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SECTION TWOPART TWO. '
;- THE OREGON" SUNDAY JOURNAL,-PORTLAND, SUNDAY: MORNING, ' MARCH' ,24, 1918.
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" PERSISTENCE IS
PAVING- WORK ON
WOMEN GO IN FOR MOTOR LORE" WITH ENTHUSIASM ;
Special Notice to All
New Car Owners
f ATTRIBUTE THAT
BEX HILL WILL GO
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.Yoa keep closer eye on both car' and tires than the
' average man who has owned a car for a long time.
.You watch for scratches on the car and examine your
tires frequently for wear, cuts, etc '
You are ust the man to give The General Tire the
appreciation that's coming to it. '
Put on The General Tire then vratch its performance.
Take look at it every 500 miles for the first 6000 or .
7000 miles, say. Notice how long it takes the tread to
. be scratched even, much less gouged or. cut. 'Compare
with the wear of the tires that came on the car.
Particularly note its fine, upstanding appearance when .
it has run the 5000 miles it is guaranteed for. '
Well Back The General Tire in
Commissioner ' of Coos County
I Obtains Promise From' High
way Commission to Start Work
Oskar Huber First. Paving'Con-'
tractor to BegiivfWorlt ThisJ
. Season , Work to 1 Be Rushed.
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CONSIDER FINANCING PLANS
ROAD BED BEING DRAINED
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; Competition With Any Other Tire
Buy it on our recommendationyou're guaranteed 5000
'miles so you'll have the knowledge that you are pro
tec ted but a guarantee you '11 not be called upon to use
AMERICAN TIRE & RUBBER CO.
State Distributors
BROADWAY AT OAX
Phone Broadway 180 and Broadway 765
Contractor Will Keep Road Open,
Section of Twenty Mile Road
. During Progress of Work for-
jXWWBe PavecFThis Year
Convenience of. the Public.
f ' If the, state highway commissicm" doe
mi , iir k MnirUTi inr Tin.Tinr in cnoi
V c6uiityChfs'seasori" It will not'be rtte"
fSWt County,? Commissioner iphilllps.
' At . recent .meeting of the commission
4 in Vrposicounty, officials, insisted on a
'' ' "iihinlilavnt tn the intentions of the
'.J- commtsfclon.A' By dint of persistence he.
j 'wen the dnKe promise that eon
j 'tract wp.uUV be awarded; for-- at" least
( fr milea'of pavement .between Marsh-
: field aftfCoqulUe ajsnoa, Ag,lhe cdm-
missis-could finance the Tjndert&king.
i'lrie pavement In to be bituminous and
10 feel In -width with 1 inch shoulders.
commissioner rn Tia wan asoureu oy
Highway ('omrnlHslotierH Benson and
Thompson that it had been the Intention
of the -commission all the time to pave
the road but owing UA the financial re-
unable to see where the money was to
.i,come from. Even now it was not in
- sight, they said.
Under the terms of the paving law it
is mandatory upon the commission to
lav f Via novAmunt a. annTi a fVma Mnn.
tya has prepared 20 or more miles of
base between Marshfield and Roseburg.
The Coos county court says that they
will not Insist at this time on the pave-
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satisfied if a start Is made on the first
five mite section.
' Commissioner-Phillips says ,11 is go
ing to stay with the commission until
thf Ihw Is eomolWrd With.
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VlU take bvr'sufliclent state road
bonds to carry the' work or that the con-
. tractor take rna nay in bonds. This
. lit ..t. i L u . . 1... . m i .
from trie federal resf rve board author
ity to sell the bofcds in the open market.
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David" Hodes Co. Is
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th.-Drtvia Hodes comMnr.
fonaerly tfteiAuto Wrecking company.
aufbmobila wreckers, acaulred a Quarter
iKK .iwv sreaiiw7 una r mnaers j
HtfHt, wttfre it originally occupied' a
26-fot frontage. Upon the opening ofvi1
I tha larger quarters, last week. Mr. K
Hodes, manager of She company, an-
' nonhcodhat hereafter the company will
alcnons the David Hodes company.
rTm nrn. ia. noWj-oA. of the largest i
nicific Coast. Starting in business Jeast
lhao three years ago as the "Auto'
V Wrecking company," in a small sales-
roonwlt has worked up an enviable trade
among the motor oar owners of the
. stt. The rapid growth has made neces
sary an enlargement of quarters to meet
i the demands of Its customers, and Mr.
. Hodes has succeeded In leasing the en
tire quarter block facing on Broadway,
between Everett and Flanders streets.
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large ouiming nas been remod- : , ih. Hrivin. ,a. nf hHvu-v
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-v...,, ungmai pians or i niltnmobiip or at the lathes of auto
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Oskar Huber is the first of those hav
iiur contracts for sjate .road, paving. to;
rerume'work this year. ' The base of the ,
Rex-Tlgard road jis heuig" prepared for
the hard surface and the laying, of the
"hot stuf fT will be begun this "week, i
Under favorable feather conditions, Mr.
