THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTL AND. SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST 4, 1918.
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BY TAKING
MAN
CAN SERVE BEST
PLACE, SAYS GIRL
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Miss Zella Hills of Eugene Dons
Jumpers and Learns All About
Motor Trucks.
NOW READY FOR REAL JOB
By Doing Real Man's Work and
' Releasing a Fighter, Miss Hills
Feels She Is Doing Hw Bit.
WANTED Position u truck drlr.r. Prefer
hee.jr .ehtrle. Beit of reference! furnished.
Mi ZelU UilU, tint claim mechanic.
OVERLAND-PACIFIC HEADS
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LAVA BEDS ALONG
M KENZIE PASS ARE
WEIRD PHENOMENA
Motor Trip Over Cascade Range
From Deschutes to Lane Coun
ties Full of Interest.
OVER THE M'KENZIE PASS BY MOTOR
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ROUGH GOING ENCOUNTERED
Section From the Summit to
Alder Springs, especially, Has
Suffered From Washouts, i
,:,;
Miss ZcUa UilU -wanted to do a real
man's Job. She looked over the field
and decide that to- drive a great, big
motor truck was doing her part to bet
ter advantage than taking a place In
an office, for a truck driver Is a strong:,
physically fit man, and to release a
man of that. type meant another soldier.
Mrs. JA. Hills of Eugene at first
did not take kindly to the idea of her
daughter, and thought It was doing: the
thing too thoroughly.
But mother and daughter came to
Portland, and Miss Hills started out to
learn all about trucks. She visited Del
Wright, manager of the William L.
Hughson company, and told him that
she wanted to learn to drive a truck and
to take a man's Job- In the world of
oomrnerce. v
Determination Wins Trial
She was so absolutely determined that
i Mr. Wright thought there was litttle use
trying to dissuade any ambition Jlke
that, bo he gave' her a, time card and
Introduced hr to Charley Dlnsmore, ser
vice superintendent of the plant.
She was the firat girl to come into
the shops. Fellows, of course, aren't
antagonistic, and they welcome a girl
with pluck, but well, most girls don't
exactly fit Into the scheme of things.
Miss Hills, however, demanded no
attention. She donned Jumpers and
for Just a moment watched the progress
of things. As soon as she had watched
some man at an operation long enough
to grasp Its Idea she aHked to be per
mitted to do it. and every time the man
was only too glad to be released from
some rather elementary operation.
Learned Tricks Readily
Miss Hills made an instantaeous hit.
Any time someone comes along who Is
willing to do all the things that you are
not particularly anxious to do, why,
-you are bound to be agreeable. And
Miss Hills In turn profited, for the
boys In the shop were more than will
ing to show her all the tricks of the
service, and the quick repairs and
speedy ways of finding out what is
wrong.
Shf had driven cars before, so It was
a nimpio matter to tearn ner trie ways
Of handling a truck, and now she 'drives
trucks back and forth from the William
L. Hughson. warehouse on the east side
and the store on North Broadway.
After another week or so In the
shop, devoted to Htudy of electrical
mechanism, she Is ready for a Job. She
prefers one out of town, and the strong
er the man Khe can replace the better.
"t wanted to do something that would
release a righting man." Miss Hills
explained. "There are, plenty who can
do the liphter tasks, and I felt that 1
could well undertake work of this
kind."
WILLYS-OVERLAND
CO. CONSOLIDATES
COAST COMPANIES
Oregon and Washington Branch
Merged1 With California Or
ganization to Serve Coast.
Motor Car Solving
Problems of Speed
"America js traveling a fast pace,
geared In to he winning stride necessary
to .make a victorious peace for herself
and l er nllleH." says XV. L,. Hughson of
the 'KlBselKar. "Extensive plans and
Intensive actions to carry them out suc
cessfully, are the rule of the day. The
conservation of time, a vital necessity in
the race for peace, is made possible by
the automobile and motor truck.
. "The motor car's adaptability to de
pendable and speedy individual trans
portation, is solvinx the, question, how
can I increase my personal efficiency
and economize 'on my' time? for the btTST
est men and women of every community.
