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THE DALLES DAILY CHRONICLE. SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1921.
PACE FIVE
TIRE CO. EMPLOYES
ALL STOCKHOLDERS
FIRESTONE'S OFFER MORE THAN
50 PERCENT OVER-SUB.
8CRIBED.
AJCRON, Ohio, May 7. The trend
of American wage-earners thought
and action toward new habits of thrift
and Investment is evidenced in the an
nouncement of the Firestone Tire &
Rubber company today that every one
of its several thousand employes had
become stockholders.
Within twelve hours after announce
ment by President H. . Firestone of
a new allotment of employs' stock,
subscription records showed that ev
ery employe had become a stockhold
er, each subscriber taking at least two
shares while oversubscriptions on the
allotment amounted to almost 50 per
cent. This places the Firestone company
in a most distinctive position anion.';
industrial concerns employing more
than 10,000 people as it is the only
organization of its rank on record hav.
ing every man and woman on its pay
roll a shareholder in the company.
It brings the total number of shares
subscribed for by employes close to
45,000.
So quick was the response to the
stock, ownership privilege and so
large the subscriptions that officials
of the company are expected to con
sider alloting an additional amount of
share for purchase by employes.
In offering the stock to workers in
the Firestone factories Mr. Firestone
wrote to 'each employe:
"For most of us it is not easy to
acquire the habit of saving. We need
a special inducement and this com
mon stock plan is an opportunity not
only to create the habit of saving but
to become a stockholder in the company."
Howard automobile company, Buick
dealers, has forsaken the road to be
come a city salesman for the com
pany in Portland. Thirklll was deal
er's representative in eastern Oregon
for about four years.
BUICK REPRESENTATIVE
NOW CITY SALESMAN
C.'J. Thirkill, who is well known in
The Dalles as territory man for the
CONDITIONS OVER
TERRITORY QUIET
BUSINESS UNCERTAINTY PRE
VAILS IN REGION ADJACENT
TO THE DALLES.
'IShe's quiet.V
That was about all Harry E. Wal
ther, sales-manager for the automo
bile division of the Walther-Wllliams
company, had to say Friday after
noon on his return to The Dalles af
ter a swing of several days' duration
over the territory.
Walther, accompanied by John T.
Henry, manager of the J. T. Henry
Tire company, traveling in a Dodge
Brothers coupe, left Tuesday morning,
making Goldendale and Bickleton the
same day. Afterwards they swung
east and south, crossing the river nt
Roosevelt and Arlington, (hence vis
iting lone, Lexington, Heppncr, Con
don, Fossil, Moro and Wasco.
Uncertainty over business ccmH-,
tions still prevail to a large extent
over this district, and The Dalles,
Walther said, shows much better bus
iness spirit than any of the other
places visited.
Iln a Bhort time he will leave for
Burns and other more distant points
to the south and east in the Walther-Williams-Dodge
Brothers district
APRIL BUSINESS INCREASES
f
SYRACUSE, May 7. Business done
by Franklin dealers during the first
20 days of April exceeded by 10 per
cent the volume of business done dur
ing the corresponding period of
March.
TODS OF QUALITY
)rj TOR ANY CAP
WE KNOW HOW TO DO
AUTO TOP WORK.
And
DO IT RIGHT
Top Recovering Seat Covering
Upholstering
Auto Supplies and General Repairing
The Dalles Auto Top Works
Jacob Welty
405 East Second Street
SAY You saw it in the Chronicle when buying adv. goods.
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The NEW LIGHT-SIX now holds the five most important automobile road records on the Pacific Coast, a remarkaole feature being
that all, the honors were won by the same car, a stock tpuring car, within ten weeks.
Los Angeles Phoenix Record. On the morning 01 March
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1. Yosemite National Park. A Studebaker Light-Six, piloted
by Hart L. "Weaver and carrying a crew of five men from the
Chester N. Weaver Company, was the first automobile to reach
the Yosemite National Park over any one of the three snow
covered roads under its own power this year. The car went
over the narrow and dangerous Coulterville road, bucking snow
as deep as ten feet in some places, arriving in Yosemite Val
ley, January 16.
2. Round Trip Record .Between San Francisco and Los An
geles. On February 2 the same car, driven by Hart L. Weaver
and James F. Gurley of the Chester N. Weaver Company, es
tablished a new round trip record between San Francisco and
Los Angeles, a distance of 864.8 miles, in the sensational time of
21 hours and 23 minutes.
3. Coast Route Record from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
On the round trip record of February 2 the Studebaker Light
Six lowered the coast route record from San Francisco to Los
Angeles by 2 hours, 35 minutes and 20 seconds. The former
record was 12 hours, 47 minutes and 50 seconds, the time of
the Studebaker Light-Six being 10 hours, 12 minutes and 30
seconds for the distance of 453.7 miles. The pilots were Hart
L. ,Weaver and JSmes F. Gurley.
4. Valley Route Record Between Los Angeles and San Fram
cisco. On February 24 the Studebaker Light-Six smashed the
valley route record between Los Angeles and San Francisco, run
ning the distance of 411.1 miles in the remarkable time of 9
hours, 15 minutes and 50 seconds. This record was made all
the, more remarkable on account of the car having to go through
a dense fog a distance of more than 100 miles between Tulare
and Merced. The pilots were Hart L. Weaver and James Gurley.
5.
23 the Light-Six left Los Angeles in an attempt to lower the
fifth and only remaining record of consequence on the Pacific
Coast. The 422 miles of desert trail from Los Angeles to
Phoenix were made in 13 hours, 16 minutes, and 2 hours 28
minutes were taken from the best previous automobile record.
The railroad time is 14 hours 20 minutes, or 1 hour 4 minutes
slower than the record established by the Light-Six.
Hart L. Weaver of the Chester N. Weaver Company, Stude
baker Distributor in San Francisco, made the following state
ment after the completion of the Los Angeles-Phoenix run:
"These tests have demonstrated on the road everything that
Studebaker engineers have claimed for the new Light-Six-cylinder
car. When it is remembered that the bore and stroke
of this car is only 3 1-8 x 4, giving it a piston displacement of
207 cubic inches, and that the car fully equipped weighs 2500
pounds, these records are all the more remarkable since most of
them were formerly held by heavier cars costing much more
than the Studebaker Light-Six. I am inclined .to believe that
the secret of the car's wonderful performance, and roadability
is due in a very large measure to its remarkable balance. Halved
or quartered the parts of the new Light-Six would weigh ap
proximately the same.
"In making the Los Angeles-Phoenix record I am frank to
confess that despite my faith in the stamina of Studebaker
automobiles I could not believe that any car could make the
speed over that desert road with its ruts and chuck holes that
was necessary in order to lower the record by a large margin
without falling to pieces. Any automobile, irrespective of weight,
power or price class that can lower the record established by the
Studebaker Light-Six will have my most sincere admiration."
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This Is A Studebaker Year
The Dalles Garage Co., Inc.
Second and Union
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LIGHT-SIX TOURING CAR . $1750
SPECIAL SIX TOURING CAR $2085
BIG SIX TOURING CAR $2559
Prices F. O. B. The Dalles
All Studebaker Cars are Equipped with Cord Tires
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