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4" - ' 1 SECTION SIX AUTOMOBILES EQUIPMENT . EIGHT PAGES j'Jl i MorOU TRUCK9 GOOD ROADS 7 J -ACTUAL. ilCO'NDIjTJ-iQ-N A5 FQXJ W;D BY J ..." vi p v VM:im4Mmk Mill . . ' .r?rr .S : - i I - f I ft 7i'mMr i i l : : " : V v .i' ..,f.: ; f t r It ..... S ,.. . 1 Ef 1 t . - . .. - .. . . . ' s ' - ' ' i " -. -.x S ' ( t i-:.s5::V.-----. ::..:x:.:;:;--:.r--.:,; - -r-.va.- . i - -T4rT4' 1 lilt M . T7T"7 r. Jr,?ti& ' f fff mil ,.rT lTiii7 Viir " -Tn "' - 1 : i I -- rSLxv ff""""T""MM""'""M"l"!!aigga'lll''M'''" j It '' ""-Ju-"' x ' - " ' v I I , pc1!, " " ' - , -.' I PORTLAND,.. OREGON, SUND I AY MORNING, , JUNE, 6,Y J920. TT? o -fl ?.". .-..-N ; : "rS r? ' o-fv IN AN ELG-IN SIX i . . . r. . . v . - Jl lei : -.:i''fW'.': : : ':-:i- "5 af-- M OTORISTS heading for the .South or tourists coming' north ; for the Shrine convention ' should never ' worry about the condition of the roads between Portland and the California line. -They are! excellent, and a . party of Journal scouts in an Elgin Six, piloted by E. R. Weller of, the United Motors company, made the run to Medford in the easjf runnirig time of 145 hours.; went; over 'the Siskiyou mountains without shifting, a gear, and Q. reached Hombro6k,,GaUf orniaj without a mishap" of any kind. . . ' There are'sevenr places on .the road where, motorists- used to I j-lobkToveritheir notebooks to:see I if theirlinsurance was up test their cars, and get their pocketbooks Jiaiidy to pay for a tow. , "They . are Rice hill, - Roberts mountain, Cow Creek canyon, Grlen dalW hill,J Wolf Oreek liill and Smith hilU But most of these little z plates are has-beens as obstructions; for the wilyj motorist of the; summer of 1920. , ' " ' . "" - It is rather amusing to see a tourist machine come td: a stop at the bottom 6t a hill where once the farmer with his team hitched , onto the front axle, and give the road ahead the once over. "So this is Smith hill?" he says., ; 'i . And he chuckles as the car gets under way,; shifts into high, and is vastly grieved if he has to touch the' gear lever a. single time . ; until-he reaches the top. ;: , . "Is Rice hill bad? one of the scouts asked a man corning from j the opposite direction The folks in the Elgin had been worrying -" about what they were going to hit; when they turned -in -on ' the ' ; Goodrich highway.. . , . ' " ' - S COUT PJBl 4 ."S!cw,:?:vW'!lVi i -. ;;.-;:;:rTTTUt-.Mv- 7 t-'!-A:::::::::::::::u:vxr '.Tr."".-- x -. -pi . - AW- w I , , -V , . : y igs.y.- 4 ' taut z ( . '(Ik.. . - : H..: : ' : - " ' 'r ' ": ' ' ' i - T - I r : - r If i i '.If! : j y : If I MARl j' ' . . J . ''''AiatoM. Ml ,. ,..L ...y;,?" - ; - -f.: '-y ' ' - (Continued ' on Pagre Two,. This Section)