"The motor truck, by successfully
Shoulderlng the railroad's short haul
business, has helped keep a permanent
right of way open for the uninterrupted
stream of supplies on which 'Our Boys'
fight, our allies depend and America
works."
To serve the owners of its cars on the
Pacific coast even better than heretofore,
the Willys-Overland Inc.. of Toledo, has
consolidated its two subsidiary coast
companies. The Willys-Overland of Cal
ifornia and the Overland-Pacific, Inc.,
the latter company operating in Wash
ington and Oregon, will be merged Into
one organization which will be known ln
future as Willys-Overland Pacific com
pany. "The new company." says Frank C.
Riggs, vice president and general man
ager, "will serve the entire coast terri
tory Jncluding Washington, Oregon, Cal
ifornia and parts of Montana, Idaho, Ne
vada and Arizona."
In July, 1916, the Willys-Overland com
pany began acting as its own distributor
on the Pacific coast. A chain of 10 fac- i
tory branches was established in this j
territory and It has been through these
branches that the company has been able
to render direct factory-to-owner serv
ice to users of Its cars.
The Willys-Overland company has
spent Beveral million dollars In making
each of its coast branches the largest,
the most modern and the best equipped
automobile service building In its par
ticular territory. Eight new buildings
have been erected in the last 18 months
and two others are being planned.
"It was John N. Willys," says Riggs,
"who conceived the idea of serving the
public through a chain of factory
branches. Just as It was his guiding gen
ius and clear vision which caused the
WTillys-Overland company to grow In
eight years from practically nothing to
a $70,000,000 corporation."
Frank C. Riggs has been vice president
and rreneral manacer of the two Willys-
i Overland coast companies almost since
their inception in 1916. He has injected
.into the entire coast organization a spirit
of cordial cooperation and has greatly
improved the company's facilities and
methods of serving the owners of Willys
Overland cars. "The consolldation'of the
two companies is for the purpose," says
Riggs, "of attaining still greater effi
ciency in carrying out the factory's lib
eral service policy." According to Riggs,
no changes in the personnel of the organ
ization are being contemplated. '
H. H. Eling, manager of the local
branch, will be retained in his present
position.
MOTOR AND TRUCK
RECORD FOR WEEK
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Above, left right John W. Willys,
president of the Willys-Overland
Inc., of Toledo, Ohio; Frank C.
. Riggs, vice president and general
manager of the Willys-Overland Pa
cific Co. Below H. II. EHng (Davies
Photo) manager of the Portland
branch.
Cookie Co.. 384 E. Stark,
Grandma
Maxwell.
John Peterson. 80 Beech, Maxwell.
G. H. Liichthorn. Estacada. Oakland,
E. D. Shawer, 287 Hawthorne, Over-
J. T. Cook, Bridal Veil, Overland.
Emily Dorney. 187 16th, Stutz.
C. M. Bair, 281 E. 16th N.. Stutz.
.T. A. Lawrence, 384 E. 44th N-. Buick.
G. W. Byers, Pendleton, Cadillac.
G. M. Heckscher. Benson hotel, Cadil
la-.
Hay Van Loon, 319 Railway Exchange
oiag., p ora.
B. S. Kingsley. Culver. Or.. Mitchell
Martha A. Wiest. Yankton, Oldsmobile.
b XJ. kMUHUCl O, OOO 4. i3t.Il 4
Paige.
Mrs. T. J. Elliott, 1403 Borthwick,
J3U1CK.
John M. Gearin, Mohawk bldg., Chev
roiet.
Lovejoy & Jackson, Multnomah, Chev
rolet. R. W. Orewilder. 495 E. 14th. Hudson.
Portland Wool Works Co.. 103 Union
ave. .V, Hudson.
XV. R. La Roche, City Hall. Hupmobile.
J. E, Moore. 353 N. 23d, Indian.
A. Siferte. 67 Ella. Maxwell.
Gus' Prahefm. 4716 82d S. E.. Maxwell.
John B. Coffey, 302 Wilcox bldg., Oakland.
