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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1922)
THE SUXD AT OREGONIAX, -PORTLAND," JULY 9, 1923 - ES MR. MOTOR CAMPER, BE CAREFUL WITH FIRE AND SAVE. OREGON FORESTS FROM SUCH y DEVASTATION AS THIS. BY GOOD HIGHWAY CONTRACT IS LET FOR ROAD v IX MORROW COUNTY. 6 1 EL Roads Play Important Part in Domestic Life. ACCIDENT CHECK URGED MITOHIXIi WHITE STREAK tTNDERTAKES COAST STUNT. Car With Hood Sealed, Making '.. Repairs Impossible, Expected I to Run 10,000 Miles. LOS ANGELES, July 8. Beecause of the continued success ' of the -Mitchell 10,0M-mile sealed hood en durance run on the east coast, an other Mitchell White Streak regu lation stock car has started a simi lar run on the Pacific coast. The start was made in tLos An geles at 12 o'clock noon, July 4, and the hood was publicly sealed by a prominent motion picture star. The western White Streak endur ance car is being piloted by Ellen beck and De Palo. Ellenbeck was a De Palma mechanic in many of the latter's automobile speed classics. De Palo, too, is well known in the industry and has' an enviable rec ord in speed circles. The endurance run will cover six of the western status, namely, Cali fornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Nevada. In these states the Mitchell F-50 White Streak will visit the larger cities and towns be sides several hundred of the lesser sized communities. The conditions governing this run are so unusual as to deserve special mention. First, the Mitchell White Streak to make the run is a regu lation stock car and has previously done 12,000 miles of all-around dem onstration work. Added to this, 4 sealed hood and crank case will maJce motor adjustments and re pairs Impossible for the entire 10000 miles. Women Told That Many Crashes Could Be Avoided and Are Enlisted in Campaign. CHAUTAUQUA, N. T., July 8. Highways benefit the home. Highway accidents are prevent able. These two themes were developed ty Pyke Johnson and John C. Long of the National Automobile Cham ber of Commerce, speaking before the biennial convention of the Gen eral Federation of Women's Clubs, recently in session here. Fresh food is made available for the city children, better schools and wider social opportunities are pro vided for the country boys and girls through improved highways and motor transportation, Mr. Johnson pointed out. Guarding of danger points, prose cution of the careless driver, ample playgrounds and education in the schools will eliminate accidents. Long indicated. Twenty-eight cities active in safety work reduced their motor fatality record last year. Roads Bring Better Environment. "A great educator has said that education is nothing more than au interpretation to the child oi me environment in which he lives," said Mr. Johnson, "and of this environ ment the highways today have be come a most important part. "It is the highway which brings the doctor to the door and it is over the highway that we go for most of the important events of our life. "It is the condition of the high way which determines whether our children shall go to school everyl day during the school year, or whether they shall have to stay at home to bother their mothers part of the time. f'"It is the condition of .the high way which determines' whether the milk which is brought to our door in the morning is fresh, and whether we shall receive it regu larly. "Without the highway our great national parka the playgrounds of the nation, would be largely inac cessible. "In fact, there is no phase of our daily life'which has not been mate rially and seriously affected in some way by the roads which pass the door." Accident Remedies Given. 'If every .woman in America would enroll for the degree of doc tor of safety the accident question soon would be solved," said Long. "The diagnosis is simple. . Twenty eight cities reduced their motor fa talities last year. Massachusetts cut down the number of traffic in juries 50 per cent. The four main accident symptoms and their reme dies are these: "1 Danger spots, such as curves, blind corners, busy intersections. Sufficient guarding by patrolmen or by signs is an immediate remedy, with improvment of the physical de sign of the danger spot as an ideal cure. That is, a sharp curve may be patrolled, but ultimately it should be straightened. "2 P rosecuting the careless driver. Citizens' complaint bureaus, like those in Detroit and Syracuse, are needed to facilitate complaint against and prosecution of the reck less minority who are making the entire community pay the price of their heedlessness. "3 Playgrounds. The school de partment should 'be consulted as to whether there is enough play space and whether there are enough play instructors to Justify telling the children not to play in the streets. roimiuts me uunuing oi mure pay grounds, if needed, certain streets ehould be roped off as play areas. "4 Education .in the schools. Children naturally are Irresponsl edble, but through traffic games, playlets and other Instruction, they can be trained habitually to conduct themselves properly in traffic." Views taken in the recent barn southeast of Corbett, where many score acres of the most attractive land of that section was turned into a desolation of charred stumps and withered shrubbery and grass. Many tires each year