Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1920)
10 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. JULY 11, 1920 RATIONING OF FUEL iT IS URGED Report Made After Invests gation of Shortage. RAILROAD AID WANTED People in District Arfcctcd Arc A?.keI " to Stop Practice of - Hoarding Gasoline. PEATTLE. Wash., July 10. Investi gation of the gasoline shortage in Washtitgtnn and Oregon has been completed by the Seattle chamber of commerce and definite recommenda- factors of this situation should con tribute toward bringing about that relief. "The oil companies should impose the same system of rationing through out their territories. They offer proof that the entire available supply of gasoline Is being distributed In pro portion to past demands, but it is difficult for the public to feel that the situation, is fully met when Lou Angeles Is doing: business without re strictions and San Francisco bay re strictions are much more liberal than those of Puget sound and Oregon. Railroads Urged to Help. "The rollroads could contribute ma terially by putting- forth extraordi nary efforts to provide special tanker service to move Wyoming gaBollne into the territory that now draws heavily from the Pacific ports.. ."Many consumers are aggravating this situation by seeking to acquire reserved stocks of gasoline. This is the natural human manifestation of every shortage and probably will not fully pass for five or six weeks, but a much more equitable distribution would be possible if several thousand motor-car owners were not trying to build up reserves and were contribut ing to the public good by confining their use of cars to absolutely neces sary purposes. "Circulation of reports in California that tourists" should not come to Washington and Oregon because of gas shortage should be stopped." says ROADS ABOUT 50-50 0NTILL100KL00P Much of Going Is Rough, but It's All Passable. MOTORISTS TAKE CHANCE Xo Beds Left at Tillamook, Cliovi All Gone at Seaside, and No -Gas at Astoria. The gasoline shortage was seriously felt in- the smaller towns throughout the state over the holiday. It was par ticularly acute at Astoria and Seaside and hundreds of motorists who drove JUST BEFORE THE START AT THE TACOMA AUTOMOBILE RACES. 4r Iw-- ' - " ?i.'": 's -V.- ,t .. :.wv,v.av:iOM( oW 6 ' - i 1 This picture nan taken Jut before Barney Oldfield, veteran of the track and now president of the Oldfield Tire ' company, pared the field of 12 raclns; ear In a preliminary lap with, a Marmon touring? car. several of the racers ' uard Oldfield tlrea. Including Tommy Milton, who won the 22S-nille race without making one atop, driving; at an average apeed of On miles per hour. This was really a remarkable feat, for some of the racers had to make as -' many aw five atona to ehanare tires. Milton won the U aioatown (Pa. I race of 2JW) miles a few weeka ago at the name Hpreil and alao without a atop. The picture ahows a section of the fine new grandstand at Tacoma. Forty thounand persona saw the races. f tlons that the oil companies be urged to place the entire Pacific coast on an equal rationing basis,- that the railroads use every means possible to facilitate movement of gasoline from Wyoming Tefineries to eastern Wash ington and Oregon and that the peo ple of the districts affected by the shortage stop the practice of gasoline hoarding are made in the report. The findings of the committee were made after there had been an exchange of telegrams, and correspondence be tween oil companies. United States shipping board, tourist bureaus and individuals. The report says: "The shortage of gasoline Is gen eral because of increased demand for the various motor uses. "The. shortage on the Pacific coast Is especially acute because the open winter permitted the use of.passenger cars and the oil companies had no opportunity to accumulate a surplus. Exports Kot Blnmed. - "Exports of gasoline nave contrib uted to. this shortage in a very minor degree. . All. exports have been dis continued except on old contracts, which could not be repudiated. "The shortage Is peculiarly acute in the Puget sound territory because this district is demanding about 40 per cent' more than last year -and be cause the tanker and tank car situa tion is interfering to a certain extent with distribution. "The entire Pacific coast is on a ra tion basis except Los Angeles and southern California. In t?an Francis co and northern California a five gallon restriction is enforced on pas senger cars, but is not rigidly applied to trucks or the automobiles of doc tors and cars used for business pur poses. "In some interior points of California and generally throughout Washing