For startling scenic grandeur, there
are few automobile trips In the west
that compare with that over ttte Mo
Kenzle Pass, between Eugene and Sis
ters. . Or. This is one of the favorite
routes for - California-Oregon tourists,
many of whom travel north through
Central Oregon via Bend and Sisters,
From Sisters, which has an elevation
of about 2600 feet, the road climbs
steadily through the yellow pine woods
to the top of the pass, where the crest
of the Cascades is reached at an eleva
tion of a little over 6000 feet. The road
Is steep and in some places Is sandy.
Small powered cars frequently have
trouble in this sand, which in dry
weather seems to be of bottomless
depth, and it is not an unusual sight to
see half a dozen light cars stuck on one
of the several steep sandy hills on the
eastern climb up the mountains. There
is no way out of this dilemma, except
ing for all hands to get behind and push
the car ahead until it can find solid
footing again.
OTer La?a Fields
Once at the summit, the road turns
sharply to the south, dropping off at a
brisk grade, but few passengers ' are
blase enough not to stop in amazement
at the view that confronts them. A
tumbling, black wall of lava lies direct
ly ahead, stretching for miles to the
north and east, on which there is never
a tree, shrub, nor blade of grass. To
the right the curious sugarloaf peak 'of
Mount Washington rises over its snow-
covered bosom. The forbidding cones ol
Belknap and Black craters show over
the river of lava, along which the road-
runs for miles.
In many places It is rough going,
though there has been so much travel
over this road that the rocks and lava
are said to be rounded off to a degree
that makes "them less severe on tires
than would be imagined. The lava
stream, when winding its way down. the
mountainsides has occasionally readned
a knoll higher than the adjacent coun!
try, and these stand un. tree envpr
and green like oases in the black desert
of hardened mud and rock that not so
long ago poured over this part oi tne
Cascades.
Although the forest service has been
at work on the road down the western
slope of the pass, that part from; the
summit to Alder Springs has been bad
ly washed out and is in poor shape.
The lower. portions of the descent, how
ever, are la farrly good condition. After
the lava beds have been left behind, the
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Approaching the lava beds on the McKenzle Pass road.
PLAN IS FOLLOWED
BY OTHER STATES
Oregon Idea of Financing High
way Construction by Vehicle
Tax Being Copier.
restriction of the gasoline flow. Twice a
season, anyway, the whole fuel feed ays
tern ought to be gone over and cleaned.
and dents should be smoothed out.
CAMPING
GROUND
APPRECIATED BY
AUTO TOURISTS
Visiting Motorists Eager to Take
Advantage Afforded by City
Near Forestry Building.
Financing highway construction by
means of revenue derived from motor ve
hicles which was first inaugurated in
Oregon is being taken up by other states.
The system has been adopted in Illinois
and now It is being discussed in Wash
ington. It is planned to bond the state In the
sum of J30.000.000 with which to build a
highway system of between 1800 and j
2000 miles. By placing the credit of the !
state behind the bonds and enlarging the
revenues of tke automobile department
to meet the increased .charges and sink
ing fund, the trucks and Automobiles
using the system for profit nd pleasure
would provide the money needed for pav
ing the highways. The regular funds
now available for roads would be de
voted to the preparation of road beds,
the laying out and improving of new
roads and their maintenance. In addi
tion it would provide employment for
labor after the war is over thus solving
one of the after the war problems.
It is estimated- that it would not re
quire a very great Increase In motor li
cense fees. An advance of $6 or $7.60
would create sufficient revenue to care
for the bonds and leave a surplus.
Dent in Pipe May
Hamper Gas Feed
It is a fact that a deep dent in the gas
oline pipe line Tnay so restrict the flow
of fuel that the action of the carburetor
will be impaired ; misfiring and general
erratic behavior will result. In some
cases a too abrupt upward bend in the
fuel line will permit the formation of air
dockets, interfering with the flow of the t the clutch around
fuel. Trouble In both cases will be likely Racing the engine makes matters
to develop at high speeds. If a trap In , worse, for the clutch gets no chance to
the fuel line is allowed to fill with for- hold and there is the chance that It may
eign matter, trouble will follow throughbe burned out altogether.
Racing Machine Is Bad Practice
w ben the clutch starts to slip, many
drivers make the mistake of racing the
engine, in -the expectation that tlfe car
will move faster.
