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SECTION SIX
AUTOMOBILES
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 27, 1921.
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Guiding of f lanes in Air. Least of
Many Things Those Who As
pire to Become Pilots Mtist
. pecome Proficient In.
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What one of us has not paused to
otserve mother birds, or in pome
eases, perhaps, the daddies, instruct
ing the young ones in the gentle art
of -flying, and .what one of us has
wnkchod. the scene without'envy ? On
th other h.vnd, what one of usrhas
evi'r stopped by the Ride of a mur
muring river to observe the mother
fish teaching their' young to swim?
Those of us who have done bo have
not watched the scene unmoved, be
.tia'use, forsooth, bfrds have to be
taught to- fly hut fish seern to be
hatched swimming.
l'.y " th: usual 'process of evolution,
ve reach human beings, who have to be
taught botii to fly and to swim. As the
suitnmiiig activities of tlie human spe
ifs dt x r.t for llifir interest solely upon
jthe person or persona doing the swim
inf,. few .jNDo.ple, if any. pause very long
to foilow th! movements of a swimming
isehool. . I'.ut with 'flying we have a different-
Mate of affairs. l..et a student
:t;iko (iff with hi, or her, instructor; let
the crowd, on th ground know that a
. novU;e. is in the air, and observe the
craning of tift-ks, the open mouths, and
listen to the varied assortment of com
ment. The crowd watches with mixed
emotions.' As in watching: birds, one
. fulai ires' .the nerve of .the flyer and on-Vlt-t.s
IioU it would feel to fall, j
j'OUTi.AN J KLVIStt CESHJaj..:,
Portland is a center for instructing
th: -young- and tiie eld in the art of fly
i:u;, by mtvim nical means. Since the
i.iv Icarus, unj(ini! too near the sun,
went into .a nosedive and lit in the
Icarian sea.-successful flying' has never
been accomplished by attachments to
the shoulder blades Chief 'among Fort
lai'.d educators in aerial craftsmanship
is the EHidrey Aircraft corporation,
whose school of aeronautics lias made
r.nid sttfides in teaching young men how
to fly aaid- in 'finishing pilots for com
mercial "'. work and- mail flying. The
-offices . and shops of the school are at
105 North Klevpnth street, while the
aerodrome is at Broomf ield. In East
moreiand, otherwfW icnown. as the Mu-'.'iiicipal-Flying
field.
Another! school which Is achieving
soni prominence is the P. II. & G. Air
craft .-company of Vancouver and Port
land. This company has. not planned
the work of flying as extensively as has
the Dudrey company, but intends to en
large its facilities in the near future.
C V. Dudley is president of the. Dudrey
company and O. S. kind is secretary,
while' members of the faculty include
V. S. McCiurg. chief instructor; F.W.
liarker and F. K. . Harding, flying in
structors, and V. B. -Randall, instruc
tor in aeronautical . mechanics. P. II.
t'.reen is instructor in theory. All in
structors have had Actual flying experi
ence, pome as many as 4000 hours in
the air- - .
The aim of the school system in Port-
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TRUCK MEN URGING
SHIPPERS TO HURRY
Contractors Are Warned Not to
Wait Until There Is Short
age of Rail Facilities.
With a national road appropria
tion ,)f .nearly a million and a half
dollars, and with the spring season
Just beginning to open, truck men
are urging shippers to complete the
tail end of their road material haul
ing before a shortage of freight cars
may tic up hauling to a considerable
extent.
Trucks are. of course, dependent upon
the railroads to a considerable degree for
material to- be hauleii, and unless con
tractors take advantage of the supply ef
f r ight cars at this 'time road work this
summer may be delayed by lack of many
pavement ingredients.
Heretofore one of the main reasons
why contractors have riot been able to
get sufficient heavy duty truck equip
ment is that they have made no special
effort to move materials when adequate
railway transportation was available.
I?ut now for the first time in five years
there is a surplus of railway cars and
trucks in the United States available for
carrying out the "ship now"' .movement.