ton and Oregon the shortage is acute. "Progress is made toward relieving this situation. Quantities of gasoline have been contracted for in Wyoming. Adequate tank car service has been put Into operation to supply eastern Washington points, and thereby sub stantially relieve the pressure in Se attle. . ' -"The loca"l situation should grow steadily better, but probably will not be fully relieved until some time in August or perhaps early September. "It seems to the chamber that all the committee." as an immediate im provement in the gasoline situation is in sight, and if the public adopts a sane, conservation attitude, there will be. gas for ordinary tourist travel. "In Seattle there has been an im provement in the past week and, in-' stead of a three and five-gallon ra tion, 'half tanks' are allowed. One oil company announced 'a 20 per cent in crease in its already liberal ration to passenger cars. It is expected that within the next month Washington and Oregon will be liberally supplied with gasoline and sufficient to meet all demands of the tourist trade." RELIABILITY RUN' SHOWS .BIG GASOLIXK SAVING. Strenuous Climb Made' on Short Supply That Gave Hard Test of Power. s In the Stockton-Yosemite. economy and reliability run which was staged early in June, the Franklin took first place on gasoline, economy with an average of 17.49 miles per gallon. Although tne distance 'covered was but 124.8 miles, the drive was strenu ous enough, as the machines had to climb to an elevation of 7300 feet in order to reach Yosermite, which is itself 4000 feet above sea level. Only 17 miles of that distance is paved road. There are miles of rough foothill dirt roads, and then mountain roads with all their ups and downs and very sharp and seemingly innumerable turns, and there are long grades re quiring second gear, for miles oii a stretch, and short, sharp ditches, forc ing a drop back to low gear. And this year there -were great snow banks and mudholes. and at an elevation of al most a mile and a half above Stock ton's sea level. Pennsylvania led the nation in lil9 In the total mileage of contracts for road construction. to the seaside experienced the great est difficulty in getting sufficient to return home on. Automobile dealers and garage men at Astoria imported a tank car from an independent California company, but when that was gone the town was practically empty of gasoline. The dealers assert that both the Union and Standard Oil companies promised them plenty of gas, but failed to de liver. At all hours of the day there was a big lineup of cars at every ga rage and tank in Astoria and Seaside. Occupants of the machines, becoming resigned to the situation, spent most of the day sitting in the cars reading magazines and newspapers. Late Monday afternoon one of the companies sent a truck up town with about 1000 .' gallons. The dealers ra tioned it among the cars and by even ing all the- visitors had obtained enough to make a start for home. Clatskanie and St. Helens were able to help a little for a while, but were finally drained dry and the late driv ers had to resort to kerosene to bring them home. The dealers at Astoria assert the oil companies are with holding all information about the supply. When a steamer arrives the town is given a little and when that is exhausted it is just a matter of waiting the pleasure of the compa nies for a further supply. Trip Made in Cole Eight. A drive made by many motorists over the holidays was to Tillamook, by way of Newberg. McMinnvllle. Sheridan and Grand Ronde. D. L. Dougherty, sales manager of the Northwest Auto company, made the loop trip there and return via Seaside and Astoria in a Cole Aero-eight sportster and reports the roads in fairly good shape. To Tillamook, Mr. Dougherty says, is about 50-50 in good and rough roads. The speedometer registered 112 miles, of which 57 miles, to Willamina, is good going. Twenty-rour of this is pavement to N'ewberg and the rest gravel' or mac adam, with some dirt. From Willa mina to Tillamook is hilly, over the mountains, and very rough in places. necessitating slow driving unless all thought of comfort is forsaken. It is not a difficult drive, however, and there are many excellent camping' sites along the several mountain streams. Camp fires Saturday night p-- i.,i,m- , T r - fi1 Kmmmmm m rr , ,-M y... ..r, -n , . , .