The proper way to handle the slipping
clutch Is to operate the engine slowly,
with little change of speed, in the hope
that the flywheel will catch and carry
While it is not generally known by
residents of Portland that the city is
maintaining a f roe camping ground for
automobile tourists it is well understood
by the tourists who have pasted the
word back and they are availing them
elves of the privilege at the rate of
20 or 30 machines a day.
The camping grounds are located near
the Forestry building on thel-ewia and
carrtp stoves have been fitted up to
gether with tables and other facilities.
Wood and water are furnished campers
free of charge. The public playgrounds
near the Forestry building have also
been thrown open -to the children of the
camping parties.
Stnce the camping grounds were
opened the latter part of May. thousands
of "automobile gypsies" have used them. '
According to the register kept by Sup
erintendent J. C. Howell the tourists
have come from every state in the union.
Some stay only one night, others sev
eral delays, making side trips ever the
Columbia river highway and In other di
rections. Several have been so Impressed
with Portland and the Surrounding
country- that-they have purchased homes
and become permanent residents.
The Portland camping ground com
pletes a chain from Denver west and
the automobile tourist has a municipally
maintained camping place every night
i in crossing the continent.
Irregular Firing
Moisture on the exposed part of the
porcelain will often canse a spark plug
to fire Irregularly. This trouble may be
obviated by greasing the porcelain with
vaseline or hard grease. A useful bit
of knowledge during the protracted spell
of wet weather.
road passes
mountain peak
snow peaks rofj
number of charming
over which the great
the Three Sisters stand
guard, their glaciers' plainly discernible
from the road.1 The road finally reaches
tho McKenzia river, following that
scenic trout stream into Eugene. It is
rough and in rather poor shape as far
as Blue river, though readily passable
for any car.
Tourists eastward bound would prob
ably have the same trouble with sand
that many westward bound cars experi
ence, excepting after a good rain. Trav
elers over the pass last week found the
road well packed, however, as-a result
of the storms of the week previous.
Ford & Son Shares to Be $100
At a meeting of the holders of the cap
ital stock of Henry Ford & Son, accord
ing to an application made for an in
crease in the capital sttock from $1,000,000
to $5,000,000. It was decided to divide the
stock Into 50.000 shares of $100 each. The
document states tht $4,000,000 already
has been subscribed and $1,000,000 paid
In cash.
Tractor Plant for Texas
. Orange. Texas. August 3. The Blum
kerg Mfg. company. San Antonio,i will
build a plant here for the manufacture of
farm tractors. The new tractor will
be adapted specially for use on rice plan
tations, i
Kokomo
TIRES
5000 Mile
Guarantee
Bring in your old tires.,
VVe will make a liberal
allowance on a new
Kokomo.
Portland Tire Co.
331 Burnside
The following temporary police per
mits were obtained in Portland during j
the week by new car owners, pending j
the arrival of state licenses, according
to M. O. Wllklns, publisher of the Auto
mobile Record :
L. M. Graff, 335 E. 1st st. N., Briscoe.
G. (J. McNamara, 120 E. 20th St., Buick.
Mrs. P. E. Angerstetn, 49 E. Kilpat-
ilck, Buick.
H. B. Davis, 735 Irving, Chandler.
H. J. Collins, 590 E. 22d N.. Chandler.
May E. Reaves, Arthur hotel, Chan-
M. M. Sharrow, corner Bryant and
Union, Chevrolet.
M. F. Schall, 662 E."77th N., Chevrolet.
Mrs. A. Cohn. 131 N. 18th. Daniels.
XV. M. Forrester. Milwaukie, Dort.
John Dubins, Grants Pass, Dort.
Hoiman Fuel Co., 94 5th St.. Federal
truck.
Kaspar Marthaller, 789 Mississippi ave..
Ford.
V.,B. Dillard, St. Helens, Ford.
H. E. O'Neil. 275 Pine, Ford.
Edward Servlck. 4203 76th S. E.. Ford.
Esther Van Scoy, 435 Simpson, Ford.
T. Thos. Rye, 713 Crawford. Ford.
M. G. Anast, 29 E. 23d ,N., Ford.
Mrs. A. V. Peterson, 389 Knott. Ford
truck. i
.1. V. Graham. Toledo, Ford truck.
F. A. Frankson, 895 Williams ave..
Ford truck.