According to a research made by the
White company of Cleveland, builders of
White trucks, it is estipiated that for
every mile of IS foot concrete highway
constructed there must be transported
03 five-ton truck loads of sand. 392 loads
of stone and 69 of cement. So fully real
izing the delay that will follow if the
slack season is ignored as in the past
highway engineers, banks, chambers of
commerce are being urged to., follow the
lead of the state of Delaware who have
for the last tlntx; years snapped all road
material during the wiiiler months.
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Leaky Radiator
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Compounds Are
Br Hike Da Clceo 1
The average motorist does not know
the extent of the damage a leaky radi
ator can do to the mechanism of his
car, nor does he realize that when his
ear comes down the road steaming as
if a hot water pipe in the flat had
bursted he is taking a long chance on
runining a perfectly good power plant.
An overheated motor will cause the
valves to warp and stick open, thus aid
ing in their ruin ; it will cause cylinders
to be scored, pistons to get out of true,
and piston rings to gum up and stick.
When the motor; gets hot from lack
of water or from; poor circulation in
motors using the water cooling system,
the lubricating oil loses its viscosity,
which is the real 'valuable quality the
oil possesses. As soon as this viscosity,
or stickiness, has been taken from the
oil, the cylinders do not get their lubri
cation, walls are scored from the fric
tion of the piston, doss of power is no
ticed, and a costly joverhauling bill may
be the result. j
A leaking radiator is often caused by
insecure fastening on the frame, or from
faulty or one-sided spring suspension.
The latter will cause the strain on the
radiator to become unequalized and
when riding over rough roads quite fre
quently the -Jar: will loosen portions of
the honeycomb,' tear the tubes loose, and
damage other portions which are fast
ened with solder. Leaks often occur
around the hose connection outlets or
around the radiator brace.
To solder nartsVon the radiator, re
move the radiator! from the frame and
place in a positioisiwhere the solder will
flow Into the parts where it is needed.
To remove the radiator te a simple task.
Drain out the waiter, remove the bolts
fastening the radiator to the frame, and
disconnect hose -connections. In the
soldering,8 use mtfriatic acid, in which
some small pieces of zinc must be
dropped to cut the! Strength of the acid.
This may be obtained at any drugstore.
Have some solder, a hot soldering iron,
and the intention of keeping the hot
solder from falling ion your hands. Go
to it.
The parts to be soldered must be
scraped with & knife or sharp tooL Ap
ply the acid to the broken place, and
then the sofder. If the tubes are broken
the task will be more difficult, and often
it is best to take the radiator to a metal
man who understands that sort of work.
Water often leaks through the pack
ing in the bushing or the water pump.
This can sometimes be stopped by. screw
ing up the bushing or renewing the
packing. In the latter case unscrew the
bushing and repack with water pump
racking, which comes In Ions strings
about "Vi to J4 inch thick. Wind
Must Be Fixed
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Often Injurious
around the shoft four or five times to
such a depth that the bushing will
easily start on the threads. Screwing
up -the pumi grease cup every day aids
in preserving the packing.
If the hose connections "leak, replace
with new parts by disconnecting the
clamps. Shellacing the hose will aid in
its preservation, as grease and oil are
the hose connections' worst enemies and
destroy the rubber surface. The motor
ist, confronted by a radiator leak, will
often use a compound to stop the leak.
These compounds do stop the leak for a
short time, but while stopping the leak
will often obstruct the free circulation
of the water. This sort of mending is
not permanent antl is oftm dangerous.
Tor when the circulation of the water in'
the radiator is obstructed the hot water
cannot be replaced by new and cooler
water. This happens with certain com
pounds in honeycomb type radiators, and
th cooling system' is often badly crip
pled. After all. the only way to fix a
radiator is to fix it by repairing with
new tubes or solder. It will be cheaper
in the long run. k
Douglas County Is
Planning Eoad Work
Roseburg, Or., Feb. 26. Considerable
roacl work Is being planned in Douglas
county for the coming summer and the
highway commission at a meeting held
Monday announced that several new im
provements in road conditions will be
made in this section. Assistant State
Highway Kngineer .1. C. McLeod, K. S.
Hall and Ira A. Williams of the high
way service visited here this week and
made an inspection of the highway work
being done.