are started an the result of carelessness of. campers, a carelessness which is .nothing short of criminal. The above photos were supplied by the Willys-Overland Pacific company and were j obtained . recently by an Overland driver .on the road from Gordon Creek to Bull Run. ' - ' - - - g , , , SIXES-PORT ORFORD ROUTE WILL BE DEVELOPED. State Commissioners Call Bids for Construction to Open Artery to. Gold Beach. GOLD BEACH, Or., July 8 (Spe cial.) The. state highway commis sion is advertising for bids for .the construction of the new highway between Sixes river and Port Or ford. The estimated cost of the project is $140,000. , - The Sixes-Port Orford contract Joins the new Denmark-Sixes high way, construction work on which is now about completed, near Crystal creek, a short distance north of Sixes' river, and extends to a point near where the Elk river market road Joins the present highway, a couple of miles out from Port Or ford. The 1 new road, when built. will follow a different route than is traveled at present, being located several rods to the westward; cross ing both Sixes and Elk rivers soma distance below the present road. New bridges will span both of these streams.- The county will contribute toward the cost of the new project the sura of $11,500, which will exhaust the bond issue fund of the county to apply in building the new coast highway south from the Coos county line -to Gold- Beach. Curry county has issued road bonds to- the- extent of $263,000, which is the limit under the law: At. the time-when the- first issue of J9S.O00 was authorized it was stto ulated that' half of the amouflt ENZ A Few Foolish Things a Motorist Will Do. Drive without carrying a "spare." Drive under Influence of Volstead antidote. Try to take the right of way from a truck. Drive at night with a single head light. Leave car unattended without thief -proof appliances. Try to make the cop believe he has influence higher up.-JL.os An geles Examiner. 0 s p R I - N shouflt be spent from Gold Beach north and half should be spent frohi Pistol river south, while in the last issue of $165,000 it was stipulated that the Money be expended equally north and south of Gold Beach. In cluding the new Sixes-Port Orford project the county has contributed the sum of $131,500 on the new road from the Coos county line south to the Arizona inn. Judge Wood says it has been the intention of the county court to ap ply the market road money on main, highway work and thus increase the funds available for this work, but a decision was recently ..given in the courts of this state declaring' such a procedure to be illegal. "This de-' cislon, if : upheld bys the supreme sourt, is likely to cause a great deal of delay and inconvenience in road work, not only in this county but other places as well." ' Much Leather Is Used, for Autos. Automobile manufacturers in the United States last year . consumed 37.165,000 square feet of genuine upholstery- leather. This is enough leather to nearly cover the entire state of Rhode Island. In imitation leather" 88.400,000 square, feet were used enough to- cover Idaho and Illinois. ' There is no national automobile tax in Japan. ' ' ' - ' Completion of Route Will Mean . Much to Farmers and Other Interests of Section. '..'' ECHO, 'Or, July S. Before many months there will be a good high way all the way from Echo to the Morrow county line on Butter creek. This road is now assured through the letting of a contract to Newport Construction company for building 6.77 miles of the road between here and the Madison ranch. 'This con tract was let by the county court, and in accordance with the terms of the call the work is to be com pleted by August 31. Newport's bid was $34,115J0 for the job. A gravel pit lias been located on the road which will supply the en tire stretch with a maximum haul of about three miles. The road is to be surfaced with crushed gravel and will be as good a highway as the new road down Butter creek. The entire road is designated as a market road , and this will ' insure its maintenance being handled ,by the county. , Completion of the highway 'from Echo to the'Morrow county-line will mean much to the people of Echo and the -farmers tributary to the city. Echo has fared well in the past year in road construction. Last fall when the associated commercial clubs of the county were contem plating a bond Issue for roads in the - county this - community was asked- to present a statement of its needs in that respect. At that time the ,. community asked for a road connecting Echo ,and upper Butter creek at- the Morrow county line, and completion of the wheat road to- the east of the town, as being the main highways most needed as marketing roads. The cost of these roads was estimated ad $80,000. When the - bond Issue plan was seen to be hopeless the commercial club took up the road proposition, and through co-operation with the Butter Creek Highway association secured' the - building -ot that road as far as the Madison 'ranch. An agreement was entered Into by a number of Echo business men and farmers east of town to advance mohey for construction of the three miles -of highway on the old hill road. After many delays letting of this contract was secured for three and a half miles. This project, together with others, brings the total-.