Huber predicts that within 0 days,' the ,
road will be paved into Newberg. . i
The work has been started 6n the Rex :
hill and' it will proceed south , toward
Newberg first. The cohdtttons" under
which the work will be done this season
are much better than those of last year,
and from a paring standpoint are nearly
ideal.
Paying Plaat Installed
The paving plant haa been Installed at
Kex. A few yards from the mixing plant
is the Quarry, which is so located as to
give a gravity haul of the rock to the
mixing plant. Last year Mr. Huber had
to haul His. rock a mile from the quarry
to the" plant and then had to haul the
finished product nearly another mile be
fore reaching the road.
In one sense it was fortunate that the
road was not paved last year. The coun
trmr through which the road runs is full
of springs and during the winter those
in the road were located. They now can
be properly drained before the pavement j
is put down.
Whether the underground crossing ati
Votaw -will be finished this year or not
depends on circumstances. The public
service commission has ordered a
survey.' but it is understood that the
Southern Pacific railroad, hch is to
share the cost, wants to postpone work
until after the war.
The new trestle across Onion flat has
been finished and work is progressing
on the new bridge across the Tualatin
river.
Road Is Kept Open
During the progress of the paving
work the contractor wlH keep the road
open to traffic, as was done last year.
This Involves some additional expense
to the contractor, but is done as a con
cession to public interest.
The citizens of Newberg already have
begun to make arrangements for the
celebration of the completion of the
work. This jubilation, however, will not
be shared by one of. the roadside resi
dents. While lean ii.g over his fence a
few -days ago, whittling, a passerby ob
served :
- ."You are no doubt nucb pleased xvsr
the fact that you are going- to have jl
paved road by youjtpste.at-lhe. taf S
expense. ; . . :
"Well, not hardly. You see, it'a this
way. Before the road vas improved I
used to make $30 or during the win
ter pulling automobiles out of the mud."
Built in Airm hy
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JtmUtr Cs.
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Tire
75 of all haul
ing can be done
by a Maxwell
Truek
Feminalls are ever so much more popular than aprons in auto study class recently enrolled in Y. M. C. Y. school.
repairs, puncture mending and "engine trouble" are being solved by zealous women.
Mysteries
tire changing,
Will war's withdrawal of the com-
i munlty's man power eventually place
.Manager Hodes. and the combined sales-
repair -shops, and cause women of
rrwvm. .hnu- a I..,, rA 1 ji ,
'of new -nrt ...J i "k i.- !.! "I"! wealth to become their own chauffeurs?
- UHkUHluullQ fill U J1Q
- accessories.
Believing in "preparedness" for such
a call to service a group or aooui u
The Record!
Astounding
But True
The first
Republic
Truck
sold in Oregon
' Portland women have taken up syste-
: matic training at the Y. M. C. A. auto
: school.
Every Tuesday and Saturday even
ing members of the class delve deeper
into, the mysteries of automobile con
struction and operation, one evening of
the week being devoted to classroom
recitations and lectures, the other to
what is called 'naboratory" work but
what is actually practical assembling
and repair work.
It is work that begrimes the hands
and leaves more than one smudge on
delicate complexions but the students
are taking up the work with enthusi
asm not in the least dampened by ac
quaintance with the smearing qualities
of. grease and oil.
A Tmoeratlc Personal
Th flans is hlehLv democratic in its'
' personnel. One of the students Is well
took up first the study of motorboat
engines, mastered their intricacies so
that she could, make her own boat go
when it refused to, and now haa turned
her energy in the same painstaking way
to automobiles. Another is already
driving a laundry car. but because she
didn't know what she would do if the
engine broke down she is putting in her
evenings finding out.
Not long ago one of Portland's well
known women physicians had a .break
down at night when she was rushing
to tha aid of an emergency case. She
didn't know what was wrong in the
first place, and in the second place she
wouldn't have known how to remedy I
tha hroaU if aVia V a rl Irnnnm Knv C Vi H
has an opportunity to learn.
u 8op Dress Is Practical
Guy K. Spencer, instructor of the
class, says that' some of the others are
satisfying the frank curiosity about
what makes the automobile go such as
a man frequently manifests.
It was suggested at the opening of
the class that the women might wear
khaki aprons such as are used by the
members of chemistry classes.
But, no sirree ! At the first laboratory
meeting of the class nearly every
woman appeared in the trouser-built,
coverall feminalls.
"If we're going to do men's work,"
fair students,
have found is
explained one of . the
"we'll wear what men
necessary at such work."
So far the class has taken up tire
changing, the vulcanising of inner
tubes, the removal and replacing of
wheels and the delicate rear axle ad
justments. But before the 12 wks'
t.
series of twice-a-week lessons is fin
ished they will have learned to do the
things that every person who maln
i tains his "or her car must know the se
crets of ignition, caburetion, oiling and
water circulating system as well as the
care of the external, appearance of the
machine.
