored down there. It was worse crowded than Portland during Shriners' week hy far. "Hundreds were unable to get rooms at all and had to sleep on the beach. Others by the hundred and thousand parked their cars aldng the road and tried to sleep iu the seats. Cars were parked all the way from north of (iearhart to a couple of miles up the Xecanicum past Seaside. They were parked there because the streets of Seaside wouldn't hold them. "Seaside people formed a housing committee and got rooms for people In private homees at $1.50 per night, but there weren't nearly enough rooms to go around. People who were lucky enough to get hotel accommo dations were stung all the way up to $20 a room for them. "Road conditions were fair, though rather rough between Clatskanie and Astoria, not forgetting, of course, the Scappoose-Deer Island section. My Oldsmobile eight, with six persons aboard and 500 pounds of baggage, made 18 miles to the gallon of gaso line and 553 miles to a quart of oil." Applying Chains in the Mud. To do this trick one must have two cress pieces from an old chain and a bit of rubber tubin'i? or hose, a little sf.orter than the cross chains, to pro tect the wheel spokes from injury. To apply the chains lay these latter over the wheel and fasten the ends to the rubber covered cross chains which have been passed between the spokes. Apply the power to the wheels and the chains will be wound around the tire as is desired. Don't bump the traffic cop. w II p I t3 I. l Quality Go esCJear Through Dort 1st and 2nd Control of your car with safety to lives and property is not confined to the throttle and steering wheel. . Your brakes are most often the final resort. To be properly efficient, brakes must be correctly lined. Insist that 'the brakes on which you rely for safety and service are lined with genuine Identify it by The Silver Edge The Raybestos Company Bridgeport, Conn. To its past list of triumphs must now be added another dramatic demonstration of Dort efficiency and economy. In what is termed the most strenuous road test ever staged in California, Dort cars won first and second places in its class against a field of twenty-one representative cars. ' This reliability and economy run from Sacramento to Lake Tahoe was held June 25 and covered a course of 260 miles over-the high Sierra mountain Range. The gruelling gradient ran from 60 feet above sea level at the start to a top altitude of 8000 feet. The winning Dort averaged 20 miles to the gallon of gas and the Dort finishing second averaged 18 miles to the gallon. The first Dort made a perfect score. The second Dort scored 997 points out of a possible 1000. Save at official controls neither Dort stopped its wheels or engine. Here in this public test is convincing confirmation cf what we have often said about Dort reliability and economy. 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