A. R. Bohaskey, 71 N. Russett, Frank
lin. K. E. Hatter, 6334 84th Court, General
truck.
Sam Armlsham, 36S Stark. Hudson.
Mrs. X. J. Wallace, 960 Clinton, Hup
mobile. j
George Skoko. 622 Delay, Hupmobile.
Ernest Baldwin, 72 E. 66th N., Indian.
Geo. W. Stapleton. Gresham. Jordan.
Henry Welnhard Plant, 475 Burnside,
Kissel truck.
J. L. Carswell, 15S6 Macadam, Max
well. C. Leek. 685 E. 64th. Maxwoll.
.T. F. Hoss. 645 E. 54th N. Maxwell.
.T. L. Carswell. 90 California. Maxwell.
H. Doxey. 86V4 Broadway, Maxwell.
Lewis Mason, 73 E. 58th N.. Oakland.
Dr. D. R. CoryelE 514 Alder. Saxon.
Lester Holt. Dayton. Or.. Saxon.
LeRoy Walker, State Bank of Port
land. Appersoa.
J. W. Monohan, Condon. Or.. Apperson.
Fred Theo. Kehel, St. Helens, Or.. Bris
coe. Dr. Nellie Erickson, 211 K. 19th. Buick.
E. C. Aldrich. 83 Park. Buick.
Li. O. Hatchell. 223 E. 2d N.. Chevrolet
Geo. Li. Hoffman, 890 E. Yamhill, Chev
rolet.
McFarland Bros.. Manning ave., Chev
rolet.
D. S. DuBols, 386 E. 46th N., Chevro
let rnest Duran, 6005 86th, Chevrolet.
F. F. Fellows. 705 Alberta. Chevrolet
Q. H. Stuart, 219 N. Ivanhoe, -Chev-
toiei. .1
Earl C. Walker, 1092 Water, Chevrolet.
O. A. Kelley. 148 2d. Colunbla.
D. Crown. Carlton hotel, Tfelgln.
D. E. Larkins. 22 Clav. tSlgin.
J. H. Christensen, 816 Alblna ave.. Em
pire. '
W. ,T. Hawkins. 571 Myrtle. Excelsior.
J. U. cnatnew. 728 Belnwnt. Ford.
H. J. McLean. 31 Madison. Ford.
tJ. E. Holtman, 304 Centralia. Ford.
H. B. Vanduzer, 681 Jackson. Frank
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Truck
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Washington, Burnside at 16th St.N
If Other Motor Cars Can
Do This Why Don't They?
'More Miles per Gallon "
"More Miles on Tires"
Maxwell
Motor
Cars
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Automobile
Co.
Vancouver Branch,
110 W. Sixth SL
61 5-1 7 Washington
SL, Portland
When you set out to select the motor car
that will best suit your own particular
needs and your purse, you demand as
primary requisites, the highest degree of
reliability with economy of operation.
And every salesman you meet insists his
car is that car.
If you are informed, as you should be, you
are liable to quote some of those Maxwell
records to see what he will say, mostly.
He must say something and usually he
affects to disbelieve thos records.
You remind him that they are official
made under the sanction and supervision
of A. A. A. officials.
Then he insists that his car will do as well
or better.
Your cue, at this point, is to ask that per
fectly fair and most pertinent question,
"Then why doesn't your car go out and
do it?" v
Well tell you why it can't.
Any Maxwell salesman can take you
through this car, from motor to rear axle,
taking up in turn every unit and comparing
design and construction and strengths with
any and all other cars of similar size and
capacity.
And he will show you right there why this
Maxwell can, and that rival can't.
For it is all there in the design; In the
dimensiods of parts; in the quality of ma
terials and in the making.
Let him show you. He will take all the
time you will give himand you owe it to
yourself to know before you decide.
Then when any salesman tries to convince
you that you ought to pay $100 or $150 or
$200 more for a motor car ask him to
show you one as .good as this MaxwelL
Insist on proofs not mere statements.
For if a car will do it, surely that fact is
susceptible of proof.
"Claims are all right, but only proofs
count." That is the Maxwell slogan. '
If you would have the claima and promises
of salesmen backed by proofs, and in official
form that car must be a MaxwelL