Result of Loosfe Bolts
Tt sometimes happens that the bolts
holding the flywheel to the flange on
the crankshaft work a trifle loose, with
the result that an Irregular knocking oc
curs, which Is very much like that of a
loose connecting rod's big end and is
most noticoohi at slow motor speeds
- at the beginning of periods of rapid
acceleration or retardation. Test the
flywheel for such looseness when a
knock cannot be easily located.
GRADING HIGHWAY
WELL
UNDERWAY
77
has run 27,000 miles
since June 8, 1915, at a
cost for repair parts
of $5.20 to Mch. 9, 1918.
f No -wonder "every third
'truck in Oregon is a
REPUBLIC."
Section Between Cascade Locks
and Hood River to Be Ready
by June 1.
WOO WORKERS
IN AUTO INDUSTRY
Capital Represents Investment of
$736,000,000; Wages. Total
$275,000,000.
34-ton to 5-ton priced
from $1045 to $4885.
Roberts
MOTOR CAR CO., Inc.
" Oregon Distributors
Park and Everett Sts.
The grading of the Columbia river
highway between Cascade Locks and
Hood River will, it is now estimated, be
completed by June 1 with the possible
exception of the Ruthon hill section. The
state highway commission has declared
an emergency on this -work in order that
the contractor may work 10 hour days.
One gang is working eastward around
Wyteth hill and another Is working
westward. Steam shovels are beiner
used r and there is now, a gap of about
half a mile between the two shovels. At
Vlento a crew of 40 men has about two
months' work ahead of it
Between Viento- and Lindsay creek a
station gang of .15 expects to finish
within a month. There is another sta
tion gang at Menominee which should
finish its work in the same time.
Twenty-five men have been put to work
between Lindsay creek and Sonny. This
construction is very heavy and will not
be finished before June.
As now .planned the work on Ruthton
hill will be the last to be completed. Two
huge blasts requiring a carload of pow
der and dynamite will be used to blow
of a . portion of rocKy bluff. One-of
these blasts will be discharged In a few
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Preliminary construction has begun on
the new concrete bridge across Hood
river. The new structure parallels 'the
"According to 1917 statistics, the cap
ital -invested fn the automobile industry
in this country amounted to $736,000,000,
and the 280,000 workers directly depend
ent upon it drew wapes totaling $275.
000,000." says F. W. Vogler, Dprt dis
tributor. "Big as these figures are, they do not
begin to indicate the real contribution
of the motor car to the prosperity of the
country. The giant steel.: oil, lumber,
leather and rubber Industries, with their
hundreds of thousands of employes, live
largely upon the automobile.
"These facts are the more pleasing
when it is considered that all this in
vestment and labor is in behalf of a
product that has multiplied individual
and community efficiency, creating new
standards of man "power." "
old bridge." The width of the roadway
will be 22 feet. . . ,
The survey of the highway between
Umatilla and The Oalles is practically
complete and grading work has begun
in Sherman county, by. the local road
district.
; String to Mend Pipe
A', satisfactory temporary repair of a
leaking water pipej may be made- by
binding around the seat of trouble sev
eral layers ' of string: well , soaked ; In
thick oij. t - .
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Announcing Distribution
OF
Four Wheel Drive Auto Company's
Four Wheel Drive Auto Truck"
r Entire State cf Oregon
FOR - Eastern Washington
Northern Idaho (Panhandle)
These trucks in 3-TON CAPACITIES may be purchased
from ,us ONLY BY RANCHERS WHO REQUIRE A FOUR
WHEL DRIVE AUTO TRUCK to transport
Grain Food Products
The Government's order for 12, 000 F. W. D. Trucks takes
the factory's output and entire production for sometime to
come, however Uncle Sam recognizes the priority of certain
wheat and grain farmers' need of a FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE
AUTO TRUCK. ' '
Information may be obtained from
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Oregon Motor Gar Company
Park and Davis -Portland, Oregon .
W. C. Garbe Motors Company, Spokane, Wash.
Also Distributors for Denby Trucks
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There are now more than 6600 -Maxwell
trucks in use. And we can- -not
find a single business that the Max- .
well isn't adapted to.
Up to this time we have listed over
300 kinds of businesses in which' Max
well trucks are employed.
They will do everything a 5-ton
truck will do except haul 5 tons at one
load. 5-ton trucks aren't better. They're
merely bigger.
Big trucks spend more gas hauling
themselves than the Maxwell uses at ;
peak load. - ; '
How well those Maxwells have done
their work is shown by a service .rec
ord of 99.6 perfect the greatest ;
record ever jinade by a motor-driven .
vehicle. ' !r
$400 less, than any other truck of
similar capacity, in the world.
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$1085, chassis only, f . o. b. Detroit. Elec-:
trie lights. Electric generatdh Worm drive.
10-foot loading space. 2500 pounds.
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C. L. BOSS AUTOMOBILE CO.
4 . 615-617 Washington St.
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