-.... . r . - ,-, , - .. B -M n. MB H. 1 W rwaawaiiii aa am numnaaiMi y I ' The fact that one of the first successful cord tires was a General Tire undoubtedly has had something to do with the present position that The General holds in the tire world but the main reason is that every General Tire Cord or Fabric Truck or Passenger Type for small cars or . large has gone a longer way to make friends than its price v. promised. . The General Tire is ready to go a long way to make friends with you. Built in Akron, Ohio, by The General Tire and Rubber Company goes a long way to make friends. American Tire and Rubber Co. Bdwy. 2300 BROADWAY AND OAK ON THE GENERAL CORNER Two Phones: If One Is Busy Use the Other Bdwy. 180 were about as thick as the telephone poles on the road. Considerable road work is under way along this road and in another month there will be a big improve ment. The touring season is just get ting under way to Tillamook. Unless motorists plan to camp out it is ad visable to make hotel reservations well in advance. Every bed and cot in Tillamook was occupied Saturday night, the overflow either trying to sleep In the lobby chairs of the hotels or driving on to nearby towns. A fine early morning drive is that from Til lamook through Miami, Garibaldi and Bar View to Rockaway beach. The road is good ajl the way around Til lamook bay. The 56-mile drive from Tillamook to Seaside is another 50-50 affair. Thirty miles of it, in Tillamook coun ty, is good gravel road, but the 2(i miles through Clatsop county is most ly crushed rock and plank. No Food Left at Seaside. It is a very pretty drive through timber, well shaded and with no serious grades. A big stretch of road work is under way in Clatsop county and a (ew weeks more will see a big improvement on this route also. Un less eating places at Seaside learned a lesson from their experience In try- ing to feed the crowds that spent the week-end there, it will be advisable to make arrangements for eating somewhere else than in Seaside. Ar riving there about 7:30 Saturday morning, Mr. Dougherty found the hotels and restaurants sold out and closed up and hundreds of persons walking the streets looking for some thing to eat. Astoria, too, was overcrowded and several automobile parties had to sleep in their machines Sunday night. The whole trip around the loop was more or less of a burlesque on accom modations. No place to sleep at Til lamook, nothing to eat at Seaside and STUTZ BEARCAT IN FRONT OF NATIONAL PARK HOTEL AT LONGMIRE SPRINGS, WASH., RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 4. it 4 , The New Scripps-Booth Six is made and backed by The General Motors Corporation CAPITALIZED AT OVER Sl.000.000.000 Think what this means to the owner of the Scripps-Booth! It means that this car is made by the largest motorcar manufacturers in existence and sold at the lowest price and that this company, its capital, policies and service are behind this car. In addition, the General Motors Acceptance Corporation handles the time paper of our cars. It performs this serv ice without profit financially. The Scripps-Booth has no agency in Portland. It is a Factory Branch. Consider this big advantage when you buy. The Scripps-Booth Co., of Cal. Portland Branch C i. nrpnaii or mc Atitoreat Motor sle company. Mutx clir.irihutr here, and Bill Stein, city naleaman for the tioodrlch Rubber company, made the run to Mount Rainier national park for the July Fourth holiday. Sir. McPhail .-. took the longer route via Pacific highway to Tenlno, thence to Rainier. Vclm and Roy. and found it in n,l. condition. Thin route, la heat for amateur driver to take, though it la about 30 miles longer than the cut-off route' la Onalaak 522 Alder at Sixteenth Telephone Broadway 3169 no place to sleep at Astoria, and no gasoline to get home on. The highway from Astoria to Clats kanie is still pretty rough, with much new construction. From Clatskanie to Deer Island is all paved, but from the latter point to Si-appoopc the road is the worst of any on the whole loop trip. Gasoline prices varied at different points. At Tillamook it was 35 cents. 50 cents at Seaside, which looked like profiteering, and 40 cents at Astoria. jfjPjxZJtmji "i'i !?'ST?i 1' ''an''""' " ""'""' '' n fl SfJ 1 to S Ton FEDERAL. TENTH YEAR REASON Factory Expansion of manufacturing facilities and increased sales over a ten-year period are proof positive of a meritorious product. Since the first Federal was built in 1910, the Federal factory has grown from 3000 square feet of floor space to a gigantic plant of over 250,000 square feet. Good trucks must be built in an efficient factory to know how Federals are built is to know why they stay sold. Let Us Tell You the Federal Story Authorised SaleJ and Service 60 North Broadway, at 'Davis San Fraancisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Portland Distributors for FederaJ Motor Truck Company Detroit. Since 1903- -Broaw J Hjwr rwwrn aril. j.ircrwf myrmTifw1