-expenditure this year on the market roads tributary to Echo at ' considerably more-than the $80,000 asked for under the proposed bond issue. - BUICK SHIPMENT IS RECORD Total of 285 Carloads Sent From . ; Flint Plant in One Day. FLINT, Mich, July ,10. All records for shipments of cars during the last 20 - years were broken by the Buick Motor company of Flint, Mich., June 23, when a lot of -285 carloads was sent away. . The shipment, which surpassed even the records of war boom times in 1920,. was composed of 822 cars or seven train loads of between 35 and 40 cars, to a train, and included types of all models. ' The lot, wh)ch went to dealers In all sections of 'the country, had a total retail value rar in excess of $1,00.0,000 and If placed in a line, end for end, three feet apart, would stretch for more than two miles along a road. . : v Factory officials report that the demand for Buicks has shown a steady Increase since the first of the year until today the production de mand is such that it bids fair to .exceed the 1920 high-watenmark. v :'f : i Vv;:-;:...: v..-- . s For all makes of cars and trucks. BROKEN SPRINGS' ., REPAIRED AND ' RETEMPERED " Behz Spring Co. Manufacturers Phone Broadway 3140 9th and Everett St, Portland A REMARKABLE discovery - was recently made that is of vital Importance to every motorist. Stone bruises, pre mature blow-outs, sandbods and other tire troubles are largely due to the presence of millionsof minute,' Tumps' in the rubber. ; AH rubber for tires must have' other substances worked into it to give it toughness and strength. Yet with ordinary, compounds these substances do not mix evenly, but form "lumps." The result is' thousands of minute weak spots in every cubic inch of lie tire. ! The remarkable Thermoid rubber , Two research chemists and two practical tire-builders in the Thermoid Rubber Com pany spent months on mis problem. They finally per fected Crolide a rubber compound that ' reduces 'lumpy" formations to a minimum that eliminates premature tire troubles. This even-texture rubber does not weaken with the stretching and straining that goes on inside a tire in use. ' Made with Crolide Com pound, Thermoid Tires are protected against rapid wear Drawings made from actual photographs of rubber magnified 200 times ' Ordinary tire rubber Crolide CompotmdRubber Tha whitm mtbmm aroY'lump" Ass no larta "himpm." of unaran ly mixed sub- Notioe how flnolr divided tha tanOM. Krary "lamp" im a partial are. Thia aran taw waak apot that raduoea mihf turaia what tttakaa Thormoid . ta. Tiraa amar ao long. against unnecessary sand boils, blisters and blow-outs. ' Crolide Compound is to day used exclusively in' the manufacture of Thermoid .Tires. We have compared the Thermoid . Tire carefully, point by point, with other : tires on the market today,, and we confidently believe that no other tire compares with it for service and dura bility.:; ;' v You are mvited to call and see these tires for yourself also the famous Crolide Compound Tubes. PAlen & Hebard Co. DISTRIBUTORS 4-fle Albany Van's Service Station. Arlington The Arlington GaiAffe. Baker Lew Brothers. ' ' . t Bend A. B. Estebenet A Co. : Condon M. O. Clarke & Son. Cooks, 'Wash. G. O. Jackson. -Coqnille Graham A Son. v . Eugene B. ft M. VuL Works. . Grants Pass Smith's Garaye. Heppner People's Hardware Co, Hlllsboro Allen Ireland. Kelso J. 8. Kubb. BROADWAY. PORTLAND. -v MedfordV Frank' L. Clarke. Milton Cheshire Hardware Co. ,'. Myrtle Point Cook t.Mat. . North Bend Coos Bay Electric Auto bnpply. ... - Oregon City Risley Motor Ce. Ontario Globe Sen-ice Station. Pendleton W. J. Clarke. . Rosebnrg- Carl W. Ohmun. , , Salem Valley Motor Co, The Dalles Lane ft Sexton. M oodburn George Dorr - Cord and Fabric CORD FABRIC f rACTOirY AJTD GENT RAJ. OrTICT. la BoM maa anything to Yon? ' Ql n ' began manafao taring C0A3T TIBSS ym realize! Wr nrin lsl 'bar only the shear merit of our IJ product would bring Access I fs? KHEf there if always a demand for real quality f . and to-day' CQ1ST TIES3 are art established success, with thon- q J J . sands of enthaslastio users and supporters In eeiy part ot the laolfla Coast. ' ' ' I 1 I f This maces is das to the faot that every tire I 5) gr soli has Bade good.' l l ' "e r confident that yon can pat Coast Tires on I j J.J your oar with the ahsolute assurance that yon are going t 1- reoelTe serrloe. Increased mileage and genuine tire satis- faction i - I ' THE COAST TIES AUD BDBHKB CCEPAKT. LEHNHERR-ROSE, Inc Coast Tire Distributors 11 Twelfth Street, Portland Broadway 2511 ' Seven Steps Ahead ITwo Range Trftnsnussioii 2RemoraJU Cylinder Walls - - 3 Radius Rods i 4 Pomp and' Thermo-Syphon Cooling i 5 Removable Valve lifter Assemblies 6 Pressure Lubrication 7 Instantaneous Governor These distinctive and exclu sive features of construction are, demonstrating their value daily in the perform ance of GMC trucks. They all are so vital to continuous, reliable and economical motor truck operation that without them, there can be no possibility of attaining the profitable hauling which they are pro ducing for GMC owners everywhere. General Motors Truck Compaty Diviaiom of Commral Motor Corporation PONTIAC, MICHIGAN , ' . ' 7 ' -' Wentworth & Irwin, Inc. SECOND Alfe TAYLOR STS., PORTLAND. Ton,1295 2-Ton,2375 3Y2-Ton,f3600 5-Ton,3950 Chaaaia only At tha Factory Tax to ba added 36