-THE SENSATION
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MOTOR EXPERT IS
NVENTOR Ew
TYPE OE ENGINE
P. W. Kan of Centralia Said to
Have Achieved Success After
Years of Experiments.
Centralia, Feb. 26. With what is
said to be complete success marking
the end of 15 years of experimental
work, P. W. Kane, president of the
Kane Pneumatic Shock Absorber
company, has just completed a new
gasoline engine of the rotary type.
A test run is declared to -have dem
onstrated the correctness of the
principle of construction and opera
tion. The engine as it now stands is a true
rotary, four cycle gasoline motor with
the firing equivalent of a 12 cylinder
engine. Eight hundred cubic inches ca
pacity, 315 I. H. P. at 1000 R. P. M.
and weighs 387 pounds. It has only
seven moving parts and has neither cyl
inders, pistons, connecting rods or
valves, and only two bearings of the
Timken type.
HIGH PI$TO,SPEED
This motor secures a high piston speed
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CFUOSE BSWI. SSI
equivalent with very moderate rotation
speed. At 1000 R. P. M. a piston speed
equivalent of more than 3800 feet a min
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ute is obtained. Kane, who is respon
sible for the new engine, was at one
time in charge of the experimental shop
.OnnTcTTOMC' T:j. ! j. SIXTEENTH .and
O XXLVJlrlNO, XlSLriUULUr Washington
Strength
TH E - HAYNES IS , AMERICA'S FIRg.T CAR,t
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of the oldest automobile concern in the
country and has had 25 years of expe
rience in the automobije world.
HU
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Power
ARE' MADE IN
MOTORING LAW
Ucense-by -Weight and Tire
Widths; Substitued for License
by Horsepowsr; Rules of Road
Have Beenv Increased or
Amplified.
In order to place in the liml.i of Ui motoring
public -the -text of the new OrGcon motor vehicla
law, Tlie Sunday Journal brains trutay the prun
ing ofi the law in insi aliment'. The only ior
tion not include! are the d.tmition of the Tari
oua tvrme-ounertad with nmUir vehU-loa anl tlie
drivinff tlnrt'of, which ara iilctitiral with tlie old
law as well aa with common, usage. It will prob
ably t) liiiuiths before tlie text of the new law
will lie available elMiwhtrft, and the public i
advisfil to iT.-.-'-rve tlie tin u published by The
Sunday Journal.
Tbe legislature Just ended made
Bweepirig changes in the. Oregon mo
tor vehicle codo when it enacted into
law honseblll 330, tiie most import
ant of vhich is the Hcrapping of tha
theoretical horsepower rating as the
basis for licensing motor vehicles
and'thi substitution of weight for
motor passdngor vehicles 'and tia
widths (for trucks. Drastic changes
wer maiip In weight of load allowed
trucks when using state highways.
Considerable increase In Income i$
assured by Jho new -liccnso basis.
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The scope ;of the rules of the road sec
tion has
also been greatly broadened,
new rules i
added, and old rules ampli-
fied.
BEGISTBATIOX 17 N C II A N t E I
..Registration of vehicles and chauf-
feurs, aa Well as ot drivers' permits-, re
mains ;praict1cally untouched, and other
sections providing f or authority and
penalties remain practically tfnehanged,
with only- minor alterations hero and
there. '
The chiff omission noted in thn cod
is the lacfc of provision for the "used
car," whicFi under the ISw must, accord
ing to weight, pay as much as the new
car of theLsarne make costing sometimes
five times! as much. The need for pro
tecting thfc user of the "bargain" cur
instead of the new cheap car of approxi
mately thd same price "was brought homo
to the conpriittea on roadsiand highways,
which framed the hill, but owing to tha
unconstitutional aspect of the provision,
or protection, the clause providing for a
25 per cent reduction after a motor ve
hicle had been registered four times,
was stricken out.
The tcxlf- of the new code, beginning
with "Rules of the lioad." is as follow:
Jlnle of the Jtoad. The laws of the
road everywhere In this state are her
by declared to be as fallows r , , j
(1) Vehicles proceeding -in the opposite
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